President Donald Trump may be the nation’s tweeter-in-chief, but some Twitter users say he’s violating the First Amendment by blocking people from his feed after they posted scornful comments. Lawyers for two Twitter users sent the White House a letter ...
Read More »Raise your right hand: High stakes at Congressional hearings
Washington, D.C., knows how to do big hearings — even Titanic ones. Dramatic congressional hearings are something of a Washington art form, a rite of democracy carefully crafted for the cameras. Suspense is building as fired FBI Director James Comey ...
Read More »New high court challenge to labor unions follows 4-4 split
Conservative groups are wasting little time in trying to deal a crippling blow to labor unions now that Justice Neil Gorsuch has joined the Supreme Court. A First Amendment clash over public sector unions left the justices deadlocked last year ...
Read More »Meat producer’s attorney: ABC reports nearly ended business
A more than $1 billion defamation trial over ABC news reports on a South Dakota meat producer’s lean, finely textured beef product started Monday with attorneys giving different versions of the company’s decline. Dakota Dunes-based Beef Products Inc. sued the ...
Read More »Supreme Court won’t hear Missouri college drug-testing case
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to hear a Missouri technical college’s challenge of a ruling that its mandatory drug testing policy is unconstitutional when applied to all students. The nation’s highest court refused without comment to intervene at the ...
Read More »High court limits seizure of assets from drug conspiracies
The Supreme Court is placing new limits on the government’s ability to seize assets from people who are convicted of drug crimes but receive little of the illegal proceeds. The unanimous ruling on Monday comes as the Justice Department has ...
Read More »1st farmer lawsuit on deck in Kansas against Syngenta
The first of tens of thousands of U.S. lawsuits will go to trial on Monday in Kansas City, Kansas, against Swiss agribusiness giant Syngenta over its decision to introduce a genetically engineered corn seed variety to the U.S. market before ...
Read More »Justices limit recovery in securities fraud cases
The Supreme Court on Monday made it tougher for the government to recover ill-gotten gains from people convicted of securities fraud, ruling that such recoveries are subject to a five-year statute of limitations. The unanimous ruling could hamstring prosecutors trying ...
Read More »Meet America’s latest fitness star: Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Jane Fonda, Richard Simmons and Ruth Bader Ginsburg? The 84-year-old Supreme Court justice is about to join the ranks of workout superstars with a book about her exercise routine. “The RBG Workout: How She Stays Strong … and You Can ...
Read More »Justices will review police use of cellphone tower data
In a new case about digital age technology and privacy, the Supreme Court will consider whether police need warrants to review cellphone towers records that help them track the location of criminal suspects. The justices agreed Monday to hear an ...
Read More »Trump assails Justice Dep’t court strategy on travel ban
President Donald Trump lashed out at his own Justice Department Monday for seeking the Supreme Court’s backing for a “watered down, politically correct version” of the travel ban he signed in March instead of a broader directive that was also ...
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