Tag: Law

FILE - In this Sept. 28, 2018, file photo, Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif. attends a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington. Their campaigns are not yet official, but some Democrats are beginning to frame the 2020 fight on their terms.

UPDATED: Hispanic police officer scrutinized after invoking ‘one-drop rule’ to identify as a black man

Zach Halaschak · January 22, 2020 1:42 am

‘An intentional act’: Authorities say man rammed Prius with six teenagers inside, killing three

Zach Halaschak · January 21, 2020 10:38 pm

Teenager arrested and four family members dead after first mass shooting of 2020

Zach Halaschak · January 21, 2020 9:06 pm

Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

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Supreme Court to hear case with huge implications for religion and school choice

Nicole Russell · January 21, 2020 7:54 pm

Donald Trump and Alan Dershowitz.

‘A motion to dismiss case’: Dershowitz says Trump impeachment trial wouldn’t pass muster in court of law

Dominick Mastrangelo · January 21, 2020 3:11 pm

This June 30, 2014, file photo shows the Supreme Court in Washington.

Supreme Court declines to fast-track Obamacare challenge, pushing decision past election

Kimberly Leonard · January 21, 2020 2:40 pm

FILE - In this Dec. 12, 2018 file photo, Michael Avenatti, lawyer for porn star Stormy Daniels, speaks outside court Michael Cohen's sentencing in New York. U.S. prosecutors announced Monday, March 25, 2019 they have charged Avenatti with extortion and bank and wire fraud. A spokesman for the U.S. attorney in Los Angeles said Avenatti was arrested Monday in New York.

Michael Avenatti being held in jail cell once occupied by El Chapo, lawyer says

Caitlin Yilek · January 21, 2020 12:27 pm

Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Sergei Kislyak.

Justice delayed: 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed appears in Guantanamo courtroom as trial approaches

Jerry Dunleavy · January 21, 2020 5:01 am

Joseph diGenova is an American lawyer, political commentator, and conspiracy theorist who served as the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia from 1983 to 1988.

Ill-fitting suit and fingerless gloves cost diGenova and Toensing a place on Trump legal team

Rob Crilly · January 21, 2020 12:03 am

In this Jan. 20, 2012 photo, people hold signs during a gathering on the anniversary of the Citizens United decision in Montpelier, Vt. First, it was the Vermont senator with socialist leanings. Then it was Jerry of Ben & Jerry's ice cream fame. Now there are about 50 Vermont communities ready to chime in on a proposal to pass a Constitutional amendment to clarify that corporations do not have the same rights as human beings.,

Ten years later, Citizens United has boosted megadonors more than corporations

Nihal Krishan · January 21, 2020 12:00 am

Man charged with beating Marine veteran who lost eye in Las Vegas bus attack

Zach Halaschak · January 20, 2020 9:07 pm

Former President Donald Trump.

White House argues a president can only be impeached for violating the law, and that Trump never did

Keith Koffler · January 20, 2020 7:01 pm