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Michael T. Sestak, accused of selling visas, held without bond
The Foreign Service officer accused of selling hundreds of visas to residents of Vietnam made his first appearance in D.C. court Tuesday, as more details of the alleged conspiracy have come to light. | 06/04/13 17:53:59 By - By Ali Watkins and Michael Doyle
Manning court martial trial starts Monday
Amid secrecy and spectacle, the long-awaited court-martial trial of WikiLeaks linchpin Bradley E. Manning starts Monday. | 06/01/13 17:16:14 By - By Michael Doyle
Feds could slow down California’s high-speed rail
The California high-speed rail project is now rapidly approaching an intersection controlled by a powerful, but usually low-profile federal board. | 05/31/13 16:49:17 By - By Michael Doyle
Why Attorney General Eric Holder is in the hot seat
Attorney General Eric Holder met Thursday with several news media representatives in an off-the-record discussion of the fallout from Justice Department leak investigations. That fallout is touching Holder himself, as congressional Republicans this week cited “discrepancies” between his sworn testimony and other public records. | 05/30/13 18:04:26 By - By Michael Doyle
Women workers at Florida prison win class-action status in sexual harassment case
Dozens of female staffers say they regularly confront groping, rape threats, public masturbation and other serious sexual harassment while overseeing inmates at the large federal prison complex in Coleman, Fla. | 05/29/13 17:17:26 By - By Michael Doyle
Supreme Court widens opportunity for claims of ineffective counsel
A badly damaged Texas man who was sentenced to death for his part in a San Antonio-area gang rape and murder will get a second chance at mercy, under a divided Supreme Court ruling Tuesday. | 05/28/13 16:43:32 By - By Michael Doyle
Military will look into whether judge’s comments meant tainted trials
A former Marine Corps judge who allegedly called those accused of sexual assault “scumbags” who deserve to be “crushed” is at the center of a widening inquiry into the impartiality of his court-martial rulings. | 05/24/13 17:27:00 By - By Michael Doyle
Rising judicial star Sri Srinivasan is playmaker with all the right legal moves
Sri Srinivasan scores big on every court. As a standout basketball guard for Lawrence High School in Kansas, class of 1985, Srinivasan could both dish and shoot. As an attorney, he’s argued more than 20 cases before the Supreme Court. And as a newly unanimously confirmed appellate judge, he’s joining what’s often called the nation’s second-highest court. | 05/24/13 10:16:14 By - By Michael Doyle
Foreign Service officer made millions in visa-for-money scam, feds charge
A State Department official “received several million dollars in bribes” from Vietnamese residents seeking visas, according to newly public court documents. | 05/23/13 18:30:31 By - By Michael Doyle
Witness in Chandra Levy murder case was government informer
The key witness in the trial of the man convicted of killing former intern Chandra Levy had a previously undisclosed history as a government snitch, a court hearing revealed Tuesday. | 05/21/13 18:01:03 By - By Michael Doyle
California robbery case leads Supreme Court to reconsider police search laws
A tattooed inmate in one of California’s most remote prisons will now get his moment in the Supreme Court sun, along with a shot at clarifying the rules governing certain law enforcement searches. | 05/20/13 17:00:28 By - By Michael Doyle
Prison brew could play pivotal role in California murder case
One of the two inmates accused of killing an Atwater, Calif., prison guard was so drunk on a potent brew dubbed “White Lightning” that he couldn’t understand an FBI agent’s Miranda warnings afterward, defense attorneys claim in revealing new documents filed in federal court. | 05/17/13 13:25:20 By - By Michael Doyle
Obama, lawmakers tackle military sexual assault
In a one-two punch from both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue on Thursday, lawmakers introduced a sweeping revision to military sexual-assault law and the president summoned his uniformed service chiefs. The politically popular bill and the high-profile White House meeting underscore how recent cases and reports have rapidly turned combating military sexual assault into a bipartisan high priority. | 05/16/13 19:28:45 By - By Michael Doyle
Hoe, hoe, hoe! Christmas trees are back, in new farm bill
A Christmas tree-promotion program that pumped up conservative mockery and panicked the Obama administration is back for a second go-around, under a new farm bill. | 05/16/13 16:41:22 By - By Michael Doyle
As attorney general, Eric Holder is familiar with political attacks
Eric Holder may have thought he knew what he was in for before he became the U.S. attorney general. But four years after his relatively pain-free Senate confirmation, Holder sizzles on the political hot seat. For reasons both trumped up and genuine, he’s a repeat target for conservative and liberal critics alike. | 05/15/13 18:21:37 By - By Michael Doyle
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