A hundred Stoneman Douglas High School students are busing 400 miles to Florida’s capital Tuesday to lobby for action to prevent a repeat of the massacre that killed 17 students and faculty last week, the Associated Press reports. The students plan to rally Wednesday in...
When we ask lawyers what they need their marketing to accomplish, the most common answer by far is “I need more clients.” But we’d like to challenge that mindset. Do you really need more clients… or do you need better clients? Take a moment and think...
[Editor’s note: An earlier version of this post ran on December 18, as an introduction to this blog’s symposium on Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31, as well as at Howe on the Court, where it was originally published.] Like...
Republican nominees have often been disappointments for originalists, but Neil Gorsuch is turning out to be the exception to this trend....
More than 6 in 10 Americans fault Congress and President Trump for not doing enough to prevent mass shootings, finds a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. Most Americans continue to say these incidents are more reflective of problems identifying and addressing mental health issues than...
The collective homicide toll for the 50 largest U.S. cities dipped slightly in 2017, reports USA Today. The FBI’s compilation isn’t due until later this year, but a review of police crime data shows that killings decreased in large jurisdictions compared with 2016. The modest...
What do the Three Strikes law, mandatory-minimums for drug offenders, the Stop Snitching campaign, and private police have in common? According to Paul H. Robinson, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, they are all expressions of a “shadow” vigilantism that has...
Is it easier to take a second look at suspect convictions when crime rates have declined, and the public is no longer clamoring for tough-on-crime strategies from their prosecutors and police? Brooklyn (NY) District Attorney Eric Gonzalez argues that prosecutors in fact should beware of the...
Three big-city prosecutors who have formed special units to review—and correct—errors made by their offices say a “cultural shift” is necessary to persuade politicians, police and their own attorneys that it is more important to avoid mistakes than to simply win convictions. “My pitch to (county)...
Jordan Peterson is easy to caricature, but his teaching is deeper than most people realize, and offers existential lessons we need today....