Tag: Law

Guards walk down the corridor of a prison cell.

Beltway Confidential

Why most Americans believe inmates shouldn’t vote

Quin Hillyer · April 30, 2019 7:19 pm

FILE - In this Aug. 28, 2018, file photo, Justice Department official Bruce Ohr arrives for a closed hearing of the House Judiciary and House Oversight committees on Capitol Hill in Washington. House Republicans on Friday, March 8, 2019, released the transcript of an interview with Ohr, a Justice Department official linked to the early days of the Russia investigation, renewing efforts to raise questions about the origins of the special counselâs probe and pushing back on the sweeping new investigations Democrats have launched into President Donald Trump.

Bruce Ohr raised ‘possible ethics concerns’ with DOJ lawyer

Daniel Chaitin · April 30, 2019 7:15 pm

Autumn Katz, an attorney with the Center for Reproductive Rights, speaks with supporters after an Oklahoma anti-abortion law that restricted the use of abortion-inducing drugs was struck down by an Oklahoma County judge who ruled it was an unconstitutional special law because it applied only to drugs used to induce abortions and no other medications, in Oklahoma City, Monday, Aug. 10, 2015.

Oklahoma Supreme Court blocks restrictions to medication abortions

Cassidy Morrison · April 30, 2019 5:14 pm

A customer purchases marijuana at the Harborside marijuana dispensary in Oakland, Calif.,

With Sessions no longer AG, marijuana banking bill gains momentum

Melissa Quinn · April 30, 2019 4:00 am

Judge hands Roy Moore a defeat in lawsuit against Sacha Baron Cohen

Zach Halaschak · April 29, 2019 10:12 pm

Attorney Michael Avenatti leaves Federal Court after his initial appearance in an extortion case Monday, March 25, 2019, in New York.

Avenatti pleads not guilty to embezzlement charges

Diana Stancy Correll · April 29, 2019 10:05 pm

Twenty-seven of those arrested came from El Salvador, 11 from Honduras, five from Mexico and two from Guatemala.

Massachusetts prosecutors sue to block ICE from making courthouse arrests

Zach Halaschak · April 29, 2019 8:57 pm

Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta said during his Senate confirmation hearings that while the Obama administration went too far, the overtime rule needed to be updated. That has policy advocates on both sides wondering what the White House will eventually replace it with. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Labor Department says ‘gig economy’ workers are contractors, not employees, in win for owners

Sean Higgins · April 29, 2019 8:19 pm

FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2018, file photo, former Maricopa County Sheriff and U.S. Senate candidate Joe Arpaio speaks at his office in Fountain Hills, Ariz. An appeals court on Tuesday, April 17, 2018, ordered that a special prosecutor be appointed to defend a court ruling that dismissed the now-pardoned criminal case but didn't erase his criminal record.

Supreme Court rejects ex-Sheriff Joe Arpaio challenge to criminal prosecutor appointment

Melissa Quinn · April 29, 2019 3:31 pm

Bleeding Kansas

Washington Examiner · April 29, 2019 4:10 am

Heavily armed San Diego police officers approach a house thought to be the home of 19 year-old John T. Earnest, who is a suspect in the shooting of several people in a Poway synagogue, on Saturday, April 27, 2019, in San Diego, Calif. A gunman used an AR-type assault weapon to shoot worshippers at Chabad of Poway, San Diego County Sheriff William Gore said.

California police investigate hate-filled 8chan manifesto that could link synagogue shooting to mosque attack

John Gage · April 28, 2019 4:33 am

President Donald Trump walks across the tarmac to board Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Saturday, April 27, 2019, to travel to Green Bay, Wis. for a rally.

Trump offers ‘deepest sympathies’ for synagogue shooting that ‘looks like a hate crime’

Steven Nelson · April 27, 2019 9:54 pm