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28 Nov 2017, 6:00 am by Nicholas Weaver
Drug cartels have already started producing armed UAVs and the Islamic State is adapting off-the-shelf drones and turning them into bombers. [read post]
27 Nov 2017, 8:46 pm by Jon Katz
Additionally, although the federal sentencing guidelines are advisory rather than mandatory (pursuant to United States Supreme Court ruling), federal trial judges know that substantial departures below those sentencing guidelines invite prosecutorial appeals that may well prevail, thus increasing the level of reluctance of federal trial judges too often to engage in such substantial downward sentencing guidelines departures in the first place. [read post]
27 Nov 2017, 4:00 am by Matthew Kahn
And yet, though the president hasn’t nominated one, we do in fact have an assistant attorney general for national security and a general counsel of the Defense Department—but only in an acting capacity—thanks to the 1998 Federal Vacancies Reform Act (FVRA), 5 U.S.C. 3345-3349. [read post]
24 Nov 2017, 6:36 am by John Floyd
  According to a November 17, 2017 Chicago Tribune article written by Meagan Crepeau, Jason Meisner and Jeremy Gorner, Superintendent Johnson’s decision came only after the head of State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s Conviction Integrity Unit exonerated 15 men who had been framed by Watts and his crew. [read post]
22 Nov 2017, 2:54 pm by Leslie Sammis
The interested parties include:You (or your attorney’s office if you are represented by counsel); The State Attorney’s Office for the appropriate county where the arrest or prosecution occurred;The Florida Department of Law Enforcement;Any Arresting Agency;I.D. [read post]
22 Nov 2017, 1:00 pm by Sarah Grant
” In this case, Garbis wrote: An unexpected announcement by the President and Commander in Chief of the United States via Twitter that “the United States Government will not accept or allow Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. [read post]
22 Nov 2017, 12:26 pm by The Law Offices of Richard Ansara, P.A.
Department of Justice, as well as the FBI, made an official acknowledgement that almost every examiner in the FBI’s elite forensic unit provided testimony that was inherently flawed in nearly all trials wherein they offered evidence against defendants in criminal cases for more than 20 years prior to 2000. [read post]
22 Nov 2017, 10:51 am by Barbara E. Lichman, Ph.D., J.D.
On or about November 16, 2017, the United States Senate acted speedily to pass the “National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018,” H.R. 2810 (“Defense Reauthorization Act”), originally introduced in January of 2017, and now awaiting signing by President Trump. [read post]
22 Nov 2017, 6:00 am by Sarah Grant
Add one more to the tally of collateral proceedings arising out of United States v. al-Nashiri. [read post]
22 Nov 2017, 2:51 am by Barbara E. Lichman, Ph.D., J.D.
On or about November 16, 2017, the United States Senate acted speedily to pass the “National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018,” H.R. 2810 (“Defense Reauthorization Act”), originally introduced in January of 2017, and now awaiting signing by President Trump. [read post]
21 Nov 2017, 2:57 pm by Benson Varghese
Under Section 1708 of the United State Code, mail theft is defined as taking any piece of mail that is not your own for any reason. [read post]
21 Nov 2017, 2:13 pm by Kent Scheidegger
A single district judge, it seems, is now better suited than the Department of Homeland Security to determine if the means chosen by DHS, in consultation with the Departments of State and Defense, is a good fit to the end to be achieved on a matter of national security and foreign relations. [read post]
21 Nov 2017, 2:00 pm by Rick St. Hilaire
According to the GAO report, in attendance at the November 2016 meeting were unidentified representatives from State, the Department of Homeland Security (Homeland Security), the Department of Justice (Justice), the Department of the Treasury (Treasury), the Department of Defense (Defense), the Department of Interior (Interior), the U.S. [read post]
19 Nov 2017, 4:09 pm by INFORRM
Internet and Social Media Socially Aware reports that Following a recent U.S. district court’s ruling, foreign companies operating cloud-based services may find themselves subject to federal long-arm jurisdiction under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 4(k)(2), even if they have no physical presence in the United States. [read post]