A minor dispute over a trademark registration erupted into a heated battle over originalism at the Supreme Court last week, splintering the justices into warring camps over the value and practicality of history in constitutional analysis. No surprise there—as the term accelerates toward a contentious finale, the tensions roiling major cases are bound to spill […]
Missouri Republican Sen. Bill Eigel’s campaign for governor engaged in several violations of campaign finance law, including accepting contributions in excess of the legal limit and corporate contributions, according to new ethics complaints. The complaints come amid an intensifying Republican race for governor. Eigel, an outspoken and sometimes acerbic presence in the Missouri Senate, is […]
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president is in a rush to finish the big legislative and building projects he promised before his term ends in September, and experts say officials are getting a bit sloppy amid all the haste. This week, legislators from the governing Morena party mistakenly submitted the wrong bill on pension reform […]
This is The Takeaway from today’s Morning Brief, which you can sign up to receive in your inbox every morning along with: So has begun execution on one of my three hobbies: reading an insane amount of earnings call transcripts (go ahead and guess the other two, have at it). While I definitely take this […]
DeWITT — More than 300 Consumers Energy customers are without power this morning in the DeWitt area, according to the company’s outage map. The cause of the outage, first reported about 6:40 a.m. Tuesday with more than 1,200 affected, was not listed on the company’s website. It was the only major outage reported by the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — Midweek moisture arrives as a sloppy winter storm moves into northern and central Utah overnight, creating tricky travel conditions for the Wednesday morning commute, especially along the northern Wasatch Front. Winter weather advisories issued by the National Weather Service go into effect Tuesday night for the Wasatch mountains, Western Uintas, […]