Tag: Law

The right-leaning group targets the Minnesota senator for seeking to block David Stras, President Trump's nominee to the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Judicial Crisis Network in new ad attacks ‘petty’ Al Franken for opposing Trump judicial nominee

Ryan Lovelace · September 13, 2017 3:43 pm

Supporters of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival program demonstrate in front of the White House. President Trump ordered an end of protections for young immigrants who were brought into the country illegally as children, but gave Congress six months to act on it. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Only 12 percent of voters want DACA recipients deported

Anna Giaritelli · September 13, 2017 12:10 pm

For Sen. Dianne Feinstein and others like her who are adamantly pro-abortion, the view that this supposed right of women needs to be upheld no matter what is a religion unto itself. And it is that religion that the senator deems a must-have for nominees to the judiciary. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beltway Confidential

Let the dogma live loudly

Penny Nance · September 13, 2017 4:01 am

A stay in the case determined two Texas congressional districts were racially discriminatory and therefore must be redrawn. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Supreme Court puts Texas redistricting on hold

Diana Stancy Correll · September 13, 2017 1:56 am

Martin Shkreli, former drug company CEO and convicted felon, apologized Monday for posting he would "pay $5,000 per hair" from Hillary Clinton during her book tour of What Happened. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Martin Shkreli apologizes for post promising a reward for Hillary Clinton’s hair

Diana Stancy Correll · September 12, 2017 11:50 pm

In an order Wednesday, the court stayed part of a district court decision "with respect to refugees covered by a formal assurance." (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

Supreme Court sides with Trump on travel ban on refugees

Ryan Lovelace · September 12, 2017 10:45 pm

"We're elated with this result because it's the right result," Bostian's lawyer Brian McMonagle told reporters outside the courthouse. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Charges dropped against Amtrak engineer in deadly derailment case

Sean Langille · September 12, 2017 9:49 pm

Windsor served as the lead plaintiff in the Supreme Court case challenging the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act, the 1996 law prohibiting same-sex couples from being recognized as spouses by the federal government and denying same-sex couples federal benefits available to married heterosexual couples. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Gay rights activist Edith Windsor dies at 88

Melissa Quinn · September 12, 2017 8:34 pm

The judge testified before the body that he did not intend to indicate his personal support for Trump and wore the cap as a joke. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Canadian judge suspended for 30 days without pay for wearing a ‘Make America Great Again’ hat in court

Naomi Lim · September 12, 2017 6:57 pm

Hawaii's attorneys are asking the Supreme Court to not get involved in a federal appeals court ruling against President Trump's modified travel ban.

Hawaii asks Supreme Court to reject Trump administration’s request on travel ban

Ryan Lovelace · September 12, 2017 3:28 pm

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg acknowledges the crowd's applause before participating in a conversation with Judge Ann Claire Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit at Roosevelt University Monday, Sept. 11, 2017, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: ‘There will be enough women on the Supreme Court when there are nine’

Ryan Lovelace · September 12, 2017 2:32 pm

Xiuhtezcatl Martinez was the end-of-show guest on last Friday's episode of HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher." (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Beltway Confidential

Xiuhtezcatl Martinez: An impressive guy with unimpressive climate ideas

Tom Rogan · September 12, 2017 2:22 pm