The Intersection of Lawlessness and Justice: Police Misconduct
By: Daniel Keum Abstract: The police hold several crucial roles to the functionality of the United States criminal justice system. One of these roles is in ensuring the laws to which society subscribes by are upheld. To ensure the rule of law is respected, this necessitates the police to wield power and the discretion to apply it. This power, however, can be abused through the form of police misconduct. The issue of police misconduct will be examined in this paper to expose the reasons why it occurs as well as what can be done to reduce it. This paper ultimately…
A Recommendation for Eliminating Lifetime Tenure for Federal Judges
By: Adam D. Smith Abstract: Federal judges arbitrate a wide array of cases and wield considerable power, so it goes without saying that their ability to do their jobs is crucial to the functioning of our entire legal system. Yet there exists no system in place to ensure a federal judge is able to fulfill his or her duties, leaving our legal system susceptible to judges’ ineptitude, senility, and partiality. This paper utilizes a variety of sources and data to argue, for several reasons, why lifetime appointments should not be given to federal judges. Instead, a constitutional amendment should be…
