On August 3, President Obama announced that he was commuting the sentences of an additional 214 federal prisoners, marking the largest number of commutations in a single day in American history. In all, the President has now commuted 562 sentences as part of h
Over the past several months, immigration has once again become a major topic of discussion in the public square and in Congress. Recognizing that something must be done to address the almost 11 million undocumented immigrants currently living in the United
See the RAC’s previous coverage of the opioid crisis here and here.
In late July, President Obama signed the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016 (CARA) into law. CARA addresses the growing opioid abuse epidemic in the United States, which took
Earlier this month, voting rights advocates won two important, if partial, victories in court cases challenging the constitutionality of voter ID laws in Wisconsin and Texas.
In Wisconsin, a district judge issued a preliminary injunction requiring the state
Last month, the Supreme Court dealt a major blow when it split 4-4 over the constitutionality of the President’s proposed executive action to extend protections to certain groups of undocumented immigrants. The case, United States v. Texas, examined two
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