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.
The former White House chief of staff is one of several former Trump advisers who are cooperating with prosecutors.
A federal judge barred the former president from "publicly targeting" witnesses, prosecutors, or court personnel.
The outrageous case has led to calls from Congress to pass legislation curbing civil asset forfeiture.
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The best reforms would correct the real problems of overcriminalization and overincarceration, as well as removing all artificial barriers to building more homes.
The Department of Justice undervalues consumer preference in its latest antitrust efforts.
The former president suggests he was not obliged to obey a subpoena seeking classified records.
The collapse of his plea deal set up a clash with his father, who doggedly defends the firearm regulations his son violated.
Despite years of Google primacy over Microsoft Bing, usage of Bing has more than doubled over the past three years and continues to grow.
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The Nixon administration did everything it could to curb antiwar activism. Then the courts said it had gone too far.
"If anything is a reprehensible act for a high official in a democracy that deserves retribution, this is a good example," says professor Ilya Somin.
Join Reason on YouTube and Facebook at 12 p.m. Eastern for a discussion of the Trump indictments with Ilya Somin of the Volokh Conspiracy.
Special Counsel Jack Smith reportedly is keenly interested in whether the former New York mayor gave Trump legal advice while intoxicated.
The guidelines would ignore decades of academic findings about how firm concentration can have a positive impact on consumers' welfare.
Special Counsel David Weiss will face a Second Amendment challenge if he prosecutes the president's son for illegally buying a firearm.
Violators are rarely caught, while the unlucky few who face prosecution can go to prison for years.
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End the government’s plea-bargaining racket with open and adversarial jury trials.
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When he alleged fraud and sought help from government officials, they say, Trump was exercising rights guaranteed by the First Amendment.
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His state of mind when he tried to overturn the outcome of the 2020 election remains a mystery, perhaps even to him.
The new federal charges against Trump depend on the assumption that his claims were "knowingly false."
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The nature of their conduct is a better indicator of the punishment they deserve.
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While it remains unclear how sensitive the documents he retained were, his attempts to conceal them are easier to prove.
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A federal judge objected to two aspects of the agreement that seemed designed to shield Biden from the possibility that his father will lose reelection next year.
A judge's questions about his plea deal should not obscure the point that the law he broke is unjust and arguably unconstitutional.
Appeals in the January 6 cases raise serious questions about how broadly the statute should be applied.
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The alleged state and federal felonies involve intent elements that may be difficult to prove.
The Justice Department will investigate reports that inmates at Fulton County Jail are subject to filthy living conditions.
That issue is central to Special Counsel Jack Smith's investigation of the former president's response to Joe Biden's victory.
Donald Trump commuted Philip Esformes' sentence, but the Justice Department is bent on sending him back to prison.
If it's not a sweetheart deal, everyone else deserves the same leniency.
By taking records that did not belong to him and refusing to return them, William Barr says, Trump "provoked this whole problem himself."
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The constitutional lawyer and criminal justice reformer talks about our two-tier punishment system and deep-seated corruption at the Justice Department.
Minneapolis police used gratuitous force, discriminated against black and Native American residents, and retaliated against people exercising their First Amendment rights.
Join Reason on YouTube and Facebook Thursday at 1 p.m. Eastern for a discussion of the Trump indictment with constitutional lawyer Clark Neily.
The FAIR Act includes several substantial reforms that would make it harder to take property from innocent owners through civil forfeiture.
There's no deep mystery behind why Trump kept boxes of classified documents. He wanted them.
The former president's retention of classified documents looks willful and arguably endangered national security.
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