Members of one of Occupy Wall Street’s offshoots, Occupy Our Homes, were arrested Monday and Tuesday demonstrating outside the headquarters of the Department of Justice in Washington. According to Washington police the protesters attempted to enter the building. About 100 protesters with groups called the Home Defenders League and Occupy Our Homes marched on the [...]

As we head into the weekend lets look back at two prominent cases that had their sentences handed down and what that may mean for the current state of justice in America. The first case was Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer who was convicted on two charges, conspiracy to access a computer without authorization and fraud in [...]

Questions still surround the Steubenville Rape Case even after the guilty verdict that sent two of the perpetrators to prison for years. David Zirin argues that without the involvement of hackers the case was set to be dropped. I really think that the heroes in this story are the hackers who got the photos out [...]

As the petition to remove her from office passes the 50,000 mark and a Congressional investigation is preparing to be launched, US Attorney Carmen Ortiz is back in the news for failures in her performance. This time her office helped arrest the wrong man. In the latest setback for Boston’s beleaguered U.S. attorney, red-faced feds [...]

United States Attorney Carmen Ortiz, infamous for being the overzealous prosecutor in the Aaron Swarz case, was slapped down in court this week for overreach.   It appears to be a pattern: A judge this week struck down a US government scheme to seize a Tewksbury, Mass., motel because it had become a haven for drug [...]