Legal Issues

The Department of Homeland Security has drafted proposed new rules making it harder for immigrants to get permanent residency if they have received certain public benefits.
Holding individual lawmakers, and not the government, responsible for sexual harassment might lessen the incentive for legislatures to train and police their own.
Representatives unanimously agreed to reform arcane sexual misconduct policies.
The White House chief of staff said the president's immigration framework was generous. But even some Republicans don't think it can work.
Legal experts saw the GOP appeal to the Supreme Court as a long shot.
Judge Mark Walker blasted the state's process, with its "substantial risk of arbitrary and discriminatory vote-restoration," as "worse than a coin flip."