The Pennsylvania Supreme Court found that Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner’s office systematically misled courts and violated its duty of candor. What the ruling reveals about prosecutorial accountability and institutional failure.
Category: Legal Ethics & Reform
Legal ethics and reform in the United States of America
House of Lords finds UK Home Office cannot track departing migrants, relies on spreadsheets, and lacks capacity for immigration reforms. A crisis of institutional governance.
Federal judge declared ‘trust has been broken’ as US Attorney’s Office admitted to systematic grand jury misconduct affecting 1,000+ cases. The Broadview Six scandal reveals institutional dysfunction.
High Court rules Home Office acted unlawfully by stripping asylum seekers of trafficking victim identification rights. 79% of rejected victims granted protection on reconsideration, exposing systemic institutional failure.
Home Office forced to withdraw citizenship refusals after judicial review exposed illegal policy barring asylum seekers from British citizenship. June 2026 High Court victory reveals systemic policy failures.
Cabinet Office knew of systemic security failures but concealed them for a year. Legal Aid Agency’s £50M cybersecurity failed to prevent breach affecting 2+ million vulnerable citizens.
An 8-1 Supreme Court ruling reframes conversion therapy regulation as unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination, exposing how First Amendment doctrine undermines state authority to protect minors in professional settings.
The Department of Justice has proposed a rule giving the Attorney General the right to intercept and suspend state bar investigations into federal prosecutors before they begin — with no deadline, no neutral arbiter, and no accountability for delay. Critics across the political spectrum argue the rule violates the McDade Amendment, undermines federalism, and arrives at precisely the moment when documented DOJ courtroom misconduct is at its most severe in recent memory.
A federal grand jury in Montgomery, Alabama returned an 11-count indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center on April 21, 2026, charging the organization with wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering. At the center of the indictment: a decades-long secret program in which SPLC funneled more than $3 million in donor money to individuals embedded within the very extremist groups the organization publicly denounced.
Britain’s Independent Inquiry into Grooming Gangs formally commenced on April 13, 2026. But the Baroness Casey audit it follows has already documented the central institutional failure: police and local authorities repeatedly declined to investigate known perpetrators to avoid accusations of racism. What the inquiry must now confront — and why it was resisted for so long.
Only three people were convicted in U.S. courts for crimes related to Jeffrey Epstein’s decades-long sexual abuse operation—Epstein himself (2008), accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell (2021), and a butler convicted of obstruction. Despite identifying over 1,000 victims, a draft 60-count federal indictment, and billions in suspicious financial transactions through major banks, the legal system produced a 13-month […]
So it’s been around a while but let’s really look at this Biden-Ghani phone call, (https://www.reuters.com/world/excerpts-call-between-joe-biden-ashraf-ghani-july-23-2021-08-31/). The first thing that stands out is the lack of what we know as Joe Biden’s “cognitive issues” meaning notice no cognitive issues during this phone call. It’s not so funny to think Joe Biden has no cognitive issues […]