WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats at a partisan-tinged hearing say the Supreme Court's conservative majority is wrongly favoring businesses over consumers, employees and investors. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy opened a committee ...

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The New York Senate last week voted to give physicians the right to collectively negotiate with health insurers, but the Assembly appeared bent on blocking the legislation. The Senate bill, sponsored by Health Committee Chairman Sen. Kemp Hannon ...

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ALBANY — A coalition of gay rights advocates on Friday morning demanded that New York's Senate break a lingering logjam and allow a vote on the legalization of gay marriage. As senators returned to work, security precautions were increased in the Capitol ...

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ALBANY — Dozens of gay couples are planning to converge on Albany on Thursday to witness what would be a historic vote to legalize gay marriage in New York, the sixth state to do so and a potential bellwether in the national gay rights movement. But for that to happen ...

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The nomination of Monroe County District Attorney Michael C. Green is being forwarded to the full Senate for possible confirmation. The U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary agreed Thursday ...

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The Senate has voted to end debate on the use of three terrorism-fighting tools and has cleared the way for a final vote to extend them past midnight. That's when their legal authority ends.

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Taking aim at a U.S. Supreme Court ruling they say strips workers and consumers of their right to redress against powerful corporations, lawmakers in both houses have reintroduced the Arbitration Fairness Act, which would bar pre-dispute mandatory arbitration clauses in consumer and employment contracts and in civil rights disputes.

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WASHINGTON — The Senate has voted to end debate on the use of three terrorism-fighting tools and has cleared the way for a final vote to extend them past midnight. That's when their legal authority ends.

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Grant management, protecting law enforcement officers and supporting public safety programs that work will be among the top priorities for Denise O’Donnell of Buffalo should she be confirmed as director of the federal Bureau of Justice Assistance.

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Members of the Senate are looking to shine a little light into federal courtrooms. A bill, co-sponsored by Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., has been re-introduced to provide media coverage of federal court proceedings.

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Just days after the Senate passed a patent reform measure that would bring the United States’ patent laws in line with those of most other countries, a companion bill was introduced in the House.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — They're a pair of flamboyant lawyers who are fond of cameras and adept at messaging, two deputies with ambitions to land, someday, on top. So the emerging political warfare led by Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer ...

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