Backpage: The Monumental Free Speech Case the Media Ignored
The mere act of publishing sex ads online is enough to send most potential free speech allies scurrying for the exits.
The mere act of publishing sex ads online is enough to send most potential free speech allies scurrying for the exits.
Maybe Brett Hankison shouldn't have been found not guilty, but he was. The Constitution says it should stop there.
Florida's mandatory minimum sentences created a large, elderly prison population. Now the bill is coming due.
Host Liz Flock delivers a compelling narrative but misses chances to interrogate the justice system.
"Alabama law sets the age of majority at 19 years old, not 18 years. An 18-year-old is thus a minor," say Casey McWhorter's lawyers.
Deja Taylor is going to federal prison because of a constitutionally dubious gun law that millions of cannabis consumers are violating right now.
Adam Nesteikis didn't even understand what he had done wrong.
"A lot of people on the registry are on there for consensual behavior, things I think many people agree shouldn’t be crimes," says Meaghan Ybos, the president of Women Against Registry.
The case highlights the broad reach of a federal law that bans firearm possession by people with nonviolent criminal records.
Elisabeth Rehn was about to take a bath when police officers kicked down her door, flooded into her apartment, and pointed their guns at her.
No amount of encampment sweeps and pressure-washing sidewalks is going to solve the problem of thousands of people living on the streets.
Children held in the Franklin County Juvenile Detention Center are routinely subjected to solitary confinement, inadequate meals, and filthy cells, according to legal documents.
Lawmakers from Maryland and Virginia fought over which state should house the new site rather than whether the bureau even needs so many agents.
"I believe in empowering the individual and limited government. I chose to become a Libertarian on my registration because it spoke to who I was."
That prosecutors in the Hoosier State successfully denied people this due process is a reflection of how abusive civil forfeiture can be.
In an apparent case of retaliation by humiliation, Jerry Rogers Jr. was arrested for speaking out about a stalled murder investigation.
The author of Reform Nation explains how celebrity, philanthropy, and activism produced the most significant prison reform in decades.
Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar falsely claims a federal gun ban "requires individualized findings of dangerousness."
Almost 10 years after his arrest, Marvin Guy will soon learn if he'll spend the rest of his life in prison.
The bipartisan Government Surveillance Reform Act would stop a lot of warrantless surveillance as a condition for renewal of Section 702 authorities.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams recently showed off the autonomous security robot the city is piloting.
The Bureau of Prisons released more than 12,000 people on home confinement during the pandemic. Three years later, Republicans want to overturn a Justice Department rule allowing those still serving sentences to stay home.
My new co-authored article reviews 168 victim impact statements from the Larry Nassar sentencing hearing and concludes that these statements show a victim voice at sentencing can improve justice.
"I asked them to show me a warrant; they didn't show me nothing," a grandmother said.
A 9-year-old lab mix wandered away from home during a storm. When a neighbor called the police to help find the dog's family, cops shot the pup instead.
The law makes it a felony to possess a firearm within 1,000 feet of a school, which covers the sidewalk in front of Gabriel Metcalf's house.
Criticism of the state’s "yellow flag" statute is doubly misguided.
Across the country, ghoulish cities have outlawed teenage trick-or-treaters.
Without a prompt post-seizure hearing, people can lose their property for months or years even when they ultimately get it back.
According to legal documents, children have been forced to sleep on the floor of offices and gymnasiums, with limited access to bathrooms and showers.
Joshua Garton spent nearly two weeks in jail for "manufacturing and disseminating a harassing photograph on social media." A First Amendment lawsuit quickly followed.
It's unlikely to stop would-be shooters, but it certainly would allow more innocent people to be locked up with little recourse.
The Riders Come Out at Night frames it as a hopeful sign that police reform is possible.
A tricky, excellent legal drama shows just how hard it can be to pin down the truth.
Even though Jackson, Mississippi, police knew they had killed 37-year-old Dexter Wade, they didn't inform his mother and allowed him to be buried in a penal farm.
The propensity of prosecutors to jump to conclusions before all the evidence is in is very destructive—and nothing new.
The former White House chief of staff is one of several former Trump advisers who are cooperating with prosecutors.
Popular podcasts and shows portray crime as salacious and sexy, failing ordinary victims in the process.
Individuals are waiting months to have their criminal records expunged after court orders, according to a new lawsuit.
The FIRST STEP Act signed by Trump eased drug sentencing. He's running away from that accomplishment in the 2024 election.
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