Anyone who’s watched a police show on television has a decent understanding of the rights accorded to those arrested: the right to an attorney, the right to remain silent and all the other protections given to the accused over the past half-century after the U.S....
We dine once a year with the President, and that is all. On other days we take our dinner together, and discuss at table the questions which are argued before us. We are great ascetics, and even deny ourselves wine, except in wet weather [when...
New York City police officers shot fewer than two dozen people this year, a record low and the result of major shifts in policing practices that have led to drops in police shootings around the U.S., reports VICE. By the end of November, New York...
About one in five federal prison inmates in federal prison are foreign born, and more than 90 percent of those are in the U.S. illegally, said a report from the Trump administration, which has sought to highlight the dangers it says unauthorized immigrants pose to...
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is rescinding an Obama-era Justice Department letter that asked local courts across the U.S. to be wary of slapping poor defendants with fines and fees to fill their jurisdictions’ coffers. The action is part of a broad rollback of guidance that Sessions...
Patrick Wright is the vice president for legal affairs at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, which filed an amicus brief in support of the petitioner in Janus v. American Federation. Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31 is the fourth...