Five years ago this month, Donald Trump signed a major sentencing and prison reform bill into law. Known as the First Step Act, the law was wildly popular with Congress and the public, giving Trump a ...

Criminal law attorneys work in perhaps the most emotionally charged area of the law. After all, their clients face outcomes that can deprive them of their freedom, perhaps for the rest of their lives.

For 30 years or more I have been compiling an annual booklet summarizing all the “Criminal Law and Related Decisions” of the Supreme Court, published every summer by the Criminal Law Section of the ...

The False Claims Act (FCA), known as “Lincoln’s Law” because of its origins in Civil War-era contractor fraud, has long been a powerful enforcement tool for the U.S. government. Although the Trump ...

One of the most obvious truths of modern government is that it tends to grow exponentially. The number of bureaucrats it employs increases. The amount it taxes it spends goes up. Its reach into every ...

ScotusCrim is a recurring series by Rory Little focusing on intersections between the Supreme Court and criminal law. Today’s column is my busman’s holiday project: providing nerd-like numbers and ...