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Ted Alcorn Reporting for Work Where You Once Reported for Probation
Where mistrust between communities and law enforcement runs high, can people with criminal histories bridge the gap?
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Nothing Will Persuade White Evangelicals to Support Impeachment
New polling suggests that Trump’s base is totally unified behind the president, no matter what investigations might reveal.
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Andrew Chung / Reuters The Supreme Court Will Soon Test Its Commitment to Abortion Rights
In a new case, the justices will reconsider past decisions that have protected women’s ability to terminate their pregnancies.
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Alvaro Dominguez The Private Option
One company has become the biggest provider of jail health care. Sheriffs are worried: “If you’re the only dance in town, you can pretty much call your own shots.”
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Gary Cameron / Reuters How Trump Is Reversing Obama’s Nondiscrimination Legacy
A new rule would allow federal contractors to make hiring and firing decisions based on their religious beliefs and practices.
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Jim Watson / AFP /Getty Kirsten Gillibrand Targets Biden’s Views on Women
The senator from New York tried to paint the former vice president as regressive, tapping into bigger questions about the Democratic Party’s identity heading into 2020.
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Lee Corkran / Sygma via Getty The Clarence Thomas Effect
The notoriously quiet Supreme Court justice has had a far-reaching influence on the personnel of the Trump administration, which may be his most lasting legacy.
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Trent Nelson / AP The ‘Death Penalty’s Dred Scott’ Lives On
In 1987, the Supreme Court came within one vote of eliminating capital punishment in Georgia based on evidence of racial disparities. Instead, it created a precedent that civil-rights advocates have been fighting for decades.
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Christopher Aluka Berry / Reuters The New Abortion Bills Are a Dare
State legislators in Alabama and Georgia know that abortion bans will likely be overturned in lower courts. They are aiming higher.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters There’s a Way for Democrats to Sue Trump—Thanks to the Republicans
A lawsuit to block the border wall could go the route the House GOP took in 2014 to challenge Obamacare.
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Leah Millis / Reuters The Most Remarkable Thing About Trump's Proposed National Emergency
With his solution to the border-wall impasse, the president seems to be working within the boundaries of law—revealing the massive power of the American executive.
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Alex Brandon Trump’s Evangelical Advisers Could Help Him Secure a Win on Sentencing Reform
Conservative Christian leaders are a major force behind criminal-justice legislation being considered in the Senate. But black and progressive clergy see danger in allying with the president, even on this issue.
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Illustration by Cam Floyd; animation by Andrew Embury The Tragedy of Mental Illness in American Prisons
At the time of his death, following a violent altercation with guards, Karl Taylor was one of thousands of mentally ill inmates who are confined to institutions that are supremely ill-equipped to handle them.
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Marc Levy / AP The Justice Department’s Investigation of Clergy Sexual Abuse Will Test the Catholic Hierarchy
A new inquiry significantly escalates the involvement of secular authorities.
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Alex Wroblewski / Reuters Kavanaugh Has a Strong Chance of Confirmation—and of Becoming an Election Rallying Cry
The Supreme Court nominee has become a symbol of the president’s quiet judicial legacy and the anti-Trump resistance.
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Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP Why Paul Manafort's Trial Is Going So Fast
The Eastern District of Virginia isn't called the “rocket docket” for nothing.
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Jim Bourg / Reuters Brett Kavanaugh Has GOP Bona Fides—and a Controversial Record
Trump's Supreme Court pick faces a brutal nomination fight ahead.
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Customs and Border Patrol / Reuters Religious Leaders Condemn Family Separations—but Not Necessarily Trump
His “zero-tolerance” policy has been called “traumatic” and “cruel.” But his most stalwart supporters are sticking with him.
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Matthieu Bourel The End of Civil Rights
Across immigration, policing, criminal justice, and voting rights, the attorney general is pushing an agenda that could erase many of the legal gains of modern America's defining movement.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Democrats Split Over Trump's Prison Pitch
The party is torn over a reform bill that just passed the House with the president’s support: Should it back modest changes to the criminal-justice system or hold out for more?
