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Excerpts from opinions written by Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, a judge on the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver: Addressing a long-running boundary dispute involving the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservations in Utah, August 2016:. "We're beginning to think we have an inkling of Sisyphus's fate.
Recently, the Chicago City Council named a street in honor of Oscar Lopez-Rivera , the founder of the notorious terrorist group FALN. In President Obama's waning days in office, he commuted his sentence .
In 1999, Aaron Glasscock was just 22 and two months shy of graduating from college when he was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for a nonviolent drug offense: conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine. Nearly 20 years later, Glasscock is out of prison, as his sentence was commuted by President Barack Obama.
A report is warning that the changes under consideration by the GOP-led House would reduce significantly federal dollars for Medicaid and subsidized private insurance. A report is warning that the changes under consideration by the GOP-led House would reduce significantly federal dollars for Medicaid and subsidized private insurance.
The federal prison population is on the decline, but a new attorney general who talks tough on drugs and crime and already has indicated a looming need for private prison cells seems poised to usher in a reversal of that trend. Jeff Sessions, a former federal prosecutor sworn in this month as the country's chief law enforcement officer, signalled at his confirmation hearing - and during private meetings in his first days on the job - that he sees a central role for the federal government in combating drug addiction and violence as well as in strict enforcement of immigration laws.
The federal prison population is on the decline, but a new attorney general who talks tough on drugs and crime and already has indicated a looming need for private prison cells seems poised to usher in a reversal of that trend. Jeff Sessions, a former federal prosecutor sworn in this month as the country's chief law enforcement officer, signaled at his confirmation hearing - and during private meetings in his first days on the job - that he sees a central role for the federal government in combating drug addiction and violence as well as in strict enforcement of immigration laws.
A Border Patrol agent walks near the secondary fence separating Tijuana, Mexico and San Diego on June 22, 2016. The Trump administration is about to learn the difference between rhetoric and reality, and could be setting itself up for a spectacular policy failure.
In this Feb. 11, 2013, file photo, U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah, D-Pa., speaks after a gun control discussion at Girard College in Philadelphia. Officials say Fattah, who was convicted of racketeering and received a 10-year sentence, reported to federal prison Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017, at the Federal Correctional Institution-McKean in Lewis Run, Pa., where he will be held in a minimum-security camp next to the medium-security prison.
Justice Department officials have completed their review of more than 16,000 clemency petitions filed by federal prisoners over the past two years and sent their last recommendations to President Barack Obama, who is set to grant hundreds more commutations to nonviolent drug offenders during his final days in office.   "Everyone has killed themselves here to get the final recommendations to the president," Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates said in an interview.
Former Arizona Congressman Rick Renzi has been released from a federal prison after serving three years for corruption, money laundering and other charges. He walked free just ahead of his scheduled Saturday release date.
Former U.S. Rep. Rick Renzi of Arizona left federal prison Friday after serving three years for corruption, money laundering and other charges. He was set free just ahead of his scheduled Saturday release date.
Former Arizona Congressman Rick Renzi is scheduled to be released from federal prison Saturday after serving a three-year sentence for corruption, money laundering and other convictions. Renzi was convicted in 2013 of conspiring to use his congressional post to make companies buy his ex-business associate's land so the associate could repay a debt to Renzi.
House Republicans move to slash powers of ethics watchdog Democrats, watchdogs criticize Monday night move as a 'sneak attack' on independent agency. Check out this story on scsun-news.com: http://usat.ly/2iYDGoh WASHINGTON - One day before the new Congress convenes, House Republicans voted Monday night to rein in an independent ethics office that investigates potential wrongdoing by lawmakers.
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One of the most controversial features of the recent presidential candidate was Donald Trump's promise to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate and possibly charge Hillary Clinton with a handful of criminal offenses. Clinton's fans responded with outrage, claiming it is bad form for a presidential candidate to threaten jailing an opponent.
When an execution is scheduled at Central Prison in Raleigh, N.C., a select group of witnesses is invited to attend. In a small room crammed with blue plastic chairs, the families of the victim and of the condemned are seated together, inches apart, watching the culmination of their common story through two layers of glass.
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, five men were sentenced Wednesday for their role in a large methamphetamine trafficking ring. 29-year-old Jose Reynaldo Cardenas of Porterville, California admitted to distributing 221.5 grams of pure methamphetamine to an undercover officer in Caldwell, Idaho.
Ohio man Christopher Lee Cornell was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for plotting to blow up the U.S. Capitol building Monday. Cornell screamed , "Allah's in control, not the judge," on his way out of the courtroom, adding that the criminal justice system is "rigged."
When U.S. Forest Ranger Jody Bandy confronted the man in the Pisgah National Forest, he said he'd been at the nearby wildfire and "couldn't take it anymore." When U.S. Forest Ranger Jody Bandy confronted the man in the Pisgah National Forest, he said he'd been at the nearby wildfire and "couldn't take it anymore."
The quoted question in the title of this post comes from the headline of this AP article . Because there are a numberof strange and confusing elements to this AP piece, I am not sure it does even a reasonable job trying to answer the question it poses.