Senate Committee on the Judiciary holds hearings to examine five years of the First Step Act. The First Step Act was the criminal justice reform law signed by former President Donald Trump. It is intended to do two things: cut unnecessarily long federal sentences and improve conditions in federal prisons. The hearings will be he…
Senate Committee on the Judiciary holds hearings to examine five years of the First Step Act. The First Step Act was the criminal justice reform law signed by former President Donald Trump. It is intended to do two things: cut unnecessarily long federal sentences and improve conditions in federal prisons. The hearings will be he…
Former President Donald Trump has long claimed that the criminal and civil cases against him are politically motivated and designed to hinder his campaign efforts, and in recent weeks his legal teams have merged those arguments into his various case defenses. In the federal court in the Southern District of Florida, for example, where special
‘Especially Ron DeSantis, at least of the two of them will have an important role to play in the future of this country and leading this nation.’ Former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has called on Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley to withdraw from the 2024 presidential race and endorse former President Donald Trump, as
The continuing resolution would avert a partial government shutdown by extending federal funding into March With the first quarter of fiscal year 2024 already in the rearview, Congress appears poised to kick the spending can even further down the road. In a 68–3 procedural vote on Jan. 16, the Senate advanced Congress’ third stopgap spending
American University was hit with a federal complaint on Wednesday alleging a “rampant and pervasive” anti-Semitic environment on campus that includes Jewish students being spit upon, subjected to chants of “Zionist pig,” and graffiti proclaiming, “Hitler was right.” The complaint, filed with the Education Department by the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under
Senate lawmakers on Jan. 16 took the first steps aimed at preventing a partial government shutdown, ahead of a rapidly approaching deadline scheduled for the end of the week. Lawmakers in the upper chamber voted 68-13 to begin voting on a temporary stopgap spending bill—the third temporary spending measure this fiscal year—overcoming the first procedural