Tag: Law

DHS will start the process of seeking bids from companies to help build President Trump's border wall. (Jason Hoekema/The Brownsville Herald via AP)

National Security

DHS to solicit border wall designs on March 6

Pete Kasperowicz · February 24, 2017 7:53 pm

Alabama is the last state in the nation to allow judicial overrides in capital cases. (AP Photo/Dave Martin, File)

Alabama moves closer to end ‘judicial overrides’ in capital cases

Kelly Cohen · February 24, 2017 5:33 pm

Law and order was a big theme of CPAC this week. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Beltway Confidential

At CPAC, ‘law and order’ conservatives and civil libertarians

Timothy P. Carney · February 24, 2017 5:23 pm

Perhaps no other issue has united Republicans around Trump like the Supreme Court. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Beltway Confidential

Trump doesn’t breathe a word at CPAC about his Supreme Court nominee

Philip Wegmann · February 24, 2017 4:58 pm

He said his administration is already working to build a "great, great border wall." (Screengrab/ABC)

Trump: ‘The era of empty talk is over’

Pete Kasperowicz · February 24, 2017 3:48 pm

Fix the Court is an organization that advocates for greater transparency at the Supreme Court. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Fix the Court sues DOJ for access to Neil Gorsuch’s records

Ryan Lovelace · February 24, 2017 3:33 pm

Companies wanting more regulation on themselves as a way of keeping out smaller competitors isn't rare at all. (AP Photo/Duane Burleson)

Beltway Confidential

Report: GM pushing for stricter regulation on self-driving cars to crowd out competition

Timothy P. Carney · February 24, 2017 2:18 pm

In January, Trump threatened to "send in the Feds" to Chicago over the crime there. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Trump: ‘Chicago needs help!’

Alex Pappas · February 24, 2017 12:06 am

The 83-year-old justice pointed out that John Paul Stevens didn't retire until he turned 90. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Ginsburg uncertain about future on Supreme Court: ‘What will be next year?’

Ryan Lovelace · February 23, 2017 8:07 pm

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Oxon Hill, Md., Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Cruz predicts second Supreme Court vacancy by summer

Al Weaver · February 23, 2017 5:03 pm

The order was originally expected to come this week, amid a legal battle over language in the previous order. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

White House postpones travel ban order until next week

Sarah Bedford · February 22, 2017 11:48 pm

Gorsuch has written at least three opinions on the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Beltway Confidential

New Supreme Court opinion touches on a subject Gorsuch has ruled on before

David Freddoso · February 22, 2017 8:58 pm