Criminal Justice
Vox’s coverage of advances and failures of the American criminal justice system.
So much for the rule of law.
Most of the justices appeared uncomfortable with “bump stocks,” devices that allow semiautomatic weapons to fire automatically.
Garland v. Cargill asks whether gun makers can evade the ban on machine guns with a device called a bump stock.
The Kansas City mayor captures the US’s singular problem with guns, in one quote.
Gun deaths among children have risen to their highest level in more than 20 years. A pediatric trauma surgeon describes the physical toll.
What experts and advocates say can make a difference in the face of unrelenting gun violence.
Some conservatives have seized on the shooting to frame trans people as threats.
Trump wants the justices to delay his election theft trial forever.
Trump’s Supreme Court lawyer was a disaster, and it won’t matter one bit.
The justices had their shot to hear Trump’s immunity appeal. Now they need to stop delaying his criminal trial.
The state is using a new untested method that has prompted backlash.
The Fifth Circuit has spent years harassing a civil rights activist, and they gutted much of the First Amendment in the process.
The case against Richard Glossip fell apart. Even the state’s Republican attorney general says he should not be executed. The Supreme Court may not care.
Ecuador was known for peace, but it has become one of the most violent countries in South America.
Three years after demands for police reform, police are solving fewer crimes. What happened?
Trump wants to run out the clock on his criminal trials. The Supreme Court just gave him a significant assist.
The Colorado Supreme Court’s decision is unlikely to be upheld by the US Supreme Court, but this issue is not going away.
Trump claims that when the president tries to steal an election, it’s not illegal.
As access grows, we need better research and education on bad trips.
California could send a man to prison for 3.5 years for rescuing factory-farmed animals. Where does the movement go from here?
Reason and basic human decency seemed to prevail at the Supreme Court’s big argument about whether domestic abusers should be armed.
Democrats need to be smarter while the GOP controls the Supreme Court.
The justices will decide if bump stocks, devices that effectively convert a semiautomatic gun into an automatic weapon, are legal.
The justices are seriously considering whether domestic abusers have a right to own a gun.
What should the Supreme Court do when gun laws are written by incompetent trolls?
Why the Supreme Court just smacked down one of the judiciary’s worst GOP partisans.
The big divide on premature death isn’t between college grads and non-grads. It’s between high school dropouts and everyone else.
Believe it or not, there are worse judges than Brett Kavanaugh. And now Brett needs to clean up their mess.
The new White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, Biden said, comes “in the absence of that sorely needed action.”
The right-wing warrior may soon see his legal issues catch up with him. It could shape the future of the Texas GOP.
Ta’Kiya Young’s fatal shooting — and bodycam footage — renews scrutiny of police violence.
Enrique Tarrio, former leader of the Proud Boys, is the latest key player in the January 6 insurrection to be sentenced.
Inside a movement that aims to bring accountability and healing to the justice system.
Can the weakened presidential candidate weather crises at home?
The first big hearing in the case over Trump’s interference in the Georgia 2020 election could shape how the trial will unfold.
The shooting adds to a litany of anti-Black attacks in recent years.
Imagine a Breitbart comments forum come to life and given immense power over innocent people. That’s Judge James Ho.
Trump isn’t Hitler. But when it comes to the courts, he’s successfully borrowing the Nazi’s playbook.
The federal judiciary is a cesspool of partisanship, and now it’s being asked to oversee some of the most politically fraught criminal trials in American history.
It’s the fourth time that Trump has been indicted.