Topic - Department Of Justice

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  Government announces $25 billion deal on mortgage abuses

  The Obama administration and 49 states announced on Thursday a record $25 billion mortgage settlement with the nation's five largest banks - the president's latest attempt to help homeowners and halt the still-sagging housing market's drag on the economy.

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  MURDOCK: Holder takes on 'racist' photo-ID cards

  A bunch of racists in South Carolina are trying to hold down blacks by forcing them, and everybody else, to show photo identification before they can vote. Astonishing.

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  EDITORIAL: Tempting contempt of Congress

  The clock is ticking for the Justice Department. As officials continue to withhold documents relevant to the administration's fatally flawed gunrunning scheme, House lawmakers grow more anxious to get to the bottom of what happened. Unless the material is produced before the deadline, Republicans shouldn't waver in issuing contempt-of-Congress citations.

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  RAHN: Intellectual and policy corruption

  Government corruption can take many forms. Last week, most of those forms could be seen in the actions of the Obama administration - everything from government officials taking simple bribes, to covering up wrongdoing, to using taxpayer money to pay off political supporters, to using government prosecutors to punish enemies, to failing to fulfill its fiduciary duty to citizens by not performing cost-benefit analyses before taking actions.

• Economy Briefs

  Fisker Automotive, a maker of electric cars that received a half-billion-dollar loan from the federal government and millions more from Delaware economic development officials, says it has laid off workers in Delaware and California.

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  Issa pushes Holder to produce documents or face contempt

  Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. was threatened Thursday with contempt of Congress by Republican members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, who said the Justice Department has failed to turn over key documents in the committee's ongoing investigation into the botched "Fast and Furious" gunrunning operation in Arizona.

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  AG Holder, Issa square off over documents

  Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and a House chairman, Rep. Darrell Issa, have squared off over the Justice Department's flawed gun-smuggling probe.

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  Holder faces wrath in Hill hearing on 'Fast and Furious'

  Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. was warned Thursday by key members a House committee that he faces a contempt of Congress citation if the Justice Department fails to turn over documents subpoenaed in the investigation of the failed Fast and Furious gunrunning operation in Arizona.

• Senators join suits on recess appointments

  Republican senators said this week they will file papers supporting lawsuits trying to overturn President Obama's recess appointments and demanding that the Senate's top Democrat explain his own change of heart on the constitutional questions raised by the president's move.

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  Dems' report: Fast & Furious not the only 'misguided' probe

  The ranking Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Tuesday said "misguided gunwalking operations" that began in 2006 in Arizona failed to include sufficient operational controls to stop dangerous weapons from getting into the hands of violent criminals, creating a danger to public safety on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.

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  Ex-CIA officials assail ID of agents

  Former intelligence officials use "reprehensible" and "egregious" to describe the alleged acts of a former CIA officer charged by the government with betraying his own when he revealed the identities of two overseas operatives to the media.

• Japanese auto suppliers to pay price-fixing fine

  Two Japanese auto suppliers have agreed to pay more than half a billion dollars in criminal fines for a price-fixing conspiracy in the sale of parts to U.S. automakers, the Justice Department announced Monday.

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  Congress trying to police itself on insider trading

  Aware that most Americans would like to dump them all, members of Congress hope to regain some sense of trust by subjecting themselves to tougher penalties for insider trading and requiring that they disclose stock transactions within 30 days.

• Inside Politics

  Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich has proposed a commission to study the management of in vitro fertilization clinics, where infertile couples seek treatment to allow pregnancy and large numbers of leftover embryos are discarded or stored.

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  Issa wants key 'Fast and Furious' figure to testify

  The chairman of a House committee investigating the failed "Fast and Furious" gunrunning operation demanded Thursday that the Justice Department make a second key federal prosecutor in Arizona available for questioning about "his role in and knowledge of" the controversial probe.

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