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In a Friday, March 3, 2006 file photo, Brendan Dassey is escorted out of a Manitowoc County Circuit courtroom, in Manitowoc, Wis. A three-judge panel from the 7th Circuit on Thursday, June 22, 2017 affirmed that Dassey, a Wisconsin inmate featured in the Netflix series "Making a Murderer" was coerced into confessing and should be released from prison.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has retained a personal lawyer to represent him, just weeks after his deputy appointed a special counsel to oversee the Department of Justice probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. The AG tapped Charles Cooper, a veteran of the Justice Department and various conservative causes, as his personal counsel.
The Supreme Court on Thursday vacated lower courts' decision to denaturalize a U.S. citizen because she made a false statement to an immigration official, and remanded the case for further review. The Supreme Court on Thursday vacated lower courts' decision to denaturalize a U.S. citizen because she made a false statement to an immigration official, and remanded the case for further review.
Opponents of President Donald Trump's ban on travelers from six Muslim-majority countries again urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to reject his bid to revive it, saying his administration undermined its own arguments by amending the order last week. In court papers filed with the justices, lawyers for the state of Hawaii and individual plaintiffs in Maryland made note of a June 14 memo by the administration amending the executive order to let the government conduct For as little as 27 cents a day, you can have complete access to all the local news, photos and video content from North Central Washington's primary news source.
The nerd caucus of the United States Senate is currently headed by Richard Blumenthal, the Connecticut Democrat, who clerked for Justice Harry Blackmun on the Supreme Court before serving for two decades as his state's attorney general.
Earlier this month, my wife and I celebrated our one-year wedding anniversary, something we had long been told we would never be able to do. On June 26, we will acknowledge another important date - two years since the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a ruling that ensured couples like Caity and I could prove our commitment to each other in the eyes of the law.
On June 20, 1967, boxer Muhammad Ali was convicted in Houston of violating Selective Service laws by refusing to be drafted and was sentenced to five years in prison. . In 1791, King Louis XVI of France and his family attempted to flee in the so-called "Flight to Varennes," but were caught.
In 1947, Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel was shot dead at the Beverly Hills, California, mansion of his girlfriend, Virginia Hill, apparently at the order of mob associates. Here, Siegel, right, shakes hands with his attorney Jerry Giesler after a Los Angeles Superior Court judge dismissed an indictment charging Siegel with killing New York gangster Harry Greenberg on the ground that the state had not proved its case, Feb. 5, 1942.
WASHINGTON, June 19 President Donald Trump will meet with the chief executives of technology companies including Apple Inc and Amazon.com Inc on Monday as the White House looks to the private sector for help in cutting government waste and improving services.
While the most controversial provisions of the President's revised ban blocking travel to the US remain tied up in the courts, a federal appeals court formally cleared the way late Monday for different portions of the executive order to move forward. The Trump administration can now conduct internal reviews of other countries' vetting procedures for visa applicants while the broader case is on review in the US Supreme Court.
A federal judge on Monday reluctantly ordered the removal of the Bayview Cross from a public park in Pensacola, Florida, explaining that U.S. Supreme Court precedent left him little choice. Senior U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson gave the city 30 days to remove the cross, which has stood in various forms in a corner of Bayview Park for about 75 years, even though he said the Founding Fathers "would have most likely found this lawsuit absurd."
In this April 4, 2017, file photo, the Supreme Court Building is seen in Washington. In an era of deep partisan division, the Supreme Court could soon decide whether the drawing of electoral districts can be too political.
The Supreme Court affirmed Monday that terms or phrases deemed to be offensive are still protected as free speech under the First Amendment. The high court unanimously struck down a disparagement provision of federal trademark law in Matal v.
An implied right of action to sue federal officials for constitutional violations does not extend to a suit filed by immigrants who say they were rounded up and illegally detained after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled.
The U.S. Supreme Court has reversed a ruling from a federal appeals court in an Alabama death row inmate's case. James McWilliams, 60, has been on death row since 1986 after he was convicted of raping and killing a store clerk in Tuscaloosa.
It would be very surprising if North Carolina Democrats didn't make significant gains in the next election for General Assembly - whenever that may be. Normally, we'd be talking in the summer of 2017 about legislative elections to be held in the fall of 2018.
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater will host special post-show conversations with notable guest panelists during the run of John Strand's critically-acclaimed political drama The Originalist , based on the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. The play, which stars four-time Helen Hayes Award winner and acclaimed D.C. actor Edward Gero as Justice Scalia and is under the direction of Artistic Director Molly Smith, runs July 7-30, 2017 in the Kreeger Theater.
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that former officials from President George W. Bush's administration - including Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating President Trump's campaign - cannot be sued over the harsh treatment of undocumented immigrants after the 9/11 attacks. In a decision that could have major implications in the event of another major terror attack, the court ruled that the nationwide wave of fear after 9/11 substantiated severe treatment from law enforcement.