Attorney General Expands Home Confinement for Some Federal Inmates Facing Coronavirus Threat
William Barr: "We want to make sure our institutions don't become petri dishes."
William Barr: "We want to make sure our institutions don't become petri dishes."
"They were not sentenced to death, and they should be released immediately."
Congress should loudly and unanimously reject this insanity.
Were the Justice Department's redactions influenced by Barr's desire to exonerate the president?
A congressional battle erupts over how much to reform the soon-to-expire USA Freedom Act—if they reform it at all.
Government officials keep trying to make us expose our data to them—and the criminals who ride on their coattails.
Federal judge confirms ruling that it doesn’t violate federal “crack house” law.
Criminal justice reformers say federal prosecutors torpedoed clemency petitions in worthy cases.
How the press learned to stop worrying and love censorship.
The president remains frankly puzzled by the distinction between can and should.
Barr's big complaint is that the president is so overt with the sleazy pressure.
If Barr is so concerned about the appearance of integrity, why did he insert himself into a high-profile case involving a presidential pal?
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A prison sentence of seven to nine years is excessive for nonviolent process crimes aimed at concealing legal behavior.
Somebody tell the FBI and Congress.
The former national security advisor accuses prosecutors of misconduct—and says his former defense lawyers had conflicts of interest.
How can prosecuting a black woman for slapping Jews in 2020 be authorized by the constitutional amendment that abolished slavery in 1865?
Police and prosecutors want to maintain a system that punishes poor people before they’re ever convicted.
Videos and photos smuggled out by Mississippi inmates have shown gruesome violence and wretched living conditions.
A crime in Monsey leads to a redundant prosecution that hinges on the defendant's anti-Semitism.
In the middle of a scandal over FISA surveillance, leaders want still more power to snoop on your secret stuff.
There are no supervised injection facilities openly operating in the United States. That might change soon.
The government's surveillance of Carter Page might not have been improperly motivated, but it was still seriously flawed.
A Department of Justice lawsuit argues Hesperia’s rental ordinance amounts to illegal racial discrimination.
The first death was scheduled for December.
The bureau has a long history of escaping accountability for intrusive and abusive action.
Even if they unseat a president opposed by many Americans, the FBI and the intelligence community are not the heroes you're looking for.
Plea deals aren’t about mercy these days. They’re about intimidating defendants into giving up the right to a trial.
The encryption limits that the Justice Department demands in the name of security would make all of us less secure.
Years after surveillance reforms, federal personnel can’t seem to comply with the Fourth Amendment.
A safe place meant to help prevent overdose deaths is not the same as a crackhouse.
Snowden didn’t subject his autobiography Permanent Record to pre-publication review by the federal government that’s also trying to throw him in prison.
Bad science and panics by those who want to escalate the opioid drug war.
Feds go fishing for private data in order to track down illegal exporters.
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Partisans, to your battle stations!
It’s the Trump administration vs. civil rights groups on federal protections from workplace discrimination.
Criminal justice reformers say the federal prison system is in desperate need of more oversight.
The most unusual thing about Jeffrey Epstein dying in a federal jail was how quickly the Justice Department sprang into action to investigate it.
After nearly three years of ghosting research cannabis applicants, the DEA has 30 days to explain its inaction.
In order to fight crime, Americans must...make their data more susceptible to hacking?
Apple, Google, Amazon, and Facebook are all in the federal government’s crosshairs.
We need to leave ourselves room for making good when we inevitably convict the wrong people.
After two decades of mercy, the Justice Department announces five men on federal death row will face lethal injections this winter.
Both Democrats and Republicans are cheerleading for government action against Facebook, Google, Amazon, and the rest, but Americans should be skeptical.
Many benefit from an increase in "good time" credits and from retroactive reductions in crack cocaine mandatory minimum sentences.
For the second year in a row, federal prosecutions for sex trafficking of children have dropped.
Wednesday marks five years since an officer’s deadly chokehold was captured on video.