“A group of religious conservatives listed nearly a dozen Bible passages in an amicus brief filed with the Supreme Court” on Wednesday, October 9, 2024, in a case involving gender-affirming health care bans, Huffington Post reported (here). The Christian Bible is the world’s most p[...]
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October 4th, 2024 - 11:14 pm § in Law and Courts
What should happen to a 16-year-old who guns down a toddler?
Jayson Jack was 16 when he allegedly tried to carry out a hit against Synsyr Lewis’s father in a restaurant parking lot in Federal Way, Washington. According to prosecutors, Jack “circled the parking lot several times” before “firing 15 rounds into the windshield” of th[...]
Prominent Nevada MAGA politician convicted of stealing charity funds
Michele Fiore (photo, left; profile here), 54, a former Nevada state representative and failed candidate for state treasurer, was convicted on federal wire fraud charges on October 3, 2024, and could spend years in prison (read story here). Fiore, a controversial figure in Nevada politics, got in tr[...]
October 3rd, 2024 - 6:07 pm § in Law and Courts
Jury convicts cops in black man’s beating death
Tyre Nichols (photo, left), 29, was beaten to death by 5 police officers (photo at bottom) on January 7, 2023 (details here). All the cops involved, like Nichols, were black; this wasn’t a white-on-black incident, but it is a case of police brutality and misconduct. On October 3, 2024, a jury [...]
Rogue county clerk gets 9 years
Tina Peters (photo, left), a Colorado county clerk who fought the law and lost, has been sentenced to 9 years in prison. Peters, formerly the elected Mesa County clerk, is a vocal Trump supporter and outspoken promoter of false election conspiracy theories. She was indicted for official misconduct a[...]
September 30th, 2024 - 4:16 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
Trump unveils his crime policy
Let cops beat up suspects (read story here). “Donald Trump on Sunday used a speech in key swing state Pennsylvania to urge a ‘violent’ police crackdown on crime …. Recounting isolated — but widely publicized — incidents of thieves staging brazen daylight robberies[...]
Attacking the messenger
The postal carrier was only delivering the mail. So why did Russell Frank Valleau (photo, left), 61, of Farmington Hills, Michigan, chase her with a knife? Because his mail that day included a Kamala Harris flyer. After yelling “derogatory, racist and sexual remarks,” he lunged toward h[...]
September 26th, 2024 - 7:41 pm § in Law and Courts
Do nitrogen gas executions work?
Of course they work. The method has been used twice now, and both those inmates are dead. So far, Alabama is the only state to execute anyone with nitrogen gas. It didn’t go off very well either time. The first the inmate “appeared conscious for several minutes into the execution, and sh[...]
September 25th, 2024 - 9:07 pm § in Law and Courts
Public defenders aren’t optional
In the famous 1963 case Gideon v. Wainwright, made into a movie starring Henry Fonda (watch it below), the Supreme Court ruled states must provide indigent defendants with lawyers in criminal case (details here). In Washington, counties and cities employ public defenders for this task. But the state[...]
September 24th, 2024 - 5:39 pm § in Law and Courts
Does anyone actually get more time for using a gun in a crime?
Dylan Scott Jennings, 37, of Bellevue, Washington, just did (read story here). Jennings, enraged by his estranged wife seeing another man, walked into the bar where she worked and shot her dead on July 5, 2021. There were aggravating factors: He showed no remorse, and used a stolen gun. Washington h[...]