Tag: Law

States should enact legislation to address court-created fatherlessness. (iStock by Getty Images)

Beltway Confidential

GOP must act on the national epidemic of absent fathers

Suzanne Venker · January 5, 2017 12:00 am

Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., has proposed the bill in each Congress for at least the last two decades. (AP Photos)

Dems renew demand for slavery reparations

Pete Kasperowicz · January 4, 2017 10:02 pm

$Arguments in appeals court case about fracking on federal lands have been delayed until March. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)$ Energy and Environment

Court puts decision on Obama’s fracking rules in Trump’s lap

John Siciliano · January 4, 2017 6:21 pm

Charleston shooter Dylann Roof tells jurors: ‘There’s nothing wrong with me psychologically’

Kelly Cohen · January 4, 2017 5:59 pm

Deval Patrick once opposed Sen. Jeff Sessions in an Alabama voting rights case. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Ex-Massachusetts governor urges senators to reject Sessions as attorney general

Kelly Cohen · January 4, 2017 5:37 pm

Holder hired by Calif. lawmakers to defend the state against Trump

Kyle Feldscher · January 4, 2017 5:26 pm

The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a challenge to an Indiana ban on robocalls, ruling that the measure didn't violate the First Amendment. (iStock Photo)

Indiana robocall ban doesn’t violate First Amendment, court rules

Ryan Lovelace · January 4, 2017 5:16 pm

Son of civil rights activist tried by Sessions: He’s not racist

Susan Crabtree · January 4, 2017 4:13 pm

Schumer ‘absolutely’ working not to fill vacant Supreme Court seat

Ryan Lovelace · January 4, 2017 3:04 pm

Through his clemency initiative, which he launched in 2014, President Obama has commuted the sentences of 1,176 individuals. He has also granted an additional 148 pardons. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Obama rushes to grant clemency before Trump takes office

Kelly Cohen · January 4, 2017 5:01 am

The FDA maintains the 2015 shipment of 1,000 vials of sodium thiopental from India is illegal to import. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

Texas sues feds over blockage of execution drugs

Kelly Cohen · January 4, 2017 12:02 am

The protesters said they will not leave until they are arrested or the senator rescinds his nomination. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

NAACP stages sit-in, eats pizza inside Sessions’ office

Anna Giaritelli · January 3, 2017 11:59 pm