Topic: David Ogden

Federal law trumps Mont.'s medical pot law

A judge has ruled that Montana's medical marijuana law doesn't shield providers of the drug from federal prosecution, delivering a new blow to an ...

David Ogden

David Ogden was confirmed by the U.S. Senate for the position of deputy attorney general position at the Ogden's nomination to the Justice Department raised controversy because he has represented several clients in the pornography industry, including Playboy.
Justice Dept. orders prosecutors in 32 states to launch new fight against tribal crimeThe Justice Department is ordering prosecutors in 33 states to step up efforts to combat crime on Indian reservations, particularly offenses against women and children.Attorney General Eric Holder ...

US Justice Department number-two steps down

US deputy attorney general David Ogden, the second highest-ranking official at the Justice Department, said Thursday he was stepping down in order to return to private practice.Ogden is the third high-level official in President Barack Obama's administration to have announced ...
The Obama administration announced today that people buying and selling marijuana for state-condoned medical uses should not be targeted for federal arrest or prosecution. The announcement, made today in a memo from Deputy Attorney General David Ogden, indicates that the new recommendations ...
International law enforcement officials called Monday for concerted global action to strike at the financial assets of terror groups and organised crime to cripple their operations.Speaking at the 78th general assembly of the global police agency Interpol here, US Deputy Attorney ...
Obama granted attorney general an ethics waiver to investigate handling of Stevens caseAttorney General Eric Holder has received an ethics waiver to investigate government lawyers who prosecuted former Sen. Ted Stevens, the White House disclosed Friday.Holder needed a waiver from President ...
Justice Department boosting efforts to combat high crime rates on Indian reservationsOn just a single day this year on the Red Lake reservation in northern Minnesota, police and investigators received emergency calls about a suicide, a murder, three stabbings, two shootings and ...
Justice Dept. moving some operations to SC, leasing building from Univ. of South CarolinaThe U.S. Department of Justice is relocating some of its U.S. attorney operations from Washington to South Carolina under a 20-year lease agreement with the state's ...
Federal judge says senators injuring judiciary with partisan confirmation processThe chief judge of the U.S. District Court in Washington on Monday said senators are " "Lamberth was a Republican appointee, nominated in 1987 by President Ronald Reagan, but he criticized GOP opposition ...