Meet the Civil Rights Lawyer Shaking Up the Race for Philadelphia District Attorney
Larry Krasner wants to change the way the Philadelphia D.A. does business. He just received $300,000 from a super PAC to make his case to the public.
Larry Krasner wants to change the way the Philadelphia D.A. does business. He just received $300,000 from a super PAC to make his case to the public.
300-page report identifies variety of problems with current application of the death penalty and makes dozens of recommendations.
This will encourage even more attempts to seize people's money and property.
Prosecutors in Milwaukee County ask a jury to consider whether to charge anybody.
These were executions of convenience.
Alberto Randazzo's shameless defense: He developed an addiction to child porn after the death of his former police partner.
The bipartisan Campus Accountability and Safety Act could cost colleges millions for failure to follow complex and costly new sexual-misconduct policies.
Justice Sotomayor dissents from denial of certiorari in Salazar-Limon v. City of Houston.
If making people prove their innocence to get their property back violates due process, what about civil forfeiture?
City with highest cost per pack also has highest bootlegging rate. Imagine that.
A Reason investigation found Florida's opioid trafficking laws put low-level offenders in prison for decades. Here are more of their stories.
No one is too big to fail in a properly functioning market
Cops say the 19-year-old women violated a state law against harassment based on "race, color, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, or national origin."
Bill would increase the evidence threshold to find that an officer has lied.
Arizonans aren't big fans of being nagged about the weight of their feet on their accelerators.
The 2nd Circuit says the recommended prison term was "substantively unreasonable."
Florida's anti-opioid laws were supposed to take high-level traffickers off the streets. Instead, they put low-level users in prison for most of their lives.
Government officials have often deployed force on behalf of their business and labor friends. That will change only when the consequences outweigh the gains.
Reason editors Brian Doherty, Nick Gillespie, and Katherine Mangu-Ward discuss the week's news.
Other challenges also delaying state's attempt at an April death penalty spree.
The judge thinks committing a crime and looking at pictures of it are basically the same thing.
Higher threshold required to trigger civil asset forfeiture in bill signed by governor.
Gov. Butch Otter says cops never abuse asset forfeiture, but there's no way for anyone to know without this bill becoming law.
Faces felony attempted manslaughter and misdemeanor culpable negligence charges.
There is no reason to think federal intervention was needed to achieve justice in this case.
Cops who stop motorists to give them stuff are abusing their power.
Police monitoring apps are getting better and better at keeping an eye on officialdom. But some now aspire to reduce the need for police at all.