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Jan 30 2022
Opinion
In J.D. Vance’s primary, nonstop Trump-worship shows the perils of populism
Here’s an unsettling thought: In GOP primaries, declaring unshakable fealty to the mythology that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump is becoming a bedrock condition of political survival. This is becoming so routine that it’s hardly newsworthy anymore — which only risks normalizing it further.
That’s the takeaway from the latest news out of the Senate primary in Ohio, where
Washington PostNov 18 2021
Opinion
Free States Must Defend the Right to Self-Defense
The jury is still out as I write this; I wish I could be confident that our justice system will provide what it promises and that the unjustly accused will leave the courthouse wearing a smile instead of handcuffs. Kyle Rittenhouse, who went into the void created by the cowardly leftist officials who refused to protect decent citizens from the militarized wing of the Democrat Party, might well
TownhallMay 03 2020
News
70 percent of federal inmates tested for coronavirus have COVID-19
More than 70 percent of federal inmates who have been tested for the coronavirus have COVID-19, the Bureau of Prisons said Wednesday.
About 2,700 inmates have been given tests, and 71 percent of those came back positive. Officials say they expect the overall number of cases to rise since testing so far has covered less than 2 percent of the 153,000 inmates in the federal system, The
The HillNov 17 2021
News
Rittenhouse Trial
“The jury at Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial deliberated a full day on Tuesday without reaching a verdict… Rittenhouse, 18, faces life in prison if convicted as charged for using an AR-style semi-automatic rifle to kill two men and wound a third during a night of protests against racial injustice in Kenosha in the summer of 2020… Rittenhouse testified he acted in self-defense, while
The Flip SideApr 13 2022
Opinion
Oklahoma's new abortion law doesn't even pretend to adhere to Roe, setting up a showdown
In the game of up-the-ante that Republican-controlled states are playing in their zeal to eradicate abortion rights, Oklahoma took the lead this week. Its new law doesn’t bother with heartbeat standards or clever enforcement mechanisms but just says it outright: Any doctor who performs any abortion at any time (other than to save a woman’s life) could face 10 years in prison. This is the
St. Louis Post-DispatchDec 09 2019
News
What Happens When Incarcerated People Get a World-Class Education?
In the fall of 2015, a maximum-security prison in New York invited Harvard’s debate team to compete against a squad of three incarcerated men. The men, all convicted of violent crimes, knew they faced tough odds: Unlike their Harvard opponents, they could not use the internet to study the topic in advance. But the prisoners were declared the winners, and the crowd, including dozens of other
Mother JonesJan 01 2022
News
725 suspects were arrested in the year since the Capitol riot, DOJ announces. The FBI is looking for 350 more.
Seven hundred and twenty five people have been arrested in connection with the riot at the US Capitol, the Department of Justice said in a year-end update on its investigation.
DOJ officials broke down the arrests, convictions, and sentences of those accused of involvement in the January 6, 2021, storming of the Capitol.
The department said 165 of the 725 arrested — around 22% —
Business InsiderOct 29 2021
News
Death row inmate convulses, vomits in 3rd consecutively botched Oklahoma execution
After a five-year moratorium, the state of Oklahoma botched its third consecutive execution on Thursday when convict John Marion Grant died after convulsing and vomiting all over himself following a lethal injection, according to witnesses.
Grant, 60, was convicted of murdering prison guard Gay Carter on Friday, Nov. 13, 1998, when he stabbed her 16 times with a shank knife while he was
New York Post (News)Jan 20 2022
News
The Supreme Court Could Decide Whether Thousands of Immigrants Remain Detained Indefinitely
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear two cases on Tuesday that could impact thousands of unauthorized immigrants detained in the United States.
Unauthorized immigrants are often detained indefinitely in prison-like settings while their immigration cases are adjudicated. The plaintiffs in the two cases coming before the high court argue that immigrants held in detention for longer than six
Time MagazineJun 07 2022
News
San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin awaits fate as recall election vote comes to a close
San Francisco residents on Tuesday will vote to either keep or recall District Attorney Chesa Boudin, whose progressive policies have shocked even his early supporters, recall campaign spokesperson Richie Greenberg told Fox News Digital.
Boudin's advocates praise the district attorney for keeping true to his promises of eliminating cash bail, not prosecuting quality-of-life crimes and
Fox News (Online News)