Appeals court judges had tough questions Tuesday for attorneys defending a District of Columbia law that makes it difficult for gun owners to get concealed carry permits. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ...
Read More »Man who shot Reagan seeks to live outside mental hospital
The would-be assassin of President Ronald Reagan is “clinically ready” to live fulltime outside a mental hospital, his lawyer argued in federal court on Wednesday. John Hinckley Jr. has been in “full and stable remission” for more than two decades, his ...
Read More »Protesters inside Supreme Court face harsher charges
Protesters who demonstrated inside the U.S. Supreme Court are facing the threat of a year in jail and stiff fines, a sign that prosecutors and the justices themselves are losing patience over the courtroom interruptions after the third protest in just over a year.
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Read More »U.S. Supreme Court takes case, but plaintiff missing
The Supreme Court agrees to take less than 1 percent of the roughly 10,000 petitions it receives every year, but it was even rarer for the court to take a case like this one. But since the court agreed to take the case, the plaintiff hasn’t surfaced.
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