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Texas Turns Aside Pressure on Execution of 5 Mexicans
Original Source By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr. HOUSTON – Despite pleas from the White House and the State Department, as well as an international court order to review their cases, Texas will execute five Mexicans on death row, a spokeswoman for the governor said Thursday.…
Author: The New York Times
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Opposition to Health Law Is Steeped in Tradition
By David Leonhardt. “We are against forcing all citizens, regardless of need, into a compulsory government program,” said one prominent critic of the new health care law. It is socialized medicine, he argued. If it stands, he said, “one of these days, you and I…
Author: The New York Times
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Detainee Rights: A Step Forward in the U.S., Back in the UK
Last week was a dramatic one, on both sides of the Atlantic, in the battle to preserve fundamental human rights against the recent disturbing tendencies of two of the world’s leading democracies to invoke fear of terrorism to claim extraordinary and excessive powers. In the…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Obama legal team wants to limit defendants' rights
The Brennan Center for Justice is an Atlantic grantee. by Mark Sherman The Obama administration is asking the Supreme Court to overrule a 23 year-old decision that stopped police from initiating questions unless a defendant’s lawyer is present, the latest stance that has disappointed civil…
Author: Huffington Post
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Repeal of Death Penalty Urged; MD. Panel Votes to End Executions
by Gadi Dechter and Laura Smitherman A state commission reviewing capital punishment recommended last night an end to executions in Maryland, prompting hope among death penalty opponents that the General Assembly could soon abolish the 30-year practice. The Maryland Commission on Capital Punishment voted 13-7…
Author: The Baltimore Sun
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How King v. Burwell Threatens the Health and Financial Stability of Consumers
By Ron Pollack, Executive Director, Families USA One of the most incredible oddities about the King v. Burwell case is that the people who have the biggest stake in its outcome are not parties to the litigation. This is because there are only two sets of parties…
Author: Families USA
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Mentally Ill and in Immigration Limbo
The Center for Constitutional Rights is an Atlantic grantee. by NINA BERNSTEIN Twice the immigration judge asked the woman’s name. Twice she gave it: Xiu Ping Jiang. But he chided her, a Chinese New Yorker, for answering his question before the court interpreter had translated…
Author: The New York Times
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Lawyers: Ark. execution method 'dangerous'
Original Source by JON GAMBRELL LITTLE ROCK (AP) – Past “botched” executions show Arkansas’ lethal injection method remains “dangerous and inadequate,” even after the U.S. Supreme Court found a similar method constitutional, lawyers for four death-row inmates claim. In a filing to U.S. District Court,…
Author: The Associated Press State & Local Wire
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Victory for Texas Families: Legislature Decriminalizes Truancy
On May 30, 2015, the Texas legislature passed groundbreaking legislation, HB 2398, that will end the criminalization of truancy, protecting hundreds of thousands of Texas children from receiving hefty fines and criminal convictions for being absent from school. “We celebrate this monumental victory for Texas…
Author: Texas Appleseed
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Young People Are Not Invincible
by Bob Crittenden, M.D. Co-authored with Aaron Smith, co-founder and executive director of Young Invincibles With the fate of our health care system on the line, one would think that the Supreme Court would base their decisions on clear facts and objective data on the monumental issues…
Author: The Huffington Post