Tag: Law

A gavel sits on a desk inside an appeals court.

Rein in politicized judges and their injunctions

Washington Examiner · May 25, 2019 4:00 am

63 percent of people surveyed about immigration reform said the border is mostly not secure or totally not secure, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Judge partially blocks Trump’s border wall plan, bars use of DOD funds

Diana Stancy Correll · May 25, 2019 1:39 am

Hillary Clinton, former 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, pauses while speaking at the New Yorker Hotel in New York, U.S., on Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016. In the hours after Donald Trump's election as the 45th president of the United States, Republicans in Congress claimed a mandate for their agenda to revamp financial rules and replace Obamacare, and Clinton urged her supporters to give him a chance to govern.

Washington Supreme Court says ‘faithless’ electors can be fined $1,000 for not voting for Clinton

Melissa Quinn · May 24, 2019 8:30 pm

Helenmary Ball, left, of Calvert County, Md., as "Maryland District 5," points toward the separated area of Maryland District 3, being represented by Bobby Bartlett, right, as nonpartisan groups against gerrymandering protest in front of the Supreme Court, Wednesday, March 28, 2018, in Washington where the court will hear arguments on a gerrymandering case. The Supreme Court is taking up its second big partisan redistricting case of the term amid signs the justices could place limits on drawing maps for political gain.

Supreme Court halts drawing of new congressional maps in Michigan, Ohio

Melissa Quinn · May 24, 2019 7:36 pm

Principal scientists Matt Drever, left, scrapes bacteria from an agar plate during an antibody phage experiment as principal scientist Charlie Holst watches.

Beltway Confidential

The new Right: Who needs innovation when you can stifle it?

Charles Sauer · May 24, 2019 6:25 pm

The Brunswick Nuclear Plant in North Carolina is shown.

ACLU, Planned Parenthood sue Alabama over abortion law

Melissa Quinn · May 24, 2019 2:47 pm

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales stands in the doorway to his office.

Wikipedia case against NSA internet snooping returns to court

Steven Nelson · May 24, 2019 4:07 am

Julian Assange.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange accused of violating the Espionage Act

Jerry Dunleavy · May 23, 2019 8:42 pm

Actor Jussie Smollett leaves the Leighton Criminal Courthouse in Chicago on Tuesday, March 26, 2019, after prosecutors dropped all charges against him. Smollett had been indicted on 16 felony counts related to making a false report that he was attacked by two men who shouted racial and homophobic slurs.

Judge rules to unseal court records in Jussie Smollett case

Zach Halaschak · May 23, 2019 8:01 pm

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., followed by Rep. Joe Neguse, D-Colo., responds to reporters' questions after Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., met with all the House Democrats, many calling for impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump after his latest defiance of Congress by blocking his former White House lawyer from testifying yesterday, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 22, 2019.

Beltway Confidential

AOC attacks journalists once again, but Elizabeth Warren’s legal cases are a real story

Tiana Lowe Doescher · May 23, 2019 6:40 pm

President Trump is seen in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday, June 19, 2017. A new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that most Americans say the federal courts were acting properly when they blocked President Donald Trumpâs travel ban from going into effect.

Trump makes dent in political alignment of liberal 9th Circuit

Melissa Quinn · May 23, 2019 5:43 pm

San Diego police officers assist a couple as they evacuate a building in San Diego on Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2015. A man with a high-powered gun was firing sporadically inside a San Diego apartment complex, causing the city's nearby airport to stop planes from landing, authorities said.

Beltway Confidential

Officer Corey Pitts deserves your salute

Tom Rogan · May 23, 2019 5:32 pm