Jena Six defendant arrested in Texas
Friday, February 8th, 2008
A defendant in the Louisiana “Jena Six” case was arrested after allegedly slamming a student’s head into a bench at his new school in Texas, police said.
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Democracy and Elections: How to Rig an Election: Confessions of a Republican Operative
Thursday, January 17th, 2008Allen Raymond, a former Republican National Committee operative, shares secrets from the GOP bunker.
Punishing Thought Crime: Would New Bill Make YOU a Terrorist?
Thursday, January 17th, 2008
Senate Bill 1959 to Criminalize Thoughts, Blogs, Books and Free Speech Across America
Sunday, December 2nd, 2007The end of Free Speech in America has arrived at our doorstep. It’s a new law called the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act, and it is worded in a clever way that could allow the U.S. government to arrest and incarcerate any individual who speaks out against the Bush Administration, the war on Iraq, the Department of Homeland Security or any government agency (including the FDA)
Sphere: Related ContentNutty Judge of the Week - TalkLeft: The Politics Of Crime
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007A judge who thinks mass jailings are the best way to respond to his own irritation — without probable cause or even an individualized suspicion that each of the 46 detainees had done something wrong — deserves to lose his job. Thankfully, Restaino lost his.
Sphere: Related ContentChris Dodd Calls For Investigation Into Bush’s Role In PlameGate
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007To whet our appetite, the publisher has released a pretty damning excerpt in which McClellan in no uncertain terms implicates Bush and Cheney in the disinformation campaign that Scotty undertook from his post in the press room to exonerate the administration in the outing of Valerie Wilson.
Sphere: Related ContentChris Dodd Calls For Investigation Into Bush’s Role In PlameGate
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007To whet our appetite, the publisher has released a pretty damning excerpt in which McClellan in no uncertain terms implicates Bush and Cheney in the disinformation campaign that Scotty undertook from his post in the press room to exonerate the administration in the outing of Valerie Wilson.
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Sunday, November 18th, 2007The Washington Post’s John Solomon reports: “Hundreds of defendants sitting in prisons nationwide have been convicted with the help of an FBI forensic tool that was discarded more than two years ago. But the FBI lab has yet to take steps to alert the affected defendants or courts, even as the window for appealing convictions is closing, a joint investigation by The Washington Post and ‘60 Minutes’ has found.”
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Thursday, November 15th, 2007Barry Bonds was indicted Thursday on perjury and obstruction of justice charges, culminating a four-year federal investigation into whether he lied under oath to a grand jury looking into steroid use by elite athletes.
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
John Hutson served in the United States Navy for 28 years, achieving the rank of rear admiral and serving as its top lawyer, the Judge Advocate General, from 1997-2000. After retiring from the Navy, Hutson became Dean and President of Franklin Pierce Law School in New Hampshire.
Despite being a lifelong Republican and having voted for Bush, Hutson became increasingly outraged at the Bush administration’s treatment of prisoners and signed a legal brief in March of 2004 in support of a case
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