An abolitionist demand rose to mainstream prominence. Now every politician and cable news talking head is suddenly an expert.

Police unions have secured some of the most robust benefit packages in the country. Why shouldn’t everyone have that?

With the Justice Department in full collapse, the presumptive nominee could spark a timely discussion about its future leadership.

“The cops at the protest that day wouldn’t make eye contact. They were laughing at one point. I think they think this is funny.”

Law enforcement agencies have become the standing armies that the Founders feared.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, and the president has bunkered down.

“It got to the point where us pregnant females were denying our medical treatment. It was almost like a boycott.”

The coronavirus has slowed much American police work, but the rate of police killings has remained relatively unchanged.

The derangements of our current era could threaten the rock-solid legal precedents that provide states with the right to act in the interests of public health.

American democracy is broken. Here’s how to fix it.

Much like their client, the White House’s lawyers don’t seem to understand what a president does, but they’re not letting that stop them.

Against the backdrop of the coronavirus crisis, our unaccountable surveillance state is set to expand.

Attorney General Bill Barr’s transparent corruption has reached farcical new levels. And he’s not done by a damn sight.

In the drive to “reopen” the economy, the means to radically expand tech-based surveillance and criminalize our everyday lives are there for the taking.

Judge Justin Walker is the worst of a long line of right-wing dilettantes fast-tracked by Mitch McConnell in his relentless quest to subvert the judiciary.

Faced with having to choose between the president and Congress, the justices want to permanently abdicate their role as adjudicators.

Ramon Ward was exonerated thanks to a new system of reinvestigating old cases. He hopes he’s not the last.

Within a plainly just ruling on criminal procedures, conservatives have built a sandbox for tomorrow’s battles over gay rights and abortion.

How a New York law on “masquerading” passed in the early nineteenth century has been used—and abused—in the decades since

It's commonly held that letting the cops do crimes is a big no-no, but thanks to a zany lower court ruling the question is in the Supreme Court's hands.