Trump's Favorite Justice Was One of Those 'Stupid People' Who Think Flag Burning Is Protected Speech
Antonin Scalia twice joined Supreme Court decisions rejecting bans on that particular form of political expression.
Antonin Scalia twice joined Supreme Court decisions rejecting bans on that particular form of political expression.
Donald Trump pledged to give cops "immunity from prosecution." The idea is both legally illiterate and dangerous.
An Illinois sheriff's deputy with a spotty employment history shot Sonya Massey in the face after responding to her report of a prowler.
Selling sex while HIV-positive will still be a felony.
The presumptive Democratic nominee has a more liberal drug policy record than both the president and the Republican presidential nominee.
The most notable recent increase happened on the former president's watch, when homicides spiked.
The ruling is the second recent court decision that has curbed Detroit's aggressive vehicle forfeiture program.
Robert Williams was arrested in 2020 after facial recognition software incorrectly identified him as the person responsible for a Detroit-area shoplifting incident.
Voters should not dismiss the former president's utter disregard for the truth as a personal quirk or standard political practice.
While there was some political grandstanding among members of Congress, the bipartisan demand for answers was refreshing.
Jaleel Stallings became an attack ad for Republicans. What they don't mention is that he was acquitted, and a police officer pleaded guilty to assaulting him.
Gov. Janet Mills’s office referred critical social media posts to the police. The FPC pushed back.
The president's decision to drop out after insisting he never would continued a pattern established by a long career of politically convenient reversals.
Under the law, the feds couldn't deny you a job or security clearance just because you've used marijuana in the past.
However distasteful, the First Amendment protects a citizen’s right to give a police officer the middle finger.
The move would lower the per-minute cost precipitously and allow inmates to better keep in touch with friends and family.
The cases of Joey the Player and the Long Island Serial Killer show how systemic neglect and the failure to pass an immunity bill have left violent criminals on the loose for far too long.
In the Republican party platform and at the 2024 convention, alternatives to tough-on-crime policies are unfortunately in short supply.
Tuesday’s programming was light on policy and heavy on horror.
The plot to kidnap the Michigan governor was in large part concocted and encouraged by paid FBI informants and their Bureau handlers.
New Mexico law requires quite a high standard for proving criminal negligence.
We need not conjure "extreme hypotheticals" to understand the danger posed by an "energetic executive" who feels free to flout the law.
After police detained Benjamin Hendren, they urged construction workers to lie about him.
Officers should have known that handcuffing a compliant 10-year-old is unnecessary, the court ruled.
Hacktivist-journalist Barrett Brown sets out to settle scores in his new memoir.
Most officer retirements happened in 2021, and there is no evidence showing cities with more intense protests saw a greater number of officer exits.
The original version was overly punitive.
Keir Starmer’s Labour secures a sweeping victory, taking the helm from Rishi Sunak.
Supervised release shouldn't require former inmates to give up their First Amendment rights.
A federal appeals court ruled that the government is not immune from a breach-of-contract lawsuit filed by foreign students duped into enrolling into a fake school run by ICE.
Don't blame criminal justice reform or a lack of social spending for D.C.'s crime spike. Blame government mismanagement.
The doctrine makes it nearly impossible for victims of prosecutorial misconduct to get recourse.
The surveillance company mSpy just suffered its third data breach in a decade, exposing government officials snooping for both official and unofficial reasons.
And a grand jury says that's illegal.
By requiring "absolute" immunity for some "official acts" and "presumptive" immunity for others, the justices cast doubt on the viability of Donald Trump's election interference prosecution.
Her concurrence is a reminder that the application of criminal law should not be infected by personal animus toward any given defendant.
The decision also negates two counts of the federal indictment accusing Donald Trump of illegally interfering in the 2020 presidential election.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor called the Supreme Court ruling in SEC v. Jarkesy "a power grab." She's right, but in the wrong way.
A year after a court told Maryland police that Cellebrite searches were too broad, Baltimore quietly resumed using the software.
Although the FBI never produced evidence that Ali Hemani was a threat to national security, it seems determined to imprison him by any means necessary.