Crime

Surveillance

The United Kingdom Authorizes Broad Mass Surveillance on Its Citizens

A level of snooping every autocrat in the world will admire.

Scott Shackford | 11.28.2016 12:45 PM

Body Cameras

Why Did U.S. Marshals Shoot at a Man 76 Times? Don't Look to Video for an Answer

The feds still haven't implemented body cameras for their own law enforcement officers.

Scott Shackford | 11.21.2016 12:20 PM

Crime

Guilty until proven innocent, in Colorado

David Post |The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.21.2016 12:14 PM

Crime

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.21.2016 11:05 AM

Crime

Sen. Ben Sasse speaking to the Federalist Society about limited government

Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.19.2016 10:30 AM

Crime

Former Obama White House counsel would have advised blocking Scalia's replacement if tables had been turned

Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.18.2016 4:45 PM

Criminal Justice

Texas Judge Tells Woman Given $3,500 Bond for Misdemeanors She's 'Job Security'

County sued for not caring whether defendants can pay high bails.

Scott Shackford | 11.18.2016 4:02 PM

Crime

Nebraska school urges students not to fly American flags on their cars, 'out of an abundance of caution'

Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.18.2016 2:52 PM

Election 2016

Hate Crimes, Hoaxes, and Hyperbole

A reality check for all sides

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 11.18.2016 11:06 AM

Sex

Listening to Sex Offenders

Their stories are stereotypical and repetitive in ways we've all heard a million times, all our lives-and mostly not from sexual offenders.

Debbie Nathan | 11.17.2016 3:00 PM

Crime

Leading First Amendment lawyer Bruce Johnson on the 'Speech Integral to Criminal Conduct' exception

Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.17.2016 1:44 PM

Crime

Michael Barone on the election

Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.17.2016 11:49 AM

Crime

Will Senate Democrats filibuster Trump's SCOTUS nominee?

Jonathan H. Adler |The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.17.2016 10:32 AM

Free State Project

Free State Project Supporter Shot in Fight That Began Over Its Porcupine Flag

Victim Jarrod Ean-Dixon said by family to be "healing" despite "grave injuries." Shooting suspect Michael Sirois was arrested.

Brian Doherty | 11.16.2016 6:55 PM

Crime

'Freedom of Speech and Bad Purposes': The podcast

Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.16.2016 12:41 PM

Crime

A glimpse at the future of the Supreme Court?

Jonathan H. Adler |The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.16.2016 8:21 AM

Crime

Shaker Heights High School reverses discipline of students who critically publicized classmate's anti-black post

Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.15.2016 4:46 PM

Hate crimes

6 Fast Facts About the FBI's New Hate-Crime Report

Hate crimes against persons decreased in 2015 over the previous year. Anti-black, Jewish, and gay-male sentiment was most common.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 11.15.2016 10:30 AM

Crime

Student group at Cal State Northridge boasts of 'shutting down' speech by award-winning scholar

Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.15.2016 8:47 AM

Crime

The Notorious RBG speaks on Trump's nominee

Jonathan H. Adler |The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.15.2016 8:31 AM

Crime

High school students disciplined for critically publicizing classmate's anti-black post

Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.14.2016 7:13 PM

Crime

When Trump makes a Supreme Court nomination

Jonathan H. Adler |The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.14.2016 1:32 PM

Crime

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.14.2016 11:17 AM

Crime

New Jersey concedes that state stun gun ban violates the Second Amendment

Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.14.2016 10:13 AM

Crime

'Rights' and states -- more on the flexibility (good and bad) of English words

Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.14.2016 9:19 AM

Crime

The United States is both a 'republic' and a 'democracy' -- because 'democracy' is like 'cash'

Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.14.2016 8:16 AM

Crime

Trump says gay marriage is 'settled' by the courts, but not abortion

Jonathan H. Adler |The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.14.2016 8:03 AM

Crime

Political ignorance and the election

Ilya Somin |The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.13.2016 8:48 PM

Crime

Reports of the Democratic Party's death are greatly exaggerated

Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.12.2016 5:33 PM

Crime

Election-related 'trauma counseling' is all well and good -- but do I have to pay for it?

Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.12.2016 5:14 PM

Crime

Gary Johnson helped Hillary. Not by enough, but he did.

Sasha Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.11.2016 3:46 PM

Crime

Good lawyers don't deplore their judges and jurors -- advice to the young and politically minded

Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.11.2016 12:25 PM

Crime

Maybe the 'irrational' election-related fears of college students aren't so irrational

|The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.11.2016 10:35 AM

Crime

Leonard Cohen, one of my favorite songwriters, has died

Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.11.2016 8:24 AM

Crime

Three state crime victims' rights amendments pass

Paul Cassell |The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.11.2016 5:07 AM

Crime

This year's exit polls: Same gender gap as in 2012; same Hispanic support for Republicans as in 2012; and more

Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.10.2016 2:41 PM

Crime

Classy remarks by President Obama

|The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.10.2016 2:00 PM

Crime

'There are zero electoral votes in the State of Denial'

Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.10.2016 12:03 PM

Crime

Political commentators, remember to turn your clocks back

Orin S. Kerr |The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.9.2016 8:42 PM

Crime

The day after

Ilya Somin |The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.9.2016 4:44 PM

Crime

How the election may affect the Supreme Court's current docket

Jonathan H. Adler |The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.9.2016 1:35 PM

Crime

Your candidate got more of the popular vote? Irrelevant.

Jonathan H. Adler |The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.9.2016 1:05 PM

Crime

O masterful cartoonist, we are in awe of your soothsaying powers

Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.9.2016 1:02 PM

Crime

"Reflections on the election"

Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.9.2016 12:30 PM

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Justices Frankfurter and Jackson on executive power

Jonathan H. Adler |The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.9.2016 11:44 AM

Crime

The Trump break point

Orin S. Kerr |The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.9.2016 8:22 AM

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Trump is already working his economic magic!

David Post |The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.9.2016 2:13 AM

Crime

I learn that I know nothing about American politics

Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.9.2016 1:57 AM

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