We’ve Known How To Prevent A School Shooting for More Than 20 Years
Homeless camp cleared at Union Station: ‘We don’t have nowhere to go’
Google’s plan to talk about caste bias led to ‘division and rancor’
China’s hold over Tesla raises questions about Musk’s bid for Twitter: Current and former U.S. officials say deal could go against national interest - "By dominating the supply of multiple components critical to the fortunes of Tesla, the Chinese government holds so much leverage over chief executive Elon Musk’s wealth that his planned acquisition of Twitter should concern national security leaders, a dozen current and former officials involved in reviewing foreign investments told The Washington Post."
Opinion Doug Mastriano’s unhinged ‘Nazi’ claim signals deeper danger ahead
Opinion Susan Collins confronts a moment of truth - "'Justice Rehnquist was not successful in convincing a majority of justices in the context of abortion,' [Justice Kegstand] said. 'But he was successful in stemming the general tide of freewheeling judicial creation of unenumerated rights that were not rooted in the nation’s history and tradition.'" [ed. note: my marriage is fucked]
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"Collins told me that neither side is more responsible than the other for today’s extremism — that there’s plenty of blame to go around." [ed. note: this is delusional]
Opinion In death row case, the Supreme Court says guilt is now beside the point - "Last week, Scalia’s once-fringe position became law. In Shinn v. Ramirez, the court voted 6 to 3 to overrule two lower courts and disregard the innocence claims of Barry Lee Jones, a prisoner on Arizona’s death row. Importantly, the majority did not rule that it found Jones’s innocence claims unpersuasive. Instead, it ruled that the federal courts are barred from even considering them. Thomas wrote the opinion.
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"But last week the Supreme Court snuffed it out. Led by Thomas, the majority ruled that while the court’s 2012 decision did allow the federal courts to find that Jones’s post-conviction attorney was ineffective, AEDPA still bars Jones from using the evidence those attorneys failed to find in federal court. According to the majority, the federal courts can acknowledge that a prisoner’s state-appointed attorneys failed him at two critical points in his case, but they’re barred from actually doing anything about it.
"It’s an illogical and profoundly cynical ruling, one that will almost certainly mean innocent people will remain behind bars — or be executed.
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"The Supreme Court’s own history ought to impart some lessons here. In 1994, Scalia described in an unrelated death penalty case the heinous nature of the rape and murder for which Henry McCollum was convicted and sentenced to death in North Carolina. It was, Scalia argued, a poster case for the death penalty. About 20 years later, McCullum was exonerated and freed. In 2006, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote a dissenting opinion defending the Tennessee conviction of Paul House that also included graphic descriptions of the crime and a recitation of the state’s narrative as if it were fact. House, too, was later exonerated and released.
"Thomas joined both of those opinions. He seems utterly unchastened that both were so clearly and consequentially wrong."
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