Federal Courts Shrug at Potentially Lethal Wrong-Door Raids
Cops should not be free to forgo the modicum of care required to make sure they’re in the right place.
Cops should not be free to forgo the modicum of care required to make sure they’re in the right place.
Plus: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre on wax.
The California senator was trying to ask about immigration enforcement when federal agents handcuffed and ejected him.
Agents detonated a grenade and broke into the house, guns drawn. But while the decision is good news for Curtrina Martin and Toi Cliatt, their legal battle is far from over.
The FBI spied on the civil rights leader for years. Would releasing its surveillance files just be a further violation of King's privacy, or would it make future abuses less likely?
With the OneTaste case, the Department of Justice has embraced infantilizing ideas about women, consent, and coercion.
In 1968, the feds thought that the boxing champion—and future grill salesman—could be a potent weapon against the left.
Former official Brian K. Williams just admitted that he faked a bomb threat during a work meeting. Now he faces up to 10 years in prison.
A lot of conservatives are falling prey to the same snowflakery they criticize.
The Department of Justice told the Supreme Court there were "policy tradeoffs that an officer makes" in determining if he should "take one more extra precaution" to make sure he's at the right house.
Even after the Biden administration realized the most alarming claims were bunk, it didn't publicize the evidence it had.
A declassified assessment contradicts the president's assertion that Tren de Aragua is "closely aligned with" the Venezuelan government and acts at its "direction."
The Wisconsin judge is charged with obstruction of justice and concealing an undocumented alien to prevent his arrest.
A federal court ruled Trina Martin could not sue the government after agents burst into her home and held an innocent man at gunpoint.
The defense secretary, who shared information about imminent U.S. air strikes in a manifestly insecure group chat, thought Clinton should be prosecuted for her careless handling of sensitive information.
Linda Martin's lawsuit alleges that the agency violated her right to due process when it took her $40,200 and sent her a notice failing to articulate the reason.
Journals allegedly written by the government's star witness in 2015 were not authentic, prosecutors now say.
The president says those legislators are "subject to investigation at the highest level," notwithstanding their pardons and the Speech or Debate Clause.
"This is a gut punch," says Bernalillo County Sheriff John Allen. "This is a kick to my balls and two black eyes, to be honest with you."
The Trump administration’s spectacle rehashed information that journalists, lawyers, and victims had already unveiled.
The ATF, charged with regulating firearms, has a history of abuse and incompetence.
Whether or not a reasonable police officer violates clearly established law when he declines to check the features and address of his target house before raiding it is thus still up for debate.
One perk that may materialize from Elon Musk upending the federal bureaucracy is the downfall of the government’s obsessive use of abbreviations.
The newly confirmed head of the country's leading law enforcement agency has a history of advocating politically motivated investigations even while condemning them.
Snakes. Magic. Orgasmic meditation. And a dubious federal case against the leaders of a supposed sex cult.
A driver who was acquitted of drunk driving joins a class action lawsuit provoked by a bribery scheme that went undetected for decades.
In the latest guilty plea, a local defense attorney says he had been bribing cops to make DWI cases disappear "since at least the late 1990s."
For a decade and a half, officers made DWI cases go away in exchange for bribes, relying on protection from senior officers implicated in the same racket.
A defanged FBI could minimize our reliance on politicians’ (rarely) good intentions.
At his confirmation hearing, the president's pick to run the nation's leading law enforcement agency ran away from his record as a MAGA zealot.
Federal prosecutors say the city's police department was the main focus of a 15-year bribery scheme that also involved the sheriff's office and the state police.
Curtrina Martin's petition attracted support from a bipartisan group of lawmakers.
His last-minute acts of clemency invite Trump and future presidents to shield their underlings from the consequences of committing crimes in office.
Are New Jerseyans mistaking normal airplanes for mysterious drones?
The government has given itself special powers to deal with crimes that it could already prosecute.
The president-elect's pick for FBI director says he rejects some of the right-wing sect's bizarre beliefs but agrees with "a lot of what the movement says."
Trump's pick to run the FBI has a long list of enemies he plans to "come after," with the legal details to be determined later.
"We're gonna come after the people in the media," the Trump stalwart warns. "Whether it's criminally or civilly, we'll figure that out."
Trump's picks for FBI director and Middle East adviser buck his trend of appointing superhawks.
Plus: A listener asks the editors about the libertarian position on doctor-assisted suicide.
Plus: Media figures and politicians react to the news, Donald Trump appoints Kash Patel to head the FBI, and more...
Michiganders had to choose between a hawkish Democrat with an intelligence background and a hawkish Republican with an intelligence background for Senate.
A federal court denied them the right to sue—despite Congress enacting a law five decades ago specifically for situations like this one.
Campaign finance records reveal what the community at the heart of U.S. national security policy thinks about outside politics.
While it is not true that "homicides are skyrocketing," recent trends in other kinds of violent crime are murkier.
One year ago, political figures spread a false terrorism panic that made everyone less free—and incited violence against a child.
Violent crime fell by 3 percent last year, the agency estimates. That includes a 12 percent drop in homicides.
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