Tag: Law

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt attends a Cabinet meeting with President Donald Trump, Monday, June 12, 2017, in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Energy and Environment

Good riddance to the ‘sue and settle’ regulatory process

Washington Examiner · October 28, 2017 12:16 pm

Sean Hannity questioned when Hillary Clinton would be indicted. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri, File)

National Security

Sean Hannity asks after report of Mueller probe charges: When will Hillary Clinton be indicted?

Diana Stancy Correll · October 28, 2017 4:21 am

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., joined by, from left, Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., and Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., speaks with reporters after meeting with President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Mitch McConnell feels the heat, ramps up effort to confirm judges

Susan Ferrechio · October 28, 2017 4:01 am

Special counsel Robert Mueller charged with "willfully and knowingly making materially false, fictitious and fraudulent statements" to both the special counsel's office and FBI investigators.

First charges issued from Robert Mueller’s investigation: Report

Diana Stancy Correll · October 28, 2017 12:51 am

The IRS cannot predict what loopholes and workarounds corporations and individuals might find under the revised tax code Republicans are expected to pass Tuesday. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

Beltway Confidential

Conservatives were targeted by a weaponized IRS; all they got was this lousy apology

Becket Adams · October 27, 2017 9:38 pm

Bill O’Reilly serves legal summons to former New Jersey politician who accused him of sexual harassment

Caitlin Yilek · October 27, 2017 9:30 pm

The IRS admitted it was wrong and apologized to members of the American Center for Law and Justice, which sued the IRS in the wake of the scandal. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Mitch McConnell: IRS targeting apology came ‘five years too late’

Susan Ferrechio · October 27, 2017 9:17 pm

Nathan Michael Smith, a former Army intelligence analyst, filed a suit last year claiming President Obama was illegally fighting Islamic State terrorists without congressional authorization. His case is being heard in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

National Security

Trump Justice Department: Wars are off limits to court review

Steven Nelson · October 27, 2017 8:34 pm

Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta has repeatedly said that the Obama administration went too far when it expanded the rule. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump administration to appeal ruling that Obama’s expansion of overtime rule unconstitutional

Sean Higgins · October 27, 2017 7:17 pm

This Wednesday Oct. 4, 2017 photo, Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring talks with University of Richmond students and Democratic candidate for the 56th House of Delegates seat, Melissa Dart (pictured left). (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Beltway Confidential

Republicans raise questions about equal pay lawsuit settled by Democratic incumbent in Virginia attorney general race

Emily Jashinsky · October 27, 2017 6:29 pm

Senator Cory Booker, D-N.J., said, "[W]hat I think is honorable about [Sen. Bob Menendez] and why he's trustworthy is not because what he's done for me, but because Bob has not forgotten where he comes from." (Larry Hiigs/NJ Advance Media via AP)

Beltway Confidential

With 2020 looming, potential candidate Cory Booker sticks his neck out for Bob Menendez

Emily Jashinsky · October 27, 2017 4:33 pm

John Lipscombe, a Travis County judge since 2011, was charged with driving while intoxicated after reportedly attempting to back his car into an already occupied parking spot at a hotel in North Austin on Saturday around 12:30 a.m.

Beltway Confidential

Bad judge resigns after he’s outed as a bad judge

Becket Adams · October 27, 2017 3:33 pm