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A divided D.C. Council is scheduled to vote today on the confirmation of Acting Attorney General Peter J. Nickles, one day after the body's judicial panel voted against confirming him on the grounds that he is too close to Mayor Adrian M. Fenty, that he has yet to move to the District and that he...
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Facebook's chief privacy officer is considering a run for California's state attorney general. Can he be trusted with the job?
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The decision by the United Kingdom Government to drop the 42-day detention proposal is obviously sensible. It will allow the authorities to fight terrorism without undermining the freedoms protected by the European Convention on Human Rights.
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New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has turned his attention toward American International Group Inc. (AIG), following allegedly "unwarranted and outrageous expenditures" at the embattled insurer. Cuomo authored an angry letter to the agency, citing a "golden parachute" for former Chief Executive Officer Martin Sullivan as well as unreasonable perks for executives, including spa treatments and massages.
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Hundreds of angry residents of East St. Paul, Man., met with Manitoba's attorney general Thursday night to demand answers about his decision to disband their police force.
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The City Council speaker said the body will vote Thursday on Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s plan to revise the term limits law so he can seek re-election.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two New York City Council members asked a judge on Wednesday to halt a council vote to extend term limits for Mayor Michael Bloomberg and other elected officials, saying it poses conflicts of interest.
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Observer intern Glenna Goldis reports from hearing on the petition filed this morning by two Council members with the State Supreme Court: City Council members Bill de Blasio and Letitia James sought a temporary injunction to block the Council's term-limits vote tomorrow on the grounds that it is a conflict of interest. read more »
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The City Council speaker said the body will vote Thursday on Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s plan to revise the term limits law so he can seek re-election.
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Here's more Glenna Goldis from the State Supreme Court hearing today: The judge declined to stop tomorrow's City Council vote on the term-limits extension, but she made a point of filing the order immediately and inviting the county clerk to the courtroom, so that the petitioners could appeal. But their lawyer, Randy Mastro, said he would have to consult with his clients first. Judge Silbermann made to key points in her announcement. read more »
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Just weeks after Mayor Michael Bloomberg declared he wanted four more years in City Hall, the City Council is poised to vote on his proposal to change city law so he can run for a third consecutive term....
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GENERAL Motors' finance arm is to shut down its Australian and New Zealand business, costing 185 jobs and putting a question mark over the operation of about 400 car dealers nationwide.
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NEW YORK, Oct. 23 -- In a raucous meeting, the City Council approved a bill Thursday that would allow Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to run for a third term and bypass a term-limits law that voters have twice affirmed in referendums.
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Many on City Council believe that the body shed its image as a weakling during the debate on term limits.
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A ruling by Virginia's attorney general today paved the way for dozens of potentially invalid absentee ballots mailed from overseas to be counted in the Nov. 4 election, ending a controversy that some feared would disenfranchise members of the military.
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Andrew Cuomo expanded his investigation of bonuses to Wall Street executives whose banking companies are receiving cash injections from the U.S. government.
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Three primary schools which were under threat are to close, Bristol City Council decides.
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Official results showed that Rupiah Banda won 718,359 votes ahead of 683,150 for the opposition leader, Michael Sata.
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SEATTLE (AP) -- It's four more years for Republican state Attorney General Rob McKenna....
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The 39-count complaint includes felony charges of grand theft, money laundering and conspiracy. After falling behind on their house payments, Eleuteria and Arthur Washington of Redlands responded to a flier they got in the mail promising to help them renegotiate their mortgage.
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ArmInfo. President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan and Secretary General of EU Council Javier Solana met in Brussels.As the presidential press service reports, the issues of Armenia-EU relations, the process of fulfillment of democratic and economic reforms within the frames of
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AIG's new $150 million bailout, attorney general speculation, and the GOP's restructuring.
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Seneca City Council members voted to add themselves to the city's health insurance program.
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The city’s Economic Development Corporation just announced another deal with a major landowner at Willets Point, the 62-acre Queens industrial site the Bloomberg administration wants to redevelop. The landowner was Feinstein Iron Works, which owns a 36,000-square-foot lot. With the agreement, the Bloomberg administration now controls about 25 percent of the private land on the site, though more than 60 landowners are without deals. The City Council must vote on a proposed rezoning by Thursday; however, as of yesterday evening, the administration had yet to commit to a level of below-market rate housing that's satisfactory to affordable housing advocates. The biggest private landowner, Tully Construction, does not have a deal and is viewed as the largest obstacle to Council approval. readmore
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The Washington Attorney General's Office is less than happy with a Redmond-based SEO firm. The business and its owner, who have operated through sites including Visible.net, Captures.com, and WebMarketingSource.com, now face a lawsuit.read more
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"The Washington Attorney General's Office is suing a Redmond-based seller of e-commerce services whose failed promises to rev up Web traffic for small businesses drove many customers to file complaints."
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In a quarterly survey of economists, "participants were 'unanimous' in describing the U.S. economy as being either in a recession or on the brink of one. Most said the recession had begun in April and would last 14 months." readmore
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CBS News Legal Analyst Andrew Cohen doesn't want to be the nation's top lawyer -- with good reason.
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Washington attorney Eric Holder is President-elect Barack Obama's top choice to be the next attorney general and aides have gone so far as to ask senators whether he would be confirmed, an Mr. Obama official and people close to the matter said.
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President-elect Barack Obama's top choice for attorney general is Eric Holder, a former No. 2 Justice Department official in the Clinton administration and Obama campaign aide who would become the first African American to serve as the nation's chief lawyer.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Barack Obama's top choice for attorney general is Eric Holder, a former No. 2 Justice Department official in the Clinton administration and Obama campaign aide who would become the first African American to serve as the nation's chief lawyer....
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Obama is said to 'conditionally' offer post to Justice veteran WASHINGTON—President-elect Barack Obama would like to nominate former top Justice Department official Eric Holder Jr. to be his attorney general, and his transition team is now trying to gauge whether there is sufficient bipartisan support for him in the Senate, sources close to the transition confirmed Tuesday.
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Eric H. Holder Jr., a former Justice Department official who was President-elect Barack Obama's campaign co-chairman, is the leading candidate to serve as the next U.S. attorney general, according to Democratic sources familiar with the choice.
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Eric Holder, the man charged with vetting Barack Obama's vice presidential picks, is almost certain to be the attorney general in the Obama Administration, according to knowledgeable Democratic sources. Newsweek's Michael Isikoff first reported the news of Holder's likely selection....
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President-elect Barack Obama's aides have been privately talking to senators about whether Washington attorney Eric Holder would be confirmed as the next attorney general.
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Newsweek: President-elect Obama has decided to tap Eric Holder as his attorney general, putting the veteran Washington lawyer in place to become the first African-American to head the Justice Department, according to two legal sources close to the presidential transition.
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According to Newsweek magazine, US President-elect Barack Obama has decided to appoint Eric Holder as attorney general. Democrat sources said Holder has accepted the job, but he has yet to be formally approved.
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Nov 18 - President-elect Barack Obama has chosen the first member of his Cabinet-- tapping Eric Holder to be U.S. Attorney General, according to a senior Democrat
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Barack Obama has conditionally offered Eric Holder the job as attorney general, and the former top Clinton administration official has accepted, a senior Democrat said on Tuesday.
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