A couple of odds and ends whereas your correspondent is concentrated elsewhere. Possibly Texas ought to construct a monument to legislators ...
A couple of odds and ends whereas your correspondent is concentrated elsewhere.
- Possibly Texas ought to construct a monument to legislators who finish asset forfeiture, writes conservative commentator Roy Reynolds in rebuttal to President Trump's recent digression on the topic. Effectively achieved. Columnist George May also took a run at the topic. MORE: The President's surprising approbation for civil asset forfeiture seems to have gone a good distance towards consolidating help for reform. See supportive commentary from the Dallas News, the Abilene Reporter-News, and an op ed from state Sen. Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa within the McAllen Monitor. ALSO: From the New Yorker, which locations the President's feedback within the context of Texas' Tenaha case.
- Try coverage of Harris County bail litigation from the Houston Press. Can we please clone Meagan Flynn and unfold her dopplegangers across the state to report courthouse tales? She's doing a bang up job on this sophisticated topic.
- Retired Dallas Chief David Brown was amongst a law enforcement group visiting the President this week searching for criminal-justice reform. This is a report he co-authored suggesting a felony justice agenda for the brand new Administration.
- Ron DeLord, long-time CLEAT mugwump and police union lawyer, has a new book out he is co-written with Ron York arguing that police unions have overreached. They consider that ways of bitterly attacking all who criticize union stances, hoping to intimidate critics into silence, aren't working anymore. For instance, "Outdated messages corresponding to 'we threat our lives' are not resonating with elected officers or the general public." I simply obtained my copy within the mail, sizzling off the presses, and am solely a couple of chapters in, however you'd nearly suppose the Dallas police pension fiasco is a tailored case research of what he is speaking about. Possibly he'll get there.
- The opposite e-book which got here within the mail this week was a assessment copy of Prof. John Pfaff's Locked In. Grits has discussed his theories prior to now and could have extra to say after I learn the total quantity.
- Notifications of defendants the place the Austin DNA lab screwed up, starting with attainable innocence circumstances, have begun to be sent out. There are about 2,200 circumstances within the first batch, of which they solely had good addresses for 642. As is the case within the aftermath of all large-scale forensic errors, this will probably be an ongoing drawback.
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