A woman who is thinking about moving to Washington, D.C. to attend law school soon is already on the forefront of a cutting-edge legislative development. The biological mother of a…
A former bank teller exonerated of rape by DNA evidence spoke at a news conference yesterday in support of new laws making it easier for inmates to prove their innocence.
The House of Representatives has passed a bill that would expand the definition of hate crimes to cover wrongdoing motivated by a victim’s “gender, sexual orientation, gender identity” or disability.
An attempt today by the U.S. House of Representatives to override President George W. Bush’s veto yesterday of a controversial Iraq war funding bill failed by a significant margin. A…
Some 75 attorneys representing so-called enemy combatants being held in the Guantanamo Bay prison without trials fanned out over Capital Hill today, lobbying legislators in private meetings in an effort…
Setting up a showdown with the Democrat-controlled Congress, President George W. Bush today vetoed – as he had said he would – a bill tying more than $100 billion in…
Responding to a drug-resistant bacteria that kills thousands of Americans annually, Illinois is likely to be the first state to mandate an aggressive hospital testing and treatment program to try…
A flurry of legislation has followed the U.S. Supreme Court’s controversial 5-4 ruling last week to ban so-called partial-birth abortion. Some states and federal lawmakers are seeking to clarify abortion…
New York’s highest court has ruled that sexually charged language in a lawyer’s e-mail to an undercover agent is enough to sustain a conviction for attempted dissemination of indecent material…
The U.S. Justice Department is seeking to close a loophole in federal law with a bill that would bar terrorism suspects on watch lists from buying guns, the Apr 27, 2007 1:28 PM CDT