Before she was an award-winning writer and professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law, Lara Bazelon spent seven years working as a federal public defender in Los Angeles.

San Francisco’s new Public Defender, Manojar Raju: Plus: Mandatory minimum sentencing and the path to decarceration

They have more liberal records than most former prosecutors, but are being blamed for a system that is fundamentally unjust.

It's the ultimate purity test—one even Barack Obama would have failed—for a party racing to the left.

Paul Manafort, President Trump's presidential campaign chairman was sentenced Thursday to less than 4 years in prison for financial fraud in a federal court in Virginia. The sentence is drawing wide ire for falling far short of the 19-25 year prison term recommended under sentencing guidelines.

Amy Klobuchar went after low-level, nonviolent crimes as a prosecutor. Now she wants to be president.

The relationship between U.S. immigration officials and California’s liberal leaders soured long ago, but Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf’s decision to warn potential targets of federal arrest that an immigration sweep could be imminent was an extraordinary escalation.

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