Showing posts with label Department of Justice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Department of Justice. Show all posts
Saturday, January 25, 2020

Public officials who betray the public trust pay the price—so should the president

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  A New Jersey official sentenced to 18 months in prison for scheming to punish a local mayor deemed not loyal enough to former Gov. Chris C...
Saturday, March 24, 2018

Why prison reform is not enough to fix the U.S. criminal justice system

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  The Trump administration kicked off 2018 by expressing a surprising, newfound interest in reforming the country’s prisons and strengthenin...
Monday, October 16, 2017

Bigotry is not an American value

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  On October 14, 1979, more than 100,000 people marched on Washington to demand equal rights for LGBT people.   But nearly four decades af...
Sunday, August 6, 2017

Gene Policinski: Sessions' leak warning to journalists misguided, misplaced

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  A threat from the Trump administration, apparently aimed at journalists as part of a larger campaign to prevent widespread government “lea...
Sunday, October 2, 2016

Protecting the right to vote in the 2016 elections

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  The real measure of election integrity is that every eligible American can cast a vote that is counted. But this fundamental right is bein...
Sunday, September 18, 2016

Rhonda Brownstein: Federal guidance for police in schools won’t stop criminalization of kids

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  Earlier this month, the federal government offered guidance to school districts that use police officers to keep order in their public sch...
Monday, August 22, 2016

Sam Fulwood III: Police gone wild

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  The U.S. Department of Justice’s investigation of police misconduct in Baltimore is 163 pages of horror reading.   Almost Kafkaesque—al...
Tuesday, July 28, 2015

James L. Gattuso: Amazon and antitrust: Should Washington sue to make books more expensive?

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  As Americans set out to the beach this summer with their favorite novels in hand, federal officials are being asked to sue the nation'...
Thursday, June 27, 2013

Cameron Smith: Voting Rights Act’s extraordinary remedy requires modern application

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  For decades, the Voting Rights Act has prevented changes to election laws in certain states and jurisdictions until those changes have e...
Friday, June 14, 2013

Cameron Smith: Government data grab: Privacy and the PRISM

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  Last week The Guardian released a classified order from the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) requiring Veriz...
Monday, June 10, 2013

Gene Policinski: Second try at a shield law echoes the first

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  An irony of timing twice has put U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning in the headlines at critical moments in gaining congressional approval o...
Sunday, May 19, 2013

Cameron Smith: For Obama the buck stops "There, there"

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  When the Great and Powerful Wizard of Oz is confronted for breaking his promises and found to be a mere mortal, he utters one of the mos...