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"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

submitted 4 days ago • 1028 comments

Matthew Martens on why due process matters: "Without a trial … we do not know whether a crime occurred and, if so, who committed the crime." "And that trial cannot provide a reliable answer … if its procedures are not of a sort designed to yield accurate results."

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

One of the oldest arguments against giving any rights or process to the people we accuse is — one constantly “rediscovered” by the shallow and the dim — is “well they didn’t give their victims any rights or process.” That’s fatuous. /1

submitted 18 days ago • 126 comments

Historically, law enforcement determinations of who is or isn’t in a gang has been some of the most entrails-of-a-sheep subjective voodoo bullshit in the entire criminal justice system. So now if a neo-Nazi is wiling to call you a gang member you are summarily deported.

submitted 19 days ago • 148 comments

So basically we have (A) a fascist party and (B) a party that doesn't want to make too much of a fuss about the fascist party.

submitted 22 days ago • 159 comments

I’m not sure that the Trump Democrats strategy of letting the bully take their lunch money today in the hopes the bully will be nice to them tomorrow will be all that effective

submitted 23 days ago • 68 comments

The court reversed the state court's judgement and sent the case back for a new trial.

submitted 39 days ago • 12 comments

So, folks on here have probably caught a whole bunch of lawyers and law professors (correctly) lashing out at a law professor (Ilan Wurman) for suggesting there's some meaningful "literature" supporting Trump's attack on birthright citizenship that the courts didn't "engage with" It's worth taking

submitted 69 days ago • 16 comments

If my clients had the opportunity for similar treatment, I’d be on board with this non-sentence. For some reason, other similarly convicted felons aren’t afforded such grace. www.cnn.com/politics/liv...

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

“Gifted and tenacious attorney”?! Dude didn’t even know how to switch his Venmo to private.

submitted 143 days ago • 0 comments