Supreme Court Rules Sentencing Disparities Cannot Justify Early Release for Pre-First Step Act Prisoners Whenever Congress changes the laws and regulations around what kind of sentences should be handed down in criminal cases, inevitably some of the first questions...
Bill Stalls that Would Prohibit Law Enforcement Agencies in Illinois from Using Controversial Technology A proposed bill, the Illinois Biometric Surveillance Act, which would have prohibited law enforcement agencies from using or accessing facial recognition tools,...
ATF Proposes Repealing, Replacing, and/or Modifying Key Gun Regulations The Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (“ATF”) recently announced the ATF’s rolling back and modifying several ATF agency rules shortly after...
The “Take It Down Act” and State Legislative Efforts Against A.I.-Generated Intimate Imagery The “Take It Down Act” makes it a federal crime to publish nonconsensual explicit imagery, including A.I.-made deepfakes, which was signed into law in May 2025 by President...
ICE Acknowledges Contract with Spyware Firm A letter dated April 1, 2026 may be one of the most significant, and alarming, surveillance disclosures in recent memory. In it, ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons confirmed to Congress that his agency is deploying Graphite, a...
Supreme Court Rules Absconding from Court’s Supervision While Serving a Term of Supervised Release Doesn’t Atomically Extend Term of Supervised Release In a recent ruling, the Supreme Court weighed whether or not a criminal defendant’s term of supervised release is...
Controversial Practice Already “Categorically” Prohibited by Lower Courts As we have previously covered, law enforcement’s use of “geofencing” warrants, which uses GPS, cellular networks, and Wi-Fi to track location information of potential users at a specific time...
Predator Vigilantes, Viral Justice, and the Legal Minefield As we have previously covered, there is a growing trend across the United States in which private individuals or groups seek to entrap, record, and expose suspected sexual predators through “sting”...
Landmark Ruling Finds that Conversations with Chatbots Generally Aren’t Protected by Attorney-Client Privilege With the rise of artificial intelligence and the popularity of chatbots, it was inevitable that courts were going to be forced to deal with a fundamental...
Chicago U.S. Attorney’s Office to Take Lead to Prosecutorial Task Force Earlier last week, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced that the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago will serve as a lead prosecutorial partner on the...
