NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — A former state senator convicted of campaign finance violations has filed to have his conviction overturned, claiming issues with both the prosecution and his defense.

House rules currently allow for one lawmaker to have the ability to introduce a motion to vacate the speakership and initiate a vote on the floor. So, when former Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz ...

Under the new rules package, which cleared the lower chamber in a near-party-line vote, 215-209, a motion to vacate the chair will require a minimum of nine members of the speaker’s same party ...

Under a new rules package that is slated for a vote Friday, the motion to vacate the chair will require a lawmaker in the majority party to garner eight co-sponsors in the same party in order to ...

Lake County prosecutors have filed a motion asking that the conviction of ... on the 2X4 did not have any DNA from Williford. A sample from the wood, however, matched DNA taken from murder victim ...

On Thursday, Kelsey asked the federal judge in his original case to vacate his sentence, in addition to allowing him to remain free until 30 days after his motion to vacate is decided. Kelsey has ...

LOS ANGELES, Calif. – On Jan. 14 of this year, Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by SpaceX against the California Coastal Commission after the state authority ...

Scott Mollen discusses “Gelinas LLC v. Hayes,” where the key issue was “whether this action for partition is governed by traditional legal principles of partition or is subject to the special ...

A motion to vacate, the process for removing the speaker, will now require nine sponsors to be considered on the House floor. “A resolution causing a vacancy in the Office of the Speaker shall ...

The House passed its rules package for the 119th Congress on Friday, approving a change that makes it more difficult to oust the speaker and reserving that right for the majority party alone.

The Republicans’ proposed rules package prevents House Democrats from introducing a motion to vacate the speaker and raises the minimum number of Republicans required to prompt a vote on the ...