Tag: Law

Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., joins an women's advocacy group, MomsRising, to protest against threats by President Donald Trump against Central American asylum-seekers to separate children from their parents along the southwest border to deter migrants from crossing into the United States, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 23, 2018.

Beltway Confidential

Kamala Harris, a top recipient of Kasowitz Benson Torres campaign cash, put her experience as an unethical prosecutor to work this week

David Freddoso · September 7, 2018 12:28 pm

FILE - In this Jan. 26, 2017, file photo, containers of Roundup, a weed killer made by Monsanto, is seen on a shelf at a hardware store in Los Angeles. Republican lawmakers are threatening to cut off U.S. funding for the World Health Organizationâs cancer research program over its finding that the glyphosate herbicide Roundup is probably carcinogenic to humans.

Carcinogenic junk science is finding its way into the courtroom

Sherman Joyce · September 7, 2018 4:00 am

Detained immigrant children line up in the cafeteria at the Karnes County Residential Center, a temporary home for immigrant women and children detained at the border in Karnes City, Texas.

More than 400 children still separated from migrant parents

Kelly Cohen · September 6, 2018 11:19 pm

Senate Majority Whip Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, asks a question of President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh as he testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2018, for the second day of his confirmation hearing to replace retired Justice Anthony Kennedy.

John Cornyn accuses Cory Booker of grandstanding over document claim

Susan Ferrechio · September 6, 2018 8:51 pm

Senate Finance Committee ranking member Sen. Ron Wyden.

Ron Wyden says Brett Kavanaugh appears to have lied in 2006 testimony

Steven Nelson · September 6, 2018 8:02 pm

Christopher Steele.

Judge rejects GOP demand for access to deposition of Trump dossier author

Kelly Cohen · September 6, 2018 7:44 pm

Acting New York state Attorney General Barbara D. Underwood speaks in Albany, N.Y.

New York attorney general subpoenas state’s Roman Catholic dioceses as part of child sex abuse probe

Naomi Lim · September 6, 2018 7:29 pm

In this photo from Sept. 4, 2017, members of the Service Employees International Union, SEIU, gather for a Labor Day rally in downtown Los Angeles. The SEIU works with traditional unions, but it also partners with worker centers that operate just outside of federal labor law, allowing them to recruit and organize in a manner that traditional union organizers cannot. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

Class-action lawsuit seeks to expand Supreme Court Janus v. AFSCME ruling on unions

Sean Higgins · September 6, 2018 7:02 pm

Andrew McCabe.

Grand jury impaneled to probe fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe: Report

Naomi Lim · September 6, 2018 7:00 pm

Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., points toward an example of voter ID signage as he questions President Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, as he testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill.

Beltway Confidential

Sen. Booker’s Kavanaugh email stunt is a total dud

Becket Adams · September 6, 2018 4:19 pm

President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, officiates at the swearing-in of Judge Britt Grant to take a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018, at the U.S. District Courthouse in Washington.

Beltway Confidential

New York Times ‘bombshell’ report on Brett Kavanaugh’s leaked emails is more whimper than bang

Becket Adams · September 6, 2018 3:39 pm

Young detainees being escorted to an area to make phone calls as hundreds of mostly Central American immigrant children are being processed and held at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Nogales Placement Center in Nogales, Ariz.

Trump administration proposal aims to evade limits on detaining migrant children

Katelyn Caralle · September 6, 2018 3:01 pm