New FBI Crime Report: Violent Crime Dipped Slightly Last Year
Jeff Sessions credits the dip to his tough-on-crime policies, but criminal justice groups say that's nonsense.
Jeff Sessions credits the dip to his tough-on-crime policies, but criminal justice groups say that's nonsense.
New FBI statistics for 2017 even show a small increase.
He has prior felony convictions, but 20 years still seems harsh.
It's a scare tactic, and an inaccurate one at that.
A 10-year veteran of U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, Ortiz is also a "serial murderer" say Texas authorities.
But if the show must exist, I have some ripped-from-the-headlines ideas for upcoming plots.
My upcoming speaking engagements through November of this year. Most are free and open to the public.
PolitiFact has the details -- but in any event, the purported statistic was suspect on its face.
Feeding the homeless, drawing the Prophet Muhammed, and Kim Kardashian's plea for executive clemency.
After police said Tibbetts' killer is an illegal immigrant, conservatives started using her death to argue for stricter immigration enforcement.
Is hush money to a politician's mistress "for the purpose of influencing an election" or "personal use"?
A question that now hangs like a miasma over D.C. is "Which of my staffers would hang me out to dry in order to avoid going to federal prison?"
At some level, the "void-for-breadth" doctrine already exists, but it needs to be excavated, clarified, and expanded.
The Wisconsin and Mississippi Supreme Courts have recently rejected state-level Chevron deference.
When a criminal law is extremely broad but perfectly clear, in what sense does it violate rule-of-law principles?
A program at UC-Davis looks at the relationship between capitalism and racism.
Ha! Science now has a non-shocking answer that question: Yes, of course, they are.
Repurposing "fair notice" principles to tackle an important aspect of overcriminalization.
An interesting case applying the private search reconstruction doctrine.
MacGyver, Rumpelstiltskin, and a whole bunch of attorneys behaving badly.
I agree with Glenn Reynolds (InstaPundit) -- this is indeed the best headline I've seen all the week.
For the second time this week, a federal court has rejected the EPA's effort to delay an Obama Administration rule.
An important ruling in the wake of Carpenter v. United States.
The Trump Administration faces another legal setback in its effort to reform federal environmental regulation.
A fun article by Jeff Breinholt, describing how judges (and which judges) have been citing rock lyrics.
GMU, another school well-represented on the blog, is #19, well above its U.S. News ranking.
A very interesting post by Ted Folkman (Letters Blogatory).
Reviews in New Blackfriars and the Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages
Prolonged hostilities, threatening to complain about the police, and officers who don't turn on their recording equipment.
A conversation with Nancy Rommelmann about her new true crime book, To the Bridge
Does the rise of data-driven authorship change our intuitions about intellectual property? Does it matter?
"The articles of impeachment charge Chief Justice Margaret Workman and Justices Robin Davis, Allen Loughry and Beth Walker with maladministration, corruption, incompetency, neglect of duty and certain high crimes." (The fifth Justice has already resigned.)
What does the rise of data-driven authorship mean for the future of art, culture, and intellectual property rights?
Title VI is not a disparate impact statute, and executive agencies do not have the authority to transform it into one through rulemaking.
The undisputed emperor of online adult entertainment, Mindgeek is a master at gathering and using data to structure and produce content.
I'm trying to put on a 2L/3L short writing competition -- just a week, for a short brief based on a short problem.
A 2016 Ohio appellate case I recently came across.
William Goldman famously said about Hollywood that "nobody knows anything." But thanks to streaming and the data it produces, Netflix knows a lot.