Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — John McCain's campaign charged Friday that a liberal-leaning voter registration coalition is seeking to "steal votes" in next month's presidential election and alleged that Democrat Barack Obama… | Oct 10, 2008 08:48 PM - From Homepage WASHINGTON — Attorney General Michael Mukasey agreed Monday to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate whether former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and other officials involved in the firings of… | Sep 30, 2008 01:54 AM - From Homepage WASHINGTON — Attorney General Michael Mukasey agreed Monday to appoint a prosecutor to continue investigating the firing of nine U.S. attorneys after the Justice Department's watchdog found "substantial" evidence… | Sep 29, 2008 11:10 AM - From Homepage WASHINGTON — Barack Obama's presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee filed a lawsuit Tuesday accusing Michigan Republicans of a scheme to use mortgage foreclosure lists to challenge the… | Sep 16, 2008 08:03 PM - From Election 2008 TALLAHASSEE — State elections officials will resume enforcement of a controversial state law that requires Floridians to have their identification match up with a state or federal database in… | Sep 09, 2008 10:50 PM - From Election 2008 WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court has temporarily delayed a lower court's order that would require former White House Counsel Harriet Miers to appear before a congressional committee that's… | Sep 05, 2008 12:46 PM - From Homepage WASHINGTON — A federal judge Thursday rejected the Bush administration's sweeping assertion of executive privilege and ruled that two White House aides must answer subpoenas from Congress. However, U.S.… | Jul 31, 2008 01:08 PM - From White House WASHINGTON — Attorney General Michael Mukasey on Wednesday dismissed allegations of widespread politicization within the Justice Department, saying he hadn't seen evidence of it since he took office eight… | Jul 09, 2008 06:47 PM - From Homepage WASHINGTON — Twenty former U.S. attorneys, both Republicans and Democrats, urged a federal judge Thursday to intervene in a constitutional battle over whether two White House officials should be… | May 29, 2008 07:22 PM - From Homepage WASHINGTON — A Justice Department lawyer who became entangled in the scandal over the firings of nine U.S. attorneys last year is being nominated to take over the department's… | May 22, 2008 06:24 PM - From Homepage WASHINGTON — Hans von Spakovsky, a former Justice Department lawyer who became a lightning rod for partisan wrangling over an alleged Bush administration voter suppression campaign, pulled his name… | May 16, 2008 07:57 PM - From Homepage WASHINGTON — At least 10 retired nuns in South Bend, Ind., were barred from voting in Tuesday's Indiana Democratic primary election because they lacked photo IDs required under a… | May 06, 2008 03:42 PM - From Homepage WASHINGTON — Rep. Patrick McHenry says the candidates who want his seat in Congress don't want to talk about his voting record. Unfortunately for the North Carolina Republican, there's… | May 01, 2008 02:02 PM - From Homepage WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court's decision Monday to uphold Indiana's photo ID law in elections will permit Republican-dominated legislatures in nearly a dozen other states to pass legislation that… | Apr 28, 2008 07:10 PM - From Homepage WASHINGTON — A divided Supreme Court on Monday upheld state requirements that voters show photo identification cards before casting ballots. Citing different reasons, six of the nine justices said… | Apr 28, 2008 11:08 AM - From Homepage The North Carolina Republican Party is scheduled to begin airing a new TV commercial Tuesday featuring video of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright making inflammatory remarks about America's treatment of… | Apr 28, 2008 12:16 AM - From Election 2008 WASHINGTON — The legend of Ritzy Mekler, the dog from St. Louis who allegedly registered to vote in the 2000 election, made a comeback Wednesday on Capitol Hill. The… | Mar 12, 2008 07:26 PM - From Homepage WASHINGTON — Demonstrating that a constitutional battle between Congress and the White House is far from over, the House Judiciary Committee took legal action Monday to try to compel… | Mar 10, 2008 05:08 PM - From Homepage WASHINGTON — In two political showdowns Thursday, Democrats in the House of Representatives refused to bow to presidential pressure to pass a broad surveillance law and voted to hold… | Feb 14, 2008 07:37 PM - From Homepage WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday will step into a partisan clash over access to the ballot box that's escalated since the fight over "hanging chads'' in the… | Jan 07, 2008 05:44 PM - From Homepage WASHINGTON — The Justice Department's embattled voting-rights chief took responsibility Tuesday for approving a controversial Georgia law that required voters to produce photo IDs, contending that data showed the… | Oct 30, 2007 06:21 PM - From Homepage WASHINGTON — Sen. Barack Obama on Friday diverted from his standard stump-speech's emphasis on ending the Iraq war and uniting America, instead telling a black audience in the nation's… | Sep 28, 2007 05:33 PM - From Homepage WASHINGTON — Ohio and Florida, which provided the decisive electoral votes for President Bush's two razor-thin national election triumphs, have enacted laws that election experts say will help Republicans… | Sep 26, 2007 01:46 PM - From Homepage WASHINGTON — Local governments that spent millions of dollars on new voting machines two years ago might have to do it again if a bill pending in Congress becomes… | Sep 17, 2007 06:11 AM - From Homepage WASHINGTON — Former acting civil rights chief and U.S. attorney Bradley Schlozman, who was a central figure in the controversy over alleged partisan decision-making in the Bush Justice Department,… | Aug 22, 2007 05:37 PM - From Homepage WASHINGTON — Ratcheting up the stakes in a legal battle with Congress, President Bush on Wednesday ordered White House adviser Karl Rove and a senior political aide to refuse… | Aug 01, 2007 09:38 PM - From Homepage WASHINGTON — Threats of criminal contempt rained down on the White House from Congress this week. Plus a subpoena for Karl Rove. And calls for a special prosecutor. With… | Jul 30, 2007 06:00 AM - From Homepage WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats escalated their investigations of the Justice Department on Thursday, subpoenaing President Bush's top political adviser, Karl Rove, and seeking the appointment of a special counsel… | Jul 26, 2007 05:38 PM - From Homepage A July 1 story examining the issue of voter eligibility said that Patrick Rogers, a vocal critic of ousted U.S. Attorney David Iglesias of New Mexico, was a candidate… | Jul 26, 2007 02:42 PM - From Corrections WASHINGTON — The House Judiciary Committee voted Wednesday to begin criminal contempt proceedings against two White House advisers who refused to comply with subpoenas in Congress' investigation into the… | Jul 25, 2007 01:26 PM - From Homepage WASHINGTON — Despite all signs that the Bush administration will block him, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee will pursue criminal contempt charges against White House officials for… | Jul 23, 2007 05:39 PM - From Homepage WASHINGTON — President Bush ordered former White House Counsel Harriet Miers to stay away Thursday from a House panel investigating last year's firings of nine U.S. attorneys, prompting the… | Jul 11, 2007 07:33 PM - From Homepage WASHINGTON — A New Mexico lawyer who pressed to oust U.S. Attorney David Iglesias was an officer of a nonprofit group that aided Republican candidates in 2006 by pushing… | Jul 01, 2007 06:00 AM - From Homepage WASHINGTON — President Bush asserted executive privilege Thursday, refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena for White House documents in the investigation into last year's firings of U.S. attorneys… | Jun 28, 2007 06:00 PM - From Homepage WASHINGTON — The investigations into the Bush administration"s decision to fire nine U.S. attorneys have exposed how the administration has eroded the firewall between partisan politics and the Justice… | Jun 18, 2007 11:01 AM - From Homepage Key dates in the relationship between the White House and the Department of Justice: 2001 Beginning Jan. 20, 2001 - In keeping with tradition, the new Bush administration appoints… | Jun 18, 2007 10:25 AM - From U.S. attorneys McClatchy reporters Marisa Taylor and Margaret Talev have been following the U.S. attorneys saga since early this year, and they've repeatedly been the first to report key developments in… | Jun 18, 2007 02:16 AM - From U.S. attorneys WASHINGTON _Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy angrily threatened Tuesday to issue subpoenas "if the White House continues to stonewall" his panel's investigation into fired U.S. attorneys, and he… | Jun 12, 2007 02:51 PM - From Justice Department WASHINGTON—Saying it was out to combat widespread voter fraud, the Justice Department in recent years has stepped up enforcement of election laws to ease the purging of ineligible voters… | Jun 12, 2007 02:51 PM - From Justice Department WASHINGTON—The Justice Department is expanding its internal inquiry to look into new allegations that senior department officials improperly filled career jobs based on applicants' Republican or conservative credentials. In… | Jun 12, 2007 02:51 PM - From Justice Department WASHINGTON—As the youngest of five children, Rep. Patrick McHenry learned that taking on his elders was the only way to get what he wanted. "I had to grab for… | Jun 07, 2007 09:45 PM - From Homepage WASHINGTON—Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid moved Tuesday to begin ending debate on a far-reaching immigration bill and threatened to yank the measure from the Senate floor if Republicans persist… | Jun 07, 2007 11:21 AM - From Congress WASHINGTON - Six former U.S. attorneys told two congressional committees Tuesday that Republican lawmakers and a congressional aide inquired about politically sensitive investigations, and their testimony raised new questions… | Jun 01, 2007 04:23 PM - From U.S. attorneys WASHINGTON - A former senior aide to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told lawmakers Wednesday that Gonzales had sought to go over with her his recollections about the firings of… | May 23, 2007 12:06 PM - From U.S. attorneys WASHINGTON—A former senior aide to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told lawmakers Wednesday that Gonzales had sought to go over with her his recollections about the firings of U.S. attorneys… | May 23, 2007 03:00 AM - From U.S. attorneys WASHINGTON - During four years as a Justice Department civil rights lawyer, Hans von Spakovsky went so far in a crusade against voter fraud as to warn of its… | May 20, 2007 12:22 PM - From Justice Department WASHINGTON—During four years as a Justice Department civil rights lawyer, Hans von Spakovsky went so far in a crusade against voter fraud as to warn of its dangers under… | May 20, 2007 03:00 AM - From Justice Department WASHINGTON—The Senate moved Thursday to schedule a no-confidence vote on embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales as new details surfaced suggesting that at least 30 federal prosecutors were targeted for… | May 17, 2007 03:00 AM - From U.S. attorneys WASHINGTON—The Justice Department last year considered firing two U.S. attorneys in Florida and Colorado, states where allegations of voter fraud and countercharges of voter intimidation have flown in recent… | May 16, 2007 03:00 AM - From U.S. attorneys WASHINGTON—The Bush administration ran its warrantless eavesdropping program without the Justice Department's approval for up to three weeks in 2004, nearly triggering a mass resignation of the nation's top… | May 15, 2007 03:00 AM - From National Security McClatchy Washington Bureau |