As the events of recent years have made clear, neither the president, nor the legislatures, nor the courts will save us from the police state that holds us in its clutches.
Texas police officers and other first responders who have job-related mental health issues can soon be diverted into pretrial treatment programs if they commit a crime, but many large counties don’t appear interested in creating the new specialty courts.
There’s one new law on the books intended to help police in Texas that has gotten less attention than several others in a year when lawmakers touted their “back the blue” bills. It’s a measure that will allow counties to create pretrial diversion programs for first responders who commit crimes because of job-related mental health
“The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of the people.”—Justice William O. Douglas
Justice in America makes less sense with each passing day. A Michigan couple that has been raising chickens in their backyard as a source of healthy food for their family could get up to 90 days in jail for violating a local ban on backyard hens. A Kentucky prison guard who was charged with 25 counts of sexual abuse against female inmates,
In dissenting opinion, appeals court judge argues that lethal injection is ‘misguided’ attempt to shield reality.
A top federal judge on Monday issued an evocative and forthright attack on the death penalty, saying that the practice of "lethal injection" is a misguided attempt by society to "mask" the "horrendous brutality" of the act. "Using drugs meant for individuals with medical needs to carry out executions is a misguided effort to maks the brutality
From racial integration to women in combat, to service of openly gay members, the military has needed legislative force to compel a change in policies.
Since President Obama announced in May that those in the military who commit sexual assaults should be “prosecuted, stripped of their positions, court-martialed, fired, dishonorably discharged,” the situation has grown increasingly muddied and conflicted. While the civilian
The courts are intended to connect prostitutes to a support network rather than charge them with a crime.
In an effort to better handle cases related to or involving prostitution, the state of New York is creating and implementing a statewide court system that is specifically designed to help prostitutes by treating prostitution not as a crime, but as modern-day slavery.
What this means is that starting in October, any
