“Sessions’s child-removal policy actually extends the callousness of current American penal practices.”
“The Corker-Kaine AUMF is beyond dangerous. It is unconstitutional. And it is set up to never end.”
“The sharpest plunge in America’s press freedom rating occurred during the Obama administration — thanks in part to its zealous prosecutions of journalists. Trump is continuing policies started by earlier presidents.”
“Both Operation LASER and PredPol are sponsored by the federal Bureau of Justice Assistance’s SMART Policing Initiative, which aims to use ‘evidence-based, data-driven’ policing strategies to try and pre-empt and prevent crime.”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/05/11/predictive-policing-surveillance-los-angeles/
“A seemingly unsupervised CBP agent improperly attempted to force Twitter to produce records on a particular user without a court order — completely disregarding whether the summons was legal.”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/05/07/cbp-alt-uscis-twitter/
“The story of their success is about thriving after surviving a brutal war that left them with nearly nothing.”
“What characterizes American government today is not so much dysfunctional politics as it is ruthlessly contrived governance carried out behind the entertaining, distracting and disingenuous curtain of political theater.”
“Sweeping language catches up not just scary looking AR-15’s, but also encompasses common target shooting rifles that are particularly ill-suited to the commission of any gun crimes.”
Read more: http://reason.com/blog/2018/05/01/insanely-broad-definition-of-assault-wea
“The Barn is openly used by humanitarian aid groups that provide food, water, and medical care to the adults and children who come stumbling out of the Arizona desert exhausted, dehydrated, and sometimes on the verge of death.”
“The Trump administration is going a step further by wrenching children from the arms of asylum-seekers, apparently as a way of inflicting gratuitous cruelty to discourage new arrivals.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/25/opinion/family-separation-border-immigration.html