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The Hollowing of the Eighth Amendment | Duncan Hosie
New York Review of Books· 7 days agoPenitentiary staff had placed Farmer, a Black transgender...credit card fraud, with male prisoners, one of whom had beaten and raped her. In a majority...
Juneteenth celebrates just one of the United States’ 20 emancipation days
New Jersey Monitor via Yahoo News· 5 days agoThe actual day was June 19, 1865, and it was the Black dockworkers in Galveston, Texas, who first...
Virginia Primary Results: Cliffhanger congressional contest between Bob Good, John McGuire tests...
WUSA 9 Washington, D.C.· 5 days agoRep. Bob Good, who chairs the hard-right House Freedom Caucus, is seeking a third term representing...
The first video game addiction lawsuit got knocked out. Will others follow?
Reuters· 3 days agoWhen my twenty-something son was a teenager, there was a period when he played video games for hours...
Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions
Reason.com· 3 days agoFriends, it is very bad and wrong for gov't officials to arrest people in retaliation for their speech, and yesterday the Supreme Court issued a deeply ...
Minnesota Makes 19: Will Rhode Island’s Privacy Law Replace Vermont’s Vetoed Privacy Law as #20?
The National Law Review· 3 days agoThe Rhode Island Data Transparency and Privacy Protection Act (RI-DTPA) was passed by the state legislature on June 13th. Before RI-DTPA ...
‘Automatic’ registration would boost California’s voter rolls. What’s the downside?
ABC 10 Sacramento· 6 days ago“We must ensure that every eligible citizen … can exercise our rights to vote with as few barriers...