Gorsuch Challenges Blank Check for the U.S. Attorney General
A case to watch for both criminal justice reformers and for critics of executive overreach.
A case to watch for both criminal justice reformers and for critics of executive overreach.
Similar cases have resulted in huge lawsuits against hospitals and police departments.
Taxpayers shell out big time to keep poor folks who haven't even been convicted of crimes behind bars.
In the absence of evidence, an innocent man was treated like a criminal.
A court rejects a clever effort to obtain President Trump's tax records
After weeks of work from advocates and a bipartisan group of lawmakers, the Senate voted to pass the FIRST STEP Act.
No, a Texas school district did not require speech pathologist Bahia Amawi to sign a "pro-Israel oath," nor even to promise not to personally boycott Israel.
Spoiler alert: It didn't work.
Sen. Tom Cotton pushes a poison pill amendment to a vital criminal justice reform bill.
She had a history of mental illness, and was arrested for misdemeanor trespassing in July.
A Reason investigation of a notorious Texas public records loophole found 81 cases where police hid records of shootings and deaths in custody.
We continue the longstanding Volokh Conspiracy tradition of celebrating this ancient Roman holiday.
From my forthcoming book, The Digital Fourth Amendment.
Plus: Obamacare unconstitutional?
The decision says a police officer, like any other Florida resident, has a right to a pretrial hearing on his self-defense claim.
[Part of a continuing series of guest posts by Prof. Josh Blackman (South Texas College of Law). -EV]
[A guest-post by Prof. Josh Blackman (South Texas College of Law), a noted expert on Obamacare-related litigation. -EV]
What is the scope of the remedy in Texas v. United States?
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Equal Justice Society, and others are challenging the practice in court.
It's up to state lawmakers to defy the will of the unions to change the rules.
The last-minute changes show how hard it is to make the criminal justice system more proportionate and discriminating.
According to the officer who took them down, the phone was "evidence."
Even if hush payments to his alleged mistresses amounted to illegal campaign contributions, the president says, he did not know that at the time.
Cohen blames Trump for sending him down a "path of darkness"
The federal case against the Charlottesville murderer illustrates how hate crime laws punish people for their bigoted beliefs.
The ruling extends to secret recordings of police officers.
Jason Brennan argues that there is no moral distinction between civilians and agents of the state, even in the right to resist injustice.
Trump's nominee for attorney general is apt to encourage his worst instincts on drug policy.
A new report from ProPublica whitewashes the IRS, while ignoring the positive benefits of tax evasion.
After weeks of pressure from the White House and fellow Republicans, Mitch McConnell says he will schedule a vote for the FIRST STEP Act.
Benjamin Davis III wasn't issued a ticket or citation. But he says police had his car towed anyway.
The deputy said he took issue with the word "fuck" in the song despite using it himself moments earlier.
A Tucson Weekly investigation finds that federal funds to "fight sex trafficking" are actually perpetuating it.
If Trump did not recognize hush payments to his (alleged) former mistresses as illegal campaign contributions, he is not criminally culpable.
According to a witness, Jazmine Headley got in trouble for sitting on the floor of a government office because there were no seats available.
The Supreme Court seems disinclined to overturn precedents allowing serial prosecutions of the same crime.
The FIRST STEP Act might get shoved into an end-of-year spending bill.
The lawsuit argues that the excessive penalty violated her Eighth Amendment rights. The Supreme Court is currently considering a similar case.
Does the right to self-defense apply against agents of the state?
Conservatives and moderates don't agree on much, but they do agree on this: The state GOP is dead in the water and needs a new strategy to revive itself.
Money is no longer needed to get out of jail. This hasn't resulted in danger to the community.
In a case I'm working on, Jeffrey Epstein's victims hope to set aside a non-prosecution agreement based on violations of their rights under the Crime Victims' Rights Act.