Law_Crime

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Illustration on The Washington Post's appraisal of Jeff Sessions' report on U.S. violent crime by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

In this May 10, 2017, file photo, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Catholic leaders and university presidents are objecting to Feinstein's line of questioning for one of President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees, arguing the focus on her faith is misplaced and runs counter to the Constitution’s prohibition on religious tests for political office. The outcry stems from the questioning of Amy Coney Barrett, a Notre Dame law professor tapped to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Democrats focused on whether her personal views would override her legal judgment, especially with respect to the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion. Feinstein told Barrett that dogma and law are two different things and she was concerned “that the dogma lives loudly within you.” (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

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Mike Isaacson, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, has outraged New York City's largest police union with his recent tweet regarding the "privilege to teach future dead cops." (Image: Fox News Channel screenshot)

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Susan E. Rice faced charges that she and other Obama aides "unmasked" — or learned the redacted identities — of Trump associates swept up in U.S. surveillance operations against foreign targets. (Associated Press/File)

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Senate Judiciary Committee members Lindsey Graham (left) and Chuck Grassley (right) said they still are waiting to receive records they requested from the FBI regarding James B. Comey's decision not to recommend charges against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the run-up to the 2016 election. (Associated Press photographs)

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Joe Arpaio was one of Donald Trump's early campaign supporters before he lost his seat as sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona. He was convicted of criminal contempt of court but was granted a presidential pardon. (Associated Press/File)

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The administration stands behind Minnesota Supreme Court Justice David Stras and remains fully committed to his nomination to the 8th Circuit. (Associated Press)

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Former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano created the DACA program in 2012. Now, she's filed a lawsuit to keep the program as the University of California's president. FILE — In this May 18, 2017 file photo University of California President Janet Napolitano listens during a meeting of the Board of Regents in San Francisco. The University of California has sued the Trump administration over its decision to end a program protecting hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation. The lawsuit filed on Friday, Sept. 8 in federal court in San Francisco includes university President Napolitano as a plaintiff. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File) (Associated Press)

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Three armed Taco Bell employees in Cleveland, Ohio, shot and killed an armed man during a robbery on Sept. 6, 2017. (Image: ABC-5 Cleveland screenshot)

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Eric Dreiband is President Trump's nominee to the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. Democrats asked how Mr. Dreiband would handle hate crime investigations. (Associated Press)

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Sen. Robert Menendez, New Jersey Democrat, will be facing federal charges in a courtroom this month instead of casting votes on Capitol Hill. (Associated press)

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Chart to accompany Rahn article of Sept. 5, 2017

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President Trump will likely make a legal calculation before announcing his decision Tuesday on whether he will preserve the Obama-era deportation amnesty for illegal immigrant Dreamers, political analysts say. (Associated Press)

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A statue of Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B. Taney — author of the Dred Scott ruling in 1857 that reaffirmed slavery and denied citizenship to blacks — was removed last month from Maryland's State House grounds. (Associated Press/File)