The law values human life by punishing people who take it. Against this landscape, self-defense — or the law of justifiable homicide — carves out a narrow exception.

Best response to immigration injunction is to be transparent about returning policy decisions to elected officials

President Barack Obama’s administration faces a difficult and possibly lengthy legal battle to overturn a Texas court ruling that blocked his landmark immigration overhaul, since the judge based his decision on an obscure and unsettled area of administrative law, lawyers said.

President Barack Obama's administration faces a difficult and possibly lengthy legal battle to overturn a Texas court ruling that blocked his landmark immigration overhaul, since the judge based his decision on an obscure and unsettled area of administrative law, lawyers said.

Some students would like to be able to carry their concealed weapons on campus and some don’t want guns anywhere near their school. In what you might call a compromise, the Nevada State Legislature is considering a bill that would allow guns to be kept in cars on school campuses.