Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) signed into law on Friday an extension of the statute of limitations for some cases of sexual assault and removes the statute of limitation for serious sex crimes against children. Without this law, it would have been more difficult to prosecute some serious sex crimes against children after the victim’s […]
President Donald Trump’s controversial onslaught of environmental rollbacks faced two major setbacks this week, as legal action continues to prove a winning strategy for opponents of the administration’s deregulation agenda. In a boon to environmental advocates, court decisions on Friday rebuked the Trump administration’s coal ambitions, in addition to setting a deadline for the Environmental […]
Residents of Flint, Michigan, can sue the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over its handling of the city’s drinking water crisis, which has been ongoing for five years. The disaster has brought attention to drinking water issues across the country but Flint residents say they remain distrustful of both their water and the government. Judge Linda […]
A man has been arrested after making threatening phone calls, in which he referred to the first Muslim members of Congress Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), federal prosecutors said on Friday. It’s another in a series of threats against Omar. Only two weeks ago, a man was arrested over threats he made […]
Now that the Mueller report has revealed presidential malfeasance, clear attempts at obstructing justice, and willingness by the Trump campaign to gain damning information on political opponents from foreign adversaries, the question of impeachment has raced back to the fore. House members are divided on whether to impeach: Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), tossed cold water […]
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) has supported more of President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees than the other Democratic senators running for president as well as the majority of her Democratic Senate colleagues. Although she was one of the most outspoken critics of Trump-appointed Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch during their nomination processes, Klobuchar, […]
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) has supported more of President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees than the other Democratic senators running for president as well as some three-quarters of her Democratic Senate colleagues. Although she was one of the most outspoken critics of Trump-appointed Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch during their nomination processes, Klobuchar, […]
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Friday called on the House to begin impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump, joining fellow 2020 presidential candidate Julián Castro, who said he supported the idea earlier in the afternoon. “I think it would be perfectly reasonable for Congress to open up those proceedings,” Castro told CNN. “It’s clear that […]
