Tag: law
Supreme Court Rules Public Corruption Law Allows Gifts to Officials
The court, which has limited the sweep of several anti-corruption laws, distinguished after-the-fact rewards from before-the-fact bribes.
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House G.O.P. Pushes Deep Cuts to Federal Law Enforcement
Republicans put forward a spending bill that would slash funding for federal law enforcement, though they failed to find a way to defund the special c [...]
Supreme Court Will Hear Challenge to Tennessee Law Banning Transition Care for Minors
The state law bans health care providers from offering gender transition care to children.
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Supreme Court Upholds Law Disarming Domestic Abusers
The justices rejected a Second Amendment challenge to a federal law that makes it a crime for people subject to domestic violence restraining orders t [...]
Labour would pass law to end renter ‘bidding wars’
Sir Keir Starmer has said Labour would pass new laws to prevent rental "bidding wars", if his party wins the election. During a special edition of BBC [...]
Alabama’s I.V.F. Shield Law Now Faces a Constitutional Challenge
The challenge, from two of the families who filed the initial lawsuit, raises the possibility that access to I.V.F. could once again be in jeopardy in [...]
A Brief History of the Phrase ‘No One Is Above the Law’
With the recent convictions of a former president and a president’s son, a saying is getting a moment in the spotlight, as it has many times before.
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Whitehall union challenges Rwanda law
2 hours agoDominic Casciani,Home and legal correspondent, BBC News, @BBCDomCPAThe aborted 2022 Rwanda flight halted by international court orderThe un [...]
To Restrict Migrants, Biden Leans on Trump’s Favorite Immigration Law
President Biden’s executive action addresses one of his most serious political vulnerabilities ahead of the presidential election.
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After Trump Verdict, White House Says ‘We Respect the Rule of Law’
“We respect the rule of law,” a spokesman for the White House Counsel’s Office said after former President Donald J. Trump’s conviction in the hush-mo [...]
U.S. Lawmaker at Center of Crypto Negotiation Predicts Digital Assets Law by Next Year
McHenry, who has been wrangling the crypto legislation in the House, argued that the outcome is assured by the massive level of bipartisan backing las [...]
Leasehold reforms become law but without ground rent cap
Reforms to leasehold and freehold in England and Wales have become law – but without a promised cap on ground rents.The new law aims to make it cheape [...]
Rishi Sunak disappointed smoking ban will not become law
Announcing the election in Downing Street on Wednesday, the prime minister promised to "ensure that the next generation grows up smoke free". But spea [...]
House Passes Measure to Repeal D.C. Noncitizen Voting Law
Fifty-two Democrats joined Republicans in favor of the legislation, which has little chance of enactment but offered the G.O.P. a chance to amplify Do [...]
Starmer calls for duty of candour law after blood scandal
The Labour leader says public servants should be compelled by law to tell the truth, following the infected blood scandal.
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