Tag: Law

Beltway Confidential

Kamala Harris really doesn’t want to talk about being a cop

Becket Adams · September 4, 2020 12:43 am

FILE - In this Dec. 13, 2016, file photo, Kanye West enters Trump Tower in New York. A new course at Washington University in St. Louis is focused on the world of Kanye West. The course titled "Politics of Kanye West: Black Genius and Sonic Aesthetics," began this week.

‘An effort to deny an African-American’: Kanye West lawyer seeks to remove Virginia attorney general from legal fight over presidential ballot

Spencer Neale · September 3, 2020 6:51 pm

National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre speaks at the NRA Annual Meeting of Members in Indianapolis, Saturday, April 27, 2019.

NRA’s former second-in-command comes out in favor of gun control

Mike Brest · September 3, 2020 6:12 pm

FILE - In this June 9, 2013 file photo provided by The Guardian Newspaper in London shows Edward Snowden, who worked as a contract employee at the National Security Agency, in Hong Kong. Former NSA systems analyst Edward Snowden, who is wanted by the U.S. for leaking details about once-secret surveillance programs, has been granted permission to stay in Russia for three more years, his lawyer said Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014. Snowden last year was granted temporary asylum of one year in Russia, but that ran out on Aug. 1. (AP Photo/The Guardian, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, File)

Court rules NSA surveillance program exposed by Snowden violated law but upholds terror convictions

Jerry Dunleavy · September 3, 2020 4:45 pm

Beltway Confidential

Joe Biden has little use for the criminal justice system

Jeremy Beaman · September 3, 2020 4:01 pm

Group says lawmakers are trying to protect the oil giant from scrutiny by asking for green groups' emails. (Jae S. Lee/The Dallas Morning News via AP)

Energy and Environment

Hoboken sues Big Oil companies for climate damages, bringing total number of lawsuits to 20

Abby Smith · September 2, 2020 6:48 pm

105-year-old woman who survived Black Wall Street massacre sues for reparations

Madison Dibble · September 2, 2020 6:28 pm

If the UC system, with its $29 billion budget, can't afford to live up to its own rules, how can the private sector be held to such a high standard? (iStock by Getty Images)

University of California system barred from considering SAT in admissions, judge rules

Carly Ortiz-Lytle · September 2, 2020 4:16 pm

Police say antifa leader with flamethrower dropped to ground in fetal position and cried during arrest

Andrew Mark Miller · September 2, 2020 3:45 pm

Were the lockdowns a mistake?

Michael Barone · September 2, 2020 2:12 pm

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., center, discusses the unfinished work of Congress and the struggle for Republican and Democratic budget negotiators to reach a compromise, at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013. She is joined by House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer of Md., left, and Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., the ranking member of the House Budget Committee. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beltway Confidential

Rules for thee but not for me: Pelosi gets illegal salon treatment while pushing lockdowns to curb the ‘Trump virus’

Tiana Lowe Doescher · September 2, 2020 3:39 am

Beltway Confidential

Kamala Harris wants to let dangerous rioters back onto our streets

Quin Hillyer · September 1, 2020 7:38 pm