Tag: Law

A woman using her phone and social media apps.

Beltway Confidential

The key to stopping social media censorship is not to smash tech companies, but to amend Section 230

Tiana Lowe Doescher · June 5, 2019 9:11 pm

Alabama likely to join California, Louisiana in allowing chemical castration for sex offenders

Regina Barton · June 5, 2019 7:11 pm

Democratic presidential candidate and former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke speaks in San Francisco.

Beto proposes term limits for Congress and Supreme Court

Emily Brooks · June 5, 2019 5:55 pm

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts speaks at an event (pictured left). On the right, protesters on both sides of the abortion issue gather outside the Supreme Court in D.C.

Beltway Confidential

Based on his Obergefell dissent, Chief Justice Roberts will overturn Roe

Ryan Everson · June 5, 2019 5:40 pm

Summer Zervos and Donald Trump.

AOC: ‘Manafort should be released’ rather than face ‘torture’ at Rikers

John Gage · June 5, 2019 2:18 pm

President Donald Trump's former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn arrives at federal court in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018.

Judge backs off order to release transcripts of Michael Flynn’s conversations with Russian envoy

Daniel Chaitin · June 4, 2019 10:17 pm

‘Coward of Broward’ sheriff’s deputy arrested for inaction during Parkland mass shooting

Zach Halaschak · June 4, 2019 7:36 pm

Customers gather at a Chick-fil-A restaurant.

San Antonio sued over Chick-fil-A ban

Regina Barton · June 4, 2019 7:16 pm

A police investigator arrives with a shovel at a home at Guildford in suburban Sydney after about 800 federal and state police officers raided more than two dozen properties as part of the operation Thursday, Sept. 18, 2014. Australian police detained 15 people earlier on Thursday in a major counterterrorism operation, saying intelligence indicated a random, violent attack was being planned on Australian soil.

Australian police raid home of journalist, prompting backlash

Zach Halaschak · June 4, 2019 6:24 pm

Eric Holder and William Barr

Eric Holder says he was ‘inappropriately’ held in contempt as William Barr faces same fate

Daniel Chaitin · June 4, 2019 6:03 pm

A Roman Catholic priest listens to a woman's confession as she kneels at right inside the St. Catherine's Church within the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank town of Bethlehem.

Beltway Confidential

California passes controversial confession bill

Ryan Everson · June 4, 2019 6:02 pm

Anti-abortion demonstrators cheer during a rally outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Tuesday, March 20, 2018, as the Supreme Court hears arguments in a free speech fight over California's attempt to regulate anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers.

Red Alert Politics

The First Amendment isn’t a weapon, so stop calling it one

Audrey Fahlberg · June 4, 2019 3:43 pm