FW: Judge Trump’s verdict
Dianne Tramutola-Lawson
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From: The Marshall Project [mailto:in...@themarshallproject.org]
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2018 5:35 AM
Subject: Judge Trump’s verdict
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With friends like these. President Trump Monday said that his former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen should serve “a full and complete sentence” for his crimes, which including lying to protect the president. USA Today Related: Trump Tower, Moscow, a timeline. CNN Related: The Supreme Court soon will hear a double jeopardy case that has implications for Trump, Cohen, and Paul Manafort. The Washington Post More: A handy perjury chart of Trump associates. Just Security George H.W. Bush’s legacy on criminal justice. There was the Crime Control Act of 1990. Congressional Quarterly Almanac There was the 1989 stunt in which federal law enforcement officers lured a drug dealer toward the White House so Bush could use a crack bag as a prop on television. Inquisitr There was the time he quit the NRA over its anti-government rhetoric. The Trace And of course there was the Willie Horton episode in 1988 in which he embraced a racist campaign ad about a Massachusetts prisoner. The Marshall Project About that sexual harassment bill Congress said it would pass covering Capitol Hill. Federal lawmakers have been promising all year to pass legislation that would update its sexual misconduct and harassment policies, but it hasn’t happened. The House passed a version of the bill in February. The Senate followed with its own version in May. Since then? Crickets. And a growing sense of impatience from #MeToo advocates and others looking for accountability. The Huffington Post Building an empire on the back of a crisis. Southwest Key Programs, a non-profit, now houses more child migrants than any other program in the country and for doing so it has collected $626 million in federal grants this year alone. But now there are questions about how that money is being spent and accounted for, and whether or not top executives are engaging in unlawful self-dealing. The New York Times Related: For sale in New Mexico: Border wall, illegally erected on private land. Rolling Stone Who to believe? Should police and prosecutors be barred from prosecuting sex assault cases unless they find evidence that corroborates the victims’ allegations? Criminal law traditionally has not required such evidence and legislative attempts to do so have been met by fierce opposition from victims’ rights groups and others. A New Hampshire case, involving allegations of child molestation, illustrates the due process issues that arise when a defendant’s liberty depends on the word of a single accuser. The New Republic
An update from the federal monitor overseeing police reforms in Ferguson, Missouri, says “considerable progress” has been made but that local cops need more emphasis on “bias-free policing” and data collection. U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri The burgeoning case of Republican voter fraud in North Carolina now includes a convicted felon and a campaign organizer. The Charlotte Observer City officials in Norfolk, Virginia, and state officials, too, have agreed to pay a total of $8.4 million to the “Norfolk Four,” former sailors who were wrongfully convicted of a woman’s rape and murder. Associated Press
Texas executioners tonight plan to kill Joseph Garcia, one of seven prisoners who escaped in 2000 and murdered a police officer while on the run. The Marshall Project Related: Floyd Maestas, who spent nearly 15 years on Utah’s death row, died of cancer over the weekend. Salt Lake City Tribune Also on trial in Chicago, Illinois, along with three cops accused of misconduct is the fabled “code of silence” surrounding police accountability. The New York Times Oregon residents are wondering why a conspiracy theorist, who thinks the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 are a lie, has a taxpayer-funded job coordinating a review of child abuse deaths. The Oregonian
A failure of imagination, a penchant for cruelty. On the “widening divide between the inherent complexity of immigration laws and the simplistic, generally punitive rhetoric that aims to criminalize migration.” By Rep. Pramila Jayapal. The New York Review of Books Three cheers for the NYPD. The more police in New York deploy programs that respect the dignity of crime victims the safer the city becomes. It’s still a work in progress, though. Slate An accountability vacuum. With the Justice Department moving away from holding local cops accountable, what happens now with the policing mess in Elkhart, Indiana? ProPublica Family separation is still happening even though it’s not leading the news. Rolling Stone In fact, the population of the tent cities in the southwest are growing larger. MSNBC The pathology of prejudice. Neuroscience can help us understand why, say, white supremacists hate the way they do. The New Republic Related: Why we need to call it “racism” when it’s racism. Boston Review When law and justice are at odds. The deportation of Samuel Oliver-Bruno from North Carolina is both legal and a sin. The Washington Post
Video of the Day: A history of the “perp walk”—when cops roll out the blue carpet—the presumption of innocence goes out the window. The New York Times Obituary of the Day: Mujahid Farid spent 33 years in prison in New York and then, when he finally was released, devoted the rest of his life to advocating on behalf of the early release of elderly or infirm inmates. The New York Times Defense Theory of the Day: A Kansas man accused of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl tried unsuccessfully to argue under the state’s abortion law that she was actually 16 years old because her time as a fetus should have been counted. Associated Press Runaround of the Day: How a private prison company operating in Georgia is trying to use federal law to shield information about the suicide of a detained immigrant. Mother Jones Insult of the Day: Hospital operators in New York illegally billed sex assault survivors for their rape kits. After a state investigation there’s now a settlement for the victims and new procedures in place to make sure it doesn’t happen again. Glamour Litigation of the Day: A Florida grandmother’s lawsuit against Miami jail officials was revived recently by a federal appeals court. She was booked into the jail as a man, even though jail staff knew she was a woman, and was left to languish in a cell surrounding by “leering” male detainees. Miami Herald |
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