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Category Archives: Equal Justice

Something obvious but rarely mentioned

Friday, November 20, 2020

Just a short observation, prompted by this article in today’s New York Times, which details yet more criminal activity on the part of a pre-presidential Donald Trump. We learn from the article that Trump avoided taxes by diverting money to his daughter for “consulting fees”. It is rarely mentioned that if we had a legal […]

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Put this kid on the Supreme Court NOW!

Wednesday, July 3, 2019

Why waste time? He can get his law degree later. And it’s criminal that the judge, who was perceptive enough to see that the kid has a future, was criticized for his acuity. The 16-year-old girl was visibly intoxicated, her speech slurred, when a drunk 16-year-old boy sexually assaulted her in a dark basement during an alcohol-fueled […]

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Injustice in Georgia

Friday, September 1, 2017

This seems totally unfair: A Cobb County, Georgia police officer is being investigated after dash cam footage showing him making questionable statements during a suspected DUI traffic stop was released. During the stop the officer, dealing with a nervous but not uncooperative passenger, had this interaction: Officer: Use your phone. It’s in your lap right there. […]

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Excuse my cynicism

Tuesday, March 14, 2017

I wish I could agree with this article, which argues that Michael Flynn has retroactively registered as a foreign agent in order to set himself up for leniency when Trump and Pence are investigated. It still begs the question of why Michael Flynn is suddenly doing this. By registering now as a foreign agent, he’s […]

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Yet another modest proposal 

Wednesday, November 25, 2015

The Black Lives Matter movement has been criticized for failing to advance concrete proposals to deal with the issues it’s raising. Here’s a suggestion that should, but won’t, give the critics pause. The group should demand the appointment of a special prosecutor in Chicago to pursue the murder prosecution of the cop who gunned down […]

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Shades of Bush v. Gore

Monday, June 30, 2014

Well, we knew this was coming. Corporations are not only people, they have religions, and their right to practice that religion trumps the rights of their employees. Except, maybe not. When I was in law school I learned, or thought I learned, that when a court, particularly an appellate court, ruled on a case, it […]

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A typical case of American blind justice

Monday, May 19, 2014

Every once in a while you see a story like this and you wonder. I'd like to think it couldn't happen here, but this took place in Washington State, not Alabama: At the very end of last year, Shaun Goodman left a bar in Olympia, Washington in his Ferrari and led police on a high […]

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Friday Night Music Returns

Friday, October 18, 2013

At least I think it will, assuming I can tie some disparate strands together. Now that Obama has won his victory over the contumacious tea partiers, we can safely go back to criticizing him for his many failings, chief among which is his coddling of Wall Street. Pam Martens, the normally sensible blogger at Wall […]

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Democracy in America

Monday, July 29, 2013

A friend sent me this graphic. Each differently colored area represents a land mass in the United States with a population equivalent to that of California. In some instances, the same number of people have thirty senators to California’s two. Now, I realize this is the result of the much vaunted and praised “Connecticut Compromise”, […]

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American Blind Justice

Friday, June 28, 2013

This is one of those stories that is so outrageous that it is beyond my poor literary power to express. Still, I will do my mite by passing it on, in hopes that the outrage will spread and, in the end, that outrage might cause some semblance of justice to prevail. Our tale takes place […]

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