Tag: Law

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, standing, circulates among the crowd while speaking to students and other invitees during the Thomas J. Volpe lecture series at St.Francis College in Brooklyn Heights, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017, in New York.

Pursuits of justices: Docs reveal Supreme Court travels and teaching

Melissa Quinn · June 13, 2019 10:36 pm

FILE - In this Thursday, April 4, 2019 photo a cannabis worker displays fresh cannabis flower buds that have been trimmed for market in Gardena, Calif. When California voters broadly legalized marijuana, they were promised that a vast computer platform would closely monitor products moving through the new market. Sixteen months after the start of broad legal sales, just a few hundred operators are entering data into the track-and-trace system.

California court: Inmates can possess weed in prison but can’t use it

Zach Halaschak · June 13, 2019 10:04 pm

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrives to speak during a media availability, at the State Department, Thursday, June 13, 2019, in Washington. Pompeo says Iran is believed to be responsible for attacks on 2 tankers near Persian Gulf.

Beltway Confidential

Making sense of the State Department’s new Commission on Unalienable Rights

Roger Pilon · June 13, 2019 8:48 pm

Timothy Jones Jr. looks around the courtroom during closing arguments of his trial in Lexington, S.C. on Thursday, June 13, 2019. Jones, Jr. was found guilty of killing his five young children in 2014.

South Carolina father gets death penalty for murdering his five children

Tim Pearce · June 13, 2019 8:09 pm

Journalists surround the police vehicle carrying Eddy Vladimir FÃ©liz Garcia as he is taken to court in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. FÃ©liz Garcia was taken into custody Tuesday in connection with the shooting of former Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz.

6 arrested in David Ortiz shooting, 4 more suspects at large

Zach Halaschak · June 13, 2019 7:50 pm

Kim Kardashian West attends an event.

WATCH LIVE: Kim Kardashian West speaking at the White House about First STEP Act

Washington Examiner Staff · June 13, 2019 7:30 pm

Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. arrives at the New York Police Department's Special Victim's Unit on Thursday to face allegations he groped a woman at a city night spot. A 29-year-old woman told police the 51-year-old Gooding grabbed her breast while he was intoxicated around 11:15 p.m. Sunday. Gooding denies the allegations.

Cuba Gooding Jr. turns himself over to police after groping allegations

John Gage · June 13, 2019 7:00 pm

Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., appears at an event in 1974.

Biden in 1974: Roe v. Wade ‘went too far’

Ellie Bufkin · June 13, 2019 6:34 pm

White House counselor Kellyanne Conway talks to reporters in the briefing room of the White House, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020, in Washington.

US government office finds Kellyanne Conway violated Hatch Act and recommends her removal

Daniel Chaitin · June 13, 2019 4:04 pm

Protesters take to the streets of the Frayser community in anger against the shooting of a youth by U.S. Marshals earlier in the evening, Wednesday, June 12, 2019, in Memphis, Tenn. Dozens of protesters clashed with law enforcement, throwing stones and tree limbs until authorities broke up the angry crowd with tear gas.

Violence erupts in Memphis after fatal police shooting

Zach Halaschak · June 13, 2019 2:31 pm

Groups challenging census citizenship question ask Supreme Court to wait

Melissa Quinn · June 13, 2019 11:43 am

A British five-pound note.

Beltway Confidential

Britain’s unexplained wealth orders give the state too much power

Walter Olson · June 13, 2019 11:05 am