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9 Sep 2006, 9:25 am
[JURIST] Senate Republican leaders plan to negotiate with the White House through the weekend to resolve different versions of a bill that would legislatively authorize the establishment of military commissions [JURIST news archive] for suspected terrorists. [read post]
18 Jun 2008, 2:00 am
[JURIST] A panel of judges in the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Tuesday reversed [opinion, PDF] the conviction of former White House official David Safavian [JURIST news archive] because of previous judicial error and the use of incorrect legal standards at the trial court level. [read post]
17 Nov 2004, 1:03 pm
[JURIST] AP is reporting that President Bush has picked deputy chief of staff Harriet Miers as White House counsel, the post to be vacated by attorney general nominee Alberto Gonzales. 1:10 PM ET - The AP story is available here. [read post]
13 Nov 2007, 9:26 am
Article by Pete Yost posted on Law.com, November 13, 2007: A federal judge Monday ordered the White House to preserve copies of all its e-mails, a move that Bush administration lawyers had argued strongly against. [read post]
23 Feb 2005, 10:11 am
[JURIST] Mohamed Alanssi testified in court Tuesday that he was trying to put "the world on notice" by setting fire to himself outside the White House [JURIST report] last November. [read post]
16 Jun 2008, 6:26 am
[JURIST] A judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia Monday dismissed [order, PDF; opinion, PDF] a lawsuit brought by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) [advocacy website] seeking access to e-mail records from the White House Office of Administration (OA) [official website] under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). [read post]
14 Sep 2007, 6:34 am
[JURIST] The White House submitted a new Benchmark Assessment Report [PDF text] on Iraq to Congress Friday, noting that little progress had been made by the Iraqi government toward accomplishing 18 "benchmarks" thought to be essential to Iraq's stability. [read post]
19 Nov 2010, 8:02 am
Richard Zorza has reminded us that the White House is conducting an event on access to Justice today with Vice President Biden as one of the featured speakers. [read post]
17 Apr 2007, 9:34 pm
–(BUSINESS WIRE)–With millions of emails now allegedly missing from the White House and Republican National Committee (RNC) servers, email archiving solutions have been elevated to the national spotlight as a mission-critical technology that [...] [read post]
26 Oct 2007, 11:22 am
On October 24, 2007, the United States Senate, with encouragement from the White House, killed the DREAM Act. [read post]
13 Sep 2007, 6:48 am
"White House May Name Rosenstein To Appeals Court": The Washington Post today contains an article that begins, "U.S. [read post]
7 Jan 2007, 1:16 pm
Time magazine is reporting that President Bush plans to name Fred Fielding, a former White House counsel in the Reagan administration, as his top lawyer. [read post]
10 Apr 2007, 7:22 am
Bush will sign off on a bill providing funding for studies on embryos incapable of further development, but will refuse to endorse legislation that would subsidize stem cell research [JURIST news archive], the White House announced Tuesday. [read post]
15 Nov 2007, 4:23 pm
The White House has today announced two federal appellate court nominations: They are "Gene E. [read post]
18 Feb 2015, 5:12 am
"White House facing rocky legal road on immigration": Josh Gerstein of Politico.com has this report. [read post]
18 Aug 2005, 6:20 am
[JURIST] In a Slate article [text] published Wednesday, legal ethicists Stephen Gillers, David Luban and Steven Lubet claim that the White House violated the law when it interviewed Judge John Roberts [JURIST news archive] this spring for the US Supreme Court while he was considering a challenge to US military tribunals in his capacity as a federal appeals court judge. [read post]
20 Mar 2007, 1:01 am
[JURIST] The US Senate Monday considered the possibility of taking away the authority of US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales [official profile] to unilaterally appoint replacement US Attorneys as comments from the White House regarding his future seemed less than confident and the administration reportedly began considering possible replacements. [read post]
26 Sep 2005, 3:25 pm
[JURIST] Anti-war protestor and Gold Star Mother [Wikipedia backgrounder] Cindy Sheehan [Wikipedia profile] was arrested Monday while protesting outside the White House. [read post]
18 Aug 2007, 4:08 am
[JURIST] A spokesman for US Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) reacted coolly [press statement] Friday to a White House bid to extend until after Labor Day the deadline for compliance with committee subpoenas [JURIST report; subpoena packets, PDF] for materials relating to the Bush administration's proffered legal justification for refusing to comply with earlier [read post]
22 Feb 2010, 3:12 pm
Last week, the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) released a draft guidance describing how and when climate change considerations should factor into the environmental impact assessments that federal agencies prepare under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). [read post]
