DENVER — Colorado Democrats, hoping to enshrine federal voter protections in state law, are pursuing a bill that would bar voter discrimination based on race, sexual orientation and gender identity in state law — just as President Donald Trump has signed an executive order aimed at overhauling elections nationwide.

Sen. Julie Gonzales, a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he “couldn’t care less” if automakers raise car prices in response to the planned tariffs on imported vehicles.

Trump was asked in an interview with NBC News on Saturday whether he warned foreign automaker chief executives not to raise consumer prices in response to the 25% tariffs he plans to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — He is, by most accounts, a LeBron James of lawyers – a master who’s handled more Supreme Court cases than just about anyone else in recent history.

Now Paul Clement is stepping into a delicate new role: Big Law’s big lawyer.

As President Donald Trump targets one leading law firm after another, WilmerHale has turned to ...Read more

President Donald Trump issued a sweeping executive order this week calling for changes to U.S. elections, including requirements for people to prove citizenship when registering to vote and to have ballots be cast and received by Election Day.

National voting rights groups have railed against the order, calling on officials to reject it and ...Read more

A proposed law would permanently classify fentanyl-related substances as a Schedule I controlled substance and establish corresponding penalties, and federal lawmakers are pushing to see it get passed.

U.S. Sen. Ashley Moody, R-Fla., the former attorney general of Florida, attempted to raise more support for the HALT Fentanyl Act during a press...Read more

When it was time to vote on the House Republicans’ budget package last month, Rep. Brittany Pettersen had her arms full. Quite literally.

Pettersen, a Colorado Democrat, had just given birth four weeks earlier. She wasn’t allowed to vote by proxy — a process that allows a colleague to cast a vote in a member’s stead, something that was ...Read more

Pierre Poilievre seemed to be on an unstoppable march to political victory.

It was late December and Justin Trudeau’s government was in disarray. The Canadian prime minister had lost his finance minister, was deserted by key members of his party and had gone into hiding from the media. Poilievre’s Conservative Party, already well ahead in ...Read more

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg on March 27, 2025, ordered top Trump administration officials to preserve records of their messages sent on the messaging app Signal from March 11 to March 15 following a transparency watchdog group’s lawsuit alleging that the officials have violated the Federal Records Act.

This marked the latest ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Ozy Media co-founder Carlos Watson, who was set to begin serving his nearly 10-year prison term for lying to investors in his startup, had his term commuted by President Donald Trump on Friday, according to a senior White House official.

Watson was convicted last July by a federal jury in Brooklyn, New York, of a wire fraud ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump can fire members of two independent agencies, a divided federal appeals court in Washington ruled, boosting the president’s efforts to dramatically reshape the U.S. government.

In a 2-1 order issued Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit halted decisions by lower court judges that blocked Trump’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has formally asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in his effort to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members using a 227-year-old wartime law.

A brief filed by acting Solicitor General Sarah H. Harris on Friday asks the nation’s highest court to vacate the order issued by a U.S. District Court, which ...Read more

Democrats are battling Republicans for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court and two special congressional elections in Florida that are shaping up as surprising early tests of President Donald Trump’s second term political clout.

With signs of GOP political weakness spreading, Democrats are hoping to hold onto a liberal-controlled spot on ...Read more

NEW YORK — A Rockefeller Center law firm representing Voice of America and its affiliates is claiming victory after winning a temporary restraining order against the Trump administration, which hopes to silence the broadcasting network that’s shared U.S. messaging globally for over 80 years.

Andrew G. Celli, Jr., founding partner at Emery ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Two decades ago, the Bush administration said its “war on terror” prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay were off-limits to the federal courts, but the Supreme Court disagreed.

“A state of war is not a blank check for the President,” said Justice Sandra Day O’Connor in 2004. “Whatever power the U.S. Constitution envisions ...Read more

President Donald Trump accused the Smithsonian Institution of propagating "divisive, race-based ideology" and issued an executive order demanding an end to federal funding for exhibitions and programs based on racial themes that "divide Americans."

The order, titled "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History," directs Vice President JD ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Two decades ago, the Bush administration said its "war on terror" prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay were off-limits to the federal courts, but the Supreme Court disagreed.

"A state of war is not a blank check for the President," said Justice Sandra Day O'Connor in 2004. "Whatever power the U.S. Constitution envisions for the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has formally asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in his effort to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members using a 227-year-old wartime law.

A brief filed by Acting Solicitor General Sarah H. Harris on Friday asks the nation’s highest court to vacate the order issued by a U.S. District Court, which ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — A Central Florida congressional race that seemed like an easy win for the GOP a few months ago now has Republicans sweating as polls and early voting tallies show a closer-than-expected contest.

The special election Tuesday between Republican state Sen. Randy Fine, R-Melbourne, and Orlando teacher Josh Weil, a Democrat, is ...Read more

Iran’s foreign minister said his country responded to a letter from U.S. President Donald Trump on the prospect of new talks over Tehran’s nuclear program, without giving detail on the contents.

Abbas Araghchi told the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency that the reply was sent Wednesday via Oman, a longtime mediator between Iran and the...Read more

WASHINGTON — Two decades ago, the Bush administration said its "war on terror" prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay were off-limits to the federal courts, but the Supreme Court disagreed.

"A state of war is not a blank check for the President," said Justice Sandra Day O'Connor in 2004. "Whatever power the U.S. Constitution envisions for the ...Read more