Attorney General Eric Holder called on a group of states Tuesday to restore voting rights to ex-felons, part of a push to fix what he sees as flaws in the criminal justice system that have a disparate impact on racial minorities.

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Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler says he would not support spending tens of millions of dollars in state money on a Baltimore jail for youths.

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Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who praised Maryland state Sen. Brian E. Frosh last month for shepherding gun-control legislation through the Senate in 2013, put his money where his mouth was.

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Maryland’s Court of Appeals on Tuesday put a temporary hold on a trial judge’s order that attorneys be provided for indigent defendants at initial bail hearings — raising the possibility that the top court will reconsider its September ruling that defendants have a state constitutional right to counsel at those proceedings.

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SILVER SPRING — Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler is calling on Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown to explain in greater detail why the state’s health exchange website has been so troubled. Gansler, who is battling Brown for the Democratic nomination in ...

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A four-page memo that spells out who is legally allowed to raise campaign money during the 2014 General Assembly session will most likely hurt one candidate — Douglas F. Gansler — more than anyone else who has declared for governor.

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A recent press release from the attorney general's office was unusual because the agency is an unwitting pawn in a "caller ID spoofing" scheme.

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The Maryland Office of the Attorney General has always been led by men but it is apparently not a solid fraternity.

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Is a state parens patriae lawsuit really a class action in disguise for federal jurisdiction purposes?

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Style overcame substance Thursday evening as the four announced candidates for state attorney general matched each other platitude for platitude at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law.

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