Tag: Law

Attorney General Jeff Sessions addresses the California Peace Officers' Association. The Trump administration is suing California over a law that aims to give the state power to override the sale of federal lands.

Most don’t want Trump to fire Jeff Sessions

Katelyn Caralle · August 31, 2018 12:03 pm

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos speaks with the media after a series of listening sessions about campus sexual violence, Thursday, July 13, 2017, in Washington.

Send campus sexual assault to court

Washington Examiner · August 31, 2018 4:00 am

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump laughs after an attendee makes a joke at Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's expense during a campaign stop at Concord High School, Monday, Jan. 18, 2016, in Concord, N.H.

Beltway Confidential

Trump should laugh off his fearmongering marijuana committee

Erin Dunne · August 30, 2018 8:53 pm

The Supreme Court building in Washington, Monday, June 30, 2014, following various court decisions. The court ruled on birth control, union fees and other cases.

Supreme Court hands loss to Catholic foster care agency in dispute with city of Philadelphia

Melissa Quinn · August 30, 2018 8:21 pm

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani pauses as he arrives at Trump Tower in New York.

Beltway Confidential

Rudy Giuliani laps at the well of Romanian corruption

Tom Rogan · August 30, 2018 7:37 pm

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh listens to Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, on Capitol Hill during a meeting on July 11, 2018.

Yale students, alumni, faculty back Brett Kavanaugh for Supreme Court

Melissa Quinn · August 30, 2018 7:17 pm

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani speaks at an event in New York City.

Trump legal team composing ‘counter-report’ to undermine Mueller investigation: Report

Diana Stancy Correll · August 30, 2018 4:58 pm

North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein speaks to a crowd of supporters in Raleigh, N.C.

Obamacare allies lay out strategy to defeat lawsuit seeking to end law

Robert King · August 30, 2018 4:39 pm

Reality Winner arrives at a courthouse in Augusta, Ga., for her sentencing after she pleaded guilty in June to copying a classified U.S. report and mailing it to an unidentified news organization.

National Security

NSA leaker Reality Winner reacts to Trump tweet: ‘I can’t thank him enough’

Caitlin Yilek · August 30, 2018 3:22 pm

FILE - In this Aug. 30, 2012, file photo, a tour group walks through the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. Word of an August 2017 Justice Department inquiry into how race factors into admissions at Harvard University has left top-tier colleges bracing for scrutiny of practices that have boosted diversity levels to new highs. While they keep their selection formulas under wraps, Ivy League colleges defend race-conscious approaches that contributed to a 17 percent increase in nonwhite students over a recent five-year span.

DOJ sides with student group saying Harvard University has anti-Asian-American admission policies

Kelly Cohen · August 30, 2018 2:00 pm

Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst who served about seven years in federal prison for leaking government documents to Wikileaks, speaks at the C2 business conference on Thursday in Montreal.

Chelsea Manning to be denied entry to Australia, event organizer says

Caitlin Yilek · August 30, 2018 1:45 pm

FILE - In this July 31, 2018, file photo, President Donald Trump pauses during remarks at a campaign rally at Florida State Fairgrounds Expo Hall in Tampa, Fla. The Robesonian paper in Lumberton, N.C., announced itâs dropping an 8-page color comics section from Sunday editions. A newspaper editorial said it cut the comics because of rising newsprint costs spurred by Trump administration tariffs on imported paper. The newspaper says itâs âa decision that we really believe was made at the White House.â

Ethics lawyer to leave White House Friday

Katelyn Caralle · August 30, 2018 12:43 pm