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#JusticeBriefs2025 • Uncategorized

SUPREMES Remove—at least for now—legal restrictions that prevent Trump administration from making immigration stops based on racial profiling

September 8, 2025
#DangerousJails

AG Rob Bonta sues LASD for its “inhumane” Jails

September 8, 2025
#JusticeBriefs

This Week’s Slap Down Ruling by the 9th Sends Government running to SCOTUS

August 7, 2025
#Justice

9th Circuit Slaps Down Government’s Attempt to Avoid Judge’s Temporary Restraining Order

August 5, 2025
#JusticeBriefs2025 • ACLU

Federal Judge demonstrates the power of temporary restraining orders when the U.S. Constitution is violated

July 20, 2025
#JusticeBriefs2025

Three Members of the LA County Sheriff’s Department Killed Friday Described as The Best of the Best.

July 18, 2025
National Politics • Obama

Hillary for Sec. of State?

November 14, 2008
19 Comments

Okay, looking at yesterday afternoon’s auguries, the betting people among us are laying out...

Media • Writers and Writing

50 Newspaper Editors Screwing (in a Lightbulb)

November 14, 2008
1 Comment

Yesterday, the American Press Institute hosted a “summit” at which 50 of the...

Health Care • Obama • Public Health

MAD MAX….and the Big Sky Health Care Plan

November 13, 2008
5 Comments

Yesterday a brave and no-doubt socialist radical Democratic senator introduced an 87-page health...

Bailout • Economy

BAILOUT OVERSIGHT – The Marx (Brothers) Version

November 13, 2008
3 Comments

Oversight? We don’t need no stinking oversight! Today’s Washington Post...

Education • LAUSD • LGBTQ • Propositions • State Government

THURSDAY MUST READS

November 13, 2008
5 Comments

FOUR IMPORTANT READS from the LA Times: 1. FINALLY SOMEBODY HAD THE GUTS TO SAY IT: DAVID...

Civil Liberties • Propositions

Prop 8 Demonstrations Go Nationwide- UPDATED

November 12, 2008
19 Comments

This Saturday, November 15, the Prop 8 Protests are scheduled to go nationwide. The largest of the...

City Government • LA City Council

City Council to Voters: Audit Us? Uh….Nevermind.

November 12, 2008
4 Comments

The City Council was absolutely, positively in favor of letting the LA voters decide whether or not...

Education

More Charter Schools Score Highest for Poor Kids

November 12, 2008
3 Comments

In an analysis of the California schools that serve the state’s poorest kids (meaning those...

Life and Life Only • National Issues

To All Our Veterans…Thank You. We are Deeply Grateful.

November 11, 2008
15 Comments

name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> Although Liam Clancy is an Irishman, and these lyrics were...

Free Speech • Supreme Court

The Supremes, the 10 Commandments….& the 7 Aphorisms

November 11, 2008
7 Comments

It sounds on the surface like just another quirky but frivolous lawsuit, in this case brought by a...

Crime and Punishment • Free Speech • Middle East

C-Sun’s Esha Momeni is Released on Bail….For the Moment – UPDATED

November 11, 2008
16 Comments

Esha Momeni, that 28-year-old Cal State Northridge graduate student who was arrested in Teheran...

Civil Liberties • LGBTQ • Propositions

PROP 8 and Equal Protection

November 10, 2008
25 Comments

The fury and the hurt continues to grow in response to the passage of Proposition 8, and to the...

Elections '08 • Obama • Presidential Race

Dear Barack: Welcome to the Collective Presidency

November 10, 2008
4 Comments

After the networks called the presidential election at 8:01 PST on Tuesday night, before Barack...

Obama

In Praise of Michelle O…..and Her Fashion Choices

November 9, 2008
4 Comments

At the risk of giving the frightening impression that WitnessLA is turning into a social justice...

Environment • Obama

Obama and California Auto Emissions: Sanity’s On the Way

November 9, 2008
3 Comments

The Washington Post reports today that Barack Obama intends to reverse around 200 of the Bush...

Civil Liberties • Civil Rights • Journalism

“Gypsy Crimes,” You Say?

November 9, 2008
10 Comments

The good news is that we have a wonderful new barrier-smashing president. The bad news is that...

Elections '08 • Obama • Presidential Race

DAY THREE: Still Happy (And Not Crying Anywhere Near As Much)

November 7, 2008
21 Comments

But tired, very, very tired. (Who knew that joy and relief could be this...

Elections '08 • Presidential Race

The Suddenly Empty Lives of Obama Supporters

November 6, 2008
5 Comments

Obama Win Causes Obsessive Supporters To Realize How Empty Their Lives Are As the transition teams...

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