Tag: Law

Jurors needed just three hours of deliberation on Tuesday to unanimously sentence convicted Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof to death. (Grace Beahm/The Post and Courier via AP, Pool)

Charleston church shooting: Dylann Roof becomes first to receive death penalty for federal hate crimes

Kelly Cohen · January 10, 2017 9:53 pm

Metro is arguing it is not responsible for the death of a rider in 2015 because it doesn't owe it to passengers to rescue them in the case of an emergency. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Metro: Drop lawsuit because we don’t have a responsibility to rescue passengers

Kyle Feldscher · January 10, 2017 9:16 pm

Republican state officials, led by ex-Gov. Pat McCrory, asked the Supreme Court late last month to halt a Nov. 29 order that a special election be held for state legislative seats in 2017. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

Supreme Court halts order for North Carolina to hold special state legislative elections in 2017

Kelly Cohen · January 10, 2017 9:08 pm

Senate Democrat to Sessions: Is grabbing a woman by her genitals without consent sexual assault?

Ryan Lovelace · January 10, 2017 8:32 pm

Sessions says he won’t vote on his nomination for attorney general

Ryan Lovelace · January 10, 2017 8:10 pm

Editorial cartoon: Greetings from liberal Chicago

Washington Examiner · January 10, 2017 8:00 pm

According to Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., everyone supported the decision. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Senate GOP votes to keep earmark ban

Susan Ferrechio · January 10, 2017 7:06 pm

Dylann Roof told the jurors who could sentence him to death on Tuesday that he "felt like I had to do it, and I still feel like I had to do it." (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File)

Dylann Roof’s closing argument: ‘I still feel like I had to do it’

Kelly Cohen · January 10, 2017 6:22 pm

Sessions: Waterboarding ban is the law

Susan Crabtree · January 10, 2017 5:42 pm

Jeff Sessions: I never chanted ‘lock her up’

Ryan Lovelace · January 10, 2017 5:14 pm

"The Supreme Court has ruled on that and the dissent dissented vigorously," Sessions testified Tuesday. "... I will follow that decision." (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Sessions says he will enforce gay-marriage decision

Susan Crabtree · January 10, 2017 4:44 pm

Sessions on banning all Muslims: ‘No’

Pete Kasperowicz · January 10, 2017 4:37 pm