The Trump administration said Thursday it is preparing to circumvent limits on the government’s ability to hold minors in immigration jails by withdrawing from the Flores Agreement, the federal consent decree that has shaped detention standards for underage migrants since 1997, the Washington Post reports....
Kim Kardashian West was back at the White House on Wednesday to meet with members of the Trump administration and other advocates for criminal justice reform, Politico reports. The “listening session” on the clemency process was to be attended by presidential son-in-law and adviser Jared...
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh stuck fast on Wednesday to his support of a broad Second Amendment right to possess many types of weapons, including a semiautomatic rifle with a large magazine of ammunition, the Los Angeles Times reports. He dissented alone in 2011 when...
The Legal Technology Resource Center’s Women of Legal Tech initiative is intended to encourage diversity and celebrate women in legal technology. This initiative launched in 2015 with a list of innovators and leaders in legal technology and with this year’s additions, that list now includes...
A gunman opened fire in a downtown Cincinnati office building housing a bank Thursday, killing three people and wounding at least three more before he was fatally shot, the Cincinnati Enquirer reports. Police Chief Eliot Isaac said that officers exchanged gunfire with the shooter, but...
The Trump administration has stepped up prosecutions of weapons offenses, bringing 8,403 cases in the first 10 months of fiscal year 2018, a 22.5 percent increase from the previous year, reports Courthouse News Service. TRAC Reports of Syracuse University reported that the 94 U.S. Attorneys...