Updates | The Week of May 1, 2017
Take Care // 5/7/17 //
President Trump could seek to boost state-level capital punishment, explains Ian Eppler (Take Care).
Trump's one-dimensional approach to law and order pits communities against law enforcement and the federal government, argues Chiraag Bains (Take Care).
Newly confirmed Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein may serve as a check on Attorney General Jeff Sessions and as a force for independence from the White House, posits Leon Neyfakh (Slate).
- Marjorie Cohn examines Attorney General Sessions’s “draconian agenda on voting rights, immigration, crime, policing, the drug war, federal sentencing and the privatization of prisons” (TruthOut).