Tagged: Crime and Justice

Elaine Cassell of Civil Liberties Watch on Score Another One For Secret Trials: Court Hands Bush Big Win: For those of you hoping the federal courts will save you from the abuses of freedom...

Agnostic heathen though I be, there is certain amount of comfort in the thought that there is a special place in Hell for those who drop 70 pound rocks from overpasses.

Casey Lartigue remembers the time he and his friends did the right thing while the rest of the world tried to look the other way: It was New Year's Eve, I was visiting from...

G. Jeffrey MacDonald of The Christian Science Monitor on The self-made lawyer: Divorced and with two grown sons, a business background, and a fixer-upper house in Hardwick, Vt., Pamela Stonier lives a lifestyle that...

Associated Press on Tacoma Chief Shoots Wife Before Killing Himself, Police Say: Tacoma Police Chief David Brame shot his estranged wife then killed himself Saturday, a day after the woman's allegations of abuse were...

Melanie Lefkowitz and Leonard Levitt writing for Newsday on PD Wipes Out Protester Database: Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said Thursday he had ordered an end to the recent department practice of questioning arrested anti-war...

The ACLU has set up a fax page for those who wish to contact their legislators regarding Oversight of the Secret FISA Court : Under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (most commonly known as...

Nathan Newman asks the obvious question: If an arab drove a truck into the National Mall, announcing he had explosives, do you think the police would let him stay there for three days? Or...

Anne Gearan writing for the Associated Press on Supreme Court Rules Federal Racketeering, Extortion Laws Wrongly Used Against Abortion Protesters: In a victory for abortion foes, the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that federal racketeering...

From the Opinion page in today's Baltimore Sun: PLENTY OF John Ashcroft's former Senate colleagues had misgivings when George W. Bush nominated him to be attorney general. They knew him to be more ideological...