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.

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

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

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.

Petitions for early release reveal the contours of people’s lives before incarceration, conditions on the inside, and what might come after.

Police are making low-level arrests even as public health experts have called for immediate decarceration to stop the spread of the coronavirus.

There’s a simple formula for getting on the judicial bench in the MAGA era.

Conservative opponents of cash bail reform in New York saw an opportunity in the pandemic—and took it.

The White House’s coronavirus response is a screwup for the ages. Here’s how to hold the president accountable.