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Brad Schimel had been interim U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of Wisconsin, but that appointment expired on March 16. Schimel could have been made the U.S. Attorney by the district's federal judges, but they declined to do so, according to the…

Man uploads files containing The Bad Stuff to his Google Drive account. Google tips off law enforcement, and a detective has a peek at a few files without a warrant. When law enforcement follow up months later, the man confesses and directs officers to incriminating evidence.…

In a tense and highly unusual courtroom clash, a federal judge ejected a senior federal prosecutor during a sentencing hearing and pressed the prosecution over who is actually in charge of the New Jersey U.S. attorney’s office, according to the…

After mass departures at U.S. attorneys' offices, the Department of Justice is waiving a policy requiring newly hired federal prosecutors to have at least one year of experience practicing law, according to…

Defender Services has announced the launch of the Supreme Court Advocacy Project, a centralized effort to coordinate Supreme Court litigation to sharpen the defense bar’s performance before the U.S. Supreme Court.

The project aims to bolster high court practice and build a pipeline of…

An assistant U.S. attorney in North Carolina, Rudy Renfer, filed a court response containing “fabricated quotations and misstatements of case holdings” and then made “false or misleading statements” about how they were included, a federal court found according to a…

A large banner featuring Donald Trump's face was hung on the exterior of Justice Department headquarters on Thursday in a physical display of the president's efforts to exert power over the law enforcement agency that once investigated him, according to this…

Old-fashioned (and since amended) statute from 1952 makes immigrant children citizens if they are born out of wedlock, their mother naturalizes, and the "paternity of the child has not been established by legitimation." Did that apply if the unwed father had signed the birth certificate?…

Oklahoma trooper stops a rental car for going a whopping 4 mph over the speed limit, begins preparing a warning, but calls in a canine unit after the driver and passenger give allegedly inconsistent travel plans. Yikes! Dog alerts and officers find 100 pounds of meth.…

The chief judge of the Boston-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has found probable cause that a district court judge within the circuit engaged in misconduct by violating a rule prohibiting the creation of a hostile work environment.

In a newly released…