Tag: Law

A little-known device called a bump stock is attached to a semi-automatic rifle at a gun store and shooting range. Massachusetts is on its way to becoming the first state since the Las Vegas shooting massacre to outlaw devices that allow semi-automatic weapons to mimic fully automatic guns.

Justice Department unveils proposal to outlaw bump stocks

Diana Stancy Correll · March 23, 2018 9:25 pm

A government ethics and accountability group wants to know what the Department of Justice is hiding. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Federal court orders DOJ to turn over Trump meeting logs related to transgender ban

Travis J. Tritten · March 22, 2018 10:17 pm

House Judiciary Committee ranking member Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., arrives for a House Judiciary hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington.

House Democrats urge Supreme Court to release audio from travel ban arguments

Melissa Quinn · March 22, 2018 10:07 pm

This photo shows a portion of a steel border fence that stretches along the US-Mexico border in Sunland Park, N.M.

Energy and Environment

Conservation groups sue over ‘unconstitutional’ waivers for Trump border wall

John Siciliano · March 22, 2018 8:08 pm

In this July 27, 2011 photo, Michael Frasier transports bags of ice at his job in New Haven, Conn. Frasier, who has been in and out of prison most of his adult life, found employment with help of a prison re-entry program in New Haven.

Beltway Confidential

Can letting ex-offenders work make us safer? One state wants to find out

Jon Haggerty · March 22, 2018 5:55 pm

In this March 5, 2015, file photo, cables are connected to a server capable of handling an email server at the Washington bureau of the Associated Press.

Spending bill likely to end Supreme Court case on email data stored overseas

Melissa Quinn · March 22, 2018 5:47 pm

Attorney John Dowd, one of the key lawyers in President Trumpâs corner navigated a popular United States senator through crisis, produced a damning investigative report that drove a baseball star from the game and, early in his career, took on organized crime as a Justice Department prosecutor. Dowd assumed a more prominent place on the legal team after another lawyer, Marc Kasowitz, took a reduced role. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Top Trump lawyer John Dowd resigns after calling for Mueller’s ouster

Sarah Bedford · March 22, 2018 3:39 pm

Stephen Colbert hits the gym with Ruth Bader Ginsburg: WATCH

Melissa Quinn · March 22, 2018 1:45 pm

Illinois government employee Mark Janus walks outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. The Supreme Court is taking up a case that could deal a painful financial blow to organized labor. The court is considering a challenge to an Illinois law that allows unions representing government employees to collect fees from workers who choose not to join.

The Janus case: Uphold the Constitution, or protect its violators?

Robert Holland · March 22, 2018 4:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Teaching a dog the Nazi salute shouldn’t be a crime, most certainly not a hate crime

Tim Worstall · March 21, 2018 7:06 pm

In this 2010 photo, a Boeing 787 composite forward fuselage section sits on the factory floor at Spirit AeroSystems in Wichita, Kansas.

Beltway Confidential

Spirit AeroSystems should fire any employees who conspired against a Muslim colleague

Tom Rogan · March 21, 2018 6:23 pm

Beltway Confidential

Feds battle a man into old age over his simple request: to use the property he paid for

William Perry Pendley · March 21, 2018 3:52 pm