Carl Ferrer, CEO and co-founder of the classified ad website Backpage.com, cut a plea deal with state and federal prosecutors, admitting that he knew that the site had become a massive online marketplace for prostitution, reports Politico. Ferrer, 57, agreed to plead guilty to charges...
Since President Trump took office, deportation officers have been unshackled, as the White House describes it, from an Obama-era mandate to focus limited enforcement resources on deporting immigrants with serious criminal convictions. Agents have been rounding up people who have sunk roots in this country,...
Researchers have screened 4,100 people in jail, on probation or assigned to drug courts in Denver and five other Colorado counties to find out how many have traumatic brain injury — an impairment that could impact the likelihood of their return to the criminal justice...
In an opinion published Thursday, a federal judge explains why he is rejecting plea deals that transfer criminal adjudications from the public arena to the prosecutor’s office just “for the purpose of expediency.” Sentencing Law and Policy blogger Douglas Berman flagged the decision as “remarkable”...
President Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, is expected to go before a federal judge in New York City on Friday challenging the Justice Department’s seizure of documents related to Cohen’s decade-long legal representation of Trump that were taken in a recent FBI raid, reports the...
The Justice Department cannot require that local police departments help immigration agents to receive federal funding, a federal judge ruled. The ruling is a significant victory for local governments that have opposed the Trump administration’s stance on immigration and vowed to stay out of enforcement...
The Trump Administration is moving to ensure new taxes face a cost-benefit analysis, and this offers a new way to control the administrative state....
President Trump fired back at James Comey on Friday, calling him “a proven LEAKER & LIAR” and a “untruthful slime ball” as the former FBI director releases a book that likens the president to a dishonest mob boss, reports USA Today. “Virtually everyone in Washington...
The Illinois Department of Corrections says a major cash crunch has it struggling to keep its facilities running, reports NPR Illinois. The warning came Wednesday at a Senate budget hearing. Some lawmakers say that was the first time they were hearing the situation was so...
While critics have pegged The Rider as a film about anxious masculinity in the postmodern era, in reality it is about faith, destiny, and the Almighty....