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  WASHINGTON – The letter sent to the House Judiciary Committee by the White House on the subject of Corey Lewandowski’s testimony makes for startling reading. It claims immunity from congressional subpoena for the following list of people and classes ...

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WASHINGTON — Housing companies used Facebook’s ad system to discriminate against older people, according to new human rights charges. Two parties — watchdog nonprofit Housing Rights Initiative and a Washington, D.C., woman seeking to lead a class-action group — filed ...

The final bell rang Monday at Oceanside High School, and before long more than 50 teenagers had gathered in a strip mall parking lot a few blocks away. One was Khaseen Morris, 16. He was told to show up. One ...

LAREDO, Texas – The acting heads of the nation’s immigration agencies arrived here Tuesday to visit a makeshift courthouse, built from tents and shipping containers, where the administration will apply the experimental and legally tenuous border policy known as the ...

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The Justice Department on Tuesday filed a lawsuit seeking the proceeds from Edward Snowden’s book, alleging the ex-NSA contractor violated non-disclosure agreements he signed with the government by publishing the manuscript without seeking the required approval. In a news release, ...

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James Robertson, a federal judge who drew national attention for his ruling on the rights of a foreign detainee in U.S. custody at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and his resignation from a judicial surveillance panel to protest warrantless federal wiretapping, ...

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Calls to impeach Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh came from at least four Democratic presidential candidates over the weekend as The New York Times revealed a third alleged incident of sexual misconduct from when Kavanaugh was a young man. If ...

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WASHINGTON – One year ago, a bitterly divided Senate voted to confirm Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh to a lifetime appointment on the nation’s highest court; the vote was 50 to 48. Now, as the Oct. 8 anniversary of his ...

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For the better part of two years, U.S. District Court Judge Dan Aaron Polster has urged some of the nation’s most combative lawyers to craft a settlement that would funnel billions of dollars from drug companies to cities and counties ...

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Sitting in her jail cell last week, Patricia Spottedcrow couldn’t imagine where she was going to get the money she needed for her release. In 2010, the young Oklahoma mother, who had been caught selling $31 worth of marijuana to ...

WASHINGTON — Has the Supreme Court become a soft touch for the Trump administration? Or are the justices sending a message to lower courts not to become a part of the “resistance” to the president’s legitimate powers? The questions became relevant ...

Crystal Mason was sentenced to five years in prison last year for voting illegally in the 2016 presidential election, a case that garnered national attention both for the severity of the sentence and as an illustration of Texas’s purported crackdown ...

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