Texas Counties Question Need For Seperate Courts For Cops

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.

Jolie McCullough
By Jolie McCullough
Texas Counties Question Need For Seperate Courts For Cops

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 issues. The

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Hollow Justice And Courts Of Order In An Age Of Government-Sanctioned Tyranny

“The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of the people.”—Justice William O. Douglas

John Whitehead
By John Whitehead
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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,

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Ninth Circuit Judge: No ‘Masking Brutality’ Of Death Penalty

In dissenting opinion, appeals court judge argues that lethal injection is ‘misguided’ attempt to shield reality.

Lauren McCauley
By Lauren McCauley

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

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“Pink Courts:” A Disservice to Women In Uniform

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.

Frederick Reese
By Frederick Reese

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 leadership has been moving toward reducing unprosecuted rape-in-service

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NY Announces Statewide Court System Designed To Help Sex Trafficking Victims

The courts are intended to connect prostitutes to a support network rather than charge them with a crime.

Katie Rucke
By Katie Rucke

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 prostitution case that is not

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