James Byrne — a man about whom precious little seems to be known prior to his becoming the second-in-command at the Office of Special Counsel — has quit amid a spat with his boss, Scott Bloch (pictured), whom he accused of putting “political agendas and personal vendettas” ahead of the agency’s mission and independence. As [...]

At long last, there might be some movement on the McNulty Memo front. Michael Mukasey, the DOJ’s fearless leader, pow-wowed yesterday on the topic with the Senate Judiciary Committee at a so-called oversight hearing. Here’s the backstory: Three weeks ago, 33 former U.S. attorneys sent a letter to Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy, the chair of [...]

Though news of Hillary Clinton’s imminent departure from the race brightened Senator Obama’s presidential prospects, his past cast a pall over yesterday’s celebration when a federal jury in Chicago found Antoin Rezko, once a top Obama fund-raiser, guilty of wire fraud and money laundering, among other charges. Prosecutors had alleged that Rezko (pictured) had used [...]

And then there was one . . . presidential candidate left with a JD. Hillary Clinton (Wellesley, ‘69; Yale law, ‘73), the second-term New York senator and former first lady will bring her 17-month quest for the White House to end on Saturday, according to reports. (WSJ, WaPo, NYT) Shall we hold out hope for [...]

The White House is calling it “political theater,” a mere “ground hog day replay of the same issues that are already the subject of litigation.” But the House Judiciary Committee, in issuing a subpoena yesterday for former Bush adviser Karl Rove to testify about his alleged role in the U.S. attorney firings and the prosecution [...]

We would be remiss — and feel woefully left out — if we didn’t figure out a way to dip our toes into the Pennsylvania primaries today. So here, courtesy of the Los Angeles Daily Journal (link not available), is a little something we didn’t know: that lawyers are in fact the biggest contributors [...]

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