Maine House backs data privacy bill Under the Act, “sensitive data” includes data revealing a consumer’s race or ethnic origin, religious beliefs, mental or physical health conditions or diagnoses, sexual orientation ... 04/15/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
House advances revised FISA bill after floor revolt, teeing up final vote The House advanced a bill Friday to reauthorize the U.S.’s warrantless surveillance authority, opening the measure up for debate two days after a band of conservatives blocked a previous version ... 04/12/2024 - 3:36 am | View Link
Ohio House panel advances bill to restrict bathroom use for transgender students An Ohio House panel on Wednesday advanced legislation to ban transgender students from using school bathrooms that align with their gender identity. House Bill 183 would require K-12 and college ... 04/10/2024 - 8:41 pm | View Link
Ukraine’s Parliament Passes a Politically Fraught Mobilization Bill Life in Ukrainian Villages: Russian assaults have all but destroyed the ... We monitor and authenticate reports on social media, corroborating these with eyewitness accounts and interviews. 04/10/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Thailand’s Same-Sex Marriage Bill Advances Further After First Senate Nod Thailand’s Senate sent a same-sex marriage bill previously cleared by the lower house to a panel for further scrutiny, as the Southeast Asian nation seeks to become the region’s first to ... 04/1/2024 - 9:23 pm | View Link
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson raised concerns about granting the president absolute immunity, suggesting it could foster criminal activity in the Oval Office. She questioned Trump's lawyer, D. John Sauer, on why presidents should not be required to follow the law when acting in their official capacity.
CNN's Brynn Gingras describes former President Donald Trump's demeanor in court during former publisher of the National Enquirer David Pecker's testimony as part of his criminal hush money trial.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett pressed Trump lawyer D. John Sauer during Supreme Court arguments on the distinction between official and personal acts alleged in the charges. University of Texas law professor Steve Vladeck shares his takeaway.
Can a President order a political rival’s assassination and avoid criminal prosecution? What if he sold nuclear secrets to a foreign adversary or staged a coup?
These are some of the hypothetical questions posed during oral arguments at the Supreme Court on Thursday as the Justices wrestled with the practical implications of what could happen if they grant former President Donald Trump immunity from criminal prosecution in special counsel Jack Smith’s election interference case against him.
[time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”]
“This case has huge implications for the presidency, for the future of the presidency, for the future of the country,” said Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
During nearly three hours of arguments in Trump v.
Former Edgewater police officer McKinzie Rees hopes to serve and protect again, but first she must get her name removed from a so-called “bad cops list” maintained by the Colorado Attorney General’s Office. It landed there, she said, as retaliation after she reported sexual assaults by a supervising sergeant.
That sergeant went on to work for another police department until this year, when he pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual contact and misconduct and was sentenced, more than four years after the assaults and retaliation against Rees.
She testified to the state’s House Judiciary Committee this week that, even after her attacker was exposed, her complaint about still being listed as a problem police officer “is falling on deaf ears every time.”
Rees’ testimony, echoed by other frontline police officers from Colorado Springs and Denver about retaliation they faced after reporting misconduct, is driving state lawmakers’ latest effort at police oversight.