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The 5th Circuit Says Criminalizing Journalism Is Not Obviously Unconstitutional: The Appeals Court Dismissed a Civil Rights Lawsuit by a Laredo Gadfly Who Was Arrested for Asking Questions Jan. 31, 2024
Five years ago, the Harris County, Texas, Institute of Forensic Sciences sent me reports on the auto... Read More
Unaccountable Police Units Are Wrong for Safety Jan. 22, 2024
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
Last week, the National Policing Institute, in cooperation with the Department of Justice office of ... Read More
What Ordinary Americans Want Jan. 04, 2024
The leisurely pace of the new year gives birth to reflection. We celebrate the new year, but from ti... Read More
Federal Trade Commission Must Investigate Meta and X for Complicity With Government Surveillance Dec. 25, 2023
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
When you created your Facebook, Instagram or Twitter account, did you think you were signing up to h... Read More
Guardians or Gangsters?: The Dark Side of Civil Asset Forfeiture Oct. 26, 2023
There are fundamental laws, deeply entrenched not just in culture and society but also in religious ... Read More
Guardians or Gangsters?: The Dark Side of Civil Asset Forfeiture Oct. 26, 2023
There are fundamental laws, deeply entrenched not just in culture and society but also in religious ... Read More
Supreme Court's Snub of a Ludicrous Missouri Gun Law Has an Ominous Footnote Oct. 25, 2023
The U.S. Supreme Court's order last week that Missouri's so-called Second Amendment Preservation Act... Read More
To Protect and Destroy Oct. 11, 2023
What happens when police, trying to catch a bad guy, destroy your house? This happens surprisingly o... Read More
Curbing Colorado's Pot-Impaired Drivers Sep. 27, 2023
Research findings that made news last week about the difficulty of developing a breath test for pot-... Read More
We Can't Tolerate Assaults on Free Speech Aug. 22, 2023
Emancipation of slaves. Women's suffrage. Civil rights. Freedom to worship, ignore or denigrate God.... Read More
The Little Lights in Marion, Kansas Aug. 18, 2023
My wife, Deborah, born and bred in a New England city of 100,000, rolls her eyes a little when I tal... Read More
When the First Amendment Dies Aug. 17, 2023
When the freedom of speech and of the press die, it will happen by a thousand small cuts. Last Frida... Read More
Raid of Kansas Newspaper Is a Chilling Example of What America Must Not Become Aug. 16, 2023
If there has been one overarching theme to the tumultuous politics of this era, it is the repeated r... Read More
Biden Should Tell Cadets How Much Their Service Matters Jun. 05, 2023
President Joe Biden has a tremendous responsibility to uphold America's core values and protect its ... Read More
Crime in My Neighborhood Jun. 03, 2023
My neighborhood is full of broken windows. That's a term of art in policing to describe the disorder... Read More
Justice and Safety, Not Fear, Continue To Win at the Ballot Box May. 30, 2023
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
In May, voters in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, sent a resounding message: They want solutions to ... Read More
Lifting the Residency Requirement Is the Fastest Way To Fill City Job Vacancies May. 26, 2023
The labor shortage is a big challenge for employers across the country, with signing bonuses and esc... Read More
Bring Back New York's Transit Police May. 19, 2023
Visitors to Bath, England, learn that the town's namesake first-century spa deteriorated following t... Read More
Missouri Lawmakers End Their Session Opting To Limit the Damage They Could Inflict May. 18, 2023
The Missouri legislative session that ended Friday started out as a disaster in the making, with a r... Read More
How To Honor Our Officers During National Police Week May. 17, 2023
I was proud and moved to participate in opening ceremonies, at the National Law Enforcement Officers... Read More
