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• US Justice Department: AA-BA deal would lead to competitive harm

  
  eTurboNews - Travel and Tourism Industry News — Authority: 542
  WASHINGTON — The US Justice Department said Tuesday a tie-up of British Airways and American Airlines for transatlantic flights would lead to "competitive harm" and called for restrictions on the de read more
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• What Government Is Doing Right

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 142
  According to the latest FBI statistics , homicides in the U.S. are at their lowest rate since the 1960’s. Overall, violent crime is down and property crime is also down. There is a popular conception that crime increases during economic hard times, but the opposite has happened during the current recession. ...
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• Prosecutors Defend Indictment in Wone Case in D.C. Superior Court

  
  The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times — Authority: 673
  Federal prosecutors in Washington are defending the indictment in the Robert Wone case, saying there is ample evidence to support criminal allegations against three men charged with crimes stemming from Wones stabbing death in August 2006. Joseph Price, Victor Zaborsky...
  9 hours ago

• U.S. Transfers 12 Detainees Out of Gitmo

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 153
  The Department of Justice this morning announced that twelve detainees have been transferred from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to Afghanistan, Yemen and the Somaliland region. Here’s the announcement, with the names of the detainees, which had previously been withheld : As directed by the ...
  11 hours ago

• Streamlining Immigration Justice

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 142
  The New York Times’ John Schwartz reports that federal prosecutions of immigration violators made a big jump last year — and now make up more than half of all federal prosecutions. Why focus federal prosecutions on immigration violators at a time when white collar chicanery makes the headlines? Because it’s ...
  12 hours ago

• Pair held over $4m card skimming scam

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Police in Sydney have arrested two men over an EFTPOS scam which has so far netted more than $4 million from bank accounts in Western Australia. Thousands of Western Australians have had their card details stolen at several McDonalds restaurants across Perth since October. Police allege the 31-year-old Canadian man ...
  18 hours ago

• Barack Hussein Obama Sends Terrorists Home for Christmas from GITMO. I HOPE They Said Thank You for The PRESENT!

  
  Right Wing Dog — Authority: 116
  U.S. sends 12 Guantanamo detainees to home countries Twelve inmates have been transferred from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Afghanistan, Yemen and the breakaway Somali enclave of Somaliland, the U.S. Justice Department said on Sunday. Six Yemeni and four Afghan detainees were sent over the ...
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• Lawyer Wants All D.C. Superior Court Judges Recused in Stalking Case

  
  The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times — Authority: 673
  The lawyer for a woman charged with stalking a D.C. Superior Court magistrate judge and breaking into her home does not think his client can get a fair shake unless a federal judge is tapped to preside over the case....
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• Holder: Part Of Me Doesnt Believe Cheney Believes His Criticism Of Us

  
  TPM LiveWire — Authority: 788
  Asked by Newsweek how he feels about the unrelenting stream of barbs from Dick Cheney, Attorney General Eric Holder told the magazine, "Theres a part of me that doesnt really believe that he believes what hes saying." In the new interview , Holder also says he doesnt understand Cheneys criticism, seeming to ...
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• Lambda Legal’s Jennifer Pizer has questions about the OPM decision.

  
  Maybe it's just me... — Authority: 489
  After the OPM announced their decision on the Karen Golinski case, Pizer, a Lambda Lawyer, felt that their answers only led to more questions: “Is it possible for Judge Kozinski to be acting in some capacity other than as an Article III judge?” she questioned, “We think when he’s sitting in an employee ...
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• DOJs David Kris Urges Closed Hearing in Blackwater Case in D.C.

  
  The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times — Authority: 673
  The Justice Department wants to bar the public from a court hearing Jan. 7 in the Blackwater criminal case in federal district court in Washington, saying that the proceeding may result in the disclosure of classified information. The government filed...
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• Washington in 5 Minutes

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 461
  GUANTANAMO Detainees sent to other nations The U.S. has transferred a dozen Guantanamo detainees to Afghanistan, Yemen and the Somaliland region. The Justice Department said Sunday that a government task force had reviewed each case. Officials considered the potential threat and the governments likelihood of success ...
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• Civil Rights Panel Subpoenas Justice Department in New Black Panthers Case

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 461
  The United States Civil Rights Commission, an eight-member agency that investigates accusations of discrimination, has launched its latest offensive against a most unusual target: the Justice Department.
  2 days ago

• Justices Revisit Rule Requiring Lab Testimony

  
  NewsHunter.org — Authority: 167
  Prosecutors argue that mandatory court appearances keep crime analysts away from their laboratory work.
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• Crew finds Centaur shipwreck

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A search team has discovered the wreck of Australian wartime hospital ship Centaur. The WWII ship was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in 1943 and sank off the south-east Queensland coast. Of the 332 people on board the AHS Centaur only 64 survived. This morning, seven days into an official search, the crew of the ...
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• Justices Revisit Rule Requiring Lab Testimony

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 901
  Prosecutors argue that mandatory court appearances keep crime analysts away from their laboratory work.
  3 days ago

• Bill To Strengthen Justice Dept.s Human Rights Muscle Awaits Obamas Pen

  
  On The Hill — Authority: 494
  A bill that would create a new human rights section at the Justice Department Justice was passed by the House this week and now waits for President Obama to sign into law. Officials within the Obama administration have voiced support for the measure , which would combine the two offices within Justice with ...
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• Supremes : Suspected Enemy Combatant no Longer a Person

  
  The Rag Blog — Authority: 524
  Portrait of a non-person. Image from girloftomorrow.Dred Scott redux:Enemy combatants denied legal standing...once again, 144 years after the Civil War, we have established as the law of the land and the policy of the United States government that whole classes of people can be declared non-persons and have their ...
  3 days ago

• Thomas Perez aint Playing: Vows to step up Hate Crimes Enforcement

  
  Maybe it's just me... — Authority: 489
  This is news Im glad to hear! Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez said that he will beef up Hate Crimes enforcement. He said that he was “shocked” at learning that hate crime prosecutions went down during the Bush Administration years. His statistics say that hate crime cases peaked in 1996 with forty nine ...
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• Irony: Major Newspaper Worried About “Fake Reporters” Posing as Its Own Fake Reporters

  
  Debbie Schlussel — Authority: 673
  By Debbie SchlusselThe irony is so thick, you need a hacksaw to cut it.The Washington Post voiced anger at the Bush Administration in 2002, because it was concerned that U.S. Special Forces and CIA operatives were posing as Washington Post reporters in Afghanistan, according to a letter, released Wednesday by the ...
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