Tag: Law

The justices in Masterpiece Cakeshop Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission will look to decide the constitutionality of Colorado's public accommodations law forcing cake baker Jack Phillips to create speech that defies his religious beliefs by making a cake for a same-sex wedding. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

Beltway Confidential

Colorado’s Civil Rights Commission was terrible long before the Masterpiece case

Jenna Ellis · June 5, 2018 4:14 pm

Harvey Weinstein, seated center, listens as his attorney Benjamin Brafman, right, confers with a court officer in New York, Tuesday, June 5, 2018. Weinstein pleaded not guilty to rape and criminal sex act charges in a brief hearing Tuesday before a judge.

Harvey Weinstein pleads not guilty to rape, sexual assault charges

Sydney Fazio · June 5, 2018 3:32 pm

Sen. Chuck Schumer and President Trump on Iran deal

Chuck Schumer hits Trump over self-pardon claim: ‘You are not a king’

Al Weaver · June 5, 2018 3:20 pm

Police activity outside an address raided by officers from Britain's Counter Terrorism police in Dewsbury, England, Tuesday April 3, 2018. Two men are understood to have been arrested on suspicion of planning acts of terror.

Beltway Confidential

Why and how Britain is getting tougher on terrorists

Tom Rogan · June 5, 2018 1:29 pm

Baker Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, manages his shop in Lakewood, Colo., after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that he could refuse to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple because his religious beliefs did not violate Colorado's anti-discrimination law.

Colorado baker: ‘I don’t discriminate against anybody’

Pete Kasperowicz · June 5, 2018 12:10 pm

Attorney General Jeff Sessions attends the Prison Reform Summit in the East Room of the White House.

Trump: Russia ‘witch hunt’ is Jeff Sessions’ fault

Katelyn Caralle · June 5, 2018 11:53 am

Republicans would have to scale back their ambitions if they can't muster enough votes to eliminate tax breaks to offset cutting individual and corporate rates.(AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Ted Cruz slams press for demanding instant answers on the ‘complicated’ question of presidential self-pardons

Katelyn Caralle · June 5, 2018 11:48 am

Supreme Court leaves key question unanswered in same-sex wedding cake case

Melissa Quinn · June 4, 2018 10:38 pm

President Trump walks across the South Lawn of the White House in Washington.

Trump’s view on self-pardons goes against Justice Department policy

Kelly Cohen · June 4, 2018 6:19 pm

Janae Stracke, left, and Annabelle Rutledge, both with Concerned Women for America, hold up signs in support of cake artist Jack Phillips outside of the Supreme Court which is hearing the 'Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission,' Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017, in Washington.

Beltway Confidential

High court blasts Colorado’s anti-religious bias, leaves boundaries of religious liberty ill-defined

Tom Rogan · June 4, 2018 5:04 pm

Chuck Grassley suggests Trump may need to hire new lawyer after Giuliani pardon comments

Caitlin Yilek · June 4, 2018 5:00 pm

John Brennan: Trump’s tweets ‘are not the tweets of an innocent individual’

Caitlin Yilek · June 4, 2018 4:22 pm