Criminal Justice
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Dear John, Brett, and Amy: If Trump can come for James Comey, he can come for you.
Trump’s prosecution of Rep. LaMonica McIver may be the most anti-democratic thing he’s done since January 6.
What will come next in the Trump administration’s war on “narcoterrorism”?
The question is whether a Republican judiciary will read the entire law governing Trump’s power over DC, or just the part that Trump likes.
The fight over Trump’s most unqualified prosecutor is escalating quickly.
How Baltimore explains America’s miraculous murder decline.
Like much of what Trump touches, the fight over Alina Habba mingles authoritarianism with goonish incompetence.
Senate Republicans are taking an enormous risk with the federal bench right now.
Trump’s DOJ turns its back on police reform.
ICE just got its biggest cash infusion in more than two decades. We know how they’re going to spend it.
What the Idaho student murder investigation tells us about how criminal justice should work.
The Court picked a hell of a time to give lawsuit immunity to federal law enforcement.
Two charts that show how the attack on Minnesota lawmakers is part of a dangerous trend.
What is “coercive control”?
Mexico’s attempt to cut off the flow of guns to drug cartels dies in the Supreme Court.
Americans remained scared of violent crime. The numbers tell a different story.
The record drop in drug overdose deaths, briefly explained.
The Birthright Citizenship argument wasn’t the only significant news out of the Supreme Court on Thursday.
How can you punish Trump officials for violating the law, when federal law enforcement is controlled by Trump?
How America’s opioid crisis became a foreign policy issue.
How we design prisons and where we choose to build them says a lot about what we think of the people on the inside.
Justice Neil Gorsuch’s “ghost guns” opinion is extremely narrow, but it is correct.
The justices are likely to give gun companies a win, but they aren’t sure how they will do it yet.
Richard Glossip had everything going for him in his Supreme Court hearing. That turned out to be enough.
Good luck trying to win a suit against the gun industry in this Supreme Court.
Trump’s secretive plans to detain immigrants at Guantánamo do not put them beyond the reach of US law.
In the 1990s, thousands of Haitians were detained there in horrific conditions with little oversight.
The Bruen decision upended America’s gun laws. Years later, cops and courts are still trying to sort out the mess.
Journalist and author Nick Bilton explains the rise and fall of Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road marketplace.
The Trump administration is freezing the Justice Department’s work on police reform.
The move is a dangerous attempt to rewrite the events of January 6. It’s also what the electorate voted for.
The Laken Riley Act passed with bipartisan support and will upend immigration enforcement.
The outgoing president pardoned Anthony Fauci and the January 6 committee — but the pardons give only limited protection.
Presidents routinely abuse the pardon, but Biden’s record-setting commutations underscore why reforms should be narrow.
The Court’s order is exceedingly narrow, but it is still a loss for Trump.
Trump is appealing to the same six Republicans who already ruled that he has broad immunity from the law. So he’s probably going to win.
Tough-on-crime laws are back. But next year could be different.
It’s easy to feel like gun violence is hopeless and never getting better. 2024 disproves that.
President Biden’s latest move against the death penalty is part of a much larger nationwide trend.
Trump told NBC that making the pardons would be one of his day-one priorities.