President Donald Trump’s new executive order promising free private legal protection for law enforcement officers is likely ...

Texas has a near-total ban on abortion procedures with an exception to save a mother’s life. It is already illegal for ...

A class-action lawsuit is challenging a 2024 Georgia law that requires those accused of offenses such as trespassing and failure to appear in court to pay cash bail.

Here’s a quaint idea: If the government is going to punish someone, it should be for something the person has done, not the ...

The Trump administration is subverting the traditional priorities of the department’s decimated civil rights office by making ...

In Nigeria, the court is congested with civil cases filed under criminal acts. The Nigerian legal system addresses the wrongdoings that people commit with two different types of cases: civil and ...

In his first book, UC Riverside Professor of Philosophy Barry Lam broaches widespread criminalization and argues to return ...

Retired Supreme Court Judge, Justice V Ramasubramanian, highlights greater faith in the criminal justice system over civil.

If President Richard Nixon had perpetrated any of these acts, the Watergate Special Prosecution Force would have investigated ...

In half the country, sex offense civil commitment incarcerates people after they complete their prison sentences.

Delia Fabro-Miske, the daughter-in-law of the late business ... was at the heart of Mike Miske’s criminal enterprise, prosecutors said. (Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2020) Fabro-Miske, now 30, was ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — First the nation’s top law firms. Then its premier universities. Now, President Donald Trump is leaning on the advocacy groups that underpin U.S. civil society. Trump said ...