Plus: lawmakers move to allow headscarves on the Hill and private landlords protect from lead better than city Health Department.
Cases in which a majority of the Court fell down on the job.
Showtime recreates infamous 2015 caper from upstate New York.
That could be dangerous for the policy's chances of success, as has been the case on other key policy issues during the Trump era.
Plus: the NRA versus New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and CNN versus the White House
Bad policing is costly in more ways than one.
At a celebrity-headlined and media-focused summit on incarceration, the speakers recognize their allies.
How indie media entrepreneurs James Larkin and Michael Lacey became the targets of a federal witchhunt.
Justice Anthony Kennedy's bogus 2002 claim figures prominently in defenses of an Arizona bail ban.
"We're all better off when former inmates can reenter society as law-abiding, productive citizens."
Police, however, still shift away responsibility for killing unarmed, innocent Wichita man.
So far, the world is kind of listening. Q&A with the co-host of The Fifth Column and co-founder of Freethink Media.
1,000 more agencies submitted data in 2017 vs. 2016, which could account for much of the increase.
"Everybody was screaming out, 'Security!' He was a security guard."
The porn wars haven't died, they're just packaged differently.
My co-authored amicus brief urges the Supreme Court to review the issue of whether Arizona can deny bail to accused sex offenders where "proof" of sexual assault "is evident or the presumption great."
California's licensing laws mean inmates can risk their lives for less than $2 per day, but can't earn a living after they get out of prison.
What did it take? A promise not to make mandatory minimum reductions retroactive.
And a state lawmaker says criminal justice reform bills are already on the way.
Sessions was a staunch critic of consent decrees that forced police departments to reform unconstitutional practices.
On Tuesday, voters in six states approved Crime Victims' Rights Amendments, continuing a long-term trend towards expanding the crime victim's role in the criminal justice process
"He was releasing everybody. Apparently he was saying that's what the voters wanted."
Maybe Trump should nominate Kim Kardashian West.
A sheriff in Etowah County purchased a $740,000 beach house with money intended to feed inmates.
Amash and Massie will return. Michigan will have legal weed. No Nevada brothels will be banned. And more...
An apt summary, from Prof. Glenn Reynolds (InstaPundit).
What language, other than English, is visibly ALL UPPERCASE in this "I voted" sticker I just got here in L.A.?
Is that an allegation of abuse?
The Supreme Court issues its first OT2018 decision in an argued case.
It just makes sense to let jurors know about their already established power to exercise discretion over bad laws and ill-considered prosecutions.
Join us to see Eugene Volokh, Nadine Strossen, and moderator Brad Smith discuss the Emerging Issues in Free Speech
The bold predictions episode (No. 238) of the Cyberlaw Podcast
The percentage of Americans with anti-Semitic attitudes has been stable, but anti-Semites are more active, more visible, and more willing to express their views than in the past.
As more reforms take hold, expect more challenges-especially if states end up detaining more people.
When Tessah Mitchell attempted to register her children for day care, a crime from 18 years ago caught up with her.
It's not a cut-and-dried case. But the officer's life doesn't appear to be have been in any danger.
My co-authored amicus brief urges the Supreme Court to bring an end to decades-long abusive litigation by convicted murderer Russell Bucklew.
Conservatives' over-the-top attacks on George Soros Mirror Progressives' attacks on the Koch Brothers During the Obama Administration
Niskanen Center President Jerry Taylor argues that we should reject libertarianism and other ideologies in favor of "moderation." But, in truth, we cannot and should not abjure ideology. Trying to do so is likely to increase bias, not curb it.
A barbaric sentence, unpurged voters, and a porcine gag order.
Trump's comments are not the same as the Nigerian Army's actions. But regardless of the nation, shooting protesters is bad.
Radley Balko thoroughly documents a culture of misconduct, incompetence, and poor training, and the unnecessary deaths that resulted.
For those of us who remember State v. Reeves, the Tennessee attempted-poisoning case discussed in the very popular Dressler Criminal Law casebook.
Since 2005, at least five police officers and four deputies have been arrested for sexual misconduct.
The officer was caught on video threatening to plant a "kilo of coke" in another teen's pocket.
Candidates used to let political operatives do the dirty work so they could appear above it all. Not Trump.
