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.
It's been dubbed "NYC's Anti-Airdrop Dick Pic Law," but the bill is much broader than that.
Institute for Justice to city: Show probable cause, guys.
And once again, Trump is distracted from real policy by symbolic brutality.
The Supreme Court should reconsider the misbegotten "dual sovereignty" doctrine.
How an unscientific field test and the bail system stripped a Georgia grandmother of justice.
Progressives who oppose them are betraying their own principles
Los Angeles Sheriff's Department
Alex Villanueva openly wants to get rid of constitutional policing advisors and to conceal names of bad deputies from prosecutors.
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Where does Justice Gorsuch stand on the Privileges or Immunities Clause?
Meanwhile, the officers involved can't get their stories straight.
Even if he was resisting arrest, this much force seems unnecessary.
The most bigoted tree in Minnesota?
Plus: the First Amendment problems with prosecuting Wikileaks and the trans troops ban is dealt another blow.
Settle in with some headphones and get ready to nod.
Numerous motorists say rogue cops in a small Northern California town ripped them off during bogus traffic stops.
Organization helps poor people cover costs to get out of jail before their trials. Why is this a problem?
Watch the Oxford-style debate hosted by the Soho Forum.
"It's gonna be a lot of fun beating the hell out of these shitheads once the sun goes down and nobody can tell us apart."
The state doesn't track use-of-force incidents, so NJ.com did its own research.
Plus: CNN fires Marc Lamont Hill for Palestine comments and the link between life expectancy declines, opioid pills, and prohibition.
The mayor claims it's a "public safety" issue.
Plus: good signs in Supreme Court case on asset forfeiture and Ashley Judd talks prostitution.
But not according Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer elicited a shocking response during Wednesday's oral argument in a big civil asset forfeiture case.
Legislators in Trenton plan to address past pot convictions while preventing future ones.
Jessica Ortega repeatedly told deputies that her boyfriend threatened to kill her. She died following their negligence.
The Court seems very likely to rule that the Excessive Fines Clause of the Eighth Amendment applies to state governments, and that at least some asset forfeitures violate the Clause. Potentially a big win for property rights and civil liberties.
The Supreme Court should make it clear that state forfeitures are constrained by the Excessive Fines Clause.
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denied a recommendation to relieve him of execution.
Some people don't belong behind bars. This celebrity-launched criminal justice reform group wants to free them.
Emantic Bradford Jr. may have had a gun. But he didn't deserve to die.
Roughly 800 federal inmates are sentenced to life under an obscure sentencing enhancement that lawmakers in Congress might soon vote to reduce.
The Texas senator is now allied with longtime opponents of reform in resisting the FIRST STEP Act.
The case both addresses important legal issues, and could have substantial practical implications.
They say it's about due process. Is it really about all that sweet overtime money?
