Selective prosecution occurs when a prosecutor criminally charges an individual based on unjustifiable standards or characteristics rather than on the merits of an actual, alleged crime.

Vindictive prosecution is a criminal law doctrine in which a prosecutor charges a defendant

Prosecutorial discretion is the legal doctrine giving prosecutors broad authority to use their own judgment on whether to file charges against a defendant and how to move forward litigating

Packing is a form of gerrymandering that consists of drawing district boundaries to “pack” a particular community into a small number of highly consolidated electoral districts to limit the effectiveness of their voting power. For example, a minority community may be condensed to one district in order to limit their voting power instead of being equitably spread amongst several districts.

• minority vote dilution
• redistricting
• VOTING RIGHTS

Cracking is a form of gerrymandering that consists of drawing district boundaries to spread a particular community thinly across multiple districts to split their vote and lessen the effectiveness of their votes. For example, a large minority neighborhood may be split into pieces, even down to the street level, to ensure that their preferred candidate is not elected in any of the districts. 

• minority vote dilution
• redistricting
• VOTING RIGHTS

Redistricting is the process of redrawing the boundaries of electoral districts. Typically, the process of redistricting occurs every 10 years as new census data becomes available, but it varies by local laws. The political party in power is usually responsible for drawing up the revised electoral districts, but some states have independent bodies that draw districts based on demographic information to maximize representation.

An earmark is a designation in an appropriations bill that indicates where public funds should be allocated through a method other than a statutory, administrative, formula-driven, or competitive award process.

A rifle is a type of barreled firearm that is fired with the stock pressed against the pocket of an individual’s shoulder, and uses an explosive in a fixed cartridge to trigger one single projectile that shoots through a rifled barrel, or a barrel with spiraled grooves, A rifle can only fire one projectile at a time. The rifled barrel stabilizes the trajectory of the projectile which is suitable for long distance precision.

• firearms

The Epstein Files Transparency Act (EFTA) required the U.S.

The term “Kavanaugh stop” refers to the practice whereby federal immigration officers may stop someone based on perceived factors such as their presence at specific locations, occupation, spoken language, and ethnicity, to inquire about their immigration status.