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7 Institutions That Have Grown So Monstrously Big They Threaten to Destroy...
By Richard Eskow Bigger isn’t always better. From the Tower of Babel to Teddy Roosevelt’s trust-busting, that principle’s been enshrined in law and legend since the dawn of history. Have we forgotten...
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How Congress Can Undo The Supreme Court’s Attack On Workers’ Rights
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Congress, give us new Voting Rights Act
By Donna Brazile English: American political strategist Donna Brazile. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) In an earthshaking 1965 speech to Congress and to the nation, President Lyndon Johnson spoke directly to...
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The 7 Most Important Things That Happened In The George Zimmerman Murder...
By Rachel Samara It was an interesting first week in the George Zimmerman second degree murder trial. The prosecution brought out a number of witnesses including law enforcement officers, residents of...
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Woman Says George Zimmerman Molested Her For More Than A Decade
By Trymaine Lee George Zimmerman (Photo credit: ChrisWaldeck) A woman with close ties to George Zimmerman and his family told investigators that members of Zimmerman’s family were boastfully proud...
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Thurgood Marshall’s Prescient Warning: Don’t Gut the 4th Amendment
By Conor Friedersdorf In a story on the secret body of law being created by the FISA court, The New York Times reports that “in one of the court’s most important decisions, the judges have expanded the...
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With Racial Roles Reversed, Three Self-Defense Cases That Went The Other Way
By Annie-Rose Strasser George Zimmerman was acquitted in the murder of Trayvon Martin over the weekend, successfully using a claim of self-defense to convince six jurors that he was right to shoot and...
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How The Zimmerman Mindset Rigged The Justice System Against Black Men
By Judd Legum George Zimmerman killed one boy, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Although a Florida jury found Zimmerman not guilty, his attitude — that a young black male is an object suspicion and contempt...
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DHS warns employees not to read leaked NSA information
English: Seal of the United States Department of Homeland Security. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) By Josh Hicks The Department of Homeland Security has warned its employees that the government may penalize...
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Is stand your ground unique to the United States?
The Earth seen from Apollo 17. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) By Brian Palmer Jurors in the George Zimmerman murder trial discussed Florida’s “stand your ground” law before reaching a not guilty verdict on...
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Obama takes on race
By Greg Sargent Obama has often been called upon to use his unique historical position as the first black president to engage the nation in a conversation about continuing racial injustice. In a...
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Being Legal Doesn’t End Poverty
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411 On Stand Your Ground: Which 26 States Have It & What Does It Mean?
Stand Your Ground (Photo credit: Seattle.roamer) As we continue to reflect on not-guilty Trayvon Martin trial verdict, the controversial stand your ground law that aided in George Zimmerman’s defense...
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Police Questioning of Minors
Everyone knows the iconic phrase “you have the right to remain silent.” It is usually the first thing that police tell someone when taking them into custody, and it makes up one of the several rights –...
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Angela Corey faces $5 mil whistleblower lawsuit
Reblogged from theGrio: Angela Corey, the controversial prosecutor at the center of the George Zimmerman trial, was served with a lawsuit Thursday by a former employee claiming he was unlawfully...
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10 Reasons Lawyers Say Florida’s Law Enforcement Threw Away George...
By Steven Rosenfeld Florida law enforcement, from the local police to the special prosecutor overseeing the Trayvon Martin case, did not want to see George Zimmerman convicted of murder and...
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How Secrecy Has Already Corroded Our Democracy in Concrete Ways
By Conor Friedersdorf This summer, Rep. James Sensenbrenner, an author and longtime champion of the Patriot Act, emerged as one of the most concerned voices arguing that the law is being used to...
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Does the Chief Justice Have Too Much Power?
Chief Justice John G. Roberts (Photo credit: Wikipedia) By Garrett Epps John Roberts has a way of inserting himself into almost every political setting. He upstaged Barack Obama at his first...
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