Ahead of Robert Lewis Dear Jr.'s mental competency trial May 21, Rewire.News is seeking clarity about what sets Dear apart from the killers he says inspired him.
The Department of Justice trial against radical anti-abortion activist Angel Dillard begins Tuesday. But anti-choice violence will be before the courts all summer long.
While lawyers fight over a clinic shutdown law before the Supreme Court, Congress and President Obama fight over a replacement for Justice Antonin Scalia.
A ruling Monday that Robert Lewis Dear Jr. remains not competent to stand trial means there are still few answers around the 2015 siege at a Colorado Planned Parenthood that left three dead.
Colorado District Court Judge Gilbert Martinez has now three times found Robert Lewis Dear Jr. not legally competent to stand trial on the 179 criminal counts he faces, including murder and attempted murder.
A Colorado judge ruled for the third time that Robert Lewis Dear Jr. could not stand trial for shooting and killing three people at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood last November.