Sandra Day O'Connor stepped down unexpectedly from the Supreme Court, closing out a career as the first female justice and the anchor of a shaky majority for abortion rights. President George W. Bush ...

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The dual goals of our criminal justice system are to maximize public safety and to ensure the fair and impartial administration of justice. The system operates with five components — law enforcement, ...

Take a stroll through Nashville’s Fred D. Thompson U.S. Courthouse and you’ll likely spend most of the time with your head angled up. At the entrance, a mosaic cast across the dome ceiling re-creates ...

A case currently before the U.S. Supreme Court could put an important limit on state and local governments’ authority to take property from people without just compensation. Unfortunately, the oral ...

Logo arrow shows the path forward. South Florida Mom and Executive Director of Balanced Justice Network is leading the campaign for transparency in plea bargains. The Transparency in Plea Bargain ...

Flickr/hans s. Some rights reserved. It is tempting to assume the permanent stability of our legal system because it has been entrenched for so long, and it would be ...