On May 9, President Trump issued a new Executive Order (EO) titled “Fighting Overcriminalization in Federal Regulations” to address criminal enforcement of regulatory offenses, particularly strict ...

Four years ago, no one would have believed that the administration of former President Trump would have been defined, in part, by major criminal justice reforms. The bipartisan First Step Act ...

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch criticized the expansion of federal criminal law during remarks on Friday, telling an audience in California that Americans’ liberties are at risk “when there’s a ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order discouraging criminal enforcement of regulatory offenses, in a bid to combat the overcriminalization of federal ...

Fast forward to today, and the number of federal criminal offenses for which people are prosecuted has become so huge that the Congressional Research Service gave up before it could count them all.

In North Carolina in 2011, Steven Pruner was sentenced to 45 days in the Durham County Sheriff’s custody for selling hot dogs from his food cart outside Duke Hospital without a proper permit. In ...

When a cop killed a man in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, yesterday, the officer had reportedly pulled him over for hanging air fresheners on his rearview mirror*. It wasn't just the latest high-profile ...

On May 9, 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order No. 14294, “Fighting Overcriminalization in Federal Regulations” (EO) with the asserted aim of easing the regulatory burden on "everyday" ...

Jacksonville, Florida is getting a new $350 million courthouse. If they can pass the fire inspection, that is: Courthouse-builder Turner Construction has made progress adjusting fire controls, ...

A congressional subcommittee is calling the prosecution of a trail runner in Grand Teton National Park “overcriminalization,” according to a recent letter sent to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. That disagreement, revealed in an email chain that Sunseri's lawyers obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, raises ...

GianCarlo Canaparo is a legal fellow in the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation. Campbell Collins is a member of the Young Leaders Program at The Heritage ...