The Supreme Court • Opinion v Opinionated

Given that the outcomes of the SCOTUS cases can have colossal influence on the American way of life, the justices’ opinions – which elaborate on the reasoning of the decision made — are heavily scrutinized and analyzed by specialists. These opinions are readily available to the public, yet it remains a daunting task to read through and make sense of. But by visualizing them on a single screen, we can begin to grasp the scope, scale, and sequence of SCOTUS opinions, and possibly gain hints as to how they might lean on future cases.

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American Crime Story • a visual investigation into a decade of US crime

Electoral campaigns often promise to be tough on crime and strong on justice. But with the White House about to pass to a president-elect who helped head two previous administrations, whose focus increasingly became criminal justice reform, it’s worth looking at what the Department of Justice (DoJ) priorities were at the time and how they evolved over the intervening years to see whether there has been a real shift in policy.

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