Category: Legal Affairs

Kavanaugh’s Toxic Nomination
by Andrew Cohen | Sep 27, 2018 | Legal Affairs, PoliticsDay by day, unsealed document by unsealed document, the American people are learning in this summer of discontent a great deal about the values and vision of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, a judge of relentless conservative mien who, if confirmed, will push the Court as far right as it has been in nearly a […]

French Lessons on How to Grow the Middle Class
by Steven Pressman | Aug 19, 2018 | Legal Affairs, PoliticsAs the campaign season enters its final stages, torrents of empty rhetoric and wasted column inches are being devoted to the fate of American middle-class families. Proposals ranging from health saving accounts, student debt forgiveness, even guaranteed minimum income plans have been advanced as silver bullets. Whenever a policy debate in the United States is […]

Sex Crimes and Criminal Justice
by Barbara Koeppel | May 4, 2018 | Legal Affairs, PoliticsResponding to several highly publicized sex crimes and public fears, legislatures across the country have adopted statutes that allow the continued imprisonment of sex offenders after they have completed their sentences. Veteran investigative reporter Barbara Koeppel has spent the past 12 months reporting on this third rail of the criminal justice system. Here are her […]

Dysfunction Hobbles Trump Justice Initiatives
by Andrew Cohen | Feb 20, 2018 | Legal Affairs, PoliticsAs we enter Trump’s second year in office, our “tough-on-crime” president and his attorney general have failed or refused, in their first year in office, to fill six key Justice Department posts with Senate-confirmed picks. Vital federal law enforcement agencies—the Drug Enforcement Administration; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives; and the U.S. Marshals […]

A Wolff at the Door
by Mort Rosenblum | Feb 14, 2018 | Books, Culture, Legal Affairs, PoliticsIt seems pretty clear watching the reaction to Michael Wolff’s neutron bomb, Fire and Fury: We Americans, collectively, have gone out of our flipping minds. How can we let this fake president continue to personify us? The book, if hardly a literary masterwork, spills enough beans to bury Donald Trump, his clown-car inner circle, and […]
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