New York's Rikers Island prison complex may be undergoing rough patches in the past few years as appeals and cases surround the correctional facility. To make matters worse, those that are assigned to somewhat prevent the violence may actually be the source of it.
Republican frontrunner Donald Trump is highly likely to win the $4 million defamation lawsuit filed by Republican strategist Cheri Jacobus. Jacobus now needs to clear high legal hurdles to prevail her case for that matter.
Professor of Constitutional Law at the American University Washington College of Law Herman Schwartz wonders in a column: should a small Texas court set immigration law for the nation? He says the sharp division among the US Supreme Court justices could make the vote in Texas v. USA a 4-4 tie making the Texas federal court's ruling the nation's immigration law.