In a sweeping order, a judge has ruled that the bail system in Harris County, Texas, including the city of Houston, is unconstitutional. Because of the decision, “we are on the road to eradicating the notion of wealth-base human caging,” said Alec Karakatsanis, executive director of the Washington-based Civil Rights Corps. The ruling affects defendants charged with low level offenses. “On any given night in this country there are about 450,000 human beings who are sitting in a cage because they can’t come up with a particular amount of money that’s been required for their release,” said Karakatsanis.
In their crusade to get Trump and distract from their own corruption, the Democrats have moved on from Russiagate to an impeachment inquiry over “Ukrainegate.”
in the swamp, downstream not far from the White Supreme Court and Capitalist Hill, Boss Tweet sings in the War House’s Offal Office
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Racist restaurants cater to America’s nostalgia for a racial past of blatant white supremacy.
Whites’ fear of and oppression and violence toward blacks was born in the Middle Ages.
