Crime, Law and Justice

Federal judge ousts Trump's top public lands official
A federal judge ruled Friday that President Trump's leading steward of public lands has been serving unlawfully, blocking him from continuing in the position in the latest pushback against the administration's practice of filling key positions without U.S. Senate approval.
GOP expecting Trump to tap Barrett for Supreme Court
Republicans are expecting President Donald Trump to announce Saturday that he is nominating Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court as he aims to put a historic stamp on the high court just weeks before the election.
'I have no faith in the legal system,' Breonna Taylor's mother says
"I was reassured Wednesday of why I have no faith in the legal system, in the police, in the law," Tamika Palmer said in a statement. "They are not made to protect us Black and brown people."
Union leaders at Waseca’s prison say an ongoing COVID-19 outbreak among workers and staff is the result of unsafe movement of COVID-positive prisoners into the facility.
Who is Amy Coney Barrett, front-runner for the Supreme Court nomination?
The 48-year-old judge, a possible replacement for the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, is seen as having a proven conservative track record. Here are her views on faith, precedent, guns and more.
Officials plead for calm amid anger over Breonna Taylor case
A new round of demonstrations in U.S. cities was set off by outrage over a grand jury’s failure to bring homicide charges against the officers who burst into the Black woman’s apartment six months ago. 
Kenosha shooter's defense portrays him as 'American patriot'
Lawyers for Kyle Rittenhouse have launched a social media campaign depicting the Kenosha, Wis., shooter as not just a scared teenager acting in self-defense, but an American hero akin to the Minutemen who fought at the nation’s founding.