Tag: Law

Demonstrators rally in support of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program outside the Capitol. Democrats have been seeking a deal to protect the "Dreamers," who have been shielded against deportation by DACA, which President Trump halted last year. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Trump: Democrats backing noncitizens over Americans in shutdown fight

Anna Giaritelli · January 22, 2018 1:33 pm

Lukasz Niec, an internal medicine doctor for Bronson HealthCare in Kalamazoo, Mich., was taken into custody on Tuesday after immigrating from Poland with his parents when he was three years old, according to his wife Rachelle. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

ICE detains green-card holding Polish doctor in Michigan who’s been in US for 40 years

Naomi Lim · January 21, 2018 7:51 pm

The sun sets behind FedEx Field. Three politicians in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia are teaming up across partisan lines to try and prevent their governments from waging a bidding war with public money to build a new stadium for the Washington Redskins. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)

Hail to the Redskins paying for their own stadium

Washington Examiner · January 21, 2018 5:01 am

In the 82-page appeal filed Friday in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio argued that when President Trump pardoned him in August 2017, it made the case "moot before the normal appeals process." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Joe Arpaio files appeal to undo contempt of court conviction

Kelly Cohen · January 20, 2018 2:41 pm

It's not the companies causing this. It's us. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)

Beltway Confidential

Suing oil companies for climate change is worse than childish

Tim Worstall · January 19, 2018 11:18 pm

If the American government declines to respect the laws of other countries, why should they feel obliged to respect ours? (AP Photo/Raphael Satter)

Beltway Confidential

Microsoft case highlights tension between privacy and security in the digital age

Casey Given · January 19, 2018 8:57 pm

A coalition of five Native American tribes, and environmental groups, have filed three lawsuits challenging President Trump's shrinking of Bears Ears. (Photo via Wikipedia)

Energy and Environment

Trump administration wants friendlier court to hear challenge to Bears Ears monument rollback

Josh Siegel · January 19, 2018 8:41 pm

Sonia Sotomayor, 63, who was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes as a child, came to work and "resumed her usual schedule," a Supreme Court spokeswoman said. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Justice Sonia Sotomayor treated by paramedics for symptoms of low blood sugar

Melissa Quinn · January 19, 2018 8:35 pm

The high court announced its decision to consider the case Friday, and they will likely hear oral arguments in April. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Supreme Court to hear case challenging Trump travel ban

Melissa Quinn · January 19, 2018 7:10 pm

The bill passed 241-183, with help from just six Democrats. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

House votes to require doctors to help babies that survive abortion

Kimberly Leonard · January 19, 2018 4:29 pm

On Tuesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Alsup's ruling "defies both law and common sense" and said the department's Supreme Court request would happen by week's end. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Justice Department asks Supreme Court to overturn DACA ruling

Kelly Cohen · January 19, 2018 1:11 am

Last week, a three-judge panel voided the congressional map of North Carolina drawn by the GOP-controlled state legislature in 2016 and said it constitutes a "partisan" gerrymander.

Supreme Court puts order invalidating North Carolina congressional voting map on hold

Melissa Quinn · January 19, 2018 12:58 am