Tag: law

Louisiana Senate advances bill similar to Texas’ migrant arrest law

BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana’s Republican-controlled Senate advanced a bill Tuesday that would empower state and local law enforcement to arrest and jail people in the state who entered the U.S. illegally, similar to embattled legislation in Texas. Amid national fights between Republican states and Democratic President Joe Biden over how and who should enforce […]

Catherine Herridge, Sharyl Attkisson to testify about press shield law, ouster from CBS

House lawmakers will hear from veteran investigative journalists about the significance of the press shield law, which aims to protect journalists and their sources from government overreach and censorship. Former CBS News correspondents Catherine Herridge and Sharyl Attkisson are expected to testify Thursday at a hearing hosted by the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution […]

Texas defends border law before appeals court

Texas was back before a panel of federal judges Wednesday to defend its on-again-off-again border law, telling the court the state has marched right up to the line of what’s legal in dealing with illegal immigrants but has not crossed over it. The three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has already […]