Plus: L.A. criminally charges contractors offering to build an ADU in the Palisades, South Carolina streamlines squatter removal, and a Florida city uses eminent domain to thwart state housing law.
High-level state officials launched a threat investigation over a harmless postcard to Florida's chief financial officer.
First-place wins include work on America's gerontocracy, an interview with anti–death penalty activist Helen Prejean, and some Star Wars comedy.
The officer's avowed reasons for killing Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas were contradicted by the physical evidence.
The justice criticizes the Court’s endorsement of coercive plea bargaining and its embrace of dubious Fourth Amendment doctrines.
Police have arrested at least 15 people in recent years based on bad facial recognition hits.
The justice argues that the "reasonable expectation of privacy" test and the third-party doctrine are indefensible in theory and unworkable in practice.
Understanding Chatrie v. United States.
Less than a year after launching with its own merchandise line, "Alligator Alcatraz" is officially shutting down.
Prosecutors in New Jersey must disclose how the technology is used in criminal cases, the state’s Supreme Court ruled.
"This indictment appears to be going way overboard, using a sledgehammer to address what might have been some infractions."
The Supreme Court's decision in United States v. Hemani could open the door to relief for cannabis consumers convicted of illegal gun possession.
The Supreme Court could be poised to decide whether it's you or Big Tech companies.
The decision is a modest but welcome step toward rectifying the injustice of criminalizing conduct that violates no one’s rights.
Robby Soave and Amber Duke discuss how the refurbishment of D.C.’s Reflecting Pool has gone off the rails.
Even under the Supreme Court's highly elastic understanding of that clause, Thomas says, such laws do not qualify as regulation of interstate commerce.
Understanding the stakes of Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections.
How Trump rebranded the war on drugs as a fight against illegal immigration
A new book shows how a phrase made its way from the crime pages to our political arguments—and picked up a passel of meanings along the way.
The Supreme Court ruled that "an agreement not to appeal a sentence is unenforceable when it would result in a miscarriage of justice."
The Department of Homeland Security plans to sell or offload seven warehouses it originally purchased to house migrants.
The unanimous decision upholding the gun rights of cannabis consumers is striking given the Supreme Court's long history of accommodating the war on drugs.
A landmark win for the right to keep and bear arms in United States v. Hemani.
Richard Hershey is asking the Supreme Court to overrule a 5th Circuit decision that blocked the lawsuit provoked by that obvious First Amendment violation.
It therefore concludes (exercising its supervisory power over Pennsylvania state court proceedings) that the state Attorney General's office must be given a chance to intervene in all such proceedings from Philadelphia.
The proposal was nixed only after White House Staff Secretary Will Scharf explained why it was legally dubious.
The suspects—his mother and aunt—were accused of shoplifting diapers from Walmart.
The family's attorney says it's the largest settlement for a dog shooting case in Colorado history.
A bill tightening Colorado's civil asset forfeiture laws passed the state legislature by wide bipartisan margins and was signed into law by Gov. Jared Polis.
Britain has long wasted taxpayer money on frivolous projects. A secret dossier suggests it has now outdone itself.
In a unanimous opinion, the court ruled that it is unconstitutional for officers to stop and frisk someone based solely on suspicion that the person is carrying a gun.
After nearly four years of legal battles, Tayvin Galanakis has finally won his case against the officers who arrested him for allegedly driving while intoxicated without probable cause.
Police arrested and charged Robert Dillon with a heinous crime based on nothing more than a faulty image search.
Simon Hankinson and Bryan Caplan debate immigration enforcement.
A medical examiner ruled Geraldo Lunas Campos' death a homicide by asphyxiation. Witnesses say guards choked him to death. Now a government report says evidence is missing.
Free speech experts say the “Shrext” is protected by the First Amendment.
The court unanimously ruled that penile plethysmography is unreliable and inadmissible as evidence of recidivism risk.
A Homeland Security official's testimony that ICE agents couldn't rely on REAL IDs as proof of citizenship led a federal judge to reply, "Help me understand how that makes sense."
With cigarettes costing around $40 a pack, Australia’s war on smoking has become a case study in how prohibitionist policies create black markets, violence, and criminal power.
The Democratic candidate for Senate in Maine is accused by The New York Times of abuse and toxic behavior.
Modest reforms have helped, but civil forfeiture remains legalized theft by government agencies.
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