Tag: Federal Courts

In the upcoming November election, Florida voters will decide on a constitutional amendment to give ex-cons voting rights immediately upon their release. The measure needs 60 percent support to pass. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

Federal judge rejects Florida policy that bans former prisoners from voting

Anna Giaritelli · February 2, 2018 1:06 pm

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg appears at Adas Israel Congregation in Washington, DC on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018. (Ron Sachs / CNP)

Ruth Bader Ginsburg on her Supreme Court future: ‘As long as I can do the job full steam, I will be here’

Melissa Quinn · February 2, 2018 2:41 am

The most recent numbers from Customs and Border Protection show a 45 percent increase in the number of families apprehended at the border in the first quarter of Fiscal Year 2018. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

ICE chief: 9th Circuit partly to blame for rise in illegal immigration

Anna Giaritelli · February 1, 2018 5:01 am

A man named Michael Whited moved from Alabama to the mountains of Colorado. The Bureau of Land Management, however, has made his life difficult as the BLM refused to take any action to address even the most significant safety hazards caused by its failure to maintain its land properly. (iStock)

Beltway Confidential

The worst neighbor you can imagine: the federal government

William Perry Pendley · January 31, 2018 11:53 pm

The coal-fired Plant Scherer in Juliette, Ga., is one of the nation's top carbon dioxide emitters. (AP Photo/Branden Camp)

Energy and Environment

Environmentalists sue Trump over coal pollution ahead of State of the Union

John Siciliano · January 31, 2018 2:16 am

President Trump has said he could extend the March 5 deadline he set for Congress to pass a bill covering so-called "Dreamers." White House officials don't necessarily agreed. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Here’s why Trump won’t extend the March 5 deadline for a DACA fix

Naomi Lim · January 26, 2018 5:01 am

"There is nothing in the history of the Senate remotely like what we're facing right now, which is the filibuster being used on everything," Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, told the Washington Examiner. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

The days of the filibuster are numbered

Philip Klein · January 26, 2018 3:48 am

Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., has held up Michael B. Brennan's judicial appointment by refusing to signify her acquiescence to the president's nominee by returning her "blue slip." (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Beltway Confidential

Democrats flail and fail to stop another well-qualified Trump judicial nominee

Margot Cleveland · January 26, 2018 2:25 am

Wendy Vitter, wife of Sen. David Vitter, R-La., is a Tulane University Law School graduate and currently serves as general counsel of the Roman Catholic Church's Archdiocese of New Orleans. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Trump nominates Sen. David Vitter’s wife to be federal judge

Steven Nelson · January 24, 2018 12:36 am

Former staffers in the office of Del. Stacey Plaskett, D-V.I., pleaded guilty Tuesday to stealing and circulating nude images and video content from the congresswoman's phone. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Former staffers plead guilty for circulating lewd photos of Democratic congresswoman and husband

Diana Stancy Correll · January 24, 2018 12:24 am

A coalition of five Native American tribes, and environmental groups, have filed three lawsuits challenging President Trump's shrinking of Bears Ears. (Photo via Wikipedia)

Energy and Environment

Trump administration wants friendlier court to hear challenge to Bears Ears monument rollback

Josh Siegel · January 19, 2018 8:41 pm

Last week, a three-judge panel voided the congressional map of North Carolina drawn by the GOP-controlled state legislature in 2016 and said it constitutes a "partisan" gerrymander.

Supreme Court puts order invalidating North Carolina congressional voting map on hold

Melissa Quinn · January 19, 2018 12:58 am