Legislation to Establish Indigent Defense Office for Supreme Court Cases Introduced

The Coast Guard and New Jersey State Police would like to remind boaters, jet skiers, canoeists and kayakers alike of a few rules and guidelin The Coast Guard and New Jersey State Police would like to remind boaters, jet skiers, canoeists and kayakers alike of a few rules and guidelin By Katherine Tague - The summer before I went to college, I was required to come to campus for an orientation for freshman. WASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. Sen. Cory Booker has introduced the Clarence Gideon Full Access to Justice Act , which would establish a federal corporation dedicated to delivering independent, uniform, and quality defense representation in criminal cases before the United States Supreme Court and, at times, the highest courts in the states.

Newly sworn CWBA President Chase-McRorie has local ties

Sarah Chase-McRorie, daughter of Pat Chase of Brush, recently was elected to serve as president of the Colorado Women s Bar Association. Twelve-year-long Brush resident Pat Chase, a retiree from her former position at the Morgan County Department of Health and Human Services, is beaming with pride of late and for good reason.

Flag burner arrested, won’t be charged

An Illinois man arrested after he posted a picture of himself burning an American flag over the holiday weekend will not be charged, a state's attorney said Tuesday. Bryton Mellott, 22, was arrested on Sunday by police in Urbana, who said they had received complaints from social media users who had seen Mellott's post.

Sid Salter: Blame game, posturing don’t solve issues

The actual judicial decision written by U.S. District Carlton Reeves in striking down Mississippi's House Bill 1523 was eloquent, persuasive, and powerful - and at the same time, the ruling itself was entirely predictable and in keeping with the prevailing federal judicial winds. The ruling is written in such a way as to withstand the scrutiny of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Suffocating in fact-free cocoons

Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin were operating in a "fact-free cocoon" of partisan prejudice when they claimed that voter fraud was a major problem in their state, wrote federal judge Richard Posner in 2014. "If the Wisconsin legislature says witches are a problem, shall Wisconsin courts be permitted to conduct witch trials?" Posner is a conservative appointed by Ronald Reagan.

Evangelist Franklin Graham just issued this challenge to Hillary Clinton

In expressing his disappointment over the U.S. Supreme Court's 5-3 decision on Monday that struck down Texas' controversial abortion law, evangelist Franklin Graham also challenged Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to release her list of potential Supreme Court picks. Graham, who said in a Facebook post that he was not surprised about the abortion decision, blamed it on a dearth of conservative judges - and warned that the next president will have a great deal of power to shape the court.

The corrupting crusade against “corruption”

The progressive drive to broadly define and thoroughly eradicate political "corruption" has corrupted politics. But discord is not altogether pandemic in Washington, and last week a unanimous Supreme Court, in this term's most important decision, limited the discretion prosecutors have to criminalize politics.

A battle is shaping up across the country over various pieces of…

A federal judge blocked a controversial Mississippi law that would've gone into effect Friday, which would've allowed businesses and government employees to deny services to gay and transgender people based on religious grounds. U.S. District Court Judge Carlton Reeves issued a 60-page opinion in which he described the Mississippi law, known as House Bill 1523, as "state-sanctioned discrimination."