Suicides left more police officers and firefighters dead last year than all line-of-duty deaths combined — a jarring statistic that continues to plague first responders but gets little attention, reports USA Today. A new study by the Ruderman Family Foundation, a philanthropic organization that works...
On the heels of a federal move to shut down the Backpage website, President Trump signed a bill on Wednesday that gives federal and state prosecutors greater power to pursue websites that host sex-trafficking ads and enables victims and state attorneys general to file lawsuits...
On April 16 at 12 p.m., the Heritage Foundation will host a panel discussion about a case asking whether states can require out-of-state retailers to collect sales tax when their residents make a purchase online. The Supreme Court will hear oral argument in the case,...
The Trump administration plan to cut thousands of Department of Justice (DOJ) positions may mean a 25 percent or more reduction in the already tiny 60-person federal agency focused on juvenile justice, reports the Chronicle of Social Change. Marcy Mistrett of the Campaign for Youth Justice...
President Trump signed a bill on Wednesday that gives federal and state prosecutors greater power to pursue websites that host sex-trafficking ads and enables victims and state attorneys general to file lawsuits against those sites, the Washington Post reports. Addressing the victims and family members,...
New York Times v. Sullivan made suing for defamation quite difficult, and this creates new challenges in the age of Twitter Mobs....
In Baltimore’s most crime-ridden zones, officials are conducting an experiment in government. They started by targeting four small, deeply troubled areas to be flooded with more police patrols and city services. They called them “Transformation Zones,” at first, then rebranded them as “Violence Reduction Zones.”...
Chevron interferes with independent judicial judgment, and Christopher Walker calls it nonpartisanship....
Forty states and the District of Columbia have overdose-prevention Good Samaritan laws that trade 911 calls for immunity for low-level drug charges. The idea is to encourage people to call to save lives during an opioid epidemic. The laws vary, but they assure those who...
The Trump administration plans to cut thousands of Department of Justice positions, which may mean a 25 percent or more reduction in the already tiny 60-person federal agency focused on juvenile justice, reports the Chronicle of Social Change. The news comes as advocates work feverishly...