Rachel Brand, the number three official at the Justice Department, plans to step down after nine months on the job, the New York Times reports. Brand’s profile had risen because she is next in the line of succession behind the deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein,...
Two Westerville, Oh., police officers were killed in a shootout Saturday after responding to a “potential domestic (violence) situation,” reports the Columbus Dispatch. The officers were Eric Joering, 39, a 16-year-veteran, and Anthony Morelli, 54, a 29-year veteran. They were the first Westerville officers killed...
Immigration agents have been enforcing the Trump administration’s orders to deport noncitizens at full speed with one roadblock: the federal courts, the New York Times reports. Immigration activist Ravi Ragbir was scheduled to be deported to Trinidad and Tobago on Saturday, but that was put...
Stephen Paddock was overweight, had anti-anxiety medication in his urine, and suffered from the usual wear and tear that comes with aging. The autopsy released Friday failed to help answer why Paddock chose to perch himself in the window of his 32nd-floor hotel room and...
Rachel Brand, the number three official at the Justice Department, plans to step down after nine months on the job, the New York Times reports. Brand’s profile had risen because she is next in the line of succession behind the deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein,...
The petition of the day is: Jam v. International Finance Corp. 17-1011 Issues: (1) Whether the International Organizations Immunities Act—which affords international organizations the “same immunity” from suit that foreign governments have, 22 U.S.C. § 288a(b)—confers the same immunity on such organizations as foreign governments have under the...