President Trump erroneously linked a rise in recorded crime in the United Kingdom to the “spread of radical Islamic terror” in his latest outburst on Twitter, The Guardian reports. The president tweeted, “Just out report: ‘United Kingdom crime rises 13% annually amid spread of Radical...
A nationwide justice “storytelling” project has set up shop in Milwaukee this month, where it heard individuals formerly incarcerated at the Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility (MSDF), describe conditions ranging from poor ventilation and overcrowding to inadequate medical care, according to a report this week from...
President Trump overrode his own advisers when he promised to deliver an emergency declaration next week to combat the nation’s worsening opioid crisis, Politico reports. “That is a very, very big statement,” he said Monday. “It’s a very important step. … We’re going to be...
Ill health motivated John Dickinson to leave the federal convention a day early. Before departing, he instructed his friend and Delaware colleague, George Read, to affix his signature to the document. There are, therefore, 39 signatures to the document but only 38 men physically signed. In...
Children and youth in foster care are 2.5 times more likely to continue a pattern of chronic offending between adolescence and emerging adulthood than those not in care, according to a forthcoming study. The Canadian study, to be published in the November-December issue of the Journal...
Spreadsheets have the potential to be an important part of running a legal business, but not all lawyers have the time to fully understand how to effectively use them. In this episode of Digital Detectives, hosts Sharon Nelson and John Simek talk to Ben Kusmin...
Marvel Comics is caught in a dilemma. The company, which went from near-bankruptcy in 1996 to one of the most successful movie studios in the world, first became well known in the 1960s for its depiction of superheroes who had human problems. Spider-Man, the Hulk,...
As the Justice Department breathes new life into a federal law that allows local police to keep a lion’s share of the assets impounded from individuals charged with crimes, a study warning of the unintended consequences of a “police for profit” approach could provide additional...
Briefly: Subscript offers a graphic explainer on Wilson v. Sellers, which asks whether a federal court in a habeas case should “look through” a summary state-court ruling to review the last reasoned state-court decision. At The Federalist, Margot Cleveland suggests that this week’s most significant Supreme Court...
In the New York Times yesterday John Pfaff reflected on a serious problem at the Supreme Court. Increasingly its opinions rely on statements of facts that are later determined not to be true. And Professor Pfaff is also right that the Court as institution is...