- Illinois city backs away from heavy-handed rental inspections rule
After threatening a landlord with fines for not compelling her tenants to allow warrantless inspections of their homes, the city of Zion, Illinois, agreed in a settlement temporarily to stop pursuing the landlord while the landlord seeks a ruling in a federal civil rights lawsuit declaring a local ordinance unconstitutional. Zion’s far-reaching rental inspection ordinance [...]
- ‘Beltway Sniper’ Malvo deserves new sentencing hearing, Supreme Court told
WASHINGTON—”Beltway sniper” co-defendant Lee Boyd Malvo’s Virginia-imposed sentence of life without the possibility of parole should be reconsidered because he was only 17 years at the time of the murders and the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence on sentencing young people has since changed, his lawyer told the high court. The Trump administration sided with [...]
- States should be allowed to prosecute illegal aliens for identity theft, Supreme Court told
Kansas should be allowed to prosecute illegal aliens for identity theft when they work under Social Security numbers belonging to others, even though federal immigration law already regulates whether such individuals may work in the United States, the state’s attorney general told the Supreme Court on Oct. 16. Kansas and other states, backed by the Trump administration, [...]
- Left-wing groups seek to sell impeachment to American public
Large, left-wing activist groups are working with congressional Democrats to promote House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s unilateral push to impeach President Donald Trump over a July telephone conversation he had with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Democrats claim, without evidence, that Trump tried to strong-arm Zelensky by threatening to withhold military aid to [...]
