Supreme Court Justices appear skeptical of challenge to ghost gun rule

by Eli Kronenberg | Oct 8, 2024 | Featured, Politics

WASHINGTON – A majority of Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical of the challenge to a 2022 Biden administration rule that strengthened regulation of so-called “ghost guns” in the oral arguments for Garland v. VanDerStok on Tuesday morning. The case’s respondents,...

Biden’s antitrust enforcers are fighting to protect consumers, businesses from monopoly powers

by Cate Bikales | Oct 6, 2023 | Business, Featured, Topics

WASHINGTON — She has been called a deal killer, an anti-capitalist and even a giant slayer. But as one of the Biden administration’s main antitrust enforcers, Lina Khan, chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), said her main goal is to protect free and fair...

Justices clash on how to resolve procedural questions in state legal intervention case

by Ali Bianco | Mar 2, 2022 | Featured, Immigration

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in a case that hinged on whether states can step in to defend a Trump-era immigration policy that the Biden administration opted not to enforce. “If we step back and refuse to let the trees obscure our view...

House Judiciary Debates Merits of Independent Immigration Court

by Ali Bianco | Jan 20, 2022 | Featured, Immigration

WASHINGTON — The merits of overhauling the U.S. immigration courts into an independent system, removed from the jurisdiction of the Department of Justice, divided lawmakers and witnesses at a virtual hearing on Thursday. “Our country deserves an immigration court...

Survivors, family members call for opioid crisis accountability

by Jason Harward and Zinya Salfiti | Dec 3, 2021 | Health & Science

WASHINGTON — Protesters gathered outside the Department of Justice Friday demanding the Attorney General’s Office pursue a criminal lawsuit against the Sackler family, owners of the billion-dollar pharmaceutical company that manufactures the prescription drug...