By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department is about to lose another high-ranking officials. Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole, second-in-command, announced Thursday that he’s taking a job in the private sector, the Washington Post reports. The Post said possible successors include Sally Quillian Yates, who is U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia,…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department has ended the controversial practice of asking defendants who plead guilty to waive their appellate rights over bad legal advice, CNN reports. In a memo issued Tuesday, the Justice Department said it will ban the waivers that are still used in 35 U.S. attorney offices. The waivers are controversial…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department is mulling whether to investigate NYPD’s use of the controversial crime fighting strategy known as “broken windows,” the New York Daily News reports. The Justice Department Civil Rights Division is considering a request from six members of Congress to investigate whether black people and Hispanics are disproportionately affected…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Twitter wants its users to know how often the government has requested information for surveillance purposes. The Associated Press reports that Twitter is suing the FBI and Justice Department in hopes of getting permission from a judge to release the information. It’s currently against the law for companies to disclose how…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Should law enforcement have the right to conduct an investigation by using photos and other personal information to create a fake Facebook page in a real person’s name? The Justice Department said Tuesday it will examine the after Sondra Arquiett in Watertown, N.Y., filed a lawsuit that claims the DEA used…
By Steve Neavling tickethewire.com The days of profiling may be over for federal law enforcement, according to a report obtained by the Washington Post. The ban on profiling would apply to people based on their ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation. One impact of the policy, for example, would be prohibiting surveillance of mosques without proof…
By Jamelle Bouie Slate On Thursday the families of Michael Brown and Eric Garner joined with the NAACP, the National Urban League, the National Action Network, the National Bar Association, and the Black Women’s Roundtable to call for a full federal investigation in the police killings of the two young men. The Rev. Al Sharpton…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department’s increased reviews of police department practices has reached Ohio after a grand jury opted no to indict officers involved in the unusual fatal shooting of a man at a Ohio Wal-Mart, the Associated Press reports. Pledging a “thorough and independent” investigation, the Justice Department said it’s trying to…
