What’s Your Verdict: 14 Years Old and Life Without Parole?
The Supreme Court has already rejected the death penalty for juvenile offenders, but what about life without parole? Justices are considering two cases: One involves Evan Miller, who beat a neighbor and then set his trailer on fire so that the man burned to death…. Read More »
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Former FBI Bomb Investigator Arrested on Child Pornography Charges
A former FBI Supervisory special agent who worked on some of the bureau’s most high profile terrorism and bombing cases including the Unabomber case, the USS Cole bombing, the Oklahoma City bombing and the1993 World Trade Center bombing and the 9/11 attacks, has been arrested… Read More »
VOTE: What’s Your Verdict? Protecting Medal of Honor Imposters
If someone tells a lie about receiving a Congressional Medal of Honor, is that lie protected by the Constitution? The Supreme Court will rule as soon as Monday. But what do you think? Get the arguments in this video from ABC’s Ariane de Vogue, then… Read More »
Obama’s Legal Progression on Defense of Marriage Act
President Obama stopped legally defending a federal law defining marriage between a man and a woman more than a year ago. While today President Obama made clear his personal view on gay marriage, more than a year ago he announced that the Department of Justice… Read More »
Biden on Gay Marriage: ‘Who Do You Love?’
Vice President Joe Biden expressed a candid openness to gay marriage today, but stopped short of saying whether President Obama would seek to legalize it as an institution in a second term. “I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying… Read More »
Conservative Justices Receptive to Parts of Arizona’s Immigration Law
With Gov. Jan Brewer sitting in the audience, the Supreme Court today heard the Obama administration’s challenge to Arizona’s strict immigration law with Chief Justice John Roberts suggesting at one point that the federal government “just doesn’t want to know who is here illegally.” Solicitor… Read More »
Supreme Court Set to Hear Challenge to Arizona’s Immigration Law
Less than a month after hearing a challenge to the controversial Obama health care law brought by 26 states, the Supreme Court today will explore the relationship between the federal government and the states on another hot-button issue: immigration. At issue is S.B. 1070 —… Read More »
Roger Clemens’ Defense Calls Evidence ‘Hodge Podge of Garbage’
The lawyer for Roger Clemens ripped into the evidence against him today as a “hodgepodge of garbage” and said key prosecution witness Brian NcNamee was a liar. Clemens’ lawyer Rusty Hardin ridiculed charges in his opening statement that the retired pitching ace lied to Congress… Read More »
Senate Republicans Boycott Immigration Hearing
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A hearing of the Senate Judiciary subcommittee responsible for immigration and border security issues was absent any Republican presence today. Members of the GOP decried the panel discussion as a publicity stunt ahead of Supreme Court arguments Wednesday to decide the fate… Read More »
Clemens Jury Pool Asked About Steroids and Baseball
The judge in the retrial of seven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens today walked potential jurors through a list of 86 questions that they were required to respond to, ranging from their interest in sports and baseball, to their thoughts about steroids and human… Read More »
