Today is the first weekday of the federal government shutdown, but few court-watchers are surprised that the Supreme Court is open for business. As Andrew Hamm reported for this blog on Sunday, the court operated as usual during the 2013 and 1995 government shutdowns, even conducting...
Almost 10 years ago, Theodore Wesby attended a party in the northeast section of Washington, D.C., that his own attorney would later describe as “raucous.” There were strippers offering lap dances, plenty of alcohol, people having sex upstairs, and (at least the smell of) marijuana....
Crime is down in Minnesota, but more people are getting locked up. In an era of policies geared toward reducing prison populations, Minnesota has bucked national trends by incarcerating more people, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports. The Pew Charitable Trusts says 35 states simultaneously cut...
The Supreme Court on Monday cleared Washington, D.C., police officers of liability in the case of a house party a decade ago in which partygoers alleged that police had no right to arrest them. A federal jury had awarded $680,000 in damages that eventually reached...
In 2010, Andrew Cilek went to his local polling place in Hennepin County, Minnesota, to vote. Cilek was wearing a T-shirt that had three different images on it: the Tea Party logo, the message “Don’t Tread on Me,” and an image of the Gadsden flag,...
The FBI has been called a “criminal cabal” rife with corruption. It’s been said that its leaders need to be taken out in “handcuffs.” And its reputation, President Trump said, “in tatters.” The ongoing barrage of allegations has left current and former officials shaken, NPR...