Grand juries are meeting in Georgia and Washington, D.C., as part of investigations into attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. How do they work?
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Immigration judges must base their decisions to grant asylum to immigrant children on whether these children have realistic fears of persecution. But other factors influence those decisions.
History shows that attorneys general who are picked by – and serve at the pleasure of – the president are not as independent as they may be expected to be.
The Justice Department has approved alternatives to lethal injections for federal executions. But no method of capital punishment has been without gruesome stories of what went wrong.
The initial aim of the 1937 Foreign Agents Registration Act was long forgotten: the prosecution of Nazis for interfering with American democracy. But that law is startlingly relevant to the US now.
An expert on secrecy in government explains the downsides and limits of transparency.
The foundation initially seemed well-suited for cleaning up Bill Clinton’s legacy after the Monica Lewinsky scandal’s ugliness. That’s no longer true.
Politicians on the left and right object to this practice, which the Trump administration is championing.
Did the attorney general help create a false story on why Comey was fired? Sessions’ testimony to Congress provides no answers.
At a time when politicians are struggling to gain the public’s trust, Janet Reno’s legacy as an honest, humble public servant may serve as an example moving forward from the election.
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Co-Director, National Security and Civil Rights Program, Loyola University Chicago
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Distinguished Practitioner in Residence, Loyola University Chicago
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Professor of law and ethics, Georgia State University
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Professor of Criminal Law, Immigration, and Race and Law, University of California, Davis
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William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
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Associate Professor at the School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University
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Professor of law, Washington University in St. Louis
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Professor, Department of Justice Studies, Montclair State University
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Interim Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, Boston University
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Assistant Professor, Westminster College
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Associate Professor of Instruction, The University of Texas at Austin
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Associate Professor, Criminology, Texas A&M University-San Antonio
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Professor of Law, University of Richmond
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Assistant Professor of Economics, Purdue University
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Director of Research, Academic Development, and Innovation, Middlebury
