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The true measure of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated, and the condemned. –Bryan Stevenson “This book is important. But it is a candle in a hurricane.” This is a statement from one of the participants in the prison reading group I lead each month. In the [...]

Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Thursday sentenced Roger Stone, a longtime associate of President Donald Trump, to 40 months in prison. Stone was convicted last year of witness tampering and giving false statements to Congress in relation to investigations of Russian election interference. The circumstances [...]

Saudi Arabia’s public prosecutor announced Monday that five people have been sentenced to death and three sentenced to jail terms in connection with the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last year. The trial verdict revealed that charges had been dismissed for the remaining three of the eleven that had [...]

Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW) made separate allegations Friday that Turkey has been illegally deporting refugees back into Syria since January. These allegations stem from investigations performed by each organization in which they conducted interviews with refugees possessing evidence that Turkey has violated international non-refoulement laws. Amnesty found 20 definitive cases where refugees [...]

Attorney General William Barr’s decision directing the Bureau of Prisons to resume execution of inmates sentenced to death by the federal government is so inconsistent with recent developments with respect to the death penalty that it makes plain how the action is driven more by electoral politics than public safety or penal policy. Nine states [...]

Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller testified Wednesday in two hearings about his findings (released in a 448-page redacted report in May) in the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election. In his opening statements, Mueller touched on findings of his investigation and made a few remarks. “Our investigation found that the Russian [...]

“I believe” is the one great word against metaphysical fear. Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West At least one thing is clear. Those terrorists who carried out the Easter Sunday attacks on certain Sri Lankan churches and hotels would have resonated with Oswald Spengler’s urgent affirmation. “I believe” was plainly at the conceptual core of [...]

US Attorney General William Barr released a redacted version of the Mueller Report to Congress and the public Thursday. The Attorney General’s Press Conference The Attorney General announced late Wednesday that he would hold a press conference to explain the report before releasing it around 11:00 AM EST. Thursday morning, Congressional Democratic leaders Speaker Nancy [...]

Attorney Michael Avenatti, known for representing clients against public figures such as President Donald Trump and Robert Kelly, was charged and arrested on Monday in a sting operation after allegedly attempting to extort Nike. The charges, filed in the Southern District of New York, include conspiracy to transmit interstate communications with intent to extort, conspiracy [...]

Special Counsel Robert Mueller submitted his report to Attorney General William Barr on Friday, bringing his investigation to a close and finding collusion with Russia to influence the 2016 election could not be proven. On the same day, Barr sent a letter to both the House and Senate Committees on the Judiciary, informing them of the [...]