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How Obama could lose Arizona immigration battle

By: Examiner Staff Writer 04/30/10 12:00 AM

We know one thing for sure about the fight over Arizona's new immigration law. Civil-rights groups will file a lawsuit trying to kill the law and will ask a federal judge to issue an injunction to keep it from taking effect as scheduled this summer. What we don't know is how those proceedings will be affected by the Obama Justice Department, which is contemplating the highly unusual step of filing its own suit against the state of Arizona. Read More

‘We’ve excluded lobbyists’ part 51 — Occidental Petroleum lobbyist to DOJ

By: Timothy P. Carney 04/28/10 12:00 AM

Karl R. Thompson was a partner at O’Melveny & Myers, where, in 2008 he was a registered lobbyist for Hess and Occidental Petroleum working on Defense bills, according to his firm’s lobbying filings. Read More

A setback for drive to punish Bush-era 'war criminals'

By: Staff report 01/30/10 2:00 AM

One cherished goal of legal activists on the left is to punish the "war criminals" who helped shape terrorist interrogation policies during the Bush administration. Some of those activists now work in the Obama Justice Department and have been hoping the Department would find two Bush-era lawyers in particular, John Yoo and Jay Bybee, guilty of professional misconduct -- a move that would likely result in both men facing disbarment proceedings. Read More

Senators rebel over treating Detroit airline terrorist as a civilian

By: Staff report 01/27/10 2:00 AM

A bipartisan revolt is brewing in the Senate over the Obama administration's handling of accused Detroit bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. A small but growing number of lawmakers is asking the president to undo what many regard as the disastrously wrong-headed decision to grant Abdulmutallab full American constitutional rights. Once he was told he had the right to remain silent, the accused terrorist stopped talking to U.S. Read More