Minneapolis police used gratuitous force, discriminated against black and Native American residents, and retaliated against people exercising their First Amendment rights.
Snooping through emails, video, and photos isn’t the same as stumbling on containers full of cocaine.
Her arrest may have been retaliation for her involvement in a lawsuit against the local police department.
The FAIR Act would be a significant step forward. It just passed the House Judiciary Committee on a unanimous 26-0 vote.
Only two clemency applications from death row inmates in Louisiana have been granted in the past 50 years.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence warned that the practice threatens civil liberties, risks "mission creep," and could increase intelligence agencies' power.
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The FAIR Act includes several substantial reforms that would make it harder to take property from innocent owners through civil forfeiture.
There's no deep mystery behind why Trump kept boxes of classified documents. He wanted them.
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The former president's retention of classified documents looks willful and arguably endangered national security.
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All they found was some cool cars and clothes.
At this rate, the Southern Poverty Law Center's notorious hate map might eventually describe everyone as an extremist.
The feds allege the former president was keeping classified documents on America's nuclear program and defense capabilities in his Mar-a-Lago resort.
Prosecutors also want a judge to take basically all possible defenses off the table.
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"All I've been able to see for a little while was this trial," says Amy Lovato.
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Joseph Zamora spent nearly two years in prison after being convicted of assaulting police officers. The Washington Supreme Court overturned his conviction, but local prosecutors want to charge him again to show him the "improperness of his behavior."
More than two years after legalizing recreational use, the state has just a dozen licensed retailers.
In my Supreme Court amicus brief for the victim's family in Oklahoma v. Richard Glossip, I argue that the Oklahoma Attorney General's unfounded confession of "error" should not dictate the case's outcome.
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The state court of appeals held previously that unconstitutionally collected evidence could still be used for civil enforcement.
The recorded comments could be relevant to a charge that the former president willfully mishandled national defense information.
Maurice Jimmerson has spent 10 years in jail awaiting trial for a 2013 murder charge.
No longer will the troubled jail system publicly report when somebody dies in custody.
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"An attorney-client relationship between two adults does not present the same inherent danger or foreseeability" as "a relationship between an adult and a child in a religious organization."
As with other cases in recent months, Georgia law enforcement has used specious classifications to charge nonviolent protesters with domestic terrorism.
A study suggests that "selectively targeting large-scale drug vendors" on the dark web can succeed where all previous enforcement efforts have failed.
A growing number of "First Amendment auditors" are testing the limits of what police will and will not allow them to film.
Texas' public record law let police hide records of suspects who died in custody from grieving families, reporters, and lawyers.
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Eric Parsa died after police placed him in a "prone position" for over nine minutes. Now, the DOJ says that the officers' actions likely violated the Americans with Disabilities Act.
DeSantis calls the bill a "jailbreak," a gross misrepresentation of the criminal justice reform bill.
It remains unclear whether the Oath Keepers leader had a specific plan to violently disrupt the electoral vote count on January 6.
Brianna Grier was having a mental health crisis. She needed an ambulance. She got two cops instead.
A Reason investigation earlier this year detailed the case of a Minnesota woman who was sentenced to 40 years on probation for a drug crime.
By glossing over routine crime victims in favor of stories with unorthodox circumstances, the press paints a distorted picture of a very real problem.
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