Illegal Immigration was a significant topic in the last two election cycles and continues to be the focus of media stories throughout the country. The Trump Administration has maintained a persistent, and sometimes unlawful, campaign to prevent illegal immigration as…
Author: John Floyd
2020
Category: Hate Crime
In the wake of the surge in hate crimes across Texas following the election of Donald Trump, one Texan recently discovered the hard way that this state takes a hard-line approach in the prevention of hate crimes.
The suspect…
2020
Category: Sex Crimes | Sex Crimes Against Children | Sex Trafficking
Stories continue to unfold about many young people in the foster care system who have experienced a serious emotional and physical trauma caused by sex abuse before their lives really begin.
An increasing number of investigations into sex trafficking…
2019
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Death Penalty
There are roughly 2.3 million people incarcerated in the U.S. prison system.
In 2018, the Chicago Tribune reported that anywhere from 2 to 10 percent of those people are innocent. This estimate means that between 46,000 and 230,000 innocent…
2019
The Trump Administration has not only fostered but encouraged an anti-LBGTQIA culture in America.
The National Center for Transgender Equality (“Center”) actually calls the Trump Administration “The Discrimination Administration.” The Center lists what it calls on “onslaught” of more…
2019
Category: Animal Abuse | Animal Cruelty | PACT Act
A new bill signed into law by President Trump last month makes cruelty to animals a federal offense. The Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act was a bipartisan effort that criminalized animal cruelty at the federal level.
So what…
2019
Category: Hate Crime
False 911 calls have become the subject of news stories throughout the country in recent years. These unnecessary calls have led to barbeques being ruined, pool parties being disbanded, and a litany of individual of embarrassments.
Inconvenience is not…
2019
Category: Carjacking | Federal Criminal Law
A Texas man accused of beating a woman with a fire extinguisher in a parking garage while stealing her car and personal belongings was charged with felony robbery and assault with a deadly weapon.
He was actually arrested twice…
2019
Category: Federal Criminal Law | terrorism
The USA Patriot Act was signed into law by former President George W. Bush on October 26, 2001—some 45 days after the tragic 9/11 Twin Tower attacks. At the time, the U.S. Justice Department said the Patriot Act “simply expanded…
2019
Category: Police Misconduct | terrorism
In the wake of 9/11, the federal government’s intelligence and law enforcement agencies, particularly the FBI, have targeted Muslim communities for “domestic surveillance” as likely hotbeds for terrorism, generally without any suspicion that a crime has occurred or is likely…