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2 min read 2023-05-31 02:59:36

Banging Our Heads on the Debt Ceiling

In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman untangle the holiday

5 min read 2023-03-30 04:14:00

I have written before on the prosecution, conviction, appeal and remand in United States v. Pursley (S.D. Tx – No. 18-cr-00575). See blogs

2 min read 2023-03-25 02:45:36

Public safety must be a top consideration whenever someone is proposing or discussing changes to the nation’s criminal codes, whether federal,

1 min read 2023-03-09 02:13:41

Former drug firm exec sentenced to more than 2 years for illegal opioid sales By Brendan Pierson NEW YORK, March 8 (Reuters) – The former chief

2 min read 2023-02-16 01:40:25

Andre McDonald uses a hand motion to explain how a claw hammer got stuck in his wife’s neck during her mutilation while taking the stand in his own

2 min read 2023-01-23 22:58:28

Nikola Corp. founder Trevor Milton remains free on $100 million bond as his sentencing on three fraud convictions scheduled for Friday was

2 min read 2023-01-23 22:58:28

Nikola Corp. founder Trevor Milton remains free on $100 million bond as his sentencing on three fraud convictions scheduled for Friday was

10 min read 2023-01-23 21:17:47

Factual Statement Is a Tale of Whistleblowing, High-Risk Customers, and Misleading U.S. Banks Earlier this month, Danske Bank was sentenced in the

10 min read 2023-01-23 21:17:47

Factual Statement Is a Tale of Whistleblowing, High-Risk Customers, and Misleading U.S. Banks Earlier this month, Danske Bank was sentenced in the

3 min read 2023-01-12 03:00:25

The number of federal sentences for simple marijuana possession has declined dramatically in recent years, from 2,172 in fiscal year 2014 to

3 min read 2023-01-12 02:00:52

Texas used lethal injection to execute 65-year-old Robert Fratta on Tuesday night despite an ongoing legal fight over the state's use of

5 min read 2023-01-10 18:32:33

The number of children incarcerated in juvenile prisons across the United States fell to an all-time low in 2020, the latest year of available

2 min read 2023-01-04 02:46:06

The Oregon Supreme Court ruled Friday that hundreds of people convicted by non-unanimous juries and still serving prison sentences in the

2 min read 2023-01-04 00:30:14

The first execution of 2023 in the United States may also end up being the first execution of a trans inmate, but the media emphasis on Amber

6 min read 2022-12-30 00:13:07

The second of two ringleaders in the plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020 was sentenced Wednesday in federal court to 19.6 years in