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Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson waits to speaks about the agency's budget and cybersecurity at the Homeland Security and Public Safety Committee session during the National Governors Association Winter Meeting in Washington, Sunday, Feb. 22, 2015. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

DHS blames tech glitch for violating judge’s amnesty injunction

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Washington Wizards forward Otto Porter Jr. is viewed by the organization and new coach Scott Brooks as a vital piece of the franchise going forward. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Paul Pierce’s buzzer-beater lifts Wizards past Hawks 103-101

By Howard Fendrich - Associated Press

DILLEY, Texas - Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson announces the opening of a new detention center for adults who cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally with their children, Dec. 14, 2014. The new center replaces the temporary facility in Artesia, N.M., and will have the capacity to hold up to 2,400 people. Official DHS photo by Barry Bahler.

DHS broke judge’s order, approved amnesty applications despite injunction

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James (23) walks up court during a break in play against the Chicago Bulls during the second half of Game 2 in a second-round NBA basketball playoff series Wednesday, May 6, 2015, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

LeBron leads Cavs into Chicago, with JR Smith joining him

By BRIAN MAHONEY - Associated Press

State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby faces challenges in prosecuting the police officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray. (Associated Press)

Freddie Gray: Lawyers see possible reductions of charges for officers in death of Gray

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

"We will continue to fight for the rule of law by asking the district court to carefully review the administration's withheld documents and hold the DOJ accountable so they provide reliable information about this case," said Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. (Associated Press)

Andrew Hanen, immigration amnesty judge, gets Justice apology for late revelation of 3-year action

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd, left, stands in the dock at a court in Tauranga, New Zealand on Tuesday. Rudd pleaded guilty to a charge of threatening to kill a man who used to work for him. He also pleaded guilty to possessing methamphetamine and marijuana. (Associated Press)

AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd pleads guilty to threatening to kill

By Nick Perry - Associated Press

Wal-Mart is awaiting a court decision after one of its major shareholders, a church that owns 3,500 franchises around the country, filed to have high-capacity gun magazines removed from the stores. (Associated Press)

Wal-Mart’s right to sell guns at risk in lawsuit

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

Crystal A. Diaz, a U.S. Border Patrol agent with the Tucson Sector in Arizona, rides her ATV while on patrol. (AP Photo/U.S. Border Patrol)

Obama motion to immediately restart amnesty rejected by federal judge

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Jan. 12, 2015 file photo, a woman is transported in a wheelchair onto an ambulance as people are evacuated from a smoke filled Metro subway tunnel in Washington. A policy of routing calls about emergencies on the Metro subway system directly to a supervisor at the District of Columbia’s 911 call center contributed to delays in getting firefighters to the scene of an accident that turned deadly, officials say. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

NTSB investigating second smoke incident on Metro

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

FILE - In this jan. 2, 2015, file photo, South Carolina's Tiffany Mitchell, left, is presented with a ceremonial ball by coach Dawn Staley for breaking the 1,000 career-point mark, before an NCAA college basketball game against Auburn in Columbia, S.C. Staley probably never had an easier recruiting pitch to make than to star guard Tiffany Mitchell, who grew up idolizing the three-time Olympic gold medalist and had Staley’s pro jersey on her wall. (AP Photo/Richard Shiro, File)

Tiffany Mitchell, her WNBA idol Dawn Staley lead South Carolina to Final Four

By Pete Iacobelli - Associated Press

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson acknowledged at Tuesday's hearing that 282 people have had to be kicked out of the amnesty program because of criminal convictions or gang ties that were later discovered. That was out of a population of more than 600,000 who were approved. (Associated Press)

Jeh Johnson: Court should have known part of amnesty was in effect

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Buffalo's Lamonte Bearden (1) tries to get past West Virginia's Daxter Miles Jr. (4) in the second half of an NCAA tournament college basketball game in the Round of 64 in Columbus, Ohio Friday, March 20, 2015. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

West Virginia’s full-court press looms as next challenge for Maryland

By Zac Boyer - The Washington Times

Maryland's Richaud Pack, left, picks up Varun Ram during practice at the NCAA college basketball tournament in Columbus, Ohio, Thursday, March 19, 2015. Maryland plays Valparaiso in the second round on Friday. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

After four days of waiting, Maryland loosens up before NCAA tournament opener

By Zac Boyer - The Washington Times

In this Monday, March 16, 2015 photo, Georgia State's Kevin Ware talks to the media during the basketball team's workout in Atlanta. The last time Ware played in the NCAA Tournament, he left the court on a stretcher, his right leg gruesomely broken in a freak incident that left his teammates in tears. He's looking to leave a much different impression this time around. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

After gruesome injury, Kevin Ware thrilled to return to NCAA tournament

By Paul Newberry - Associated Press

In this Monday, March 16, 2015 photo, Georgia State's Kevin Ware talks to the media during the basketball team's workout in Atlanta. The last time Ware played in the NCAA Tournament, he left the court on a stretcher, his right leg gruesomely broken in a freak incident that left his teammates in tears. He's looking to leave a much different impression this time around. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Ware wants to be remembered for something more than injury

By PAUL NEWBERRY - Associated Press

Georgetown guard D'Vauntes Smith-Rivera (4) shoots between Butler forward Andrew Chrabascz (45) and guard Alex Barlow (3) in the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in Indianapolis, Tuesday, March 3, 2015. Georgetown won 60-54. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

D’Vauntes Smith-Rivera leads No. 23 Georgetown into the Big East tournament

By Tom Schad - The Washington Times

In this July 29, 2012, file photo, protesters demonstrate outside he Anaheim, Calif., Police Department headquarters over a string of recent fatal police shootings in Anaheim. Ferguson, Mo., has become an emblem of the tensions between minorities and police departments nationwide since Darren Wilson, a white officer, shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, last summer. A U.S. Justice Department report released the first week of March 2015, cleared Wilson of criminal wrongdoing. (AP Photo/The Orange County Register, Stuart Palley, File)

Missouri appeals judge appointed to take over Ferguson court

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

National Park Service employees remove barricades from the grounds of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2013. Barriers went down at National Park Service sites and thousands of furloughed federal workers began returning to work throughout the country Thursday after 16 days off the job because of the partial government shutdown.(AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Essential federal workers lawsuit demands extra shutdown back pay

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

The states challenging President Obama's deportation amnesty have already won the first round in court after the case landed in the lap of Judge Andrew S. Hanen, a Bush appointee who issued a scorching rebuke to the Department of Homeland Security last year, accusing it of refusing to follow border security laws. (Associated Press)

Obama lawyers misled federal judge in amnesty case

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times