John Messner gives live updates he gets from the police scanner on police chases and burglaries on his Knoxville, Tn., Crime Facebook group, which has 94,000 members in a city of 186,000. Social media groups like Knoxville Crime are one reason that Knoxville police officials...
President Trump’s allies are waging an aggressive campaign to undercut the Russia investigation by exposing the role of a top-secret FBI source, the Washington Post reports. The effort reached new heights on Thursday as Trump alleged that an informant had improperly spied on his 2016...
Artificial intelligence is a big topic for debate within the legal industry this year that has some attorneys wondering if AI is just a meaningless buzzword that will lose its momentum in time. However, it seems safe to say that AI is here to stay....
A shooting at Santa Fe High School 30 minutes south of Houston on Friday morning has left at least eight people dead and at least 12 injured, the Houston Chronicle reports. An unidentified law enforcement officer was shot, but sources said he was “clipped” and...
John Elwood (finally) reviews Monday’s relists. We are about to hit a critical date as October Term 2017 draws to a close: “cutoff” – the date by which briefs in opposition (and court-invited amicus briefs from the solicitor general) must be received for the Supreme Court...
As President Trump holds a White House meeting on Friday to promote a prison reform bill pending in Congress, a cadre of powerful Democrats stepped up their opposition campaign by issuing a five-page opposition letter attempting to stamp out momentum for the proposal before it...
In a blow to the soundboard industry, the D.C. Circuit recently ruled in Soundboard Association v. FTC, No. 1:17-cv-00150 (D.C. Cir. Apr. 27, 2018) that the Federal Trade Commission’s November 2016 opinion letter, which reclassified soundboard technology as “robocalls” under the Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR),...
Most individuals sitting in federal prison have offended before, according to a report released by the United States Sentencing Commission (USCC). The USCC, in its first-ever compilation of convictions of all federal offenders sentenced in a fiscal year, found that 72.8 percent of those sentenced in...
A gunman ranting about President Trump walked into the lobby of Trump National Doral Miami resort early Friday morning, draped an American flag on the counter and began firing, the Miami Herald reports. The man — identified as Jonathan Oddi, 42, who was not a...
History is naturally an important part of public meaning originalism....