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U.S. General William Barr Should be Impeached

On June 1, 2020, peaceful protesters assembled across the street from the White House in Lafayette Park to protest the killing of George Floyd…

Violent Police Misconduct Protected By Qualified Immunity

The murder of George Floyd by police in Minnesota has brought demands for racial justice to a pitched boil after generations of racial profiling,…

Police Homicide, President Trump and the Complicity of White America

In July 2017, President Donald J. Trump, as the nation’s “ chief law enforcement officer ” as he likes to call himself, implored police…

Texans Are at Risk: What You Need to Know about Telecare Fraud Schemes

At the beginning of 2020, many healthcare providers were not allowed to offer diagnoses without physically seeing a patient. Because of the dangers posed…

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton: Bad on Ethics and Wrong on The Law

It is bad enough that the current President of the United States cannot spell, cannot speak grammatically correct, does not know basic geography, does…

Will SCOTUS Apply Unanimous Verdict Ruling Retroactively?

As we pointed out in a March 2019 post, the Framers of this nation’s Constitution expressly recognized the fundamental right to a trial by…

Ahmuad Arbery Fell to Racist Deeds of A Bad Cop

Two white men, 64-year-old Gregory McMichael and his 34-year-old son, Travis, are under arrest for the February 23, 2020 shooting death of an unarmed…

Flynn Case Strains “Interests of Justice”

The term “in the interests of justice” is difficult to define precisely. Prosecutors, attorneys, and judges all have a different perspective of what serves…

TX Social Post Claiming to Spread Coronavirus Ends in FBI Hoax Arrest

They say humor is sometimes the best medicine, but just like medicine, it may not always be in good taste. As we continue life…

The Killing of Ahmaud Arbery: The Old South’s Legacy of Lynching Rears its Ugly Head.

In 2017, the Equal Justice Initiative issued a report, “ Lynching in America: Confronting The Legacy of Racial Terror ,” that shows the state…

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