Why We Should Pay for Inmates to Go to School
How does that headline resonate with you? If you’re like most folks who haven’t paid much attention to America’s incarceration problem—namely, that more people are locked up in the United States than anywhere More...
Bill Clinton to NAACP in Philly: South Carolina shooting ‘changed the country’
Former President Bill Clinton followed President Obama by speaking with the national NAACP in Philadelphia on Wednesday. Clinton talked about voting, midterm versus presidential election turnout and touched on More...
Supreme Court rules that President recognizes Jerusalem, not Congress
The Supreme Court on Monday struck down a law that would have allowed American parents of children born in Jerusalem to obtain passports saying the children were born in Israel. The president, rather than Congress, More...
Boston Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev gets death penalty
The federal jury that deliberated over charges against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev for the past three months delivered the severest form of justice Friday, sentencing the terrorist to death for the Boston Marathon bombing. Tsarnaev More...
President Obama condemns ‘criminals and thugs’ in Baltimore as the ‘slow rolling crisis’
President Barack Obama on Tuesday condemned the “criminals and thugs who tore up” the city of Baltimore on Monday night, after rioting and looting incapacitated the city and overwhelmed local officials. “There’s More...
Judicial Watch joins WND, sues DOJ for documents linked to Miriam Carey shooting death
Judicial Watch announced it has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on behalf of WorldNetDaily.com to obtain the release of documents regarding the October 2013 shooting of Miriam More...
DOJ Ferguson Report: Witnesses scared to tell truth, threatened and scared
According to the 86-page report issued by the Department of Justice, six of the most credible witnesses to the shooting of Michael Brown were afraid to give testimony in support of Ferguson, MO, police officer More...
DOJ report highlights Ferguson racism, email jokes about President Obama
The Department of Justice report, set for full release today, highlights the Ferguson Police Department’s patterns of racial bias, a hot topic since the shooting of Michael Brown by Darren Wilson. The full More...
George Zimmerman free from federal civil rights lawsuit, ‘not enough evidence’
The U.S. Justice Department announced Tuesday that it found “insufficient evidence” to bring criminal civil rights charges against George Zimmerman, the Hispanic man previously cleared by a Florida court in More...
Justice Fellowship backs Sen Mike Lee, Dick Durbin bill on ‘Smarter’ sentencing
Senators Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) introduced the Smarter Sentencing Act, which will advance more proportionate sentencing for non-violent federal drug offenses. The current federal prison system’s More...
New study: Mass incarceration not helping reduce crime, Congress stalled on reform
As lawmakers continue to push criminal justice reform, a new study claims the of role mass incarceration in the drastic drop in crime in the U.S. over the last two decades has not been the cause. “Incarceration More...
New York court: Vu Truong’s marriage to his neice, Huyen Nguyen is lawful
A ruling in the New York Court of Appeals reversed a marriage annullment between an uncle and his “half-niece” as Tuesday’s decision made their union lawful. Vietnamese citizen Huyen Nguyen’s More...
DOJ to end gay marriage bans through Supreme Court
The U.S. Department of Justice will be urging the Supreme Court to act quickly and uphold a lower-court decision to block states from gay gay marriage, according to Attorney General Eric Holder in comments on Sunday More...
Senate to approve David Barron for judge, the author who justified drone murders
The decision to release documents detailing the controversial legal logic behind the assassination of an American with a drone is imminent as the Senate votes to approve its author to judgeship. President Obama’s More...
Nicholas Knight, former Navy officer hacking government websites ‘did dumb things’
The former US sailor accused of infiltrating government networks using the Navy’s own computers and posting links to his group’s findings on Twitter says he and his associates “did dumb things.” Public domain More...
NAACP head in Los Angeles, Leon Jenkins, resigns after Donald Sterling scandal
NAACP interim President and CEO Lorraine Miller has accepted the resignation of the Los Angeles chapter president after questions surfaced as to why his branch honored L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling. In a letter More...
John Boehner says House will pressure DOJ for criminal charges against Lois Lerner
House Speaker John Boehner confirmed to Fox News’ Megyn Kelly Monday that lawmakers plan to press the Justice Department to consider a criminal case against ex-IRS official Lois Lerner for “misleading the Congress.” photo More...
DOJ fights Notre Dame on Obamacare contraception mandate
The Obama administration is fighting the University of Notre Dame’s request for a reprieve from complying with Obamacare’s contraception coverage requirements. Photo donkeyhotey donkeyhotey.worpdress.com Justice More...
DOJ to Supreme Court on Obamacare mandate: Employer’s Religious beliefs are not legitimate reason to deny coverage
The Department of Justice filed its response to the US Supreme Court in the Hobby Lobby case. “In arguments filed late Friday, Justice Department lawyers told the court that an employer’s religious beliefs aren’t More...
Justice Sonia Sotomayor delays birth control mandate in Obamacare
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor granted a temporary injunction to a group of Catholic nonprofit groups, including the Little Sisters of the Poor Home for the Aged, from the required coverage of contraceptives. photo More...
