"How Fortunate I Feel to Be an American and to Have Been Presented with the Remarkable Opportunities Available to the Citizens of Our Country"
A letter from Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
A letter from Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
What more could you want from a sentencing guideline decision out of a U.S. Court of Appeals?
Another Halloween, another unfounded freak-out over sex offenders.
There's no evidence this caravan is full of Middle Eastern terrorists.
The vague wording of Marsy's Laws allows law enforcement to classify themselves as "victims" after shooting suspects.
Victims worried their cases were not being handled correctly. An investigation proved them correct.
The Student Senate has no regrets, will continue to believe survivors.
It's fine for ideological groups to try to teach their ideas, including to interested future law clerks -- but not to try to limit how the students use those ideas.
Root canals, contraband dogs, and a marijuana petition.
Black people in Alabama are more than four times as likely to be arrested for a marijuana offense, according to a new report.
Officer Peter Casuccio lectured the kids for endangering their lives by doing something that was perfectly legal.
...with a little help from "Distracted Boyfriend" guy.
The new laws bring us closer to the state of affairs that existed before 2006, when a state Supreme Court decision slammed the door on police accountability.
The Cobb County Police Department then blamed Corey J's aunt for escalating the confrontation.
Patrick Beadle was convicted on a drug trafficking charge, even though there's very little evidence he was a dealer.
The ruling is a major win for Backpage founders James Larkin and Michael Lacey, as well as a strike against government overreach.
The plan does not go as far as it should, but it's still better than the policies of most U.S. states with legal pot.
The state can no longer suspend poor people's driver's licenses over unpaid traffic tickets, Judge Aleta Trauger ruled.
Prosecutor groups and criminal justice reform advocates are putting out dueling polls on a major bill in Congress.
An off-duty Chicago Police Sergeant Khalil Muhammad said Ricardo Hayes was displaying a gun in an "armed confrontation."
Former Biscayne Park Officers Charlie Dayoub and Raul Fernandez are going to prison after pinning burglaries on innocent black men.
The op-ed's claims are harsh, but they're also true.
The president's comments could improve the prospects for federal penal reform.
When genetic testing results become a tool for law enforcement
The 5th Circuit judge weighs in on qualified immunity, criminal sentencing, and false imprisonment.
The California Innocence Project helped free Horace Roberts from prison.
Officer First Class Ryan Macklin has since been arrested and suspended without pay.
Women prisoners are more likely to receive solitary confinement and other harsh punishments for minor infractions like "reckless eye-balling."
"Just as the police cannot destroy every unlicensed car or gun on the spot, they cannot kill every unlicensed dog on the spot."
Under Chinese law, disrespecting the national anthem is punishable by up to 15 days in jail.
Surveillance footage disproves her allegations-and reminds everyone not to automatically believe victims.
Jim Lindgren proposes a constitutional amendment banning court-packing. I'm all for it. But it can only pass if liberal Democrats get some reciprocal concession to support it.
Public defender shortfalls, warrantless rental inspections, and juveniles in solitary confinement.
Three arrests and six firings are not enough to keep Sgt. German Bosque from police work.
Plus: libertarian accounts purged from Facebook?
The burden of proof matters, and it's an issue of first impression in appellate courts.
But the ruling isn't based on free speech or religious liberty
The former New York mayor's authoritarian record shows he has no real love for America's founding document.
Police initially said the arrests were part of "a long-term investigation into...human trafficking" and prostitution.
The pair discussed reforms at the White House.
According to the court, "The death penalty is invalid because it is imposed in an arbitrary and racially biased manner."
The Court could strike a major blow for civil asset forfeiture reforms in the states and finally do away with an awful double jeopardy loophole.
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