President Trump could sit down with special counsel Robert Mueller and his investigators as soon as the next few weeks, though any cooperation from the president is being carefully negotiated, the Washington Post reports. Trump is eager to sit down with Mueller’s team in an...
Two years ago in Gelboim v. Bank of America, the Supreme Court unanimously held that a district-court order disposing of the sole claim in one action was a final and appealable order, even if the action had been consolidated with other actions for some pretrial...
The Justice Department will soon start trying to jam cellphones smuggled into federal prisons and used for criminal activity, part of a broader safety initiative that is also focused on preventing drones from airdropping contraband to inmates, the Washington Post reports. Deputy Attorney General Rod...
Unpublished Justice Department data on sex crimes show that people with intellectual disabilities are the victims of sexual assaults at rates more than seven times those for people without disabilities, NPR reports. It’s one of the highest rates of sexual assault of any group in...
The terminology surrounding today’s legal technology, particularly with respect to artificial intelligence, can be confusing. On a daily basis and in a variety of contexts we now routinely encounter terms like augmented intelligence, cognitive computing, analytics, natural language processing, machine learning, and more. The terms...
Patrick Deneen thinks liberalism has reached a dead end, but perhaps it is only social democracy whose fate is sealed....
Before I had thought much about the distinction between jails and prisons, a local prosecutor suggested that I take my political science students to El Dorado Correctional Facility, a maximum-security state prison located about 45 minutes northeast of Wichita. We applied to the Kansas Department of...
The ACS has compelling reasons to present a united progressive front, but this comes at a steep cost....
New gunshot-detectors deployed in August confirmed the fears of Cincinnati police: People only call 911 a small fraction of the times guns are fired, reports the Cincinnati Enquirer. For the first four months, ShotSpotter detected 257 gunfire incidents in and around the city’s Avondale area....
Mesothelioma survivor David Broyles once worried about living long enough to see the birth of his daughter. Now, almost 22 years later, he will see her graduate from college. He has beaten the odds. “Miracles happen,” Broyles told Asbestos.com. “They happen every day in this world, small miracles...