Department of Justice

Karl Rove has admitted that he forwarded complaints to the Justice Department about David Iglesias, the United States attorney in New Mexico, who says he was fired for political reasons, the New York Times reports.

The League of United Latin American Citizens, or LULAC, is asking the U.S. Department of Justice to look into racial profiling in Roswell.
The Associated Press reports that Paul Martinez, the New Mexico director of LULAC, sent a letter to the Justice Department office in Houston and the New Mexico attorney general’s office asking them to [...]

As the Washington Independent reported on Friday, the case of Al-Haramain v. Obama presents one of the first direct challenges by a victim of the Bush National Security Agency’s warrantless wiretapping program against government officials.

The full version of The Associated Press story detailing a subpoena of former U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici’s records is now available.
It looks like Domenici isn’t the main target of the investigation by federal prosecutor Nora R. Dannehy — even if he might be eventually implicated in some sort of wrongdoing.

The U.S. Justice Department is once again sending election observers to Cibola and Sandoval counties as part of an extensive, nationwide effort to monitor Tuesday’s vote.
Some 800 observers from the department’s Civil Rights Division will be deployed in 23 states, according to a DOJ news release Thursday. That’s several hundred fewer observers than in 2004, [...]

An attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice met with a staff attorney from the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico today regarding reports of voter intimidation here, said a spokesperson for ACLU.

Common Cause New Mexico just announced that it is asking the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate charges of voter intimidation in New Mexico, after NMI reported that a private investigator hired by Republican Party of New Mexico attorney Pat Rogers made intimidating visits to voters in the June primary election.

Pat Rogers, a prominent GOP attorney, sparked headlines on Talking Points Memo on Monday night. The spotlight on Rogers comes as TPM focuses on the accusations brought by the New Mexico GOP last week of finding clear evidence of voter registration fraud that represents a “bombshell.”

U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey has named a special prosecutor in the case of the U.S. attorney firings to determine if criminal charges should be brought against former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, The New York Times is reporting.
Mukasey’s action comes on the same day that the federal Department of Justice released a report that sharply [...]

Did you know that a reason given for former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias’ firing was that he was considered an “absentee landlord” in the parlance of the Bush administration’s Department of Justice? But a new Department of Justice report released this month shows that DOJ executives either didn’t know where the allegation came from or [...]