The long national debate over cash bail reignited in summer 2025 after the White House issued an executive order in August threatening to pull federal funding from jurisdictions that allow cashless ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — U.S. Congressmember Elise Stefanik of New York introduced a bill in the House of Representatives on Monday called the “Keep Violent Criminals Off Our Streets Act” that would ...

A federal judge has granted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton a key win, allowing him to intervene in a lawsuit that produced the 2019 Harris County misdemeanor bail reform consent decree. "The ...

The Federal Capital Territory High Court sitting in Abuja has granted interim bail to former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, in an ongoing case ...

Federal appellate judges poked holes Tuesday in Georgia’s new bail law that opponents say will force large numbers of people to remain in jail simply because they are poor. The state wants to limit ...

Daryl Heller, the Lancaster County businessman who stands accused of a fraud costing investors hundreds of millions of dollars, was led Thursday afternoon into courtroom 5A of the James A. Byrne U.S.