Initial polling on Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court find the public more divided than they have been for other recent SCOTUS picks, but that’s unlikely to impact the fate of his nomination.
Mariia Butina, a Russian “gun rights activist, is accused of being an unregistered agent of the Russian government and attempting to influence Republican Party policies regarding Russia in an operation that pre-dates the Trump Presidential campaign.
A selection that is likely to keep the Senate GOP united and red-state Democrats up for re-election under pressure to vote to confirm.
In November, Michigan voters will be able to make their state the tenth state to legalize marijuana. This is just the latest step in what seems to be an irreversible trend.
President Trump’s short list of potential Supreme Court nominees consists mostly of conventionally conservative, well-qualified, jurists.
Notwithstanding the rhetoric of the President and his supporters, most Americans believe that immigration is a good thing for the United States.
Pending the mere formality of approval by the Governor-General, Canada will soon become the largest nation in the world where recreational use of marijuana is legal.
Donald Trump’s former Campaign Manager was sent to jail, a move that likely increases the pressure on him to cooperate with Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.
Both President Trump and Ivanka Trump are profiting handsomely from their time in the White House.
One of the most prominent Circuit Courts of Appeal in the nation will begin live-streaming nearly all of their oral arguments.
The Supreme Court has declined to accept yet another Second Amendment case for review, continuing a streak that goes back some eight years.
A writer at National Review is proposing a compromise on the issue of transgender rights. Needless to say, many conservatives aren’t very happy about it.
Nearly two-thirds of Americans support marijuana legalization according to a new poll.
The Trump Administration has suffered another setback in its efforts to repeal DACA.
Travis Reinking shot four people dead in Nashville over the weekend with a gun that he wasn’t supposed to have access to. Thanks to what seem to be loopholes in existing gun laws, he had one anyway.
The highest ranking Democrat in the Senate has introduced a bill that would effectively decriminalize marijuana nationwide and leave it up to each state to decide how far they wish to go with regard to cannabis regulation. It’s a huge step in the right direction.
A Federal Judge has struck down the revised version of the ban on transgender members of the military from serving openly, and the ruling has significance that goes well beyond the issue at hand.
Another Federal Court loss for gun rights activists challenging state laws banning “assault weapons.”
Yet more troubling news about the proposed citizenship question on the 2020 Census.
A Federal Judge is allowing a lawsuit alleging that President Trump is improperly benefiting from business being done at the hotel in Washington, D.C. bearing his name to go forward.
A proposal that has no chance of passing may harm the movement he’s seeking to help.
A woman who was at the center of one of the most important Supreme Court cases in American history has died at the age of 75.
Like many Presidents before him, Donald Trump wants a line-item veto. Getting there won’t be easy, nor should it be.
The President’s new attempt to ban transgender Americans from serving in the military is as legally defective as the original ban was.
Turkish security personnel who assaulted peaceful protestors in America’s capital will go free.
Joseph E. diGenova has touted the theory that rogue FBI elements have tried to frame Trump in the Russia probe.
A D.C. lawmaker latches on to an insane conspiracy theory.
Within hours after the new Florida gun law was signed by Governor Rick Scott, the National Rifle Association had filed a lawsuit seeking to strike it down.
A group of twenty states have revived an old argument to mount a new legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act.
After yesterday’s oral argument, the Supreme Court seems poised to deal a major blow to public-sector unions.
The Mueller investigation moves forward.
Since the Supreme Court handed down its decision in District of Columbia v. Heller four separate Federal appellate courts have ruled that state and local laws banning “assault weapons” do not violate the Second Amendment.
Continuing a pattern that has gone on for eight years now, the Supreme Court has declined to hear another appeal regarding a Second Amendment challenge to state gun control laws.
President Trump’s military parade would come with a not insignificant cost.
A group of 21 states has filed a petition to review the F.C.C.’s recent net neutrality rule changes, but it faces an uncertain future.
The Trump Administration is reversing policy on an Obama Era policy that allowed states to choose their own course on marijuana laws.
A Judge in New York has dismissed a lawsuit against the President based on two provisions of the Constitution that had never been ruled on before.
A Trump judicial nominee who could not answer basic legal questions in a hearing last week has withdrawn his nomination, but this is likely to happen again unless the Administration fixes some obvious flaws in its selection process.
Meet Matthew Peterson, a nominee for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia who apparently doesn’t know much about trials.
Transgender Americans will be able to enlist in the military beginning January 1st thanks to a ruling from a Federal District Court Judge.
The Supreme Court has declined to hear yet another Second Amendment case.
For the second time in as many months, a Federal Court is blocking the Administration’s ban on transgender troops in the military.
A Federal Judge in Washington, D.C. has blocked the Trump Administration from implementing its ban on transgender soldiers.
A new poll shows that a record majority of Americans, including a majority of Republicans, support legalization of marijuana.
The District of Columbia has decided not to risk an appeal of a lower court ruling striking down its restrictive concealed-carry law.
The Las Vegas shooting provides a good opportunity to enact a common sense gun control law that even Second Amendment advocates agree is called for.
