Judge Wilson from the Central District of California rejects the Department's breathtakingly sweeping position that "what the Government says is the public interest in this courtroom."
Plus: The National Guard deployed to D.C., the Trump-Putin meeting on Ukraine, Texas Democrats flee the state, and a listener question on free speech in the U.K.
Despite an apparent drop in the city’s violent crime, President Donald Trump announced a “public safety emergency” in D.C., deploying 800 of the city’s National Guard and over 450 federal law enforcement officers.
Can a hotel be guilty of sex trafficking just because it didn't surveil its customers enough?
Plus: Cuomo attacks rent stabilization, marijuana might be reclassified as Schedule III, and more...
Federal terrorist lists were not supposed to be an open-ended war authorization. But it sure looks like it’s being used as one.
Using the FBI to track down AWOL Texas Democrats is an unnecessary expansion of federal law enforcement authority.
Sex offenders are supposed to be ineligible for minimum-security federal prison camps, but the rule was waived for Maxwell.
This is great news, but it also undercuts Donald Trump's claim that violent crime was out of control before he returned to office.
I've teamed up with well-regarded civil rights lawyer, Caree Harper, to fight the Department's effort to vacate L.A. Sheriff's Department Officer Trevor Kirk's conviction.
The case is a baffling reminder that the more power a government official has, the harder it is for a victim to get a shot at justice.
Immigration officers are using more forceful tactics to keep up with the Trump administration’s mass deportation goals.
A fitting follow up to the classic spoofs of Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker
Christian artist Sean Feucht has been forced to find new venues for all six of his most recent shows in Canada.
Joshua Rohrer's dog, Sunshine, ran away and was later hit and killed by a car.
Paola Clouatre had no previous convictions and was detained immediately following a green card interview.
Questions about the death of Marie Blaise at a South Florida ICE detention center have lingered since she collapsed in April.
Too many government officials see dissent as the worst crime imaginable.
Despite record seizures and restrictive laws, New York City has struggled to stem the tide of untraceable firearms.
Local officials initially were unfazed by complaints that the constant surveillance raised serious privacy concerns.
The Department of Homeland Security is boasting that its mass deportation program is responsible for a major drop in crime. That's unlikely for several reasons.
The peaceful traffic stop in Florida turned violent after immigration officers arrived and used chokeholds and a stun gun to make arrests.
The twist underscores just how little accountability exists in civil forfeiture, which allows law enforcement to seize assets without charging the owner with a crime.
Two Venezuelan women were convicted of incitement to hatred, treason, and terrorism.
After a pay dispute led to a work stoppage in late May, courts in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, dismissed cases of indigent defendants who had no legal representation for 45 days.
A recently disclosed bulletin from October 2023 shows the Inception-like nature of national security politics.
The New York Civil Liberties Union and the New York State Police have been fighting for years over misconduct records that the state legislature made public in 2020.
The city of Allentown has spent more than $2 million settling excessive force claims, and yet the police still crack down on civilians exercising their constitutional rights.
Two members of the House Judiciary Committee say the case against Michelino Sunseri epitomizes the overcriminalization that the president decries.
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and border czar Tom Homan blamed the shooting of an off-duty Customs and Border Protection officer on the policies of sanctuary cities like New York.
Brett Hankison was convicted of violating Breonna Taylor’s Fourth Amendment rights during a fatal no-knock police raid.
One former ICE detainee says he and a group of men were forced to kneel with their hands tied behind their backs and eat "like dogs."
The contrast between the two cases illustrates the haphazard impact of an arbitrary, constitutionally dubious gun law.
Whatever the merits of this particular defamation claim, the president has a long history of abusing the legal system to punish constitutionally protected speech.
From trade wars to visa restrictions, policies aimed at foreigners are backfiring on U.S. travelers—raising costs, shrinking freedoms, and souring global goodwill.
Immigrant detainees transferred thousands of miles from where they were first arrested face unique challenges in immigration court.
Between 2006 and 2013, gun violence increased by 150 percent in the city when juvenile curfews were in effect.
The lawsuit says attorneys have been repeatedly turned away from the detention camp and had virtual meetings mysteriously canceled.
Numerous accounts of lack of showers, overflowing toilets, and inability to meet with lawyers are emerging from the detention center in the middle of the Everglades.
Like sex trafficking panic more broadly, the Epstein files are a useful political tool—as long as they remain hidden.
Judge James C. Ho recently described a troubling phenomenon on the 5th Circuit and the government abuse it enables.
