The Department of Justice told the Supreme Court there were "policy tradeoffs that an officer makes" in determining if he should "take one more extra precaution" to make sure he's at the right house.
The feds are rapidly deploying artificial intelligence across spy agencies. What could go wrong?
Legislators have used the state Constitution to avoid accountability for egregious traffic violations.
The cost-cutting initiative's calculation of "estimated savings" is mostly mysterious, and the parts we know about are riddled with errors.
The 9th Circuit revived a First Amendment lawsuit by Lars Jensen, who says his community college punished him for complaining about dumbed-down courses.
A smaller government with a more powerful set of unaccountable executive officials is unlikely to be much of a win for liberty.
"This is a gut punch," says Bernalillo County Sheriff John Allen. "This is a kick to my balls and two black eyes, to be honest with you."
The presidential adviser's lack of formal authority complicates his cost-cutting mission.
New Mexico State Police Sgt. Toby LaFave, "the face of DWI enforcement," has been implicated in a corruption scandal that goes back decades and involves "many officers."
Taxpayers will continue to be hurt twice by misconduct until individual police officers are held accountable.
A driver who was acquitted of drunk driving joins a class action lawsuit provoked by a bribery scheme that went undetected for decades.
The agency—an unelected regulator with a blank check—has spent much of its short life making things harder for the consumers it set out to protect.
In the latest guilty plea, a local defense attorney says he had been bribing cops to make DWI cases disappear "since at least the late 1990s."
For a decade and a half, officers made DWI cases go away in exchange for bribes, relying on protection from senior officers implicated in the same racket.
Federal prosecutors say the city's police department was the main focus of a 15-year bribery scheme that also involved the sheriff's office and the state police.
The Fraternal Order of Police mistakenly thought that the president "supports our law enforcement officers" and "has our backs."
Biden’s preemptive pardons and Trump’s blanket relief for Capitol rioters both set dangerous precedents.
His last-minute acts of clemency invite Trump and future presidents to shield their underlings from the consequences of committing crimes in office.
The Cato Institute is urging the Supreme Court to take up the case and reaffirm that the liability shield does not apply to "obvious rights violations."
Western New Mexico University's Board of Regents approved the severance package for Joseph Shepard after a state audit highlighted $364,000 in "wasteful" and "improper" spending.
Officer Joseph Gibson now faces felony assault charges.
After overseeing the pandemic-era Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), which was a bloated, wasteful mess, Michael Faulkender is failing up.
A long-delayed conviction illustrates the difficulty of holding cops accountable for abusing their powers.
A federal court denied them the right to sue—despite Congress enacting a law five decades ago specifically for situations like this one.
The idea, proposed by former President Donald Trump, could curb waste and step in where our delinquent legislators are asleep on the job.
U.S. District Judge Charles Simpson concluded that the alleged facts did not support penalty enhancements for violating the Fourth Amendment but left several other charges in place.
Harold Medina made that argument during an internal investigation of a car crash he caused last February.
Thus far, the courts have barred Curtrina Martin from asking a jury for damages. She is appealing to the Supreme Court.
According to disciplinary charges against Jennifer Kerkhoff Muyskens, she suppressed video evidence that would have helped DisruptJ20 defendants.
An Illinois sheriff's deputy with a spotty employment history shot Sonya Massey in the face after responding to her report of a prowler.
We need not conjure "extreme hypotheticals" to understand the danger posed by an "energetic executive" who feels free to flout the law.
The doctrine makes it nearly impossible for victims of prosecutorial misconduct to get recourse.
First-place finishes include an investigative piece on egregious misconduct in federal prison, a documentary on homelessness, best magazine columnist, and more.
DeSantis' chief of staff used a personal phone to coordinate migrant flights to Martha's Vineyard. Now DeSantis' lawyers say those phone logs should be secret.
A new law will make it much harder to film law enforcement officers in their public duties. Does that violate the First Amendment?
So many problems would have disappeared if we had treated them like a normal product.
Justin Pulliam's arrest and lawsuit once again demand we ask if "real" journalists are entitled to a different set of rights.
A government scientist is the latest official whose attempts to evade the Freedom of Information Act have landed him in hot water.
Since he favors aggressive drug law enforcement, severe penalties, and impunity for abusive police officers, he may have trouble persuading black voters that he is on their side.
Judge Carlton Reeves ripped apart the legal doctrine in his latest decision on the matter.
Prosecutor Ralph Petty was also employed as a law clerk—by the same judges he argued before.
The dominant media narrative has obscured much of the nuance here.
Mollie and Michael Slaybaugh are reportedly out over $70,000. The government says it is immune.
In data from over 200 cities, homicides are down a little over 19 percent when compared to a similar time frame in 2023.
The pledge, while mostly legally illiterate, offers a reminder of the former president's outlook on government accountability.
In 2022, police received a tip that officers were getting paid to make DWI cases disappear—the same allegation that prompted FBI raids in January.
Priscilla Villarreal is appealing a 5th Circuit decision that dismissed her First Amendment lawsuit against Laredo police and prosecutors.
The Supreme Court will decide whether former presidents can avoid criminal prosecution by avoiding impeachment and removal.
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