SCOTUS: Further Alito swing?

Today the US Supreme Court heard arguments in a case under one of the nation’s oldest civil rights laws, Section 1981. Originally passed in 1866, the statute holds that “all persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall have the same right in every State and Territory to make and enforce contracts, to sue, [...]

Building a prison-industrial complex from scratch.

Today’s Weekend Edition (NPR) noted how the US is going about reconstructing the Iraqi “criminal justice” system, including complexes where judges can live, trials can be held, and prisoners detained indefinitely – one-stop justice convenience. Halfway through the story, though, and we hear US reconstruction officials noting that the real problem is that there just [...]