Tag: Law

President Barack Obama meets with President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016.

Energy and Environment

Why Trump is defending a marine monument made by Obama

Josh Siegel · April 20, 2018 11:18 pm

San Antonio police officers investigate the scene where eight people were found dead in a tractor-trailer loaded with at least 30 others outside a Walmart store in stifling summer heat in what police are calling a horrific human trafficking case in San Antonio.

Life sentence for truck driver who smuggled immigrants in overheated tractor-trailer

Anna Giaritelli · April 20, 2018 8:22 pm

In this 2017 photo, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe listens on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Andrew McCabe plans to sue for defamation, wrongful termination: Report

Melissa Quinn · April 20, 2018 7:01 pm

Vehicles make their way through flooded streets of Panorama City section of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles on Saturday.

Energy and Environment

15 Republican attorneys general oppose California climate suit

John Siciliano · April 20, 2018 6:18 pm

Justices will weigh the SEC’s appointment scandal

Philip Hamburger · April 20, 2018 6:14 pm

People stand outside the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington.

DNC sues Trump campaign, Russian government, and WikiLeaks over 2016 election

Katelyn Caralle · April 20, 2018 3:35 pm

President-elect Donald Trump calls out to media as he and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani pose for photographs as Giuliani arrives at the Trump National Golf Club on Nov. 20, 2016, in Bedminster, New Jersey.

Rudy Giuliani joins Trump’s legal team

Naomi Lim · April 19, 2018 9:02 pm

The Department of Health and Human Services building is seen in the evening in Washington Sunday, April 5, 2009.

Judge rules HHS broke law in cutting off teen pregnancy funds

Kimberly Leonard · April 19, 2018 8:56 pm

Jessie Liu, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, speaks during a news conference.

Meet the US attorney who could prosecute Andrew McCabe

Gabby Morrongiello · April 19, 2018 8:42 pm

FILE - In this April 14, 2017, file photo, protesters hold up signs outside a courthouse where a federal judge was to hear arguments in the first lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's executive order to withhold funding from communities that limit cooperation with immigration authorities in San Francisco. California state lawmakers passed and Gov. Jerry Brown signed nearly 900 new laws in 2017, most of which take effect Jan. 1, 2018. Among them is one making California a sanctuary state in response to the Trump administration's immigration crackdown.

Federal appeals court rules against Trump in challenge to sanctuary cities

Melissa Quinn · April 19, 2018 8:15 pm

Congress will get its hands on the Comey memos Thursday

Kelly Cohen · April 19, 2018 7:35 pm

Welded gas pipe sections sit before laying beside a trench.

Energy and Environment

FERC kicks off review of policy for approving natural gas pipelines

Josh Siegel · April 19, 2018 4:20 pm