Category Archives: Judiciary

Trump’s pardons spit in the faces of one particular group of Americans

The ones no one refers to when convictions are announced: the people, i.e., us ordinary and unheralded participants in the American experiment, who sat on the many grand juries indicting the criminals and the many juries convicting them. When Jack … Continue reading

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Notice: the jailhouse will no longer rock

From Harper’s Weekly Review: [I]n Missouri, a county circuit judge notorious for wearing an Elvis Presley wig on the bench and swearing in witnesses to Presley’s music shall no longer hold judicial office.

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Confused about SNAP? Here’s why

From Harper’s Weekly Review: The Trump Administration said it was sending states money to fully fund SNAP benefits for nearly 42 million Americans on the same day that the Supreme Court temporarily upheld the administration’s prior request to block said … Continue reading

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