Amid widespread gun violence in the U.S., the number of accidental shooting deaths has steadily declined, the Los Angeles Times reports. There were 489 people killed in unintentional shootings in the U.S. in 2015, the most recent year for which data is available. That was...
Erwin Chemerinsky is a left-of-center legal scholar and prolific author who is now Dean of the University of California’s Berkeley School of Hall, formerly known as Boalt Hall (named after a prominent 19th century attorney, John Henry Boalt, whose widow funded construction of the school’s...
Every state has seen a dramatic increase in recent years in the share of its population convicted of a felony. That leaves more people facing hurdles in finding jobs and housing, and is prompting some states to revisit how they classify crimes, Stateline reports. In...
Brian Smith will join Law and Liberty as Managing Editor....
From a pot shop in Santa Cruz that hung a banner proclaiming “Prohibition is Over!” to one in San Diego handing out T-shirts showing the first moon landing and declaring a “giant leap for mankind,” California began its first sales of recreational marijuana Monday, the...
Once again we look back at the continuing cavalcade of crooks, criminals, miscreants and, to put it kindly, morons the less intellectually gifted, who met justice face-to-face in 2017. This year’s class includes a preacher, a controller, an engineer, a landman, and two lawyers! ••• Perp: Johnny...
Why we need Walker Percy's diagnosis of what ails the contemporary soul....
Every first responder is familiar with the scenario. You are called to the scene of yet another drug overdose. Naloxone is administered. The comatose “victim” rouses and groggily stands up. Many refuse to be taken to hospitals and drift away. You are tempted to call out...
James Whitman, a Yale law professor, has used a European Commission statement disapproving Poland’s recent law restructuring its judiciary to attack the American judicial selection process. He argues that, like the Polish law condemned by the EU, our selection is overtly and dangerously political, making...
Detroit posted its lowest tally of criminal homicides last year in more than a half-century: 267, reports the Detroit News. That is the fewest criminal homicides since the 214 recorded in 1966. That was at a time when Detroit had a population of more than...