Tag: Law

The Virginia Board of Elections is scheduled to meet Wednesday morning and will determine the winner of the race by drawing names from film canisters placed in a bowl. (AP)

Democrat in tied race for Virginia legislature to file lawsuit challenging contested ballot

Diana Stancy Correll, Melissa Quinn · December 26, 2017 8:22 pm

The voter information the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity had collected will be completely erased, according to Justice Department filing. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)

Appeals court says privacy group can’t challenge Trump voter fraud panel

Melissa Quinn · December 26, 2017 6:58 pm

In this 2006 photo, Wal-Mart pharmacy technician Mark Pool fills a generic anti-inflammatory prescription at a Little Rock, Ark., Wal-Mart Super Center store. While the Constitution allows for patents, patents are temporary monopolies, meaning that drug companies want to extend their effective life as much as possible - much to the detriment of generics. (AP Photo/Mike Wintroath)

Congress can liberate drugs that come off their patents

Peter Ferrara · December 26, 2017 5:01 am

Union members listen in as protesters fill the Kentucky Capitol rotunda to speak in protest of Kentucky House Bill 1 on Jan. 7 in Frankfort, Ky. The bill makes it illegal for workers to have to join a labor union or pay dues to keep a job. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

Biggest change in labor policy next year could come from Supreme Court

Sean Higgins · December 24, 2017 5:01 am

Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., wants to move more quickly from debating a presidential nominee to confirming the nominee. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)

James Lankford’s idea for confirming presidential nominees more quickly

Joel Gehrke · December 24, 2017 5:01 am

Former Arizona Rep. Gabby Giffords' gun group, the Giffords Law Center for Prevent Gun Violence, filed a lawsuit after the Justice Department did not respond to multiple Freedom of Information Act requests for communications between gun lobbying groups and senior officials related to the president's selection of judicial picks. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Gabby Giffords’ gun group sues Trump administration over for NRA-related documents

Kelly Cohen · December 23, 2017 3:38 pm

Rather than take apart the entire ban, the 9th Circuit ruled that only the prohibitions on foreign nationals with strong U.S. ties should be blocked. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

9th Circuit court rules against third Trump travel ban, no immediate effect

Naomi Lim · December 23, 2017 2:08 am

Under current Supreme Court precedent, many online retailers are not required to collect sales taxes where they have no physical presence in a state. (iStock Photo)

Beltway Confidential

While Congress reformed taxes, online state sales taxes are still a huge mess

Joseph Bishop-Henchman · December 22, 2017 7:57 pm

A federal appeals court ruled that the Obama administration did not complete the correct procedure to implement the ban on the importation of body parts from African elephants shot for sport. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo, File)

Energy and Environment

Obama administration didn’t follow rules on elephant trophy ban, court says

Diana Stancy Correll · December 22, 2017 7:23 pm

"This had been a year of extraordinary accomplishment by any objective standard," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said during his year-end press conference at the Capitol. (Screenshot)

Mitch McConnell: 2017 a year of ‘extraordinary accomplishment’

Al Weaver · December 22, 2017 4:12 pm

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The Scrapbook · December 22, 2017 9:00 am

The Media’s Favorite ‘Ethicist’

Ethan Epstein · December 22, 2017 9:00 am