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Trump’s Sudden, Touching Concern for Overzealous Policing
After advocating the death penalty for several young men of color even after DNA proved...
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December 17, 2018
Balko: Trump’s AG Pick a Law Enforcement Disaster
My friend Radley Balko has a Washington Post column about Trump's new pick for Attorney...
October 2018
October 09, 2018
Trump: Bring Back ‘Stop and Frisk’
It should come as a surprise to no on that the thoroughly racist Donald Trump...
September 2018
September 25, 2018
City Uses Illegal Means to Shut Down a Legal Protest
I absolutely despise the League of the South, a white supremacist, neo-Confederate organization that loves...
June 2018
June 25, 2018
SCOTUS Rules a Warrant Needed to Access Cell Phone Data
The Supreme Court issued an important ruling on Thursday in a 4th Amendment case, saying...
June 22, 2018
DeVos Destroying Civil Rights Policing by Education Department
Being from Michigan, I know full well how dangerous Betsy DeVos' views on everything, especially...
June 13, 2018
Whiting Out Minority History in Michigan
The Bridge, an excellent non-profit journalism organization here in Michigan, has a report about how...
May 2018
May 30, 2018
A Rare and Strong Victory for the 4th Amendment
The Supreme Court term is beginning to wind down, with about four weeks left to...
March 2018
March 14, 2018
Hundreds of NYPD Officers Receive Little Punishment for Serious Misconduct
When the Lawrence Krauss story came out a couple weeks ago, a lot of his...
March 05, 2018
Trump Names Mass Incarceration Advocate to Sentencing Commission
Continuing his near-perfect record of nominating the worst people imaginable to positions in the federal...
February 2018
February 15, 2018
CO Teacher Charged with Child Abuse for Forcing Student to Stand for Pledge
Now this is what I've been waiting a very long time to see, a teacher...
December 2017
December 13, 2017
Lansing City Council Honors Protesting High School Athletes
I wrote a couple weeks ago about Lansing Catholic High School punishing football players who...
December 12, 2017
Moore Wants to Get Rid of All Amendments After the 10th
CNN found the audio of an interview with Roy Moore in 2011 in which he...
November 2017
November 16, 2017
Judge Reins in St. Louis PD in Handling Protests
During the protests against racist policing in St. Louis, several of my friends have been...
November 03, 2017
Trump Backs Off Idea of Sending Terror Suspect to Gitmo
Immediately after the terror attack in New York City, Trump predictably flapped his jaws about...
October 2017
October 10, 2017
MI Republican Pushes Private Police Plan
Arlan Meekhof, the Senate Majority Leader here in Michigan, is promoting a bill that would...
September 2017
September 24, 2017
Appeals Court: Stingray Search Requires Warrant
The DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this week that the police do need to...
September 16, 2017
MI Teacher Suspended for Assaulting Student Refusing the Pledge
A teacher here in Michigan is suspended pending an investigation for allegedly physically assaulting a...
September 13, 2017
House Votes to Defund Sessions’ Asset Forfeiture Expansion
In a remarkable bit of bipartisanship, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to defund Attorney...
September 05, 2017
Criticizing Hillary a ‘Top 5 Qualification’ for Civil Rights Position
Candice Jackson, Trump's appointee who heads the Department of Education's Civil Rights Division, listed among...
August 2017
August 29, 2017
Trump Reverses Obama Rule Limiting Military Weapons for Police
As expected, Trump has officially reversed limitations put by President Obama on the sale or...
August 26, 2017
As Predicted, Trump Pardons Arpaio
In the standard Friday night news dump, Trump pardoned Joe Arpaio, as predicted. The signs...
July 2017
July 30, 2017
Trump Encourages Police Brutality
On Friday, just before firing Reince Priebus, Trump spoke to a group of police officers...
July 26, 2017
IN School Tells Teacher Not to Tell Students About Pledge Rights
A public school in Indiana told a teacher that he can't inform students that they...
July 19, 2017
Sessions Wants More Civil Asset Forfeiture
Over the last few years, many states have passed laws to restrict the manifestly corrupt...
June 2017
June 03, 2017
Napolitano’s Fear Mongering Over Intelligence ‘Unmasking’
Andrew Napolitano is still carrying water for Donald Trump, repeating the administration's talking points by...
May 2017
May 28, 2017
No, It Still Isn’t Treason
With the new story about Jared Kushner trying to set up a backchannel to communicate...
May 20, 2017
FBI, ICE Using Anti-Terrorism Tool in Immigration Cases
The Detroit News reports that the FBI and Immigration and Customs Enforcement are using a...
May 02, 2017
Savage Loves Brutal, Barbaric Thug Duterte
Trump had a "very friendly" call with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, a brutal, vicious thug...
April 2017
April 12, 2017
Sessions Gets Rid of Scientific Advisory Panel on Forensic Science
This is a story that infuriates me. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has disbanded an advisory...
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