Resistance to a ban on military-style assault weapons is strongest among millennials, finds a new Quinnipiac poll, The Guardian reports. It’s a finding that experts said might be driven by the popularity of first-person shooter video games such as Call of Duty and the increasing...
The U.S. Department of Justice has awarded $98,495,397 to 179 law enforcement agencies to hire 802 officers under the Community Oriented Policing Services COPS Hiring Program, the department announced. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said that 80 percent of the grantees had agreed to cooperate with...
On December 1 at 12 p.m., Becker & Poliakoff and Spectrum Gaming Group will host a media briefing on Christie v. National Collegiate Athletic Association, a constitutional challenge to the federal ban on sports betting. Speakers include, but are not limited to, Theodore Olson, Elbert...
Public defenders have complained for decades they’ve got too many cases and not enough money or time to do their clients justice. Now, more public defense advocates are suing states for more funding, Stateline reports. Overwhelmed public defenders are increasingly trying other tactics: refusing to...
House Speaker Paul Ryan called “extremely troubling” a report that Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, settled a complaint in 2015 from a woman who alleged she was fired from his Washington staff because she rejected his sexual...
Intimate partner violence serves as a catalyst for homicide-suicides, according to a North Carolina study published this month. The study, which collected and analyzed data from North Carolina’s Violent Death Reporting System (NC-VDRS), compared homicide-suicides to mass shootings in the state between 2004 and 2014. It found...