California Is About to Abolish Cash Bail. Criminal Justice Advocates Aren’t Happy.
Wavebreakmedia/iStock/Getty Images Plus Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Criminal justice activists have long said California’s bail system needs reforming. Earlier this year, a California appellate court agreed, declaring the state’s system unconstitutional and making change inevitable. Then last week, Democrats in the state Legislature passed a bill that would effectively abolish cash bail once and for all. …
Brett Kavanaugh Has a Nearly Perfect Record of Speeding Up Extinction
Kavanaugh’s record so far suggests he’s among the most conservative to come from the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit. CBD’s analysis compared him to Judge David Sentelle, whom President Ronald Reagan appointed to the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit in 1987. Sentelle decided against protections in around 57 percent…
Sarah Palin Says John McCain “Had Some Strange People Around Him”
Sarah Palin delivers a speech in 2008.Kiichiro Sato,/AP Photo Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Poor John McCain can’t die in peace without a last few digs from his former vice-presidential running mate, Sarah Palin. While most of the political world was fondly remembering McCain and issuing sympathetic statements to his…
Multiple Fatalities in Mass Shooting at Jacksonville Madden Video Game Event
Jacksonville Sheriff Mike Williams, right, holds a news conference Sunday after a gunman opened fire during an online video game tournament that was being livestreamed from a Florida mall, killing multiple people and sending many others to hospitals.Laura Heald/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Update 5 pm ET: Jacksonville sheriff…
What’s Donald Trump Doing This Weekend?
FILE – In this June 27, 2012, file photo, Donald Trump stands on the 14th fairway during a pro-am round of the AT&T National golf tournament at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Md. Patrick Semansky, File/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump arrived this morning for his second…
Most Republicans Couldn’t Care Less About the Manafort Conviction and Cohen Plea
In these 2018 file photos, Paul Manafort leaves federal court in Washington, left and attorney Michael Cohen leaves federal court in New York. The one-two punch ahead of the midterm elections _ the plea from former Trump lawyer Cohen and the fraud conviction of one-time campaign chairman Manafort _ is presenting the biggest loyalty test…