Tag: Law

Residents at a southeastern Albuquerque, N.M., polling station search through their ballots on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018, on election day. Voters in New Mexico went to the polls on Tuesday to pick the state's next governor, a U.S. senator, three U.S. House members and a string of statewide offices.

Beltway Confidential

Bypassing the Constitution wasn’t enough — popular vote fanatics resort to lawsuits to get their way

David Davenport · November 28, 2018 2:26 pm

This Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021 photo provided by NASA shows the Perseverance rover lowered towards the surface of Mars during its powered descent.

Supreme Court to decide whether taking drug dealer’s Land Rover is ‘excessive’

Melissa Quinn · November 28, 2018 5:18 am

"I just love to sit in my office and make up ways so they'll write these stupid stories because they are just so stupid," Maine Gov. Paul LePage said. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Maine GOP governor requests delay on Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion

Kimberly Leonard · November 27, 2018 10:36 pm

Paul Manafort heads to a federal courthouse.

Paul Manafort slams Guardian’s ‘totally false’ Julian Assange story, mulls lawsuit

Kelly Cohen · November 27, 2018 8:59 pm

Lawyer Steven Donziger, left, walks with his clients Toribio Aguinda, second left, of the Cofan tribe; Rogelio Creolo, third left, of the Siona tribe; and Umberto Piaguaje, of the Secoya tribe; to Federal Court in New York for their hearing with lawyers for Texaco Monday, Feb. 1, 1999. Ecuador had originally opposed the class-action suit, filed in 1993 on behalf of indigenous Indians and others who claimed that Texaco turned the Oriente region's rain forests into a "toxic waste dump" by drilling for oil.

Beltway Confidential

Corrupt environmentalist attorney grows rich despite ‘coercion, fraud and bribery’

Kevin Mooney · November 27, 2018 7:38 pm

Trump triumphant in lawsuit against his DC hotel

Caitlin Yilek · November 27, 2018 5:38 pm

FBI Director James Comey testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017, before the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Russian intelligence activities. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

James Comey claims he ‘always’ respects subpoenas days after saying he will ‘resist’ one

Daniel Chaitin · November 27, 2018 4:31 pm

President Donald Trump , left, and Texas State Sen. Dawn Buckingham, right, listen as Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Seema Verma speaks during a meeting on women in healthcare, Wednesday, March 22, 2017, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump administration defends Medicaid work requirements after thousands knocked off program in Arkansas

Kimberly Leonard · November 27, 2018 2:58 pm

Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Seema Verma listens at right as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting on women in healthcare, Wednesday, March 22, 2017, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington.

Trump administration has contingency plan if anti-Obamacare lawsuit works

Kimberly Leonard · November 27, 2018 2:13 pm

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks to reporters as she arrives for a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018.

Grassley begs Trump to nominate new attorney general: ‘How long does it take for you to make up your mind?’

Al Weaver · November 26, 2018 11:18 pm

President Donald Trump walks out of the Oval Office to board Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Monday, Nov. 26, 2018, for a short trip to Andrews Air Force Base, Md., and then on to Tupelo, Miss. for a rally.

Beltway Confidential

Trump loves his judges, but he’s only making it easier for Democrats to criticize them

Jay Caruso · November 26, 2018 8:35 pm

George Papadopoulos, the former Trump campaign adviser who triggered the Russia investigation, took to media as he arrives for his first appearance before congressional investigators, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018.

George Papadopoulos reports to federal prison for 2-week stint

Kelly Cohen · November 26, 2018 7:29 pm