The federal judge overseeing the special counsel’s criminal case against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort ordered attorneys in the case to stop talking to the press, reports the National Law Journal. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson did not bar lawyers from talking to...
Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck forcefully denied that his department has falsified violent crime statistics, dismissing allegations that the LAPD is misleading the public as “not only untrue, but outrageous,” the Los Angeles Times reports. He said the allegations “are not only lies, but...
Most theories for the U.S. crime decline over the last 25 years have focused on the would-be criminals, reports the New York Times, including strict policing tactics, mass incarceration and the diminishing crack epidemic. None of the explanations have paid much attention to the communities...
An off-duty Chicago police officer held a gun on Brandon Whitehead on a street, calling him and his father obscenities. The men thought thought they were being carjacked. More than 11 years ago, the Whiteheads filed a complaint with police officials responsible for investigating officer...
A Mexican man who had sued the Trump administration, alleging he had been unlawfully deported, was arrested this week and charged with illegally re-entering the U.S., the Wall Street Journal reports. Juan Manuel Montes Bojorquez, 23, was arrested near Calexico, Ca., along the Mexican border....
Oyez has posted audio and transcripts from this week’s oral arguments at the Supreme Court. The court heard argument this week in: Merit Management Group, LP v. FTI Consulting, Inc. Patchak v. Zinke The post This week’s oral argument audio now available on Oyez appeared first on SCOTUSblog....