Absentee Ballot Fraud: A Stolen Election in Greene County, Alabama
The 1994 Greene County, Alabama, election fraud case shows how easily crooked politicians can abuse absentee ballots to disenfranchise voters. Because the risk of fraud is so high, absentee ballots should be available only to those who truly need them. Additional common-sense steps like signature matching and ID requirements also reduce the risk of stolen elections.
Making It a Federal Case: An Inside View of the Pressures to Federalize Crime
A lack of public understanding of the problem of over-federalization results in political pressures that make it difficult for the executive branch to combat the problem. Reform must be pursued incrementally for now, and reform advocates should focus on making the practical benefits of federalism part of the public discourse while eliminating the most egregious examples of over-federalization.
The Senate's ADA Amendments Act: Only Half Bad
Now is not the right time to expand ADA coverage, but if legislation is inevitable, Congress should still reject approaches that muddy the meaning of the law and would inflict unnecessary pain across the economy.
Prisoner Reentry: A Limited Federal Government Role
To address the issue of offender recidivism, the federal government should operate reentry programs for offenders formally incarcerated in the federal correctional system. The federal government should not assume responsibility for funding the routine operations of state and local reentry programs. Evidence-based reentry programs should be implemented by the appropriate level of government. Congress needs to do more to ensure that the reentry programs it funds are rigorously evaluated.
Defunding ACORN: Necessary and Proper, and Certainly Constitutional
Barring ACORN from receiving federal funds through the Defund ACORN Act is perfectly constitutional.
Defending Those Who Serve: Paying the Legal Costs of CIA Officers
CIA Director Leon Panetta's decision to use agency funds to pay for the legal defense of case officers targeted by President Obama and Attorney General Holder is not only legal under the CIA’s authorizing statute, but it is the correct position to take from a moral, public policy, and national security point of view.
The Politics of (In)Justice
Obama's patronizing Civil Rights Division. Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act may not look like a political weapon. But in the hands of certain government lawyers, that's exactly what it has become.
Punting National Security to the Judiciary
The president won't release detainees; he'll sit back and let the courts to do it for him. In a stunning display of political cowardice, the Obama administration has decided not to seek specific congressional authorization for a prolonged detention statute for Guantanamo Bay detainees deemed too dangerous to set free.
Dust-Up: Torture and the CIA: Investigate White House higher-ups?
First, David, I need to address your claim from Wednesday, "Nothing in any of the reports released over the last several years ... demonstrates that unlawful interrogation techniques (such as waterboarding, the use of which Dick Cheney calls a 'no-brainer') have made us safe." Your debatable conclusion about the unlawfulness of the techniques aside, this statement is plainly false. Reports issued to date repeatedly note the success of the interrogation techniques at procuring intelligence that prevented attacks.
Obama should be 'decider' on CIA interrogators probe
When questioned about the possibility of prosecuting Bush administration officials, President Obama has repeatedly claimed that he wants to look forward, not backward. Yet his spokesman said Monday's decision by Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to reopen the investigation of CIA interrogators was made solely by the attorney general.
Dust-Up: Will investigating possible abuses by agency interrogators damage their ability to do their jobs?
As we begin, it's worth noting that we're not discussing whether to investigate or prosecute allegations of abuse by interrogators. That has already happened. What we're discussing is whether the re-investigation and possible prosecution of abuse allegations -- which the Department of Justice has already investigated and expressly declined to prosecute -- will have a chilling effect on CIA agents.
Adult Time for Adult Crime Conclusion: A Lawful and Appropriate Punishment
The United States has a juvenile crime problem that far exceeds the juvenile crime problems of other Western countries. Over the years, state legislatures have responded to this increase in the volume and severity of juvenile crime by providing for sentences that effectively punish offenders, incapacitate them, and deter serious offenses. They have determined by Read More...
Adult Time for Adult Crime: Donald Torres
On November 9th, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments challenging the constitutionality of juvenile life without parole (JLWOP) sentences. In preparation for oral arguments, JLWOP: Faces & Cases will be an on-going series on The Foundry that will tell real stories about juvenile offenders who are currently serving LWOP sentences. Defendant: Donald Torres (14) Victims: Read More...
Adult Time for Adult Crime Video: Dan Horowitz
On Saturday, October 18, 2005, Pamela Vitale has plans to go to an afternoon ballet with a friend. She never made it. Armed with a knife, sixteen-year old Scott Dyleski breaks into Vitale’s home and viciously attacks her. Pam puts up valiant fight, but she was unable to escape Dyleski’s brutal beatings and savage Read More...
Adult Time for Adult Crime: Martize Smolley
On November 9th, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments challenging the constitutionality of juvenile life without parole (JLWOP) sentences. In preparation for oral arguments, JLWOP: Faces & Cases will be an on-going series on The Foundry that will tell real stories about juvenile offenders who are currently serving LWOP sentences. Defendant: Martize M. Smolley Read More...
Adult Time for Adult Crime Video: Officer Ron Holt
On May 10, 2007 sixteen-year old Blair Holt and his friends were riding the bus home from school in Chicago. This was Blair’s last ride. A Chicago juvenile gang member looking for another gang member pushes his way onto the bus and fires wildly at the other gang member who is sitting just Read More...
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Land, others warn Bush: Get Department of Justice in line on human trafficking bill - Baptist Press
Southern Baptist ethics leader Richard Land has joined in warning President Bush his own Department of Justice is threatening to tarnish his legacy on combating human trafficking.
Reporter Shield Bill Could Get Caught in Senate Stalemate - CQ Politics
The prospects for legislation to establish a shield law for reporters appeared dim as the measure’s sponsor said he was unsure he would vote to move it forward in the Senate on Wednesday.
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