Tag: criminal justice

News and content focused on crime, courts, or law enforcement. This tag is also added to content about criminal and social justice related to systemic racism.

Trump’s DOJ Bringing Back Firing Squad to Make Good on Campaign Promise

The DOJ announced Friday it is reviving the firing squad, electrocution, and gas asphyxiation as federal execution methods, alongside a…

ICE Agent Was Charged For Pointing Gun at Citizens on Minnesota Highway — First Criminal Case From Operation Metro Surge

An ICE agent was charged with two counts of felony assault for pointing a gun at commuters on a Minneapolis…

Federal Judge Halts Construction of White House Ballroom, Tells Trump: You’re the ‘Steward’ of the White House, Not the Owner

A federal judge halted Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom, ruling that no president has unilateral authority to demolish and…

Supreme Court Just Made it Harder to Protect LGBTQ+ Kids From Practice That Leads to Suicide

The Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy for minors likely violates free speech, threatening similar protections…

Trump Showed Classified Map to Passengers on Private Plane

Rep. Jamie Raskin reveals that Trump’s own DOJ accidentally provided Congress a prosecutor memo showing Trump displayed a classified map…

The Mueller Report Found That Russia Attacked American Democracy. Here’s What You Need to Know.

The Mueller Report found Russia interfered in the 2016 election in “sweeping and systematic fashion,” documented ten episodes of potential…

Federal Judge Demolishes Trump’s Probe of Fed Chair Powell, Exposing Another Failure by U.S. Attorney Pirro

A federal judge blocked Trump’s criminal probe of Fed Chair Jerome Powell, calling it a harassment campaign to force lower…

America’s Complicated Relationship With the Death Penalty

In this episode of the Stories From the States podcast, the hosts discuss the death penalty, the abolition movement in…

Trump admin says can’t process $166 billion in tariff refunds court ordered to pay

The Trump administration told a federal court it can’t comply with an order to process $166 billion in tariff refunds…

Judge threatens criminal contempt charges against ICE for defying over 200 court orders

Minnesota’s chief federal judge threatens criminal contempt charges against ICE and the state’s top federal prosecutor after over 200 court…

Texas grand jury refuses to indict ICE agent who fatally shot 23-year-old US citizen Ruben Ray Martinez

An ICE agent fatally shot Ruben Ray Martinez through the driver’s side window. DHS claims he attempted to hit an…

Arrested for standing up: ICE assault survivor arrested at SOTU for silent protest

Aliya Rahman, a disabled U.S. citizen brutalized by ICE agents in Minneapolis just weeks ago, was arrested at the State…