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Texas Senators Refuse to Prevent Executions of Intellectually Disabled

Texas is a death penalty state; in fact, it has executed more people than any other state since the reinstatement of the death penalty…

Judges Must Refrain from Politics from the Bench

That Michael Kwan, a justice court judge in Taylorsville, Utah, has a history of violating the Utah Code of Judicial Conduct is not subject…

Child Porn Found at Home of Admitted Sex Offender – What Now?

A Vermont man is currently being held without bail because authorities located a single “improper” image of two young boys and a young girl.…

When Feds Crack Down on Immigration, Civil Rights Lose

Almost a year ago President Donald Trump tweeted the view that undocumented immigrants should be immediately returned “from where they came” – no judges,…

Facing Shortage, Texas Uses Mislabeled/Unapproved Drugs for Executions

Pentobarbital: Texas’s drug of choice in carrying out its lethal injection executions. Texas was the first state in 1982 to use a lethal three-drug…

Conviction Reversed After Prosecutor Violates Confrontation Clause

The Confrontation Clause prominently embedded in the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that a criminal defendant has a fundamental right “to…

Texas Supreme Court Blesses Prosecutorial Misconduct

Firing an employee in retaliation for refusing to perform an unlawful act violates both federal (Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)…

Congressional Authority to Investigate the President

Congress’s authority to conduct oversight, and its corollary power to investigate, the executive branch of government (and all of its agencies) are not explicitly…

The President and His Elusive Tax Returns

In early April, House and Ways Committee Chairman Richard Neal requested six years of President Donald Trump’s tax returns and tax information. Chairman Neal…

Investigators on the Lookout for Mortgage Fraud

More than a decade after one of the worst financial crises in the mortgage lending industry that unfolded in 2008, law enforcement authorities continue…

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