Just Another Book in the Library? Not Quite
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Inmates serving mandatory minimum sentences have been left behind.
Opinion states that an "inaccurate, offensive, or upsetting" point of view discussed at a CLE Program would not violate Model Rule 8.4(g).
Dozens of dozens of incidents were caught on video.
One department said a protester was hit in the eye with tear gas after the canister bounced. Video shows something entirely different.
Two centuries of precedents say the president is not immune from judicial process.
Reason profiled William Forrester's 15-year mandatory minimum sentence in a 2017 investigation into Florida's draconian opioid trafficking laws.
A quick scramble to end a man’s life, despite objections by attorneys and even the relatives of his victims
As a state attorney, the young GOP senator oversaw raids of more than a dozen massage parlors, but he didn’t secure a single sex trafficking conviction.
George Floyd's death triggered a long overdue cultural reckoning with race-related issues and inequities. It will be too bad, though, if the policing issues that set off the protests are forgotten.
In attempting to appeal to everyone, the Democratic presidential candidate misses the mark.
A court delay on Friday was lifted over the weekend, only to be reinstated Monday for different reasons.
Real police reform requires backing off efforts to force people to do things they don’t want to do.
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Relatives of the victims say they shouldn’t have to risk infection to attend. A federal judge agreed.
And Sen. Tim Scott (R–S.C.) says policing reform in Congress might not be dead after all.
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The decision vividly illustrates how the doctrine shields police from accountability for using excessive force.
The report found it was "not uncommon for Narcotics Bureau officers to write false or incomplete narratives that justify their uses of force."
The NYPD is still blaming jail releases, but the data simply doesn’t back that claim up.
Seeking maximal punishment for a nonviolent offense will not help the Black Lives Matter movement.
Politicians appear to have learned all the wrong lessons about over-policing.
The judicially invented license for police abuse undermines the rule of law and the separation of powers.
Six dead in a week, and 1,500 infections, all due to poor decisions by the state. And leaders still wonder why people won't do what they say.
Finding a steady job is the best way to keep a person from going back to prison or jail. These changes make a lot of sense.
"Supreme Court jurisprudence...is heavily weighted against you," an appeals judge told state prosecutors last week.
This deadly and contagious disease has exposed problems with prison systems that have been ignored for decades.
It officially adopted the political theory of the United States: securing the individual rights of We the People
Equality, inalienable rights, and consent of the governed can be opposed only by reactionaries
The charges against six narcotics officers reveal a culture of shady practices that led to a deadly drug raid.
Seven Justices agree to to allow "Online" bar exam in October. Two Justices would "adopt a diploma privilege in lieu of the bar examination."
The redefinition of the term diminishes actual victims of violence and trivializes why people are protesting.
Scenes from anti-brutality protests are renewing the debate around the controversial use of rubber bullets.
Excessive radon, Armageddon, and a hopeless romantic.
The Court quietly ruled on Abortion, Free Exercise, the Mueller Report, Voting Rights, and the Suspension Clause.
What happens when a decades-long mystery gets solved while you’re explaining it?
It's been nearly four months since a Maryland SWAT team killed Duncan Lemp, and there's been no transparency.
How invasive questions about a stone patio permit turned into a Black Lives Matter protest
Contrary to what Police Chief Art Acevedo seems to think, his department has a systemic problem.
Partners (who needn't be romantically involved with each other) can benefit from each other's health insurance—but siblings living together can't.