Tag: Law

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross attends a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room.

Appeals court denies Trump administration's request to block Wilbur Ross deposition in census question challenge

Melissa Quinn · October 9, 2018 9:37 pm

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio talks to government officials.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio signs law adding ‘X’ gender category to birth certificates

Maria Biery · October 9, 2018 9:15 pm

President Donald Trump, center, listens as retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, right, ceremonially swears-in Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, left, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Oct. 8, 2018. Kavanaugh's wife Ashley watches, second from right with daughters Margaret, left, and Liza.

Beltway Confidential

Democrats overplayed their hand on Brett Kavanaugh

Siraj Hashmi · October 9, 2018 7:09 pm

Activists protest in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2018. A Supreme Court with a new conservative majority takes the bench as Brett Kavanaugh, narrowly confirmed after a bitter Senate battle, joins his new colleagues to hear his first arguments as a justice.

Down to work: Kavanaugh jumps in with questions as protesters howl outside Supreme Court

Melissa Quinn · October 9, 2018 5:35 pm

Protesters rally in front of Trump Tower in New York, Thursday, Oct. 4, 2018. Hundreds of people rallied in front of Trump Tower then walked to Times Square to protest Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

Red Alert Politics

‘Innocent until proven guilty’ is not optional

Suan Sonna · October 9, 2018 5:00 pm

Miguel Estrada leaves a federal courthouse surrounded by members of the media.

It didn’t start with Merrick Garland: Trump should now nominate Miguel Estrada to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals

Cliff Smith · October 9, 2018 4:47 pm

People react outside the city hall in Chicago on Friday, Oct 5, 2018, after a jury convicted Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke of second-degree murder in the 2014 shooting of Laquan McDonald. The white Chicago officer was convicted of second-degree murder Friday in the shooting of the black teenager that was captured on shocking dashcam video that showed him crumpling to the ground in a hail of 16 bullets as he walked away from police.

Beltway Confidential

Justice served: Jason Van Dyke absolutely deserved guilty ruling in killing of Laquan McDonald

James A. Gagliano · October 9, 2018 4:26 pm

MSNBC television anchor Joe Scarborough wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post, saying Republicans on Capitol Hill are using "wild tales" and "conspiracies" about the Russia inquiry, the FBI, and the Department of Justice to defend the president's decision to consider firing special counsel Robert Mueller. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Joe Scarborough: ‘Journalists in America have a lot to answer for’ after Ford letter leak

Naomi Lim · October 9, 2018 4:21 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 set for early release from prison

Caitlin Yilek · October 9, 2018 2:19 pm

Brett Kavanaugh, U.S. Supreme Court associate justice nominee for U.S. President Donald Trump, listens during a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Sept. 7, 2018. Kavanaugh yesterday steered clear of trouble in a marathon day before a Senate panel, refusing to say whether he would overturn the constitutional right to abortion or disqualify himself from any case directly involving Trump.

The Kavanaugh effect: Most diverse Supreme Court staff in history

Melissa Quinn · October 9, 2018 11:00 am

Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh meets with senators on Capitol Hill.

Brett Kavanaugh keeps promise to hire first all-women group of Supreme Court law clerks

Naomi Lim · October 8, 2018 10:23 pm

Police officers talk with a woman who had her phone stolen in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, New York, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2013. A federal judge's stinging rebuke of the police department's stop-and-frisk policy as discriminatory could usher in a return to the days of high violent crime rates and end New York's tenure as "America's safest big city," Mayor Michael Bloomberg warned.

Beltway Confidential

Trump renewed calls for NYPD style ‘stop and frisk.’ Here’s why that’s a bad idea

Erin Dunne · October 8, 2018 8:00 pm