A wave of county sheriffs across America who feel emboldened by President Trump and his agenda are becoming vocal foot soldiers in the nation’s testy political and culture wars, says the New York Times. From deep-blue states such as Massachusetts and New York to traditionally...
The Supreme Court’s November sitting might be finished, but we’re still going. Ian returns to wrap up by recapping last week’s arguments with Dan. But first, there’s the matter of a very unusual certiorari petition that the Department of Justice filed in a hot-button case...
In the last 10 years, a small charity called the Bronx Freedom Fund has donated bail money to thousands of poor New Yorkers charged with crimes, freeing them from jail and helping them avoid the dispiriting delays of backlogged local courts as they wait to...
At the Associated Press, Mark Sherman reports that the Supreme Court “is making new legal filings available online starting [today], years behind the rest of the federal court system.” For The Washington Post, Robert Barnes reports that the court “is developing its own online system,...
Alfred Dewayne Brown was condemned to death in 2005 after his conviction for killing a Houston police officer and a store clerk in a botched robbery in Texas. He spent a decade trying to prove his innocence, but it was only when an attorney named...
Chris Hurst, the former Virginia television news anchor whose girlfriend Alison Parker was shot to death on live television, says he is “really… frustrated with how the media covers gun violence in America” by concentrating on mass shootings and not everyday killings. Hurst, who was...