Might say, look, this is a difficult case. Its a close case. Why not give all the grand jury all the Available Evidence and let them make up their minds from the most informed perspective . If you are cynical, you will say this is a prosecutor who wanted to exonerate officer wilson, so he simply buried the grand jury in evidence, confused them with lots of stuff that wouldnt even be admissible at trial, and then reached the result he wanted to all along, which was no true bill. This really doesnt matter as a kind of micro case. In the macro picture it fits perfectly into the pattern that says africanamerican lives do not matter to the same degree that white lives matter, or shawe are willing to tolerate the policing of black people in some ways that are fundamentally different and less democratic than we would be willing to tolerate for other parts of the society. Rose we conclude this evening with a conversation with tom donilon, former National Security adviser for president obama. T
The war on poverty is now some 50 years old and the battle to end homelessness spes cificay is sadly still ranging in america. Paul boden is the director of the program that launches the homelessness rights campaign. Thank you so much for being with us. Thank you so much. There was a time politically, i recall in the reagan era, homelessness was pretty bad but there was this activism, even Media Attention to this issue of homelessness, what happened . I think the homelessness and advocacy is still there. I think the Media Attention has shifted over to other areas unless its about, oh, look they are destroying this park or we need to snip them from skid row then you will see a snippet of Media Attention. Now were coming to the hoi holidays, we tend to be the darlin darlings. Other than that, were always someone else. Were always drug addicts or mentally ill or alcoholics. The key being were always from somewhere else and we need to be fixed in order to come into society as opposed in th
Decision, how it came about. But it just never happens. Think that it probably was either a justice or injustice is relative because nobodys going to discipline them for talking to the press, but it law clerk it could really be a career ending move for a law clerk to talk to the press and give that kind of information. Why did it happen this time . I think the emotions were so , there was so much there were a lot of conspiracy theories especially when the decision did come out and it seemed so anomalous for the court to declare the affordable on onet constitutional part of the constitution and constitutional under another part, i think people were looking for the explanation behind these behind this particular decision. My suspicion is that it was a justice or injustice is a close relative. I will ask pete to jump in. Why arent you getting stories like this on a regular basis . Lets keep our eye on the ball here. The sort of scoops that one values from the Justice Department is what th
Reporting, trying to find the facts and the truth. Calling out hypocrisy. Tonight we are one day closer to the fiscal cliff and not one iota closer to a deal to avoid it. Now, on january 1st, four weeks from today, automatic tax hikes and spending cuts kick in with potentially serious consequences for virtually every taxpayer in america. There has been zero progress on a deal, zero. Keeping them honest though, the American People clearly want some sort of a compromise. Polls show they want results but the two sides are still far apart on the issue at the heart of the debate, whether the wealthiest americans should pay more taxes than they do right now. The people you elected to get things done simply are not getting it done, not even close. But maybe we should not be surprised, because in a cnn orc poll taken a few weeks ago, 67 said washington officials would behave like spoiled children in fiscal cliff discussions. Only 28 said they would behave like responsible adults. With that in
A single shred of evidence that might support the inflammatory flames heard on the floor of the u. S. Senate used to block a u. N. Treaty. A treaty meant to improve the lives of millions of disabled people around the world. Hundreds of millions. The treaty is called the United Nations conventions on the rights of persons with disabilities. It was modeled on the americans with disabilities act. The treaty was meant to encourage other countries to be more like the u. S. On the issue of equal rights for the disabled. Also disabled americans who visit or live in other countries could potentially benefit from the u. N. Treaty. 125 countries ratified it. But on tuesday, 38 u. S. Republican senators voted against it. There names are right there. Some of them flipflopped at the last minute. Some had signaled support for the treaty and then indicated theyd vote for it only to vote against it. One of the measures cosponsored, jerry mirrand, actually voted against it. So the guy who cosponsored i