John Yoo: If the Torture Report Is True, CIA Officers Are at Legal Risk By Conor Friedersdorf A surprising admission by an attorney who was instrumental in enabling the Bush Administration’s brutal interrogation practices[...]
Posts Tagged ‘law’
December 14th, 2014 - 9:52 pm § in Misc.
Cops bullied girlfriend of Ohio WalMart police shooting victim
On August 5, 2014, a 22-year-old African-American man named John Crawford III was killed by police in a Dayton, Ohio, WalMart store. Another customer had called 911 and reported a man was “waving” a gun and “pointing” it at customers. Surveillance video and eyewitnesses don&#[...]
December 14th, 2014 - 5:34 pm § in Misc.
Scalia is only the latest conservative to assert that torture is OK
Now that it’s been definitively established the Bush regime tortured terrorism suspects, conservatives are rallying around a theme that goes roughly like this: Torture is, at worst, morally ambiguous; and using it is sometimes okay to prevent greater harm. It sounds like a talking point manufa[...]
October 29th, 2014 - 7:33 pm § in Misc.
How To Get Stuck Paying Support For A Child Who Isn’t Yours
It’s really important you understand our legal system exists to settle disputes, not treat people fairly. A lot of Ilinois child support questions, and child support questions all over the US, are regarding how fair the system is. Many families dispute over child support, so the legal system i[...]
October 18th, 2014 - 12:36 pm § in Misc.
Another Black Youth, Coerced Confession, And Wrongful Imprisonment
David McCallum, 45, was exonerated last week after spending 28 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit. McCallum was just 16 when police coerced him and a friend (who died in prison in 2001) into signing cop-written confessions filled with falsehoods and inconsistencies. The charges [...]
Sunday Revelations: The day after Yom Kippur .. and the Schwartz Family Feud
This is the 22nd post about Yom Kippur since The Ave began. Yesterday was Yom Kippur, the last day of a period of eight days called the days of awe .. starting with the Jewish New Year .. Rosh Hoshana and end of eight days, a period where Jews are supposed to reflect on […][...]
September 17th, 2014 - 5:08 pm § in Misc.
It’s time to honor Steve Titus with a memorial statue
Today, the city of Lubbock, Texas, dedicated a 13-foot tall bronze statue of a man who died in prison rather than confess to a crime he didn’t commit as a reminder to the community that justice is fallible. Tim Cole, who went to prison for a 1985 rape and died in 1997 at age 39 from […[...]
August 11th, 2014 - 9:58 am § in Misc.
When Lawyers Sell Out Their Clients
A federal judge made headlines last week by rejecting a $324.5 million settlement negotiated by attorneys for tech giants Apple, Google, Intel, and Adobe, and 64,000 present and former employees who claimed they were underpaid by the firms as a result of a labor-market-rigging conspiracy. Lucasfil[...]
Why DOJ Should Exercise Oversight Of Southern Death Penalty Cases
News media recently gave extensive coverage to the Supreme Court decision that invalidated provisions of the 1964 Voting Rights Act requiring certain states, all in the South, to submit changes in their election laws to the Department of Justice for review and approval. These provisions were origi[...]