Monica Potts, Jamelle Bouie, and Adam Serwer discuss Donald Trump’s rumored presidential run and a recent Supreme Court decision absolving prosecutors of any responsibility for wrongdoing.
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Gay on Trial
After state-level defeats, lawyers are taking the case for gay rights to federal court.
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Eyes on the Street: Community Policing in Chicago
It’s now the favorite remedy for urban crime, but a visit to the front lines in Chicago suggests how hard it is to make community policing work.
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Games Prosecutors Play
Ken Starr was no exception. Over the last 30 years, abetted by the Supreme Court, prosecutors have acquired fearsome power in the form of largely untrammeled authority and a bag of sneaky tricks.
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The Judicial Vigilantes
Tom Delay and other social conservatives are on the warpath against liberal judges, and would like nothing better than to impeach the lot of them. While impeachments are improbable, conservatives’ strategy is having a dangerous impact.
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Prisoner Proliferation
When most of us think of convicts at work, we picture them banging out license plates or digging ditches. Those images, however, are now far too limited to encompass the great range of jobs that America’s prison workforce is performing. If you book a flight on TWA, you’ll likely be talking to a prisoner at […]
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Smoking Guns
Even after Littleton, gun control advocates have been stymied in Congress, where the lobbying presence of the NRA is just too strong. But litigation against gun manufacturers, borrowed from the playbook of the anti-tobacco crusaders, may prove the real route to gun control.
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Is Violent Speech a Right?
Advocacy of illegal violence to kill people is not necessarily constitutionally protected speech.
