This is as close as we get to Garland saying “Eff around, find out!”
It’s complicated, hard to prove, and politically fraught.
The former President and his supporters are crying “weaponization of the justice system.”
A loudmouth III%er cried like a baby during his sentencing.
An example of security theater with proven negative social impacts
Tragedy has played out so often that it has become a statistic.
Assumptions of racial animus are overshadowing a story that’s outrageous enough on its own.
And yet the state still extracted their pound of flesh
An extraordinary example shines light on coercive factors that incentivize plea deals
A key planner of the Capitol riot has agreed to testify against others in exchange for a lighter sentence.
Two hundred-odd people have pled or been found guilty. One has been acquitted.
His conversations with lawyers about stealing the election are not protected by privilege.
A new trial that might not have happened with a plea
The former President should have known that his claims of election fraud were baseless.
Two notorious cases indicate a policy shift on federal prosecutions of cases already tried in lower courts.
An example of how lack of regulation leads to practices that damage public faith in policing
Why clearing criminal records makes economic sense
With choices like these it’s easy to understand why people take plea deals
Former President Trump routinely broke the law with respect to protecting public records.
The infamous duo will have to do what they were already supposed to do for a year.
A ginned up controversy regarding a border nature reserve has escalated.
But from what? Comparing two stories from Tennessee that show our society’s contradictory impulses when it comes to “protecting the children.”
Two stories about our culture’s focus on punishment
A year after the Capitol riot, DOJ is coming after the most violent perpetrators.
The safety gap between affluent, white and poor, minority communities has grown over the last three decades.
It doesn’t matter what I believe. It only matters what I can prove.
The head of the House investigatory committee seems to think so.
We’re likely to see more instances like the Capitol Riot and the Kyle Rittenhouse shootings.
Our reactions to recent murder trials tells us a lot about our divided country.
A woman who declared “Civil War is coming” and “they have to kill me” has asked for and received leniency.