A media investigation of immigration cases found that federal agents and police officers allegedly engaged in racial profiling, conducted warrantless searches, detained people without probable cause, fabricated evidence, and, in one instance, solicited a bribe, reports the Philadelphia Inquirer and ProPublica in the third of...
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker signed a sweeping overhaul to the state’s criminal justice system despite having “serious concerns” with some of its provisions, including a controversial change that would forbid parents from testifying against their minor children, the Boston Globe reports. “The law will undoubtedly...
President Trump promised a top Senate Republican that he will support congressional efforts to protect states that have legalized marijuana, the Washington Post reports. The move defuses a months-long standoff between Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO) and the administration over Justice Department nominees. In January, Gardner...
This morning the Supreme Court issued orders from last week’s private conference. The justices did not add any new cases to their merits docket for their next term, which begins in October, but they did ask the U.S. solicitor general to weigh in on four...
After years of surging overdoses, some of the officials and medical practitioners most deeply involved in the fight against opioids hope that they finally have the tools, the funding and the public support needed to get the epidemic under control, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports. “I...
The Legal Technology Resource Center (LTRC) is pleased to make its third annual announcement of Women of Legal Tech. LTRC’s Women of Legal Tech initiative is intended to encourage diversity and celebrate women in legal technology. This initiative launched in 2015 with a list of...
Deep in President Trump’s plan to combat opioid abuse, overshadowed by his call for the death penalty for some drug traffickers, is a push to expand the use of medication to treat addiction. It’s a rare instance in which Trump isn’t trying roll back Obama...
Former Knoxville, Tn., Police Chief Phil Keith has been named director of the U.S. Justice Department’s Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) office, DOJ announced. Keith also has served as Commissioner of the Tennessee Peace Officers Standard and Training Commission, a project director for the Major...
The justices face a lot of high-stakes cases the last week of the term – with Abbott v. Perez on Tuesday and Trump v. Hawaii on Wednesday – but Monday’s argument in Lucia v. Securities and Exchange Commission may be as important a decision for...
When Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck retires in June, he’ll leave to his successor the best police department in the city’s history—one that’s no longer the hated, pugnacious symbol of repression it once was, or a primary instigator of the class and race volatility...