The legal fallout from the Jan. 6 Capitol invasion is likely to reach hundreds of cases. It could also affect the free speech rights of Americans and shatter one last political norm.
Read moreUnderstanding how the coronavirus threatens the lives of prisoners and prison officers is crucial to combating its spread and to safeguarding incarcerated people.
Read moreBreonna Taylor’s killing has heightened public concern across the ideological spectrum that the paramilitary mindset that pervades modern American policing endangers citizens rather than protects them.
Read moreIs the First Amendment the most important? Adherents of the conservative Christian legal movement believe so – particularly the Free Exercise clause, which they argue has been given short shrift as America has become less religious.
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Should companies profit from incarceration? In one Wyoming town, residents grapple with the costs of building a private immigration detention center.
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Activist calls to defund the police are playing out in city budget meetings in Texas, showing the limits of what is possible as well as points of agreement in funding public safety.
Read moreGeorge Floyd’s death is prompting a rethinking of policing in schools, where students of color are more likely than white counterparts to encounter officers. As partnerships dissolve, authorities ponder how to keep students safe while also treating them fairly.
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As George Floyd is laid to rest in Houston Tuesday, residents of Houston’s Third Ward – where Mr. Floyd grew up – reflected on his life and the national crisis of conscience sparked by his death.
Read moreTo be just the second woman appointed to the US Supreme Court is to blaze trails, which Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg did throughout her career – for decades before Millennials coined her the “Notorious RBG.” For women, especially women judges and lawyers, she’s an icon. But the emergence of justices as symbolic political figures, some say, could do damage to the high court.
Read moreThe 9th Circuit handed down the Trump administration’s latest legal defeat Monday, ruling unanimously to maintain a block on the revised travel ban. Is President Trump being denied the ‘presumption of regularity’ extended to other presidents?
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