21+ hour, 3+ min ago   (734+ words) Federal protest prosecutions that began on Portland streets are returning to Oregon courtrooms this fall, where the U.S. Department of Justice faces an uneven record in converting allegations of assaults against federal officers into felony convictions when defendants take their cases…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (508+ words) Citizenship is a familiar word. What Americans expect from it, what self-government requires of the people living under it, and how those responsibilities have evolved across nearly 250 years of American democracy are considerably larger questions. Those questions will come to…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (456+ words) The investigation substantiated misconduct involving Chavez-DeRemer across six areas of her tenure, placing conduct inside the secretary’s office, during government travel and at her private residence within the same federal inquiry. Conditions inside the Labor Department became one of the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (892+ words) Construction of a 90,000-square-foot ballroom and military complex at the White House will continue after the U.S. Supreme Court intervened Monday in a legal battle that has followed the project from the demolition of the East Wing through months of accelerated…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (728+ words) Oregon is preparing for another consequential legal confrontation with the federal government after the U.S. Department of Justice filed suit seeking to invalidate portions of state law that allow certain noncitizen students to qualify for resident tuition and state financial assistance…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (509+ words) That question is being fought in federal court. States challenging the administration’s election order contend that the president cannot independently rewrite election procedures assigned by the Constitution to states and Congress. The administration has defended the measures as lawful exercises…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (822+ words) Stephen E. Fitch has rejected a request to dismiss his claims against Josephine County Sheriff David Daniel, keeping the sheriff directly involved in a federal civil rights dispute that grew from confrontations over public meetings, courthouse activity, citizen complaints and allegations…...