Pop star Cher defended herself from attacks on social media Tuesday in a series of now-deleted tweets after she was criticized for questioning Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) plan to let felons and terrorists vote. “TERRORIST KILLED INNOCENT PPL. IM SICK OF BEING NAILED 2 CROSS BECAUSE U PPL THINK IM A RACIST‼️IM NOT GOING TO […]
Sanders Plan Would Allow 183K Murderers, 164K Rapists to Vote from Prison…
Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) recent endorsement of giving voting rights to all American citizens who are currently in prison for local, state, and federal crimes would allow some 183,000 convicted murderers and 164,000 convicted rapists to vote from their jail cells. In a CNN town hall this week, Sanders endorsed allowing all convicted U.S. […]
President Trump Embraces Prison Sentencing Reforms as ‘Right Thing To Do’…
Shorter sentences for federal prison sentences may be on the horizon, with President Trump’s blessing. Trump endorsed new legislation Wednesday that would reduce some federal prison sentences, arguing it’s “the right thing to do” and that only “truly bad criminals” deserve harsh penalties. “Today’s announcement shows that true bipartisanship is possible, and maybe it will […]
Confidential Informants Are An Integral But Part of the Federal Law Enforcement…
Robert P. Johnson thought he had a shot at being best man at the wedding of his friend and workout buddy, Christopher J. Billings. Instead, he was indicted federally three weeks before the wedding for conspiring to sell cocaine, based on the account of a confidential informant. When prosecutors provided a glimpse of the evidence […]
Criminal Justice Overhaul Advances Amid Grassley-Sessions Spat…
A bipartisan criminal justice bill easily won approval from the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, amid a rare public clash on the plan between Chairman Chuck Grassley and Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The legislation from Grassley (R-Iowa) and Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) cleared the Judiciary panel on a 16-5 vote. Six of the […]
Preet Bharara Explains Why He Let Wall Street Bank Executives Avoid Prison…
Recently dismissed U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara, is suddenly being celebrated as an aggressive warrior in the fight against Wall Street corruption. Really? You could’ve fooled me. Perhaps I was in a coma when a string of big bank executives were arrested and sent to prison. No, what actually […]
REPORT: Nearly 7k Texas Detainees Died While in Custody Over a Decade…
Almost 7,000 individuals in Texas died while in prison or police custody from 2005 to 2015, nearly 2,000 of whom had not been convicted of a crime, according to a new report…
U.S. Delivers 2 Guantánamo Captives to Serbia. Never Charged With a Crime (More)…
Two war-on-terror captives who got to Guantánamo on the same day, left on the same plane 14 years and 5 months later…