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U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan this evening released a second, fuller version of the whistleblower complaint that claims an FBI special agent and members of the prosecution team in the Ted Stevens case intentionally withheld evidence from the senator’s lawyers...

President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joseph Biden visited the Supreme Court late Wednesday afternoon for a highly private, hourlong courtesy call that included chatting around a Court fireplace with eight of the nine justices.Continuing the occasional practice of pre-inaugural...

Advocates of gun rights are drawing on the old and the new in their criticism of Attorney General-designate Eric Holder Jr. The criticism appears in letters sent in the last week to the Senate Judiciary Committee from two organizations that...

The Federal Trade Commission and Whole Foods are back to wrasslin' this week. The grocery chain is looking for lots of help from other food purveyors, while the FTC seemingly seeks to resurrect Wild Oats Market, which merged with Whole...

Attorney General Michael Mukasey’s last few days in office just got a little more difficult. U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan this afternoon ordered Mukasey to prepare a declaration, with his signature, that addresses questions about how the government handled the...

A report released Monday by the Justice Department's two watchdogs says the former head of the DOJ's Civil Rights Division routinely violated federal law and department policy by using political and ideological affiliations in hiring several career attorneys.

From his work at Covington & Burling to the controversy over Marc Rich, Eric Holder Jr. may face tougher questions than any other Obama cabinet hopeful. What may senators ask, and what surprises may lie in store for Holder as he seeks confirmation as attorney general.

Elena Kagan is garnering near-universal praise as Barack Obama's choice for solicitor general. But there's one surprising gap in her resume: She's never argued before an appellate court.

The commercial real estate market in Washington is facing a glut of high-end office space. The reason: Law firms that have closed, merged, or are simply trying to unload extra space in their trophy buildings.

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