Tag: Law

As a Senate Judiciary Committee member, Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake is busy preparing for hearings on Judge Neil Gorsuch's Supreme Court nomination. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Jeff Flake to Gorsuch critics: Read his rulings

Ryan Lovelace · March 20, 2017 4:01 am

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer meets with Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch on Capitol Hill on Feb. 7. Gorsuch will next have an opportunity to influence fence-sitting senators at the hearings. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Supreme Court confirmation week: Neil Gorsuch’s game plan

Ryan Lovelace · March 20, 2017 4:01 am

A federal judge in Hawaii rejected on Sunday the Justice Department's request to clarify further the scope of its temporary restraining order against President Trump's travel ban, hindering an attempt by the administration to narrow the injunction. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Hawaii judge denies Trump administration request to alter travel ban injunction

Daniel Chaitin · March 20, 2017 3:54 am

Snoop Dogg couldn't help but comment when someone suggested that President Trump can be a reasonable person. (Photo by Michele Eve Sandberg/Invision/AP)

What happens when someone tells Snoop Dogg that Trump can be ‘reasonable’

Daniel Chaitin · March 18, 2017 8:56 pm

Guns were drawn by Secret Service members at the White House. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

National Security

Intruder attempts to jump White House fence

Eddie Scarry · March 18, 2017 5:10 pm

Kevin Brown of the Service Employees International Union, Kelly McDonald, of Montclair, and Jessica Sporn, of Montclair, chant in protest of the travel ban before the start of a press conference, Thursday, at Newark Airport, in Newark, N.J. (Chris Pedota/The Record via AP)

DOJ to appeal ruling of federal judge on Trump’s travel ban

Ryan Lovelace · March 17, 2017 8:45 pm

Court says man did not qualify for citizenship when he was a child because his parents didn't get married. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Man who thought he was a citizen is not because never ‘legitimated’ by his parents, appeals court rules

Ryan Lovelace · March 17, 2017 5:59 pm

Fence jumper made it all the way to White House back door

Susan Crabtree · March 17, 2017 5:36 pm

83 percent enjoy wearing robes, according to a new survey, but judges gave a variety of reasons. (iStock by Getty Images)

The surprising reasons judges like their robes: Star Wars, the Wizard of Oz and fashion

Ryan Lovelace · March 17, 2017 3:36 pm

Stockman served in Congress from 1995 to 1997 and again from 2011 to 2013. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci, File)

Former congressman Steve Stockman charged with using charity to skirt election laws

Kyle Feldscher · March 17, 2017 3:04 pm

Judge James Robart of Washington state, whose ruling in February froze President Trump's first travel ban, decided Thursday that the president's revised travel ban is not subject to the prior injunction enforced against the first one. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

Judge who froze first travel ban hands Trump a victory

Daniel Chaitin · March 17, 2017 1:51 am

Beltway Confidential

The case for breaking up the 9th Circuit makes sense

David Freddoso · March 16, 2017 7:41 pm