Vice President Mike Pence will address the National Rifle Association at the group’s annual meeting on May 4, Politico reports. The announcement comes as gun control continues to loom large as a political issue after of the February school shooting in Parkland, Fl. led to...
A Michigan senator who is advocating for a congressional commission to conduct a national study of the criminal justice system says he is “cautiously optimistic” that Congress will approve the measure this year. Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) made the comment Tuesday at a briefing on Capitol...
How many of the 12 million Americans arrested each year should be held in detention before trial to prevent them from being a danger to themselves or others? The question is critical to today’s efforts aimed at reforming a justice system that has disproportionally trapped the...
This morning the Supreme Court ends its last session of the term with a bang when it hears argument in Trump v. Hawaii, a challenge to the latest version of the Trump administration’s entry ban. Amy Howe had this blog’s preview, which was first published...
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s decision Tuesday to release rapper Meek Mill from prison, where he had been held for the past five months for violating his terms of probation, adds further urgency to the movement to reform the “punitiveness” of the state’s mass supervision system,...
When a case comes to the Supreme Court, the justices are usually interpreting U.S. laws – either the U.S. Constitution or a federal statute. But in today’s global economy, resolving cases brought under U.S. law in U.S. courts can also require an understanding of foreign...