SCOTUS Rules That Federal Agents Can Be Sued When They Violate Your Rights
Now do qualified immunity.
Now do qualified immunity.
His Trump toadying was absolutely awful, but still not nearly as bad as his unremittingly harsh approach to justice and policing.
The suit follows a scathing 2019 report detailing unchecked violence and sexual assault against incarcerated people.
Bill Barr and Donald Trump spend the end of their terms executing prisoners.
Five who tested positive recently will participate in this week’s planned executions of Brandon Bernard and Alfred Bourgeois.
Protected financial access for politically targeted industries
Three more death row inmates have been scheduled to die.
The well-respected appellate judge might be just the sort of Attorney General the nation needs.
The incoming administration opposes the death penalty, but the Justice Department has three more executions planned this year.
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It's an improvement over the status quo. But time will tell how frequently the feds try to suppress important footage.
The National Security Agency arranged for security systems to be secretly compromised. Then the Chinese government allegedly found its way in.
Privacy is a right, not a “high risk” and “possibly criminal” activity
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The $8.3 billion DOJ settlement is part of a crackdown that has perversely pushed drug users toward more dangerous substitutes.
Government claims Google uses its power to force users and advertisers on board. Google says that its popularity is not anticompetitive.
Lisa Montgomery killed a pregnant woman and took her baby in 2004. She is clearly mentally unwell. What does killing her accomplish?
State-level executions have been on the decline since 2000, but the federal government recently got back in the business of executing prisoners.
Granting clemency to nonviolent offenders like Alice Marie Johnson would be low on the list of priorities for Yates and Biden.
A new DOJ proposal aims to bring the internet communications law in line with Trump's personal interpretation of it.
The Big Apple is practically a black hole of overpolicing and regulation.
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U.S. officials claim their espionage laws apply to the world, but constitutional protections do not.
A new modern record for putting inmates to death
Lezmond Mitchell is scheduled to die Wednesday, over the objections of the Navajo Nation to which he belongs and on whose land the murder took place.
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A quick scramble to end a man’s life, despite objections by attorneys and even the relatives of his victims
A court delay on Friday was lifted over the weekend, only to be reinstated Monday for different reasons.
Relatives of the victims say they shouldn’t have to risk infection to attend. A federal judge agreed.
The federal government hasn’t executed a prisoner since 2003. We may see three killed in July.
Majority 2–1 opinion says prosecutors, not judges, have the discretion to drop the case against the former Trump aide.
A new, terrible anti-encryption bill with a twist
They’re not likely to succeed, but the real goal is to seize any money he makes.
It was business as usual for federal prosecutors.
A former Bush Administration Justice Department official responds to Judge Michael Luttig's critique of Judge Sullivan.
Sen. Wyden withdraws support for amendment due to fears it has been weakened too much.
A former federal judge (and Supreme Court short-lister) on what Judge Emmett Sullivan (and his critics) got right, and got wrong
A federal judge ordered officials at Elkton to stop "thumbing their nose" at their own authority to release inmates at risk of coronavirus.
Allowing schools and malls to reopen, but not places of worship, would raise civil rights issues
The FBI and attorney general want to ruin everybody's data security and draft Apple into compromising your safety.
A new paper by Thomas Frampton suggests most recent commentary concerning the Michael Flynn prosecution gets it wrong.
A Connecticut federal prison's failures to grant early release to eligible inmates "amount to deliberate indifference" under the Eighth Amendment, the judge says.
There are a lot of reasons to critique the attorney general. Find one that doesn’t require misleading your audience.
Feds now say the national security advisor's lie wasn’t “material” and they cannot prove it.
Agents regularly attempt to catch suspects in lies to threaten them with prosecution, even when they can’t prove underlying crimes.
Barr: "The Constitution is not suspended in times of crisis."
Fears of contracting COVID-19 in prison are not enough, Justice Department says
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