Nation Topics - Law | The Nation

An audio recording of a stop-and-frisk in action sheds unprecedented light on a practice that has put the city’s young people of color in the NYPD's cross hairs.

The Partisan is a weak account of the career and legal thinking of a conservative and obstreperous chief justice.

As a movement against punitive segregation in local prisons and jails, a new report by the New York Civil Liberties Union reveals more disturbing details than ever before.

In refusing to block the extradition of terror suspects to the US, the European Court for Human Rights has condoned a brutal regimen of long-term solitary confinement.

A Court for the money power, and our democracy is at stake.

The long-term campaign to roll back the New Deal.

Giving corporations the inalienable right to buy elections.

Courts that shelter the powerful and evict the little guy.

The Court’s next project: saving Wall Street from Dodd-Frank.

The pendulum swings hard against the rights of labor.