Politics

Chesa Boudin was the San Francisco district attorney from 2020 to 2022

Eric S Fish is a law professor at the University of California Davis

Constitution's framers enshrined power of grand juries in Fifth Amendment

Procedural reform needs to create remedies when illegally obtained evidence is presented so constitutional violations have consequences for prosecutors

These reforms would not hamper legitimate prosecutions

Reforms would strengthen public confidence in the criminal justice system by ensuring indictments are well supported

Federal grand jurors are showing they will use their power wisely

Grand juries are exercising power to reject criminal charges in high-profile cases

Australia's under-16 social media ban offers one model

California's law requires chatbots to nudge minors to take breaks

We need institutional bans immediately for children

Robert Moses built Long Island overpasses too low for buses in the 1920s

We need warnings that clearly convey the serious risks for adults

Several million citizens is the army of advocates and sympathisers any government needs to argue its case in their communities

It could be Zack Polanski Angela Rayner Andy Burnham Zarah Sultana

If they cannot the prospects for the immediate future are grim

If a Labour leadership election happens next year a crucial question will be whether any candidate can put forward a vision a programme and a strategy equal to breaking with the legacy of Thatcherism while distancing themselves from Starmer’s sectarian war on the left

Any politician who can grasp the scale of the situation and act accordingly could be it

New Labour reforms to public services were a disaster

The government's analysis identifies weak economic growth as a cause of public unhappiness