Justice

Here's how and why big cities should take note.

Leila Sadat, the ICC prosecutor's special adviser on crimes against humanity, told Newsweek: "It's a problem of double standards."

We need Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's experience, wisdom and moral clarity on our highest court.

This week Josh Hawley claimed Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson has been soft on child sex offenders.

Thomas has been on the Supreme Court since 1991, but Black law students told Newsweek that Jackson would be the first justice they see themselves in.

The laws allow someone to use deadly force if they feel threatened, without the obligation to flee, and have increased monthly homicides by 11 percent.

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Friday dramatically inflated the number of children severely ill with COVID-19.

The Supreme Court corrected its official transcript of Gorsuch's remarks on Monday morning.

Desiree Goodson said, "I just want my son back," after 14-year-old Samir Jefferson was fatally shot 18 times waiting for the bus after school.

"Without justice there can be no peace."

"America, you raised your voices for Ahmaud. Now is not the time to let them quiet," the civil rights attorney said after the jury's decision.

Marianne Campbell Smith was sentenced to 40 hours of community service, one year of informal probation and ordered to pay a $200 fine.

The University of Virginia's A. E. Dick Howard broke down how the Democrats could take advantage of a conservative supermajority on the bench in 2022.

A person's perceptions of justice reveal something about their stories and the authorities that shaped their lives.

On Thursday, James released a press statement detailing the lawsuit victory and what it means for New Yorkers and their families.

The three suspects allegedly ran a multi-functional cable theft scheme between March 2016 and November 2019.

Sensible rulings from the ICC at the outset of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan 2.0 could help the international community understand the criminals it will be dealing with.

Members of Congress have the unique opportunity to pass a bipartisan reform eliminating a decades-long sentencing injustice, a proposal that unites voters across demographic, geographic and political lines.

Venezuelans have waited far too long for justice from the predatory Maduro regime.

A Florida man has pleaded guilty for orchestrating a hit to kill a woman and her husband in their home.

Juror 7—previously identified as Richelle Nice—"bent over backwards" to be a juror in the trial, Peterson's lawyers say.

President Joe Biden's recent appearance at the G7 was intended to project a renewed United States commitment to human rights abroad, but it's not clear that he's prepared to abandon the old song and dance for tougher measures.

The occurrence of COVID-19 outbreaks inside ICE detention centers demonstrates the continued insufficient implementation of protective policies for detained people by authorities.

A rare McLaren, a Lotus race car and a Bentley Flying Spur were among the cars, trucks and SUVs that the government of the Philippines destroyed with a backhoe this week.

Clearing federal death row is the only way to make sure that the U.S. government does not execute an innocent person.

We need a complete overhaul of the current criminal justice system with bold reforms, even stronger new legislation protecting Black and brown lives and a criminal justice national reentry czar to even begin to see meaningful change.

More than a quarter of a million families of homicide victims deserve closure by identifying a perpetrator, and legislation like ours can help make that happen.

Black youth are owed the same perception of innocence and grace given to their white peers.

Voting rights must be prioritized near-term over any attempt to try to push through an expansion of the Supreme Court, and Democrats should not get caught up in diverting their energies toward the Court issue.

This was a trial over whether Americans believe that reasonable policing means you can kneel on someone's neck for over nine minutes until they die. It was a trial over whether you can say that black lives matter while also insisting on respecting the police officers in your community.