Chicago police solved fewer than one in six homicides in the first half of 2018, continuing a troubling decline in the number of perpetrators brought to justice in one of the nation’s most violent cities, reports USA Today. Chicago’s homicide clearance rate – the percentage...
Michael Saudino, the Bergen County, N.J., sheriff who was recorded making disparaging remarks about African Americans and the state’s first Sikh attorney general has resigned, CBS News reports. Four others in the county sheriff’s office also quit. The announcement came after Saudino said in an...
The president of the National Association of Immigration Judges asked Congress to emancipate the judges from the Justice Department, saying immigration courts are entering a “new and dark era” under the nation’s top prosecutor, the Washington Post reports. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is rapidly hiring...
The Trump administration is proposing to make it extremely difficult for many immigrants to come to the U.S. or receive green cards if they’re deemed likely to use public benefits like food stamps or Medicaid, reports Vox.com. The draft regulation, expected to be published in...
Modern law firms and legal departments continually look for new ways to increase their efficiency and drive productivity. Nevertheless, less than 30% of law firms have an employee tasked to drive innovation technology, and the same is likely true of corporate legal departments. Those firms...
Deputy U.S. Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has told White House officials he is willing to resign after revelations that he once suggested secretly recording the president. It is not clear if the resignation has been accepted, the Washington Post reports. One Justice Department official said...