Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr have one thing in common: they both have increasingly lied to the public about their state and federal elections system being riddled with “voter fraud.” Both public officials have…
Category: Corruption
2020
In April, we posted a blog about whether President Donald Trump’s actions or inactions in handling the COVID pandemic amounts to criminal negligence in a purely legal sense. Our blog was inspired by a podcast interview earlier this year. MSNBC…
2020
Category: Corruption | Police Misconduct | Prosecutorial Misconduct
Williamson County District Attorney Shawn Dick was sworn into office on January 1, 2017. He immediately faced daunting challenges. The three district attorneys before him (Jane Duty, John Bradley, and Ken Anderson) all had serious problems with confirmed instances of…
2020
Category: Corruption
During his nearly two years in office, U.S. Attorney General William P. Barr has trampled on the time-honored “rule of law” in his efforts to protect President Trump’s long list of corruption; has been personally responsible for the execution of…
2020
Category: Constitutional Law | Corruption
The fact that this question is now percolating throughout the nation is, standing alone, disturbing, to say the least.
But given that the federal government has deployed unmarked, unidentified militarized police forces into Portland and Washington D.C. to stifle protests,…
2020
The decision by President Donald Trump to commute the sentence of his criminal cohort Roger Stone, just days before he was to begin a 40-month federal prison term, was described as an act of “historic, unprecedented of corruption” by Sen.…
2020
Category: Corruption | Federal Criminal Law
On June 1, 2020, peaceful protesters assembled across the street from the White House in Lafayette Park to protest the killing of George Floyd by four Minneapolis police officers. The protesters had assembled peacefully in the park as they had…
2020
Category: Corruption | Government | Politics
It is bad enough that the current President of the United States cannot spell, cannot speak grammatically correct, does not know basic geography, does not understand history at a grade school level, and whose thought processes, more often than not,…
2020
Category: Corruption | Federal Criminal Law | federal Sentencing
The term “in the interests of justice” is difficult to define precisely. Prosecutors, attorneys, and judges all have a different perspective of what serves the interests of justice.
On May 7, 2020, U.S. Attorney General William Barr invoked the “interests…
2020
Category: Corruption | Criminal Justice Reform
In 2017, the Equal Justice Initiative issued a report, “Lynching in America: Confronting The Legacy of Racial Terror,” that shows the state of Georgia had 589 lynchings from 1877 to 1950—second only to Mississippi’s 654 lynchings during the same period.…