National civil rights organizations are teaming with local groups to push their agendas in district attorney races, where a few thousand votes can determine who asserts the most influence over the local justice system, NBC News reports. Picking targets carefully, crunching election data to influence...
The Florida school shooting has prompted calls for stricter gun laws, but such measures face a tough road as a wave of states have moved to expand gun owners’ rights, the Wall Street Journal reports. In the past six years, after deadly shootings at a...
The petition of the day is: United States ex rel. Carter v. Halliburton Co. 17-1060 Disclosure: Vinson & Elkins LLP, whose attorneys contribute to this blog in various capacities, is among the counsel to the respondents in this case. Issues: (1) Whether, under the first-to-file bar of the False...
The special counsel investigating Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election charged 13 Russian nationals and three Russian organizations with illegally using social media platforms to sow political discord, including actions that supported the candidacy of Donald Trump and disparaged opponent Hillary Clinton, the New...
More than a month before the shooting rampage at a South Florida high school, the FBI received a warning that the 19-year-old charged in the massacre might carry out an attack at a school, but investigators failed to act, the Washington Post reports. The disclosure...
A New York City police sergeant was acquitted Thursday of murder in the fatal 2016 shooting of bat-wielding, mentally ill Deborah Danner, 66, in her Bronx apartment, the New York Times reports. Danner’s death became a flash point in the national, racially charged debate over...