Monday, February 6, 2017

The bankruptcy of ideas

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President Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch is a real throwback. Really a throwback. He is a self-described "ori...
Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Execution Watch: 10/05/2016

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Tomorrow night the State of Texas will return to its barbarous ways and fire up the killing machine for the first time in six months... ...
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Friday, September 23, 2016

Could you be a bit more polite, please?

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How come after the murder of an unarmed black man by the police the first thing folks want to do is caution (mostly black) protesters to be ...
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Thursday, September 22, 2016

Tallying up the cost of mass incarceration

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Carimah Townes just wrote a very interesting short piece in Think Progress  about the true cost of mass incarceration . While we spend $80 ...
Wednesday, September 21, 2016

The commodification of the law

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On Tuesday I spent more time that usual on Twitter. It might have had something to do with it being my birthday and feeling a bit unmotivate...
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Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Really?

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Some shit you just can't make up. Here is an e-mail I received on Tuesday afternoon. Dear Colleague,   The 2016 HBA Judicial Preferen...
Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Prison inmates sue Texas over conditions

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I'm sure there are plenty of folks out there who don't give two damns whether or not the state provides air conditioning for its inm...
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Saturday, September 10, 2016

Victory at Standing Rock (sort of)

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Last weekend the company building the Dakota Access Pipeline tore up sacred land following the filing of court documents by lawyers represen...

It's a trifecta!

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Harris County DA Devon Anderson may truly be the gift that never stops giving. In addition to the dumpster fire which is Precinct 4, in addi...
Friday, September 9, 2016

And the hits just keep coming

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Well, that certainly didn't take long. Already ankle deep in an evidence destruction scheme in Precinct 4, Harris County DA Devon Ande...
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Thursday, September 8, 2016

Stepping in it

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Oh what a mess Harris County DA Devon Anderson has found herself in. As has been reported in local media outlets, over the last nine years s...
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Thursday, September 1, 2016

An attack on discretion

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In theory, a judge should make his or her decisions on the bench without regard to politics. In theory, a judge should be shielded from poli...
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Tuesday, August 30, 2016

A false patriotism

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I guess Melissa Jacobs of Sports Illustrated just can't help herself . She is so oblivious to the world around us that she buys into the...
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Monday, August 29, 2016

Taking a stand by sitting down

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"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color. To me, this is bigge...
Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Round peg, square hole, health care edition

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So Aetna is pulling out of Obamacare exchanges because the Department of Justice wouldn't approve of their merger with fellow healthcare...
Monday, August 22, 2016

Just go sit at that other table and wait your turn

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A couple of weeks ago I was listening to Democracy Now!  and heard a replay of a debate between Pulitizer Prize winning journalist and autho...
Thursday, August 18, 2016

Revealing ignorance

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The purpose of investigative journalism is to peel back the layers to a story or an event so that the world can see it for what it is and no...
Tuesday, August 16, 2016

Window dressing

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Back in April of this year Harris County received a $2 million grant from the MacArthur Foundation to reform its criminal (in)justice syste...
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Friday, August 12, 2016

What's in a number?

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Just to let y'all know, there is no constitutional crisis because there are only eight justices sitting on the US Supreme Court. There...
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Thursday, August 11, 2016

Two sides of the same coin

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For the past couple of weeks about all we've heard from the presidential campaign are attacks on the personality and temperment of the c...
Wednesday, August 10, 2016

What I've been listening to

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I discovered a new podcast a couple of weeks ago that takes a very interesting look at the U.S. Supreme Court. It's called More Perfect ...
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Friday, August 5, 2016

Taking a stand

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The very existence of public defender offices highlights one of the greatest contradictions in our criminal (in)justice system. We like to p...
Thursday, August 4, 2016

Another one bites the dust

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You can now add Delaware to the list of states that have effectively abolished the death penalty. Earlier this week the Delaware Supreme Cou...
Thursday, July 21, 2016

Police shoot unarmed black man (again)

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How many more of these police shootings must we witness before it stops? The latest shooting victim, Charles Kinsey, is a caregiver at a gro...
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Wednesday, July 20, 2016

The grass is always greener

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Here's an interesting piece from Sports Illustrated  about Ricky Williams who walked away from the NFL. I went to the University of Tex...