by Harper Jean Tobin, staff attorney for the Federal Rights Project of the National Senior Citizens Law Center
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February 17, 2009
by Elizabeth Wydra, Chief Counsel, Constitutional Accountability Center
February 13, 2009
The NY Times this morning features the horrific page-one story of two Pennsylvania judges who have pled guilty to accepting money from the operators of private juvenile detention facilities, in exchange for sentencing more teenagers to detention. To be clear, these judges were locking up juveniles for minor offenses because the more kids they locked up, the more money they made:
February 12, 2009
Today , as Constitutional Accountability Center (CAC) joins America in celebrating the 200th anniversary of Abe Lincoln’s birth, we offer a snapshot of our work to fulfill the promise of Lincoln’s “New Birth of Freedom” under the new Obama Administration.
February 11, 2009
by Elizabeth Wydra
February 11, 2009
- “It's great to see CAC following a similar trajectory." Damon Root over at Hit & Run (blog of the libertarian online magazine Reason) tries to make sense of why a progressive group would stick its nose in the Chicago handgun battle. (Find out the real reason here.)