In the latest filing in the Defense of Marriage Act case at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, lawyers for House Republicans took a couple of swipes at the Obama administration for its procedural posture.

The District of Columbia Court of Appeals heard oral arguments today on whether the government’s decision not to tell the defense that testimony from an earlier proceeding was false warranted a mistrial.

The Justice Department is urging the D.C. Circuit to strike down a ruling that said former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld can be held personally liable for the alleged torture of an American contractor detained in military custody in Iraq, arguing that the suit impermissibly intrudes on foreign detention policy and conduct in a combat zone.

In a 525-page report released Thursday, a special prosecutor detailed the mismanagement and, in some cases, misconduct that he believed characterized the Justice Department’s handling of the prosecution of the late Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens. On the heels of the report’s release, Sen

R. Allen Stanford won’t be sentenced until June, but his criminal defense attorneys say Stanford’s competence to stand trial leads a list of numerous grounds for appeal