They Were Choked, Beaten and Tased by #NYPD Officers. The Commissioner Buried Their Cases.
New York City’s #Police Commissioner Edward Caban has repeatedly used a little-known authority called “retention” to prevent officers accused of misconduct from facing public disciplinary trials.
Victims are never told their cases have been buried.
Chris Geidner reports on how Trump-heavy federal courts are now blocking attempts to protect LGBTQ students from discrimination under Title IX:
"In the past three business days, three federal courts have issued decisions blocking the Biden administration’s efforts to protect LGBTQ students from discrimination in the nation’s schools under Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972."
"Taken together, though, the rulings highlight a continued but dramatic legal shift rightward that has come out of Trump-infused lower courts in recent years. Here, it is specifically in interpreting whether sex discrimination bans include protections against discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity."
North Carolina Supreme Court Secretly Squashed Discipline of Two #GOP Judges Who Admitted to Violating Judicial Code
The decisions came despite the Judicial Standards Commission’s recommendations to publicly reprimand the judges, and these are likely the only times in more than a decade in which the court didn’t follow the commission’s guidance.
By intensifying interaction with other #courts and rulers, Russian #diplomats became cultural brokers who contributed to the transfer of people, objects and ideas from Europe to Russia.
Petrova argues that the introduction of the European diplomatic rank system and ceremonial was aimed more at demonstrating the superiority of Russian rulers than at creating equal relations with other powers. (4/4)
🤦🏻♀️Prosecutors on Tuesday announced an agreement with #Texas Attorney General Ken #Paxton that would ultimately dismiss securities fraud charges he has been facing for nearly a decade.
Under the 18-mo pre-trial agreement, special prosecutors in the case would drop 3 felony counts against Paxton. As part of the deal, Paxton must pay full restitution to victims — roughly $300K — & must also complete 100 hours of community service and 15 hours of legal ethics educ.” https://apnews.com/article/9ed5eecc30c1f967ec51f7e58ad9d0af
@GottaLaff wow good thing he didn’t smuggle a monkey 🙈 into #texas he would be in jail for over a year 🤔 no wait HE being a wealthy #republican politician would still have skated because of #equal our #courts are
"When we talk about what’s wrong with our democracy, we talk about our political structures and processes. …
We don’t talk about our legal system. We should. The American legal system doesn’t uphold the values of democratic rule like equality. It far more often corrupts and perverts them. Rich people like Trump twist the system into a pretzel and win delay after delay after delay."
"Corporations pay fines, usually not that large when considered against their bottom line, and they admit no wrongdoing, even after their practices have killed people. Poor people, meanwhile, get pushed around by the system constantly.
There is no such thing in this country as equality before the law, and everyone knows it."
Elisabeth Natour is currently working @unimainz an exciting project on #music as an element of political communication focussing on the #courts of Madrid, London and Paris around 1700. Next month her essay collection on music and #earlymodern politics will be published! We’re already looking forward to it. (2/7)
A popular way of comparing intercultural diplomatic actors beyond Europe is to focus on #courts and their performative roles, especially in (Eur)Asia. Compared to #earlymodern Eurasia, it is far more difficult to apply actor-based approaches in the Mesoamerican frontier and the Pacific, due to different recording styles and differences in how official receptions were prepared, as well as the absence of direct correspondences between delegation members and their patrons, which was usually carried out by indigenous intermediaries. (6/10)
THIS IS SO BADASS. This man runs a very queer friendly café, in 2018 he woke up to find his café’s #Facebook page deleted, so he decided to file an action to get back some lost revenue from people thinking he was closed because it was suddenly gone. #Meta lied and lied, and he won.
How owner of Teatotaller cafe defeated social media giant Meta in court
Lots of great insights, but my key takeaway was the emergence of the criminal legal system in the 1970s and how it has grown to dwarf the criminal justice system it spawned from.
There's been a broad cultural shift in how we think about the role of the #police, #courts and #prison in our society that we need to unwind.