Michael Mukasey

I got a lot of feedback on my Sunday column/letter to the NRA, but in the spirit of the season I figured I'd wait until after the holidays to fire back. At the end of the column, I rhetorically asked,......

by Katie Fretland Former Bush advisor Karl Rove was invited to speak at a GOP fundraiser in Des Moines, Iowa, but he did not get the warmest of welcomes from four residents who pledged to arrest him. Law enforcement officers......

Monica Goodling and D. Kyle Sampson, key aides to former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, violated federal law and departmental policy by considering political affiliation and other improper factors in Justice Department hiring decisions, according to...

Former DOJ official Monica Goodling testifies before House Judiciary Committee in May 2007. (Chicago Tribune/Pete Souza) by James Oliphant Attorney General Michael Mukasey Wednesday sent a letter to all employees of the Justice Department, repudiating the...

by Katie Fretland and updated The House Judiciary Committee this morning voted in favor of finding former Bush advisor Karl Rove in contempt of Congress for his refusal of a subpoena to testify before the panel. The committee voted along......

by James Oliphant Attorney General Michael Mukasey told a group Tuesday that the Justice Department's hiring practices broke down, resulting in politically-motived hires made by officials whose power went unchecked. Back in his native New York City to...

by James Oliphant Attorney General Michael Mukasey intends to let Congress have its say before signing controversial new guidelines that reportedly broaden the FBI's authority to conduct investigations. But he will not delay their implementation. In a...

by Frank James The Justice Department's Inspector General released a magnum opus of a report on the Bush Administration's controversial firings of nine U.S. attorneys. Few people have had the chance to read the entire 356-page report. But if you......

by James Oliphant In a stinging rebuke to the Bush administration, a federal judge Tuesday ordered the Pentagon to immediately release a small group of Chinese Muslims from Guantanamo Bay into the United States. U.S. District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina......

by Frank James It's been a busy few days of charges, countercharges, an apparent Federal Bureau of Investigations leak, you name it, between ACORN, the community organizing group and its Republican tormenters who blame it for everything from trying to.......

The Republican Party has been trying to make the case that Dems, through ACORN and otherwise, are engaged in a massive conspiracy to commit election fraud. They haven't had as much success in court as they'd like, and the......

The stories this morning recounting a fight between NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly and Attorney General Michael Mukasey over warrants for terror-related surveillance sound important, but it's hard to know what to make of them. The actual, leaked...