Tag: Law

"The president should fire her immediately and anyone who disobeys Director Mulvaney's orders should also be fired summarily. The Constitution and the law must prevail against the supposed resistance," Cotton said on Twitter. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Tom Cotton: Fire anyone who doesn’t accept Mick Mulvaney as CFPB’s leader

Anna Giaritelli · November 27, 2017 5:22 pm

The House Judiciary Committee is scheduled on Tuesday to consider the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017. The legislation was introduced in January and followed reports of gun owners getting arrested for traveling through states with stricter gun laws. (iStock Photo)

House takes up bill allowing concealed carry across state lines

Susan Ferrechio · November 27, 2017 5:00 pm

Justice Clarence Thomas criticized the federal appeals court's decision as meaning, "Congress could reduce a State to near nonexistence by taking all land within its borders and declaring it sovereign Indian territory." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Clarence Thomas fires away at justices for ‘giving Congress the power to destroy the states’ territorial integrity’

Ryan Lovelace · November 27, 2017 3:54 pm

Supreme Court justices rejected Kolbe v. Hogan, involving petitioners questioning the constitutionality of Maryland's assault weapons ban and whether semiautomatic rifles and magazines were excluded from Second Amendment protection under previous precedent from the high court. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Supreme Court declines to hear challenge to Maryland assault weapons ban

Ryan Lovelace · November 27, 2017 2:57 pm

Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci threatens to sue a Tufts University graduate student after the student wrote an op-ed calling him a "man who is irresponsible, inconsistent, [and] an unethical opportunist." (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Anthony Scaramucci threatens to sue grad student who called him ‘unethical’

Pete Kasperowicz · November 27, 2017 1:13 pm

President Trump announced he was picking OMB Director Mick Mulvaney to head the agency within a few hours after Richard Cordray resigned on Friday. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

CFPB’s top lawyer: Mick Mulvaney is in charge

Pete Kasperowicz · November 27, 2017 12:38 pm

The Definitive Explanation of Why Trump Is Right on Mulvaney, English, and the CFPB

Shannen Coffin · November 27, 2017 10:05 am

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Carpenter v. United States, a case about the constitutionality of law enforcement searching and seizing -- without a warrant -- a cellphone user's records to reveal that person's locations and movements. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Supreme Court to hear major cellphone privacy case amid end-of-year blockbusters

Ryan Lovelace · November 27, 2017 5:01 am

In early October, HHS?issued a new rule that protects religious non-profits like?the Little Sisters of the Poor from providing anything like contraception that would violate their religious beliefs. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Beltway Confidential

For the love of God, why can’t Democrats leave the Little Sisters of the Poor alone?

Nicole Russell · November 26, 2017 5:01 am

This undated photo provided by the Baltimore Police Department shows Detective Sean Suiter. Suiter was shot Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2017. (Baltimore Police Department via AP)

Baltimore cop fatally shot day before testifying in police corruption case

Steven Nelson · November 24, 2017 8:56 pm

With Texas' appeal, there are now three challenges to state dismemberment abortion bans pending in the appellate courts. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

Beltway Confidential

Federal judge rules that gruesome form of abortion is constitutional

Margot Cleveland · November 24, 2017 4:11 pm

The Supreme Court will soon hear a case which centers on whether an administrative body, called the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, may judge patent validity challenges. (iStock)

Supreme Court should affirm patent property rights

James Edwards · November 24, 2017 5:01 am