An established criminal defense attorney recently took to Facebook Live to allege that a former criminal court judge assigned court-appointed attorneys to law firms owned by the judge’s personal friends. The lawyers, according to Tarrant County’s website, are supposed to be assigned randomly through a computerized
In 2021, few in the publishing industry worried that no one cared about books anymore. Sales are up 20% over 2019, the year before the pandemic, more bookstores have opened, and fiction is selling especially well. The list goes on: a young poet took the world by storm, the Justice Department is suing to stop a major merger of publishers, and parents are mobilizing to keep certain books out of kids' hands.