White House Brief Foreshadows Supreme Court Arguments on Gay Marriage
The White House has asked the Supreme Court to strike down a main provision of the Defense of Marriage Act, but in the legal paper filed with the judiciary it may have signaled a wider push for same-sex marriage as a constitutional right on the… Read More »
EmailAnonymous Hijacks Federal Website, Threatens DOJ Document Dump
Activists from the hacker collective known as Anonymous assumed control over the homepage of a federal judicial agency this morning. In a manifesto left on the defaced page, the group demanded reform to the American justice system and what the activists said are threats to… Read More »
Conservative Trailblazer Robert Bork Dies at 85
Judge Robert H. Bork, one of the chief conservative intellectuals of the law, who forever changed the nature of Supreme Court confirmation hearings, died Wednesday morning of heart disease, according to his son, Robert H. Bork Jr. Bork was 85 years old. “Robert Bork was… Read More »
Supreme Court and Guns: Justices Have Yet to ‘Clarify the Entire Field’
When the Supreme Court recognized for the first time that the Second Amendment protects an individual’s right to bear arms in a bitterly divided 2008 decision, gun control advocates feared the worst, but the ruling has not led to widespread overturning of gun regulations. Writing… Read More »
Record Guns Sales Cause Brief FBI Background Check Problems
Shopping malls weren’t the only places receiving an influx of shoppers on Black Friday: According to the FBI, the day after Thanksgiving saw record gun sales, with 154,873 checks conducted, a 20 percent increase from last year. And all those calls caused two brief outages… Read More »
Nebraska Right to Life Group Pushes for Ultrasound Images on State Website
The anti-abortion group Nebraska Right to Life is pushing for the passage of legislation in the state that would require that so-called 4-D ultrasound images of an unborn fetus be posted on a Nebraska state website. The state of Kansas already shows these types of… Read More »
Justice Dept, House Seek to Resolve ‘Fast and Furious’ Suit
The Justice Department said Tuesday that they will try to settle a lawsuit seeking to enforce a subpoena sought by the House Oversight and Government Reform committee to obtain documents related to the ATF’s botched gun trafficking case Operation Fast and Furious. Ian Gershengorn, the Justice… Read More »
Cyber-Monday Counterfeit Crackdown Shuts 130 Websites
During the biggest online shopping day of the year with consumers estimated to spend $1.5 billion, federal officials teamed up with European law enforcement agencies to shut down over 130 websites hawking illegal counterfeit items on the internet. Project Cyber Monday 3 marks the third… Read More »
Petraeus Investigation: When and How the FBI Can Access Email Accounts
So how and when can the FBI access a citizen’s personal email account? That is a key issue in the investigation surrounding General David Petraeus. The governing law is the Stored Communications Act, which provides that a “government entity” may require a provider of electronic… Read More »
Supreme Court Will Take Up Major Voting Rights Case
Only three days after the contentious 2012 election, the Supreme Court announced today that it would take up a major voting rights case; it will be heard in the next few months and decided by June. At issue is Section 5 of the Voting Rights… Read More »
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