Tag: Law

Tony Gomez, Violence and Injury Prevention Manager for Public Health - Seattle & King County, demonstrates the use of a gun lock box during a news conference by the Alliance for Gun Responsibility and other activists, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2016, in Olympia, Wash. Lawmakers in Washington state were to begin discussions later in the day on a list of gun-control measures that include requiring safe storage of firearms to avoid tragedies like the Marysville high school shooting and prohibiting law enforcement agencies from selling confiscated guns.

NRA sues Seattle over ‘safe storage’ gun law

Daniel Chaitin · July 22, 2018 9:34 pm

Chuck Schumer Brett Kavanaugh.

Chuck Schumer: Brett Kavanaugh’s view of Watergate tapes decision ‘bodes very poorly’ for holding Trump accountable

Josh Siegel · July 22, 2018 6:19 pm

President Donald Trump talks with reporters during a tour of a Foxconn facility, Thursday, June 28, 2018, in Mt. Pleasant, Wis.

Capital Gazette shooter indicted on 23 charges

Kimberly Leonard · July 21, 2018 5:15 pm

Michael Avenatti and Michael Cohen are pictured.

Michael Avenatti offers to represent Michael Cohen

Caitlin Yilek · July 21, 2018 12:09 am

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh arrives for a meeting with Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, on Capitol Hill on Wednesday in Washington.

Civil rights groups target Kavanaugh nomination in moderate Republicans’ states

Mandy Mayfield · July 20, 2018 11:43 pm

Attorney Lanny Davis speaks during an AP interview in his K Street office in Washington, D.C.

Michael Cohen’s lawyer fires back at Giuliani: ‘Any attempt at spin can not change what is on the tape’

Caitlin Yilek · July 20, 2018 9:46 pm

Energy and Environment

Ninth Circuit blocks Trump’s second attempt to stop children’s climate lawsuit

John Siciliano · July 20, 2018 6:27 pm

Various cannabis oil products are displayed.

New Jersey state senator fears ‘sex toy oils with marijuana’ after pot is legal

Steven Nelson · July 20, 2018 4:08 pm

Rennie Defoe Jr. entered a gas station, grabbed three cases of beer, exited without paying. One of the store owners, 22-year-old Mehedeun Hasan then challenged Defoe to stop and shot him when he refused.

Beltway Confidential

Florida prosecutors should offer probation-plea deal to the store owner who just shot a thief

Tom Rogan · July 20, 2018 3:26 pm

In this 2017 photo, Fox News co-president Bill Shine, right, leaves a New York restaurant.

White House official Bill Shine was subpoenaed in 2017 in Fox sexual harassment case: Report

Anna Giaritelli · July 20, 2018 2:34 pm

Gas prices are displayed at a Mobil station, Wednesday, April 18, 2018 in New York. The price of benchmark U.S. crude rose $1.55, or 2.3 percent, to $68.07 per barrel Wednesday on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

Energy and Environment

Federal judge dismisses New York City’s climate change lawsuit against Big Oil

Josh Siegel · July 19, 2018 8:01 pm

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, left, speaks to the media on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 17, 2018. McConnell says there is "indisputable evidence" Russia tried to affect the 2016 presidential election. He says the Senate understands the "Russia threat" and that is the "widespread view here in the United States Senate among members of both parties."

Mitch McConnell pulls vote on Trump judicial pick Ryan Bounds, declares nomination dead

Naomi Lim · July 19, 2018 7:25 pm