SHAPIRO: Lifting campaign donations limit could encourage transparency
The Supreme Court's decision to remove the overall limit of how many candidates an individual can contribute to during an election cycle is sure to spark some heated debate during a mid-term election...
View ArticleSHAPIRO: Pistorius and South African law
Oscar Pistorious, the South African Paralympic runner accused of murdering his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, faces a second charge of “culpable homicide” under South African law even if he is acquitted...
View ArticleD.C. charges may revive Chris Brown's sentence
ANALYSIS:Chris Brown's misdemeanor assault trial begins Thursday at D.C. Superior Court, only a few blocks from the White House, but a conviction there is the least of his concerns.The recording artist...
View ArticleSHAPIRO: Wendy Davis' law practice shines light on attorney-politician conflicts
Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis is not the first lawyer faced with conflict-of-interest allegations, but her decision as a state senator to represent the North Texas Tollway Authority while...
View ArticleSHAPIRO: Experts say Redskins can win case in U.S. District Court
Legal experts say that the executive agency that stripped the Redskins of its trademark will face the very difficult task of proving that a reasonable person of ordinary sensibilities in the Native...
View ArticleSHAPIRO: Cellphone ruling offers hints for surveillance cases
Wednesday’s unanimous Supreme Court ruling prohibiting warrantless cellphone searches may foreshadow how justices will review and ultimately decide upcoming cases that examine the constitutionality of...
View ArticleSHAPIRO: Supreme Court clamps down on Internet video streaming services
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday may have dashed the hopes of Americans trying to find an inexpensive alternative to cable TV by ruling that video-streaming service Aereo Inc. violated copyright law...
View ArticleSHAPIRO: Supreme Court strikes down expanded abortion clinic buffer zone
It started out as a hotly contested case that revived the decades old pro-choice vs. pro-life argument, but on Thursday the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously struck down a Massachusetts law that banned...
View ArticleSHAPIRO: Thomas Jefferson's Monticello welcomes naturalized immigrants on...
ANALYSIS/OPINION:Seventy-two naturalized immigrants proudly held their hands over their hearts at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello Friday and pledged allegiance to America amid cheers from U.S. citizens...
View ArticleSHAPIRO: Walker support group seeks to uphold prosecution injunction
Lawyers for a special interest group on Tuesday asked a federal appeals court to uphold an injunction that blocks a Wisconsin prosecutor from reviving an investigation that targeted conservative...
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