Trump is charged with 34 Class E felony counts, which are punishable by imprisonment for more than one year. If the former ...

Experience shows that juries take seriously their duty to set aside their biases and decide where the truth lies.

As conservative lawyers and judges have distorted the past to support their originalist arguments, historians are making an ...

The abuse suffered by officials is fueling an exodus from the field. More than one-third of local election officials know at ...

Preliminary FBI data, however imperfect, confirms a sharp downward trend in crime, undercutting attempts to blame criminal ...

Thanks to loopholes and lax enforcement, former president Trump is using campaign funds to pay almost all of his legal bills.

The for-profit bail bond industry is an overlooked but significant factor in pushback against attempts to reform or end the cash bail system.

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Many small donors give in patterns indistinguishable from those of other classes of donors. Wealthy donors have a much ...

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Tech companies have taken important steps recently to help protect elections from AI, but more needs to be done to safeguard democracy. In Munich, companies including OpenAI, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, ...