More than a century ago, the Supreme Court described a principle that it called “undoubted, axiomatic and elementary.” It is, the Court said, “unquestioned in the textbooks” and can be traced all the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This is a cynical attempt to graft a concept from criminal law—where the government faces a high burden before it can convict and ...

The title of a recent book, Presumed Guilty, exposes how the "the presumption of innocence" has gotten turned on its head. Even before turning the first page of the book, the reader senses that the ...

It was a serious point of disagreement Plato had with Athenian democracy. Made up of citizens and ostensibly judging his teacher Socrates for crimes against the community, this was a form of crude ...

Suing the Pope? An Aggressive Class Action Presents First Amendment Problems Audio By Carbonatix Democrats say that Judge Brett Kavanaugh should not be presumed innocent. We’ve heard more and more of ...

Patricia J. Williams is a professor of law at Columbia University. Shortly after Dominique Strauss-Kahn was indicted on charges of attempted rape, his friend Bernard-Henri Levy wrote a defense of him ...

I want to praise Jeremy Piven. That’s a risky thing to do, I know. Piven is one of Those Men. One of those big entertainment figures who has fingers pointed at him. He has joined Harvey Weinstein, ...

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos believes that college students accused of sexual misconduct in Title IX cases are owed a presumption of innocence, or non-responsibility, in keeping with a bedrock ...

Thomas Jipping is a senior legal fellow in the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation. More than a century ago, the Supreme Court described a principle that ...