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Sitting en banc, the Ninth Circuit rejected an as applied Second Amendment challenge to an often-charged federal law that prohibits convicted felons from possessing firearms under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). See…

Retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, David H. Souter, died peacefully yesterday at home in New Hampshire. He was 85 years old. See Supreme Court Press Release.

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The United States Sentencing Commission released Quick Facts for Individuals in the Federal Bureau of Prisons. As of March 2025, there were 154,155 individuals…

Over the course of 10 years, Louisville, Ky. man is indicted and re-indicted six times on 34 charges including murder, rape, kidnapping—all over the same nexus of events that took place in 2004. He spends over seven years in prison. But wait! The state drops the murder charge in 2015 and then…

Oklahoma cops seize a 24-year-old's iPhone when he surfaces with a missing 14-year-old and get a state warrant to search for anything on the phone that might be evidence of any crime. Yikes! They uncover child porn and hand the trove to federal officers, who apply for a federal…

One of the most-read novellas of all time, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, clocks in at, depending on what edition you pick up, around 120 pages. Not to be outdone, the 15-judge…

Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan died Friday morning at 91, more than two decades after leaving office for the last time. See NPR news article.

He died just one day after being put into hospice care in his native Kankakee.

Ryan, a Republican, served one term as governor from 1999 to…

A federal court in Texas Thursday ruled that President Trump's use of the 18th-century wartime law Alien Enemies Act (AEA) to detain and deport Venezuelan immigrants from South…

In Alabama, certain sex offenders cannot ever spend the night in the same home as a child even if the offense was years ago, they are reformed, and the child is their own. Unanimous Eleventh Circuit: This…

U.S. Sentencing Commission issues a policy statement in 2023 that a non-retroactive change in the law can present an "extraordinary and compelling" reason warranting a sentence reduction if it results in old inmates serving much longer sentences than new inmates who committed the same crimes.…