Tag: Law

Visitors stand outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2018. The U.S. Senate is expected to approve a sweeping revamp of financial rules this week. Some big banks are lobbying right up to the vote in hopes of salvaging a victory because the legislation probably marks the last time lawmakers with full plates will take up financial regulations before November's crucial midterm elections.

Pro-abortion rights group asks Supreme Court to strike Louisiana abortion restriction

Kimberly Leonard · April 17, 2019 4:49 pm

Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx arrives to speak to reporters at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse after R&B star R. Kelly's first court appearance, Saturday, Feb. 23, 2019, in Chicago.

Kim Foxx told staff charges against ‘washed up celeb’ Jussie Smollett were ‘excessive’

John Gage · April 17, 2019 2:30 pm

Rambo Islas, 8 months, is held by his mother Maria Islas, as he gets a shot for a vaccine administered by RN, Nicole Ives at the Dallas County Health & Human Services immunization clinic in Dallas on Friday, March 8, 2019.

Anti-vax organization sues New York over measles vaccine mandate

Daniel Jativa · April 17, 2019 1:15 pm

Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court, is pictured at his confirmation hearing on Tuesday.

Beltway Confidential

Data: Of course the Kavanaugh hearings hurt #MeToo

Tiana Lowe Doescher · April 17, 2019 11:00 am

Investigators in a speed boat examine the hull of the USS Cole at the Yemeni port of Aden, after a powerful explosion ripped a hole in the U.S Navy destroyer, killing at least 17 sailors and injuring some 30 others.

Court tosses rulings from military judge in setback for USS Cole bombing case at Guantanamo Bay

Jerry Dunleavy · April 16, 2019 11:48 pm

In this Nov. 29, 2018 photo, a vintage U.S. Border Patrol vehicle sits in a museum for the border patrol in El Paso, Texas. The U.S. Border Patrol Museum explores the story from the agency's formation to fight Chinese immigration and Prohibition, to its role amid massive migration and cartel drug smuggling.

Activists wanted for protest at National Border Patrol Museum turn themselves in

Diana Stancy Correll · April 16, 2019 11:12 pm

Columbine High School principal Scott Christy, right, joins an officer in watching as students leave the school late Tuesday, April 16, 2019, in Littleton, Colo. Following a lockdown at Columbine High School and other Denver area schools, authorities say they are looking for a woman suspected of making threats.

FBI, local authorities seek 18-year-old woman in ‘credible threat’ to Columbine High School

Daniel Jativa · April 16, 2019 10:49 pm

Federal judge criticizes Barr over transparency concerns for the Mueller report

Jerry Dunleavy · April 16, 2019 8:47 pm

StemExpress takes body parts from abortion clinics and supplies them to biomedical researchers, including Gu. Last year, a pro-life investigative group produced video evidence of Planned Parenthood accepting payments from companies including StemExpress. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Beltway Confidential

Planned Parenthood strong-armed California into making religious health insurance plans cover abortion

Nicole Russell · April 16, 2019 8:01 pm

U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan speaks during a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee on oversight of Customs and Border Protection's response to the smuggling of persons at the southern border, Wednesday, March 6, 2019, in Washington.

National Security

Judiciary Democrats demand acting Homeland Security chief reveal pardon talks with Trump

Susan Ferrechio · April 16, 2019 7:30 pm

Ken Starr, the independent counsel during the Monica Lewinsky and Whitewater scandals under former President Bill Clinton, predicted Saturday that special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russia's interference in the 2016 elections would end in indictments.

Ken Starr calls for ‘basic human decency’ in release of Mueller report

John Gage · April 16, 2019 6:51 pm

Supporters of former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo walk towards the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019, where lawyers were scheduled to discuss the next steps in the case of Gbagbo and ex-youth minister Charles Ble Goude, a day after both men were acquitted of crimes against humanity.

Beltway Confidential

The International Criminal Court crashes and burns over Afghanistan

David Davenport · April 16, 2019 6:12 pm