The senator criticized the “right-wing, corporate-sponsored Supreme Court” for its clear “extremist agenda.”…
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240703151259/https://truthout.org/articles/sanders-supreme-court-is-out-of-control-and-must-be-reformed/
Yeah, especially on how they got into this position by electing a dipshit neolib who pushed pro-business and anti-migrant policies while refusing to push back against the far right until it became a problem for him personally
How CoreCivic stands to benefit as Tennessee pushes harsher prison sentences
This article was originally published by The Lever, an investigative newsroom. If you like this story, click here to get The Lever’s free newsletter.” As states across the country adopt harsh new sentencing laws, private prison companies are celebrating, telling investors that they soon expect more ...
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240703112551/https://tennesseelookout.com/2024/07/01/how-corecivic-stands-to-benefit-as-tennessee-pushes-harsher-prison-sentences/
Private prisons across the US are lobbying lawmakers for stricter sentencing laws. Benefitting from increased occupancy rates, these corporations are filling their pockets and enriching their shareholders.
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240703112601/https://jacobin.com/2024/06/private-prisons-sentencing-law-lobbying
Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier denied parole for 1975 killings of 2 FBI agents
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240703112953/https://www.npr.org/2024/07/02/nx-s1-5026755/leonard-peltier-denied-parole
Reed, on death row for more than 25 years, says he is innocent of the 1996 killing of Stacey Stites in Bastrop County.
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240703112930/https://www.texastribune.org/2024/07/02/texas-rodney-reed-supreme-court-petition-death-row/
Most studies on jury selection show prosecutors disproportionately use their strikes to exclude Black jurors, according to an expert.
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240703112150/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/07/02/supreme-court-jurors-dismissed-black/73773266007/
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review the case of an Alabama man who has spent decades in prison for a murder conviction supported by recanted and discredited bite mark testimony.
>The U.S. Supreme Court declined Tuesday to review the case of an Alabama man who has spent decades in prison for a murder conviction supported by recanted and discredited testimony about bite marks.
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240703112202/https://apnews.com/article/bite-marks-supreme-court-6306fb336f625bb171b87188ec647022
The state’s prison system has faced recent scrutiny for failing to care for inmates.
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240703112300/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/us/wisconsin-prison-doctor-health-care.html
So if he's not needed and just being a drag on the ticket why doesn't he resign?
Well, we've already had a president assassinate US citizens, so let's rev up those predators and go looking for whatever billionaire's yacht Coney Barret, Kavanuahh, and Roberts are chilling on
Also, we've already had a president assassinate US citizens
So, yeah, in the long term we definitely need to put some guardrails on this. Short term, though, I say rev up those predators and go looking for whatever billionaire's yacht Coney Barret, Kavanuahh, and Roberts are chilling on
"Talking a lot of shit for someone within Official Act distance" - Joe Biden (in my dreams)
Conservative activists in Georgia and other states are using a new software tool as part of a broader effort to scrub voters from the rolls.
>They’re asking election administrators to use their data to purge voter registrations, which means names could be removed in a less public process than a formal voter challenge. The strategy could mean electors won’t be summoned in advance to defend their voting rights and the identities of those seeking to purge voters might not be routinely public.
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240702113635/https://apnews.com/article/georgia-voter-removal-software-eagleai-266ead9198da7d54421798e8a1577d26
"We think this particular minion has reached the end of his usefulness, so here's one satisfying but ultimately very small victory to distract you from the gutting of anti-bribery laws, industry regulations, protections for unhoused people against arbitrary arrests, etc."
The ACLU are savvy litigators and picked a client our Supreme Court might be sympathetic to
Jails and prisons also purchase a ton of goods and services from for profit companies, who are all too happy to upcharge ("you can't put a price on safety!"), and the wardens just sign on the dotted line and hand the bill over to taxpayers
This documentary from about 20 years ago went to one of their tradeshows, and even back then they were talking about how it corrections was a billion dollar industry
I should re-phrase - I'd like to be able to scroll through this community's posts sorted by controversial or new, find a downvoted to hell (as it should be) Epoch Times article that's getting positive traction on other sites (or even other Lemmy instances), and find within the comments on that post one pointing out why the article/source is bullshit that I can copy and paste elsewhere. Searching through comments is a pain on my preferred mobile app (idk about the desktop web interface, but I can't imagine it's a lot better), and it would be just about impossible to know which post's comments would have the comment saying "oh, btw the Epoch Times is out with some fresh nonsense this morning, they're claiming x y and z, but in reality a b and c".
with moderate politics
They'll do great for one campaign until they actually have to govern and then it's going to be 1996 and 2012 all over again and we'll barely scrape by (if we're lucky) against extremely beatable candidates. Moderates run good campaigns and terrible administrations because the average American voter has been propagandized into believing they want bipartisanship and small government when what they actually want is some affordable healthcare and housing which moderate politics are not going to deliver to them.
e; and actually the "do great for one campaign" thing might be optimistic or antiquated thinking based on how Biden barely won in 2020
Because when some false and propagandizing crap from the Epoch Times starts blowing up on telegram or twitter or facebook or wherever I'd like to be able to come to this community and find a comment pointing out the lies and bullshit (ideally with links to sources) that I can up vote here and copy and paste to where it's needed
I disagree strongly, this is actually more of an issue with lawmakers because working in the legislature is all about building political coalitions and cutting deals. Republicans' political coalition since the 1960s has been economic conservatives (who I think are extremely misguided but I accept will likely be a part of any representative government) and klan members (who should never ever understand any circumstances ever be allowed anywhere near the levers of power). Even if Mitt Romney is a good person in the abstract, when he wants to get a bill gutting Social Security over the vote margin he's going to be partnering with the Louis Gohmerts and Gym Jordans and MGTs of the world, who are going to expect something in return. Moreover, the Mitt Romneys of this world are capable of learning a lesson, and the lesson the electorate should teach them is that partnering with nazis and klan members leads to crushing political defeats.
There are no good Republicans for any elected office, period. Conservatives can spend a generation or two wandering in the woods asking themselves how they ended up where they did and come back with a new political party, but it's about forty years past when the grand old one should've been thrown on the ash heap.
A bot scans for new posts and notifies the mods if there is a low credibility rating.
Could it leave a comment visible to the general community on the article in question alerting the rest of us to low credibility sources?
I don't like this proposal, but I would love a bot that automatically comments with a link to this Wikipedia page anytime something from one of these sites gets posted here
Banning from this community won't make them disappear from site like facebook and twitter that have millions of more visitors, but it will keep people in this community from seeing the kinds of things facebook and twitter users see.
Bad articles from bad sources are a problem that should be solved by an intelligent and active community that downvotes and leaves comments pointing out the article and/or source's weakness. If the moderators don't think we have a strong enough community for that this might be necessary, but I don't think it is.
And this is precisely why no Republican should ever be allowed to win an election anywhere. Their whole party has been pro-racism and anti-democracy since they ran Goldwater on an anti-civil rights laws platform, and whenever the pressure is on the Adam Kinzingers and Liz Cheney's and Mitt Romney's of the world will always cave to the most heinous people and ideas within their party rather than accept some kind of political or policy defeat.
FYI, I edited my comment a bit while you were replying, I'm still not wrong (imo haha) but you should be aware
Well, at least now they know how the rest of us feel about undecided voters
e; But yeah, Biden was not good (and that is not good for democracy in America and the general well being of the rest of the world)
Only after they selectively deploy endorsements and campaign funds so that the game is heavily rigged toward their preferred candidate, don't be daft
You should definitely take the NY Post's summary of Democratic Majority for Israel's factual claim at face value, those are both highly reputable and trustworthy organizations /s
Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams in spacecraft attached to International Space Station as engineers fix problem
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240626130830/https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/jun/26/boeing-starliner-astronauts
More than 40 people are alleged to have died as a result of Greek coastguard actions, BBC analysis reveals.
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240617121514/https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0vv717yvpeo
The justices turned away an attack on abortion pills—but still laid the groundwork to further the goals of the conservative legal movement.
>Distressingly, the opinion leaves breadcrumbs for [anti-abortion] activists to follow next time—and sets up some roadblocks to keep progressive activists out. For example, Kavanaugh writes that plaintiffs who aren’t actually affected by a given regulation, like the AHM, can still “thread the causation needle” if they show that the parties who are regulated “will likely react in predictable ways that in turn will likely injure the plaintiffs.” The Court also clarified that an organization does not have standing merely if it “diverts its resources in response to a defendant’s actions.” > >Why does this matter? The diversion-of-resources argument comes from a landmark 1982 case called Havens Realty Corporation v. Coleman, in which a fair housing organization sought to sue an apartment complex for its refusal to rent apartments to Black “testers”—people who posed as potential renters to test compliance with the law. The Court ruled in Havens Realty that the organization, although it wasn’t actually trying to rent apartments, nonetheless had standing to sue, in part because the realty company’s actions forced the organization to use its limited resources to ferret out illegal discrimination. > >Kavanaugh’s opinion declines to extend standing to the AHM under Havens Realty. But he also goes out of his way to call Havens Realty an “unusual case” that the Court “has been careful not to extend…beyond its context.” If this language signals that the Court is looking skeptically at future diversion-of-resources claims, that could be bad news for civil rights groups trying to use the courts to enforce the law.
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240614122724/https://ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/abortion-pills-case-time-bomb-alliance-for-hippocratic-medicine/
The overall crime rate is nearly as low as it’s been in decades, but that hasn’t stopped officials from pushing draconian measures likely only to fuel mass incarceration and harm public safety. It’s time for a different approach.
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240614122241/https://theappeal.org/tough-on-crime-rates-record-low/
Secret Law is not the Solution to an Overbroad Surveillance Authority
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has created “secret law,” in which even the legal parameters for surveillance are classified.
>When the House passed legislation to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) in April, it included a new provision that Senator Ron Wyden described as “one of the most dramatic and terrifying expansions of government surveillance authority in history.” Concern over the provision mounted in the Senate and threatened to derail the law’s renewal. Anxious to secure reauthorization before Section 702 expired, the chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), Senator Mark Warner, promised to work with other senators to narrow the provision in subsequent legislation. > >To his credit, Senator Warner has made good on that promise; but the cure that SSCI has chosen is nearly as bad as the disease. The committee has created a dangerous new form of “secret law,” in which the legal parameters for surveillance—rules that bind not only the government, but private parties—are themselves classified. There is a much better solution available: Congress can legislate both responsibly and openly, as long as the administration declassifies certain information that is already in the public domain.
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240614115258/https://www.justsecurity.org/96638/secret-law-overbroad-surveillance-authority/
New Jersey's D.C. Democrats say Biden administration should not support new GEO Group immigrant jail in Newark
GEO Group wants to open an immigrant detention center in Newark. Democrats say the Biden administration should not support its plan.
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240614115538/https://newjerseymonitor.com/2024/06/10/new-jerseys-d-c-democrats-say-biden-administration-should-not-support-new-immigrant-jail/
What happened at Waupun: A timeline of prisoner deaths, investigations, lawsuits and resignations at the Wisconsin prison
Waupun Correctional Institution entered a lockdown in March 2023. Here's what has happened since then.
>Over the past year, four prisoners have died at Waupun, prison workers have been criminally charged, officials have resigned and a series of investigations have been launched at the local, state and federal levels.
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240614115212/https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/investigations/2024/06/12/what-happened-at-waupun-a-timeline-of-events-at-wisconsin-prison-evers-carr-hepp/74051315007/
Last year was the deadliest at the jail in decades. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart blames drugs being smuggled in.
>[Sheriff] Dart’s spokesperson said the “primary driver” for the record spike in deaths was a sudden influx of paper laced with fentanyl and other drugs that was smuggled into the jail in the first half of last year. > >Indeed, drug overdose was the cause of death for eight detainees in 2023, followed by six from natural causes (including Colon), three homicides, and one suicide, according to records from the Cook County medical examiner. > >Deaths and overdoses at the jail plummeted after Dart severely restricted access to paper last April, going so far as to block defense attorneys from bringing paper into the jail. As of this week, there had been no deaths at the jail in 2024, his spokesperson said. The jail’s average daily population has also dropped significantly following the abolition of cash bail in Illinois. > >But even in some overdose deaths, Injustice Watch found potential policy violations and lack of oversight that may have dangerously increased the jail’s reaction time to offer medical assistance, and advocates and experts say Injustice Watch’s findings point to longstanding problems at the jail that run deeper than drug-laced paper.
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240614115146/https://www.injusticewatch.org/project/jail-deaths/2024/cook-county-jail-deaths-2023/
The action is the first legal challenge to an order that President Biden hopes will decrease the number of illegal crossings and neutralize a major political vulnerability.
>“The asylum statute could not be clearer: that one must be able to seek protection regardless of where they enter the country, which is why the courts struck down Trump’s near-identical asylum ban and is undoubtedly why the Biden administration has acknowledged it may not be able to do this by unilateral executive fiat,” said Lee Gelernt, a lawyer with the A.C.L.U. who has challenged several immigration policies under the Biden and Trump administrations.
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240614115111/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/12/us/politics/aclu-lawsuit-biden-border-asylum.html
A 126-page report issued after a three-year investigation showed violations of the First, Fourth and 14th Amendments by the Phoenix Police Department.
>Many city officials and police representatives bristled at the findings, with reactions ranging from disappointment and frustration to anxiety and near outrage. One city leader said federal oversight would "neuter" the department, while a police leader said the report's findings were riddled with "innuendo" and "half-truths." > >The city's top leaders, City Manager Jeff Barton and Mayor Kate Gallego, were more cautious, stressing they wanted to read the report fully before substantively weighing in. > >Few activist organizations weighed in. There were no protests or demonstrations at City Hall, as has occurred in years past. Poder in Action said in a statement on social media the community was "disgusted, furious and heartbroken" but not surprised.
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240614115022/https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2024/06/13/phoenix-police-slammed-in-126-page-justice-department-report/74080698007/