Tag: Law

Self-deportations soar as Trump administration claims ‘return to rule of law’

John Gage · May 9, 2019 7:41 pm

Attorney General Jeff Sessions delivers remarks on the opioid and fentanyl crisis, Friday, July 13, 2018, in Portland, Maine.

Jeff Sessions: Controversies at DOJ ‘exceeded my expectations’

Daniel Chaitin · May 9, 2019 7:07 pm

Musician R. Kelly, right, leaves the Leighton Criminal Court building after a hearing in his sex-abuse case, Tuesday, May 7, 2019, in Chicago.

R. Kelly lawyers say he failed to turn up in court in sex case because he can’t read

John Gage · May 8, 2019 11:41 pm

House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., moves ahead with a vote to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress after last-minute negotiations stalled with the Justice Department over access to the full, unredacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller's report, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 8, 2019.

Justice Department slams Democrats for ‘politically motivated’ House contempt vote

Susan Ferrechio · May 8, 2019 11:34 pm

A person presses a button on a car stereo.

Court rules DC radio station must register as a Russian agent

Zach Halaschak · May 8, 2019 9:26 pm

New video from Sandra Bland’s cellphone released showing her arrest

Julio Rosas · May 7, 2019 11:37 pm

Alexanda Amon Kotey, center, and El Shafee Elsheikh, who were allegedly among four British jihadis who made up a brutal Islamic State cell dubbed "The Beatles," sit on a sofa at a security center in Kobani, Syria.

FBI ‘not giving up’ on bringing ISIS ‘Beatles’ to justice in US

Jerry Dunleavy · May 7, 2019 11:33 pm

Voters fill out their ballots at the Denver Elections Division Tuesday, May 7, 2019, in Denver. Voters could make Denver the first U.S. city to decriminalize the use of psilocybin, the psychoactive substance in "magic mushrooms" if the measure passes.

Beltway Confidential

Denver’s magic mushroom vote is the democratic experiment we need

Erin Dunne · May 7, 2019 10:36 pm

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin testifies before the House Ways and Means Committee on FY'20 budget on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 14, 2019.

Liberals demand arrest of Steven Mnuchin over Trump tax returns

John Gage · May 7, 2019 9:42 pm

Washington Metropolitan police bomb squad members arrive at the Omni Shoreham hotel in Washington, Friday, June 19, 2015, after a bomb threat was called in during the Faith and Freedom Coalition event with GOP Presidential candidates.

‘We just don’t know if it’s racism, homophobia or misogyny’: DC police investigating gay magazine found tied to a rope

John Gage · May 7, 2019 6:36 pm

A woman places flowers at a makeshift memorial Sunday, Feb. 17, 2019, in Aurora, Ill., near Henry Pratt Co. manufacturing company where several were killed on Friday. Authorities say an initial background check five years ago failed to flag an out-of-state felony conviction that would have prevented a man from buying the gun he used in the mass shooting in Aurora.

Beltway Confidential

Unconstitutional ‘red flag’ laws attack the rights of people who might, maybe, at some point, commit a crime

Jenna Ellis · May 7, 2019 6:13 pm

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand appears at an event.

Kirsten Gillibrand vows to nominate pro-abortion judges if she becomes president

Naomi Lim · May 7, 2019 6:01 pm