Accountability
A school district cop allegedly did nothing to stop the Uvalde mass shooting. Was that failure a crime?
After the 2022 shooting that killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, police officers were widely condemned for failing to act in time to prevent those deaths. The gunman was not stopped…
How politicians and cops tried to dodge responsibility in 2025
On his way out the door last January, President Joe Biden issued broad, preemptive pardons for several relatives and political allies. Those stay-out-jail cards set an alarming precedent that could undermine the…
Another New Mexico cop lauded for nabbing drunk drivers admits taking bribes to let them off the hook
In September 2021, Albuquerque police officer Timothy McCarson arrested an intoxicated driver who had been hospitalized after he was injured in a crash. But McCarson never filed charges against the driver, and he explained…
A case that briefly united Clarence Thomas and Sonia Sotomayor
It's not every day that you find U.S. Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Sonia Sotomayor in agreement about the destructive legacy of one of the Supreme Court's own precedents. But such an agreement was on…
Kash Patel ties Comey indictment to the legally unrelated ‘Russiagate hoax’
In his 2023 book Government Gangsters, Kash Patel, now the director of the FBI, described a "deep state" conspiracy against Donald Trump that he equated with a conspiracy to subvert democracy and the Constitution.…
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