For the last 15 years, racial disparities in the U.S. prison system have been declining, The Marshall Project reports in collaboration with the Washington Post’s Wonkblog, based on reports from the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics and the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting system. Between 2000...
Thanks to Congress’ fumbling over the bill to fund federal government operations, Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ threatened crackdown on marijuana may get a major boost, Politico reports. A provision of the current spending law known as Rohrabacher-Farr that protects state medical marijuana programs from federal...
President Trump made several misleading or incorrect statements in a speech Friday at the FBI’s training academy in Virginia, the New York Times reports. Most types of violent crime have declined in Chicago since last year, but Trump cited “the steepest two-year consecutive increase in...
President Trump made several misleading or incorrect statements in a speech Friday at the FBI’s training academy in Virginia, the New York Times reports. Most types of violent crime have declined in Chicago since last year, but Trump cited “the steepest two-year consecutive increase in...
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is assigning three more prosecutors to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Maryland, part of a broader reallocation the Justice Department announced Friday to confront violent crime, the Baltimore Sun reports. The announcement comes after Sessions held a press conference in Baltimore...
President Trump’s aggressive push to fill scores of federal court vacancies with conservative judges hit a bump last this week, as he was forced to withdraw two nominees and an embarrassing video went viral showing a third struggling to answer rudimentary questions about the law,...