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A military judge’s ruling that U.S. officers used cruel and inhuman treatment and possibly torture on an Afghan teenager imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay

The Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund and Albuquerque law firm Freedman Boyd filed suit Wednesday against the Secretary of the Taxation and Revenue Department in state District Court in Santa Fe arguing that the license verification program lacks statutory authority. Gov. Susana Martinez directed TRD by executive order to send out letters to 10,000 of the estimated 85,000 foreign nationals with driver’s licenses asking them to come to Albuquerque to verify that they are still residents of New Mexico.

Thanks to my new Twitter friend dangerpest for the tip-off to this, the most intense explanation yet for the conspiracy to make Barack Obama

A lawsuit filed against Texas’ mandatory pre-abortion sonogram bill saw its first hearing at a U.S. District Court in Austin on Wednesday. Lawyers for the

PBS’ Margaret Warner is in Afghanistan and interviewed President Hamid Karzai for last night’s edition of the NewsHour. The interview showed a disjointed

With the financial crisis deepening, the FHA must be revitalized immediately -- and there’s no Plan B.

The American Civil Liberties Union has just released a video of interviews with five former Guantanamo detainees, talking about their experiences of abuse in

GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann (Pic by Fibonacci Blue, via Wikimedia Commons) Though all of the current Republican presidential hopefuls have touted their pro-life stances in recent months, perhaps none have been as vocal as Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum. During an Iowa campaign stop yesterday, Bachmann took a tour of the Informed Choices Medical Clinic, a crisis pregnancy center founded by Pastor Brad Sherman in 2007.

I’ve been writing for weeks now that President Obama’s approach to Af-Pak is a counterinsurgency strategy to meet a counterterrorism objective. And -- just

The plan for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to streamline mortgage modifications for troubled homeowners has already come in for some harsh criticism. Federal

The danger, said President George W. Bush on Sept. 25, 2002, is that Al Qaeda becomes an extension of Saddam’s madness and his hatred and his capacity to

Scenes of massive immigration raids in the Iowa communities of Postville and Marshalltown have faded from the public’s collective memory, and current federal officials appear to want to keep it that way.

Earlier this month, former GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee took a stage in the coal country of Southwest Virginia and, stumping for Republican

Total job openings in the U.S. economy rose in September, increasing by 225,000 to 3.35 million, and total hires during the month increased by 185,000 to 4.25

So we’re not going to get much security news after the Afghan government demanded that news organizations not report on suicide bombings and other violent

The White House reaffirms its support for a public option, and the result may be an opt-out system. Stabenow and Dodd are pushing for expedited benefits in

Former Vice President Dick Cheney -- the avatar of secrecy -- really did say this last night. Daphne puts together a wish list: f there are memos showing that

Just got this press release from U.S. Forces-Afghanistan: KABUL, Afghanistan – Coalition Forces are aware of the allegation of non-combatant casualties in

On his new GBTV network, conservative talk show host Glenn Beck made a point of saying he doesn’t give endorsements, but then appeared to hand an endorsement to former U.S.

On page 466 of Courage and Consequences, Karl Rove goes through an elaborate tap-dance to explain that firing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in early 2006

The career of another senator-turned-president offers valuable lessons. Lyndon B. Johnson transformed the ties between the legislative and executive branches. ’If it’s really going to work,’ LBJ said, ’the relationship between the president and the Congress has got to be almost incestuous.’