Felony Trial of No More Deaths Volunteer Scott Warren Ends in Mistrial
The felony trial of border-based humanitarian aid activist Scott Warren ended in a hung jury.
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The War on Immigrants
Private Border Wall Expands Onto Federal Land, Blocking Access to Historic Site
We Build the Wall has expanded its private border wall to land owned by the U.S. International Boundary and Water Commission, a federal agency.
As San Francisco District Attorney, Kamala Harris's Office Stopped Cooperating With Victims of Catholic Church Child Abuse
Thanks to Kamala Harris’s predecessor, the San Francisco DA’s office had files on clergy sex abusers. But Harris refused to share them with victims.
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Trump Administration Is Making It Harder to Find Out Whether It’s Fighting White Supremacist Terror
The Justice Department and FBI recently eliminated the official category for investigating white supremacist crimes.
Trump Administration Asks Congress to Make Disrupting Pipeline Construction a Crime Punishable by 20 Years in Prison
The proposed legislation would put anti-fossil fuel organizers at significant legal risk for providing training or support to peaceful protesters.
The War on Immigrants
In Scott Warren's No More Deaths Trial, Prosecutors Attempt to Paint a Web of Conspiracy
Prosecutors are basing conspiracy charges against No More Deaths activist Scott Warren on questionable cellphone evidence.
Wall Street Goes Silent on #MeToo
Gender inequality remains “disappointingly similar” to the 1980s, as Wall Street regulators fail even to collect data on sexual harassment.
The War on Immigrants
Family Services Counselor Fired After Speaking Out Against Surveillance of Unaccompanied Migrant Children
Sarah DeYoreo, who was fired from Morrison Child and Family Services, said that staff were being encouraged to act as an extension of law enforcement.
Henry Montgomery Paved the Way for Other Juvenile Lifers to Go Free. Now 72, He May Never Get the Same Chance.
“It obviously didn’t register with him what had happened,” said one attendee at Montgomery’s parole hearing. “He just looked stunned. As we all did.”
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Mass Shootings, Dinner, and the Cognitive Dissonance of Just Living in America
To get through dinner, a movie, or a game, we must temporarily suspend our knowledge that people are being slaughtered all around us.