Tag: Law

"Attacks on government employees and the civil service in general may make for good politics, but they make for bad government," said the national president of the American Federation of Government Employees. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

Judge deals unions win, striking down key parts of Trump’s executive orders

Melissa Quinn · August 25, 2018 7:12 pm

Paul Manafort walks out of a federal courthouse.

Prosecutors project its case in next Manafort trial could wrap in as little as two weeks

Melissa Quinn · August 25, 2018 4:39 pm

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

Giuliani to Mueller: We’ll admit ‘you were fair’ when report clears Trump

Melissa Quinn · August 25, 2018 2:29 pm

Former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship makes his way out of a building.

Don Blankenship hires Manchin-supporting lawyer in push to overturn ‘sore loser’ law

David M. Drucker · August 25, 2018 4:00 am

7 arrested in protests over toppled Confederate statue at UNC — Chapel Hill: Report

Allison Elyse Gualtieri · August 25, 2018 12:00 am

A journalist presents a bunch of flowers to Russian agent Maria Butina, upon her arrival from the United States at Moscow International Airport Sheremetyevo outside Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Oct. 26, 2019. Butina, a gun rights activist who sought to infiltrate conservative U.S. political groups and promote Russia's agenda around the time that Donald Trump rose to power, was released Friday from a low-security facility in Florida.

Lawyer for alleged Russian agent Maria Butina says claim she offered sex for job is ‘sexist smear’

Caitlin Yilek · August 24, 2018 9:29 pm

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sits on a couch before meeting with Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Beltway Confidential

New York Times goes after Kavanaugh family’s 911 calls

Becket Adams · August 24, 2018 7:04 pm

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The Supreme Court said Monday it would take up UNITE HERE Local 355 v. Martin Mulhall.

Energy and Environment

Greens take fight over Trump’s border wall to Supreme Court

John Siciliano · August 24, 2018 6:52 pm

Reality Winner, charged with leaking U.S. secrets to a news outlet, walks into the Federal Courthouse in Augusta, Ga. Winner previously pleaded not guilty and has been in custody since her arrest.

Reality Winner lawyer says he laughed reading Trump’s tweet about client

Steven Nelson · August 24, 2018 6:19 pm

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Senate Judiciary Dems push GOP to delay Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing

Melissa Quinn · August 24, 2018 5:55 pm

Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., after his meeting with Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh, says he does not think the Senate Judiciary Committee should go forward with the scheduled Sept. 4 hearings.

Chris Coons on splitting with Democrats over meeting with Brett Kavanaugh: It’s my job

Melissa Quinn · August 24, 2018 4:11 pm

U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter, center, arrives for an arraignment hearing Thursday, Aug. 23, 2018, in San Diego. Hunter and his wife were indicted Tuesday on federal charges that they used more than $250,000 in campaign funds for personal expenses that ranged from groceries to golf trips and lied about it in federal filings, prosecutors said.

Beltway Confidential

Duncan Hunter throws his wife under bus in campaign finance scandal

Becket Adams · August 24, 2018 3:57 pm