Justice: FDA Cannot Screen Execution Drugs:  In a legal opinion announced earlier this month, the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel announced that despite a 2012 Federal Court injunction, the FDA does not have the authority to regulate drugs used for lethal injection.  Laurie McGinley and Mark Berman of the Washington Post report that the former head of the FDA wanted to maintain control over state access to execution drugs, but the story misses the fact that in Cook v. FDA, the agency opposed a federal district judge's 2012 injunction requiring that it perform that task.  The DOJ opinion provides support for a 2017 lawsuit by the state of Texas claiming that the FDA is preventing the state from enforcing the law.  If the injunction is lifted states would be able to import the most effective lethal injection drugs without having to win approval from the FDA.