The War on Immigrants
ICE Searched LexisNexis Database Over 1 Million Times in Just Seven Months
LexisNexis usage logs for Immigration and Customs Enforcement for seven months totaled 1,211,643 searches and 302,431 “reports.”
Justice
Death and Dereliction
Supreme Court Guts Its Own Precedent to Allow Arizona to Kill Barry Jones
Embracing the state’s claim that “innocence isn’t enough,” the court destroyed a lifeline for people who received poor lawyering at trial.
Voices
We All Know Mass Killers Love the AR-15. Now Meet Their Favorite Bullet.
After Uvalde, there’s still no gun control on the horizon. We can start by regulating hyper-destructive expanding ammunition then.
Voices
Uvalde Police Didn’t Move to Save Lives Because That’s Not What Police Do
It should not take an event so devastating to break the spell of policing mythology about what cops do — and what they don't.
Voices
AR-15s Were Made to Explode Human Bodies. In Uvalde, the Bodies Belonged to Children.
Parents awaiting word on their kids were asked by police to provide DNA samples to help identify the children.
The End of Roe
Oklahoma’s Total Abortion Ban Will Mean Surveillance, Criminalization, and Chaos
The state’s new ban is the most extreme in the country, going further than Texas’s notorious S.B. 8 by banning abortion after fertilization.
FBI Provides Chicago Police With Fake Online Identities for "Social Media Exploitation" Team
Internal documents also reveal that police can take over informants’ social media accounts and pose as them online.
Voices
The Right’s Creeping Pro-Natalist Rhetoric on Abortion and Trans Health Care
From the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade draft opinion to bills targeting trans youth, fear of sterilization has emerged as a troubling talking point.
Playing With Fire
After 30 Years Insisting on His Innocence, Claude Garrett Is Free
Having twice convicted Garrett for setting a fatal fire in 1992, the Nashville DA’s office dropped the charges against him, facilitating his release.
The War on Immigrants
“This Is America Motherfucker”: Witnesses Describe Border Patrol Killing of Mexican Migrant
Men traveling with Carmelo Cruz Marcos told authorities that Border Patrol agents tampered with evidence and sought to concoct a cover story.