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Possible Criminal Charges Against a Former President Test Democracy

Indicting a former president is no minor task for any nation’s justice system to undertake. In modern times, there have been former presidents indicted…

Stalk Someone Online and You Could Face Federal Charges

The internet is now woven into the fabric of everyday life, making electronic communication commonplace an easy way to stay in touch with others.…

Gun Violence and Use of the Federal Firearms Enhancement

This past February, Houston’s city officials allocated 44 million dollars to combat increasing violence in the state’s largest city. At a news conference announcing…

Replacement Theory, Revisionist History Spawn Violence

White hatred of people of color is a permanent fixture in American history. The violence done to people of color by White Americans cannot…

Presidential Commutation: How Does It Work in Texas?

Presidential clemency, most often a commutation of a criminal sentence, is a last-ditch effort to have a reduced because of its harshness or an…

Solitary Confinement: America’s Torture Program

In October of 2019, the Texas Civil Rights Project(TCRP) issued a report , “ Torture by Another Name: Solitary Confinement in Texas ,” that…

Dead Man Walking Because of Sleeping Lawyer

The continuing march by the State of Texas to execute George Edward McFarland adds to the often-repeated phrase associated with death penalty cases, “only…

Police Misconduct, Violence: Not Just a Few Bad Apples

There was a time in this country when police misconduct was casually dismissed as “just a few bad apples.” It was widely believed that…

Silence Malcolm X “By Any Means Necesary”

Two icons of the 1960s used the term “by any means necessary”: the French existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre and Black Muslim activist Malcolm X.…

Courts Use Legal Procedure to Deny Justice for Wrongfully Convicted

Justice delayed is indeed justice denied. Lamar Johnson has seen justice delayed for more than a quarter of a century, and to this day…

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