For failing to pay parking tickets, court fees, and other petty municipal citations, black residents of Greater St. Louis are ending up behind bars.
The Court has failed to develop a robust system for applying the Fourth Amendment meaningfully to the questions of the 21st century.
In a class-action lawsuit filed Thursday, a group of defendants argued the state’s public-defender system is too underfunded and overworked to meet the Sixth Amendment’s standards.
A U.S. Army captain sues the White House in federal court to find out.
The president’s closing argument in the midterm elections lays bare the logic of his appeal.