Judges affirm ‘Making a Murderer’ confession was coerced

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.

Jeff Sessions Lawyers Up As Russia Probe Unfolds

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.

Supreme Court: Lying to immigration officials not reason enough to strip citizenship

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.

Travel ban challengers urge U.S. top court to reject Trump appeal

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 LGBTQ community has a long fight ahead, and marriage equality isn’t the focus

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 this day in 1921, this woman was the 1st to preside over a House session

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.

Appeals court clears way for review of immigrant vetting

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.

Atheist group scores win as judge reluctantly orders cross removed from Florida park

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."

the Originalist Announces Post-Show Panelists at Arena Stage

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.

Bush officials can’t be sued for alleged post-9/11 abuse: SCOTUS

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.