President Donald Trump invited the Dodgers to the White House. Many of their fans feared that the team, by accepting, would humiliate themselves and betray the team’s large Latino, Asian and African-American fan base. Dodgers controlling owner Mark Walter, along with co-owner Magic Johnson, have proposed a solution. Trump has promised that if he can keep the championship trophy, the Commissioner’s Trophy, he will end all seizures and deportations of immigrants.   read more

What used to take only days is now stretching into months and close to years for the issuance of the first pardon by a new president.   Like his immediate predecessors, President Barack Obama has continued a recent trend of putting pardons and...   read more

Stephen Bertone, former chief engineer of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, has refused to comply with a subpoena from the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB), arguing that the CSB does not have jurisdiction to prob...   read more

With wait times lasting longer than two years for a decision, judges who hear Social Security disability cases are experiencing a rise in violent threats from frustrated Americans. At least 80 threats to kill or harm administrative law judges or...   read more

Matthew S. Petersen has served on the Federal Election Commission (FEC) since his appointment by President George W. Bush in June 2008. In December 2009, he was selected by the commission members to be their chair for the year 2010. The role of ...   read more

The validity of government safety awards has come under question in light of the bestowing of such honors to companies responsible for two of the country’s worst accidents this year.   Six months before the Upper Big Branch coal mine accident ...   read more

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is no stranger to conservative political fundraisers, having attended events hosted by the partisan magazine, American Spectator. Alito apparently sees no problem with his presence at events that favor Rep...   read more

On November 2, California voters, by a 54%-46% margin, defeated a ballot measure that would have legalized the use of marijuana for those over the age of 21. The main storyline coming out of the overall results of this election was that, despite...   read more

Many of those headed to Washington following this month’s election aren’t just new to Congress, but new to political office altogether. About 40 of the newly elected have never held elected office of any kind, representing the highest total sinc...   read more

Republicans love successful network television programs, while Democrats tend to skew towards hit offerings on cable. While there are exceptions to both of these generalities, plenty of examples exist demonstrating where the partisan divide rest...   read more

What began in Norway has spread to four other European countries, each of which is now investigating whether the U.S. embassy has been spying on local citizens.   A Norwegian television news station first reported how American officials in the...   read more

Anton Camaj, formerly of Montenegro when it was part of Yugoslavia, is fighting to remain in the United States, where he has lived for the past 16 years.   Camaj was ordered to attend three immigration hearings back in 1995, the last of which ...   read more

A victim of the criminal justice system’s draconian punishment for first-time drug offenders, Clarence Aaron deserves to be pardoned by President Barack Obama, argues conservative columnist Debra J. Saunders.   Aaron was a college student at Sou...   read more

A returnee from the Clinton administration, Laurie (Laurel) O. Robinson rejoined the U.S. Department of Justice in November 2009 as assistant attorney general in charge of the Office of Justice Programs (OJP), which oversees numerous programs re...   read more

Linda S. Birnbaum began serving as the Director of the National Toxicology Program and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) on March 13, 2009. Based in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, the NIEHS has a $684-milli...   read more

While millions of Americans have struggled to keep from losing their homes to foreclosure, the Obama administration has spent only a little more than 1% of the $50 billion it promised to help stem the mortgage crisis.   So far, the Department ...   read more

Tea Party supporters are keeping Sarah Palin’s daughter, Bristol, alive in the competition on ABC’s hit show Dancing with the Stars. Despite receiving the lowest scores from the show’s judges for her jive, her Viennese waltz and her instant samb...   read more