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When the shooting began inside a Broward County high school last month, Deputy Scot Peterson remained outside rather than pursuing the gunman. Peterson was forced to retire and labeled a “coward” by President Trump. In 2016, when a gunman started shooting inside the Orlando’s Pulse...
Republican lawmakers and conservative media critics pressed President Trump on Thursday to explore new restrictions on the videogame industry, arguing that violent games might have contributed to mass shootings like the attack at a Parkland, Fl., high school, the Washington Post reports. In a private...
The addiction crisis that is killing tens of thousands of Americans is creating a financial crisis for many families, compounding the anguish caused by a loved one’s destructive illness. Families are burning through savings and amassing huge debt paying for rehab that often doesn’t work,...
In Bakersfield, Ca., David Lang’s widow, Monique, says she has no clue why the 33-year-old combat veteran and father who struggled with opioid addiction ended up fatally shot last year by a doctor, Edwin Zong, The Atlantic reports. Local authorities concluded that Zong acted in...
“His voice is still in my head,” Justice Elena Kagan told the audience on Tuesday when asked how her former boss, Justice Thurgood Marshall, had affected her life. Kagan, along with three other former Marshall clerks, described a justice who demanded much from his clerks,...
The National Rifle Association has given more than $7 million to hundreds of U.S. schools in recent years, the Associated Press reports, and few have shown any indication that they’ll follow the lead of businesses that are cutting ties with the group after last month’s...
A fairer trial system requires both transparency and a shift of power away from prosecutors “into the hands of (impartial) sentencing judges,” argue the authors of a forthcoming article in Missouri Law Review. It isn’t an exaggeration to say the right to a fair trial in...
Reading legal texts doesn't put us in a different interpretive world: we should always embrace honest textualism....
Women have been left out of the national focus on justice reform, even as the number of incarcerated females has increased, according to a Texas advocacy group. A report released Friday by the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition says that even as the state has reduced its...