Criminal Justice
Charging a runner for using an unapproved trail defies Trump’s overcriminalization order
When the federal government decided to prosecute mountain runner Michelino Sunseri for using an unauthorized trail while setting a record for ascending and descending Grand Teton in September 2024, it seemed like a good…
Is former Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez trying to get a pardon from Trump?
"People talk about the Trump DOJ," Bob Menendez, the disgraced former senator from New Jersey, posted on X Friday, "but it was the Democrats who started weaponizing the Justice Dept." People talk about the…
Trump deletes Biden’s federal police misconduct database
In one of his first acts after returning to the White House, President Donald Trump ordered the Justice Department to delete a nationwide database tracking misconduct by federal law enforcement. Along with rescinding former…
Is buying OnlyFans content now illegal in Sweden?
Swedish authorities have voted to criminalize the purchase of remote sexual services—things like paying someone for pictures and videos through platforms such as OnlyFans or paying someone for a live erotic webcam show.…
How Charlie Rangel changed his mind about the war on drugs
It "seemed like a good idea at the time," Charlie Rangel remarked in 2021, referring to the draconian drug penalties he supported as a New York congressman in the 1980s. "Clearly, it was overkill." Rangel,…
Trump’s pardon of a corrupt former Virginia sheriff makes a mockery of ‘law and order’
"We must maintain law and order at the highest level, or we will cease to have a country, 100 percent," said Donald Trump, then a candidate for president, at a 2016 rally in Virginia Beach. "We will cease to…
New details on a revolt at a Miami prison holding ICE detainees
Immigration lawyers and correctional officers say an influx of hundreds of immigrant detainees at a federal prison in Miami has thrown the facility into disarray, leading to a detainee revolt in April that was put down with…
2025 could see the lowest U.S. murder rate ever recorded
One of the most predictable clichés in journalism is "if it bleeds, it leads"—the idea that media have a bias for salacious, grisly stories. Like many stereotypes, it's very much based in truth, which might…
L.A.’s deputy mayor for public safety called in a bomb threat on his own city hall
"False flags" are a staple of conspiracy theories. Many infamous attacks and threats, the theory goes, were cooked up by the government itself to spread fear and justify crackdowns. But a bomb threat against Los…
Pregnant women in prison aren’t getting care, and no one is keeping track
Early in her second trimester, Linda Acoff was taken into custody for failing to complete court-ordered mental health treatment. After three weeks in the Cuyahoga County Jail in Columbus, Ohio, she began experiencing…
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