Listed below are a number of odds and ends that benefit Grits readers consideration whereas mine is targeted elsewhere: Tragic taking pictur...
Listed below are a number of odds and ends that benefit Grits readers consideration whereas mine is targeted elsewhere:
Tragic taking pictures colours legislative debates
A Balch Springs cop who shot a fleeing 15-year previous with a rifle has been fired from his job and faces murder charges. See the Dallas Morning News coverage. This information spurred the black caucus within the Texas Legislature to issue a stern complaint that not one of the important police accountability laws proposed this session has obtained a vote on the Home flooring. Their frustration certainly contributed partially to the death of HB 2050, which expanded secrecy provisions associated to police misconduct circumstances.
Sandra Bland Act gutted in senate
The Senate Legal Justice Committee this week handed out a radically stripped down model of the Sandra Bland Act, however fairly frankly it is onerous to get too excited in regards to the minimalist gadgets left within the invoice. Wrote the Texas Tribune's Jonathan Silver:
Remembering (the true) Sandra Bland
In the meantime, as Grits has identified earlier than, it's kind of anomalous to cross a "psychological well being accountability" invoice in response to the Sandra Bland story as a result of she was not, in fact, mentally ill.
Pensions and invoice killing
Governing journal has a nice feature on Houston billionaire John Arnold's efforts to reform public-employee pension plans. In the meantime, the Home debate over Houston pensions ramps up Monday, and each minute it goes on, laws on the opposite facet of that invoice on the calendar dies. The decrease chamber, which yesterday ended their workday at three p.m., has mapped out a leisurely, care-free stroll towards the Thursday deadline for the Home to think about Home Payments, not the frenzied tempo of labor one would anticipate as a whole lot of payments strategy a really closing deadline. At this level, the Home does not appear to have a lot urge for food for passing any extra laws and all people simply appears to need it to be over.
Who can settle Harris County bail litigation?
A newly elected Democratic District Choose in Houston has asked the commissioners court whether he can settle with plaintiffs in civil rights litigation towards the county's money-based bail system. The commissioners courrt replied that they do not management whether or not or not he settles, however his lawyer was appointed from the county legal professional's workplace and informed the choose she couldn't settle with out permission from larger ups. It is an fascinating query: If particular person judges begin to settle, how lengthy can the county's oppositional strategy stay viable?
Of timber, ropes, race, judges and capital punishment
A decidedly un-woke judge faces retraining for lynching suggestion.
Coda to Willingham saga: Did prosecutor commit misconduct?
Jordan Smith on the Intercept has a story from a trial in Corsicana to find out whether or not the prosecutor within the Todd Willingham case engaged in misconduct when he hid a cope with a jailhouse snitch who testified towards the defendant.
Tragic taking pictures colours legislative debates
A Balch Springs cop who shot a fleeing 15-year previous with a rifle has been fired from his job and faces murder charges. See the Dallas Morning News coverage. This information spurred the black caucus within the Texas Legislature to issue a stern complaint that not one of the important police accountability laws proposed this session has obtained a vote on the Home flooring. Their frustration certainly contributed partially to the death of HB 2050, which expanded secrecy provisions associated to police misconduct circumstances.
Sandra Bland Act gutted in senate
The Senate Legal Justice Committee this week handed out a radically stripped down model of the Sandra Bland Act, however fairly frankly it is onerous to get too excited in regards to the minimalist gadgets left within the invoice. Wrote the Texas Tribune's Jonathan Silver:
Whitmire's model most notably removes language that might ban arresting folks for offenses that typically solely have fines as a punishment. Earlier variations of the invoice additionally tried to make it simpler for nonviolent folks in jail to obtain private bonds. Whitmire stated fine-only offenses can be addressed in a separate invoice, because the Sandra Bland Act is "primarily a psychological well being, accountability" invoice.The issue with that little bit of reportage is that the "separate invoice" was SB 271, which had earlier that day appeared on the identical agenda with the Sandra Bland Act. However Chairman Whitmire pulled that invoice off the agenda hours earlier than the listening to, a lot to the consternation of the invoice creator and supporters who believed that they had enough bipartisan help to cross it out of committee. So Whitmire was pledging to handle an issue in a invoice which he had already killed simply hours earlier than. SB 271's companion, HB 574, is within the Calendars Committee and has but to be posted for a flooring vote. Until management provides the invoice to a Main State calendar, it is in all probability too late for it to be heard.
Remembering (the true) Sandra Bland
In the meantime, as Grits has identified earlier than, it's kind of anomalous to cross a "psychological well being accountability" invoice in response to the Sandra Bland story as a result of she was not, in fact, mentally ill.
Pensions and invoice killing
Governing journal has a nice feature on Houston billionaire John Arnold's efforts to reform public-employee pension plans. In the meantime, the Home debate over Houston pensions ramps up Monday, and each minute it goes on, laws on the opposite facet of that invoice on the calendar dies. The decrease chamber, which yesterday ended their workday at three p.m., has mapped out a leisurely, care-free stroll towards the Thursday deadline for the Home to think about Home Payments, not the frenzied tempo of labor one would anticipate as a whole lot of payments strategy a really closing deadline. At this level, the Home does not appear to have a lot urge for food for passing any extra laws and all people simply appears to need it to be over.
Who can settle Harris County bail litigation?
A newly elected Democratic District Choose in Houston has asked the commissioners court whether he can settle with plaintiffs in civil rights litigation towards the county's money-based bail system. The commissioners courrt replied that they do not management whether or not or not he settles, however his lawyer was appointed from the county legal professional's workplace and informed the choose she couldn't settle with out permission from larger ups. It is an fascinating query: If particular person judges begin to settle, how lengthy can the county's oppositional strategy stay viable?
Of timber, ropes, race, judges and capital punishment
A decidedly un-woke judge faces retraining for lynching suggestion.
Coda to Willingham saga: Did prosecutor commit misconduct?
Jordan Smith on the Intercept has a story from a trial in Corsicana to find out whether or not the prosecutor within the Todd Willingham case engaged in misconduct when he hid a cope with a jailhouse snitch who testified towards the defendant.
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