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Opinion: Ex-Prosecutor Faces Harsh Criticism After 'Central Park 5' Netflix Series
A new television series about the Central Park Five paints an unflattering portrait of Linda Fairstein and has prompted calls to boycott her books. Her publisher dropped her Friday.
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Who Cares About the Supreme Court’s ‘Legitimacy’?
Conservatives seem to assume that only the chief justice is moved by fears that he and his colleagues will end up looking like politicians in robes.
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Why are so many people dying in US prisons and jails?
The number of Americans dying while incarcerated has surged while the US prison population has increased by 500% over the last 40 years
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Saudi Fugitives Accused of Serious Crimes Get Help to Flee While U.S. Officials Look the Other Way
The FBI, Department of Homeland Security and other agencies have known for years that Saudi diplomats were helping Saudi fugitives. But Washington avoided even raising the problem out of concern that it might hurt Saudi cooperation in the fight against terrorism. By Sebastian Rotella, Tim Golden, Shane Dixon Kavanaugh.
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Man who threatened to kill Ajit Pai’s children gets 20 months in prison
Markara Man threatened Pai's family days after net neutrality repeal.
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Arrest Me, You Alabama Cowards
The state's abortion ban treats women as victims of evil doctors rather than informed, willing participants. By Emily Atkin.
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Five more states sue OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma for opioid epidemic
Four of the states — Iowa, Maryland, Wisconsin and West Virginia — also sued the company's former president Richard Sackler.
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The Supreme Court’s Worst Decision of My Tenure
District of Columbia v. Heller recognized an individual right to possess a firearm under the Constitution. Here’s why the case was wrongly decided.
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In re: Grand Jury Subpoena, Chelsea Manning, Subpoenaed Party. Declaration 19-1287-cv
My name is Chelsea Elizabeth Manning. I am competent to be a witness, and I possess personal knowledge of the facts set forth below... I’m not going to change my mind. Not now, not ever. So be it. [PDF]
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Top Executives of Insys, an Opioid Company, Are Found Guilty of Racketeering
The defendants were accused of conspiring to bribe doctors to prescribe a fentanyl-based painkiller and misleading insurers about patients’ need for the drug. By Gabrielle Emanuel, Katie Thomas.
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An algorithm wipes clean the criminal pasts of thousands
A ground-breaking project in California could see 250,000 people freed from their criminal record this year.
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Federal Judge Damon Keith, who authored landmark rulings on civil liberties, dies at 96
Keith decided cases on some of America's most controversial issues, from school desegregation to government surveillance of citizens
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Laurence Doud III, drug company exec to face federal criminal charges as a drug dealer.
Laurence Doud III, the former CEO of the Rochester Drug Cooperative, is the first drug company executive to face federal criminal charges over the opioid crisis.
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MLB players love our caps. The people who make them for us deserve fair wages.
Why players are taking a stand on the long supply chain to the baseball diamond.
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To Wrest Back Rule of Law in Poland, Might EU Bureaucracy Finally Work?
A European Commission procedure may rein in a Polish government assault on rule of law, and might protect democracy elsewhere in the EU, too.
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More jails replace in-person visits with awful video chat products
"Video visitation" services cost as much as 50 cents per minute.
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Are Georgetown Students About to Make History on Racial Reparations?
A vote happens later this week to create a fund for descendants of the 272 slaves sold by the Jesuit university 181 years ago. It could be a model for other schools.
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Poacher trampled by elephants and eaten by lions in South Africa.
Karma's a bitch.
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The Supreme Court Just Went Medieval on Executions and the Eighth Amendment
Why should Neil Gorsuch care if someone's essentially tortured to death? He'll never know that guy.
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This chart shows how Saudi Arabia is on course to behead more people than ever before in 2019
The only countries who order more death penalties than Saudi Arabia are China and Iran, but beheading with a sword is unique to Saudis.
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