On February 21 at 12:45 p.m. PST, Stanford University’s CodeX will host a presentation by Daniel Martin Katz entitled, “How Crowdsourcing Accurately and Robustly Predicts Supreme Court Decisions.” More information about this event, which will include remote access, is available at this link. Relatedly, this blog...
The morning after the school massacre in Parkland, Fl., NBC’s “Today Show” asked Samantha Grady, a student who had witnessed the shooting of her best friend and classmate, “Do you know how [your friend] is doing?” “Yeah, unfortunately, she didn’t make it,” replied Grady, breaking...
President Trump has not nominated a director of the Office on Violence Against Women in the Justice Department. That person oversees a budget of more than $450 million and is supposed to be the administration’s leading voice on domestic and sexual violence, both nationally and...
President Trump will convene a meeting of governors and state attorneys general to make school safety “our top priority” after the Florida school shooting that left 17 people dead, the Wall Street Journal reports. The president made no reference to gun laws in six-minute speech....
America “can’t arrest its way out of the opioid epidemic,” a top official of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) said Thursday. Paul Cell, First Vice President of the IACP, called for an increase in collaborative efforts among law enforcement, health care workers and...
One of the nation’s leading conservatives called on federal lawmakers Thursday to pass the newest version of the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act, and he urged President Donald Trump to sign it. Mark Holden. Photo by John Ramsey/TCR Mark Holden, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of...