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Virginia prosecutors hid exculpatory evidence and defied a federal judge in a death-penalty case. Will the Supreme Court let them get away with it?
By Andrew Cohen, The Atlantic, Feb. 18, 2014
Justice Sonia Sotomayor is the only current member of the United States Supreme Court with experience as a prosecutor and she has often said, even as recently as a few weeks ago, that this background pushes her to expect more and better from the prosecutors whose hands are forever dirtied by the cases they handle. If she is serious about this, she will able to demonstrate it Friday morning when she meets in private conference with her...
By Matt Ford, The Atlantic, Feb. 18, 2014
On Monday, the United Nations' Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea published a wide-ranging report on what it described as "systematic, widespread and gross human rights violations [that] have been and are being committed by [North Korea], its institutions and officials." The panel recommended that North Korea and its leader, 31-year-old Kim Jong Un, be referred to the International...
By Nicholas Confessore, New York Times, Feb. 17/18, 2014
Tom Steyer, a retired hedge fund manager, plans to spend as much as $100 million this year on a hard-edge campaign to pressure officials and candidates to support climate change measures.
I guess there really are no open and shut cases any longer, if there ever were.
Not when the "victim/perp" is black and the defendant is white.
This reminded of a story TPM was running--but now seems to have disappeared --about rules against advertising cigarettes not applying to the black community.
Maybe the story had problems with it, so it was withdrawn. But it also left my mouth hanging wide open.
How racist and venal can you get...
Josh used to talk a lot about up-is-downism amongst conservatives. If it was raining outside, they'd say the sun was shining.
But now they are working full time on reversing the roles of victim and perpetrator. While the dead black kid would've been the victim unquestionably in years past, now...
Ugh, Marsha Backburn is owned by Coal companies. She certainly knows nothing about science. But I think David Gregory is a shitty debate moderator, if he was any good he wouldn't have let her get away with attacking Nye's credentials as a scientist. Does she realize engineers are scientists? I guess not.