Sixty Hours of GOP Dysfunction on Spending
On Wednesday, Senate Republicans defeated legislation to cut spending by $1 billion. On Thursday, House Republicans voted to renew $20 billion per year in farm subsidies.
Category Archives: Law
Poll: Americans say no to presidential self-pardons
Even in an era of deep political division, Democrats and Republicans agree presidents should not pardon themselves. And if the nation's chief executive ever does so, majorities of Americans in both parties believe Congress should impeach that president.
Meeting to discuss “fake” meat planned
The public is invited to comment on the issue of Foods produced using animal cell culture technology. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is holding a public meeting on July 12 to discuss "fake" meat."
Justices adopt new privacy rules to track cellphones
Police generally need a warrant to look at records that reveal where cellphone users have been, the Supreme Court ruled Friday in a big victory for privacy interests in the digital age. The justices' 5-4 decision marks a big change in how police may obtain information that phone companies collect from the ubiquitous cellphone towers that allow people to make and receive calls, and transmit data.
Justices adopt digital-age privacy rules to track cellphones
Police generally need a warrant to look at records that reveal where cellphone users have been, the Supreme Court ruled Friday in a big victory for privacy interests in the digital age. The justices' 5-4 decision marks a big change in how police may obtain information that phone companies collect from the ubiquitous cellphone towers that allow people to make and receive calls, and transmit data.
David Harsanyi: Zero tolerance for immigration answers
As soon as the Trump administration adopted a "zero-tolerance" policy requiring law enforcement to prosecute all immigrants who crossed the border illegally, it became clear that officials weren't prepared to deal with the crush of kids who would find themselves under their supervision.
Supreme Court decision requires warrant to obtain cellphone records for tracking
The United States Supreme court issued a decision this morning required police to obtain a warrant from a judge in order to track individuals through cellphone records. The 5-4 ruling is being regarded as a win for privacy advocates in the U.S. The decision derived from a 2011 case in which FBI agents used three months of phone records in order to capture and convict a Michigan man of robbing Radio Shack and T-Mobile locations.
Oilfield services provider wins patent damages
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Friday that companies can recover profits lost because of the unauthorized use of their patented technology abroad in a victory for Schlumberger N.V., the world's largest oilfield services provider. The 7-2 decision overturned a lower court's ruling that had enforced limits on applying U.S. patent law overseas and reduced by $93.4 million the damages sum that rival ION Geophysical Corp. had to pay for infringing Schlumberger technology that helps find oil and gas beneath the ocean floor.
SEC charges insurance agent with $1.27 million Ponzi scheme
The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged James Hocker, a Bellefonte, Penn., insurance agent, with engaging in a Ponzi scheme that targeted unsophisticated retail investors. After selling insurance policies, according to the SEC's complaint, Mr. Hocker encouraged his clients to invest with him by promising guaranteed returns of between 10% and 30% from investments he would make on their behalf.
Supreme Court cracks down on government snooping through cellphone location records
The Supreme Court ruled that the government cannot monitor people's past movements for long periods of time by tracking the location of their mobile phones without a warrant. The justices said rapid advances in technology make old protections inadequate.
Journalists tour center for migrant children in Florida
U.S. officials provided a glimpse Friday into a South Florida facility housing more than 1,000 teenage migrants, seeking to dispel any suggestions that children are being mistreated. Private contractors who run the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children, about 25 miles southwest of Miami, showed journalists around the campus like-complex for about an hour.
Supreme court decides police generally need a warrant to track cell phones
The Supreme Court says police generally need a search warrant if they want to track criminal suspects' movements by collecting information about where they've used their cellphones. The justices' 5-4 decision Friday is a victory for privacy in the digital age.
Justices adopt digital-age privacy rules to track…
The Supreme Court ruled Friday that police generally need a search warrant if they want to track criminal suspects' movements by collecting information about where they've used their cellphones, bolstering privacy interests in the digital age. The justices' 5-4 decision marks a big change in how police may obtain cellphone tower records, an important tool in criminal investigations.
Justices adopt new privacy rules for cellphone tracking
Police generally need a warrant to look at records that reveal where cellphone users have been, the Supreme Court ruled Friday in a big victory for privacy interests in the digital age. The justices' 5-4 decision marks a big change in how police may obtain information that phone companies collect from the ubiquitous cellphone towers that allow people to make and receive calls, and transmit data.
House Lawmakers Want to Codify Trump’s Attacks on Migrant Domestic Violence Survivors
Feminist organizations and anti-violence activists have joined together to denounce both pieces of legislation-and they're calling on their members to demand the same from their Representatives. Republicans in the House introduced two pieces of legislation last week that they claimed would solve the previous immigration crisis brought on by the Trump administration: chaos and confusion for DACA recipients, who have been left fearing deportation and uncertain of their legal status over the last year.
White House pitches merging education and labor as part of streamlining, drawing skepticism
Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, flanked by Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, gives a presentation on proposals to consolidate executive agencies as U.S. President Donald Trump holds a Cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington Thursday. The Trump administration proposed a major reorganization of the federal government on Thursday, calling for merging the education and labor departments, moving the federal food stamp program to the Department of Health and Human Services and renaming that agency.
President orders halt to family separation rule
President Donald Trump signs an executive order to keep families together at the border, but says that the 'zero-tolerance' prosecution policy will continue, during an event in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, June 20, 2018.
New Report Illuminates the Benefits to Modernizing Federal Grant Reporting
The report highlights perspectives of 30 grant management leaders from across the executive branch, federal agencies, and the private sector. Today the Data Foundation and MorganFranklin Consulting released Transforming Federal Grant Reporting: Current Challenge, Future Vision .
Trump’s migrant policy: First blowback, then about-face
As a crisis of migrant children separated from their families provoked national outrage, President Donald Trump said he was powerless to act through an executive order. Five days later, he did just that.
Why Republicans have long wanted to shut Education Department
President Donald Trump talks to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Feb. 14, 2017, at the White House. Trump's administration will propose mergin the Education Department with the Department of Labor.