Republican activists and lawmakers are increasing their attacks on special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of possible connections between associates of President Trump and Russian agents, trying to stop or curtail the investigation as it moves further into Trump’s inner circle, reports the Washington Post. Trump...
The Department of Homeland Security’s announcement that its border enforcement strategy had resulted in a sharp decline in illegal crossings has renewed questions about why the Trump administration wants even more agents on the southwest border, the Texas Tribune reports. Border Patrol agents made 310,531...
In Murphy v. Smith, the Supreme Court is charged with interpreting statutory language that on its face appears straightforward. In prisoners’ federal civil-rights cases that result in an award of money damages and attorney’s fees, the Prison Litigation Reform Act requires that “a portion of...
Michael Slager, a white former South Carolina police officer, committed second-degree murder when he shot an unarmed black motorist to death and should expect to spend about two decades in prison, a judge said Thursday as he prepared to sentence the ex-officer for a federal...
As reported by crime victims, the national crime rate last year remained about the same as the 2015 total, the U.S. Justice Department’s National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) reported on Thursday. In 2016, the survey said, residents aged 12 or older experienced 5.7 million violent victimizations,...
Homicide rates in the United States rose sharply in 2015 and continued to increase, at a somewhat diminished pace, the following year. Both the scholarly and popular narrative surrounding the homicide rise identifies tensions between African-American communities and the police as the primary culprit. That is a...