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.

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 ...

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 ...

Stephen L. Carter is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist, a professor of law at Yale University and author of “Invisible: The Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster.” ...

After mountain runner Michelino Sunseri ascended and descended Grand Teton in record time last fall, his corporate sponsor, The North Face, heralded his achievement as “an impossible dream — come true ...

Section 1. Purpose. The United States is drastically overregulated. The Code of Federal Regulations contains over 48,000 sections, stretching over 175,000 pages — far more than any citizen can ...

EASING THE REGULATORY BURDEN: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to ease the regulatory burden on everyday Americans and ensure no American is transformed into a criminal for ...

Conservative advocacy group Right on Crime urged lawmakers to reform the “criminal mental state” requirement in federal criminal codes in a report published on Thursday. The report also criticized the ...

New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests overdose deaths in the United States may finally be declining. This trend gives those working in drug policy, harm reduction and ...

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 ...

We are caught in a vicious cycle of too many laws, too many cops, and too little freedom. Whatever the label, this overbearing despotism is what happens when government representatives (those elected ...