Justice Department officials say they do not believe they can regulate the sale of gun bump stocks without congressional action, underscoring concern that an ongoing administrative review into that question is little more than an effort to slow-roll a politically divisive issue, says the New...
Xavier Becerra is the attorney general of California. Aimee Feinberg is a deputy solicitor general in the California Department of Justice. States like California have a great deal on the line in Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31: Unions that...
Until recently, a first-time shoplifter caught in some 2,000 Wal-Mart stores had a choice: pay hundreds of dollars, complete an education program and all will be forgiven, or don’t and potentially face prosecution. Corrective Education Co. and Turning Point Justice, Utah-based firms that provide the...
Over the past two decades, gentrification has become a norm in major U.S. cities. The typical example is a formerly low-income neighborhood where longtime residents and businesses are displaced by white-collar workers and overpriced coffeehouses. The conventional wisdom that image reflects leaves out a critical...
Anyone who’s watched a police show on television has a decent understanding of the rights accorded to those arrested: the right to an attorney, the right to remain silent and all the other protections given to the accused over the past half-century after the U.S....
We dine once a year with the President, and that is all. On other days we take our dinner together, and discuss at table the questions which are argued before us. We are great ascetics, and even deny ourselves wine, except in wet weather [when...
New York City police officers shot fewer than two dozen people this year, a record low and the result of major shifts in policing practices that have led to drops in police shootings around the U.S., reports VICE. By the end of November, New York...
Patrick Wright is the vice president for legal affairs at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, which filed an amicus brief in support of the petitioner in Janus v. American Federation. Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31 is the fourth...
The FBI’s top lawyer, James Baker, a close colleague of former director James Comey, is being reassigned, reports the Washington Post. It is one of the first moves by new director Christopher Wray to assemble his own team of senior advisers as he tries to...
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is rescinding an Obama-era Justice Department letter that asked local courts across the U.S. to be wary of slapping poor defendants with fines and fees to fill their jurisdictions’ coffers. The action is part of a broad rollback of guidance that Sessions...