If you haven’t already read it, check out William Saletan’s fantasy of the questions he’d ask Judge Alito, were he a Senator. I especially liked the last third or half, which shows how an ideological judge can use selective quoting – and selective blindness to the substance of past precedents – to apply his ideology while maintaining a surface of impartiality.
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I've previously argued you could reframe prison abolition as "tough on crime." Our prisons are currently a hotbed of uncontrolled…
Ironically you could take the standard Republican rant about immigrant violence and just replace the word "immigrant" with "immigration enforcement…
The only reason that Ross is not in jail awaiting trial for murder is the Republican's soft on crime policies.…
Another NYT video syncing up different videos to clarify what happened.
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@beth My immediate reaction is that someone will commit (or just confess to) some random crime, go to prison, and…