Tag: Law

Bill Cosby plans to travel the country this summer talking to young people about how to avoid being accused of sexual assault, according to his spokesperson. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Supreme Court declines to take up defamation suit against Bill Cosby

Melissa Quinn · February 19, 2019 4:13 pm

In this Feb. 6, 2015, file photo, former U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock, R-Ill. speaks to reporters in Peoria, Ill.

Supreme Court rejects request from former GOP congressman Aaron Schock to review case

Melissa Quinn · February 19, 2019 3:07 pm

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg sits onstage as the third speaker of the David Berg Distinguished Speakers Series, during an event organized by the Museum of the City of New York with WNET-TV held at the New York Academy of Medicine Saturday, Dec. 15, 2018, in New York. NPR legal correspondent Nina Totenberg led a question-and-answer session about Ginsburg's quarter century on the Supreme Court, and about her life.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg returns to the bench after undergoing cancer surgery

Melissa Quinn · February 19, 2019 2:37 pm

President Donald Trump walks out of the Oval Office to speak at an event in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, Friday, Feb. 15, 2019, to declare a national emergency in order to build a wall along the southern border.

Washington’s paralysis requires a constitutional fix

Tom Coburn · February 19, 2019 5:01 am

In this May 20, 2016 file photo, actor and singer Jussie Smollett attends the "Empire" FYC Event in Los Angeles. Chicago police say they're interviewing two "persons of interest" who surveillance photos show were in the downtown area where Smollett says he was attacked last month.

Beltway Confidential

Another hoax? Staged hate crimes instill fear, divide communities, breed cynicism

David Freddoso · February 19, 2019 3:45 am

Cops knew Illinois gunman who murdered 5 illegally owned gun

Steven Nelson · February 17, 2019 11:47 pm

Carter Page.

Ex-FISA court chief defends DOJ, FBI for handling of Carter Page surveillance applications

Daniel Chaitin · February 17, 2019 9:13 pm

Upon Weiner's release, he is supposed to be monitored on the Internet and enroll in a sex-offender treatment program. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Anthony Weiner released early from prison

Steven Nelson · February 17, 2019 6:50 pm

Alan Dershowitz: Trump’s national emergency a ‘mistake’

Daniel Chaitin · February 17, 2019 5:09 pm

President Trump speaks.

Trump is repeating and compounding Obama’s error

Washington Examiner · February 16, 2019 3:29 pm

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts answers questions during an appearance at Belmont University Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn.

The Supreme Court needs an ethics code

Sarah E. Turberville · February 16, 2019 5:00 am

Sayfullo Saipov, the alleged attacker, made "no bones" about the attack and told police he was pleased with carrying it out. (St. Charles County, Mo. Department of Corrections/KMOV via AP)

Judge rules Trump tweets on capital punishment for NYC terrorist don’t affect case

Vaishnavee Sharma · February 16, 2019 1:13 am