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JURIST Guest Columnist Glenn Taubman, Staff Attorney for the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, argues that President Obama's "recess" appointments of three new members to the National Labor Relations Board are invalid because the Senate was not actually...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has defended the use of recess appointments by President Barack Obama . Obama used recess appointments to install Richard Cordray as director of...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) clarified its stance on online gambling in a memorandum opinion released Friday holding online non-sports related gambling that crosses state or international borders is not covered by the Wire Act...

The French National Assembly on Tuesday voted 482 to 27 to authorize France's continued participation in NATO operations in Libya. The military intervention began on March 19 in response to violent reactions...

The US House of Representatives voted Thursday for a measure to restrict funding for US military operations in Libya but voted down a measure to entirely defund it. In another contradictory message from the House on approval...

US Attorney General Eric Holder announced Thursday that he would continue investigating the deaths of two detainees who died during interrogations by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) . Former attorney general Michael Mukasey had...

US State Department (DOS) legal adviser Harold Koh on Tuesday told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC) that President Barack Obama is acting within the law with respect to US military...

The US House of Representatives in two votes Friday sent contradictory messages over authorization of US military operations in Libya. First, the House overwhelmingly voted down 123-295 a resolution that would...

US President Barack Obama overrode the legal interpretations of the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel in maintaining the administration's position that US forces operating in Libya did not violate...

JURIST Contributing Editor Michael J. Kelly, Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Faculty Research and International Programs at Creighton University School of Law says that, for now, President Obama has the legal authority to commit U.S. military forces to...