He should've focused on containing nursing home COVID spread, not getting VIP treatment for penthouse-dwelling Manhattanites (and his own family members).
Once an up-and-coming city, Portland was destroyed from within by radical activism and political ineptitude.
Art Acevedo responded to a 2019 drug raid that killed a middle-aged couple with reflexive defensiveness and obstinate obfuscation.
Big businesses gave millions to Newsom’s initiatives and were rewarded handsomely.
Eliminating earmarks didn't make the government smaller. But reinstating them would facilitate legislative corruption.
In 2014, Reason reported on the misbehavior of Rod Ponton, who has suddenly risen to internet stardom after being unable to turn off an adorable filter during an online legal case.
The HHS inspector general says the department misreported over $500 million in administrative spending.
The families of Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas say the city's policies and practices invited Fourth Amendment violations.
So far a dozen narcotics officers have been charged as a result of the investigation triggered by the disastrous operation.
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The nefarious scheme evidently includes Republican officials and Trump-friendly news outlets.
Judge Susan Brnovich said no reasonable person would question her impartiality just because her husband already says they're guilty.
A new book shows how the Baltimore Police Department let dirty cops flourish right under its nose.
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That so many Americans believe Biden and Trump are foreign-backed puppets is less testimony to the effectiveness of overseas scheming than to our own political culture.
Despite the city's stubborn resistance, a judge will finally consider the family's request to depose police supervisors.
Expansive and expensive government programs represent irresistible temptations for sticky-fingered crooks.
The case is an encouraging sign that the SCOTUS contender is not the sort of judge who bends over backward to shield cops from liability for outrageous misconduct.
The president wasn't kidding that he told public health officials, ‘Slow the testing down, please!’
The typecasting of builders as villains might help explain why NIMBYs so often win the policy battles over urban growth and development.
Trying to distract attention from the deadly corruption in his own department, Art Acevedo demands "action at the national level."
The charges, which grew out of a lethal 2019 raid based on a fraudulent search warrant affidavit, suggest that cops routinely built their cases on lies.
If there's one thing at which governments have excelled during this crisis, it's been collecting fines from anybody who steps out of line.
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.
The charges against six narcotics officers reveal a culture of shady practices that led to a deadly drug raid.
Two former Columbus, Ohio, police officers are accused of harassing strip club owners, patrons, and staff without legal justification.
And he's far from the first prosecutor to be caught with his hand in the asset forfeiture cookie jar.
Defensive official reactions to corruption encourage the attitude that troubles the attorney general.
Barr's big complaint is that the president is so overt with the sleazy pressure.
After declaring another man arrested by Gerald Goines "actually innocent," the Harris County district attorney says prosecutors are re-examining cases going back to 2008.
While some senators seemed to endorse that misbegotten claim, others explicitly rejected it.
Republicans should think twice before endorsing the dangerous myth that impeachment requires a criminal violation.
Trump's lawyer did not say a president "can do anything" to get re-elected, but he did say that goal cannot count as a corrupt motive.
Republicans are setting a dangerous precedent they may come to regret the next time a Democrat occupies the White House.
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John Bolton's account of the Trump-ordered freeze on military aid to Ukraine highlights a contradiction at the heart of the president's defense.
Senators who take their constitutional responsibilities seriously would seek more evidence about Trump's motive for the aid freeze.
Authoritarian Jair Bolsonaro attacks the press using the same justification the U.S. used to charge Julian Assange.
The president’s lawyers argue that abuse of power is not impeachable unless it breaks the law.
He is one of at least eight officers in the department who allegedly stopped people without cause and pocketed their cash.
"As a matter of public policy, this system is clearly broken," says Comptroller Susana A. Mendoza.
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