The Supreme Court has played a historic role in ending discrimination against gay people, most recently in a 2015 ruling that the Constitution required civil marriage to be available to same-sex couples. The question is whether the court’s conservative majority, including two justices appointed by President Donald Trump, will tarnish that record by taking a […]

As the Legislature debates a single-use plastic bag ban, they should consider carbon emissions as well.

  At any other time in modern history, investigative findings that a foreign power had meddled in our elections and helped elect our president would alarm the nation. And evidence that the president had tried to undermine that investigation would be shocking. But Donald Trump has lowered the bar for acceptable presidential behavior to an […]

Crime lab and computer unit employees are an essential part of the law enforcement process, and they should be treated that way.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly crowed that special counsel Robert Mueller’s report is a “total exoneration.” After its release Thursday morning, he tweeted: “No collusion. No obstruction. For the haters and the radical left Democrats — Game Over.” But the report itself, for those who bothered to read it, makes a mockery of that assertion. […]

On Wednesday, in an all too typical rant, President Donald Trump told reporters that the investigation of possible collusion between his campaign and Russia was an “illegal investigation,” “treason” and an “attempted coup.” He expressed satisfaction that Attorney General William Barr was “going back to the origins of exactly where this all started. Because this […]