Mine for @TheHill: “Don’t look now, but there’s a power grab in Louisiana — one that might well destroy the ideal of equal justice in that state.” bit.ly/3Qva4Bi

Big structural changes to Louisiana’s delivery of legal services for poor people charged with crimes

Louisiana is becoming notable for going backwards when a fellow Deep South state like Georgia is trying to move forward

A shout out to Eve Brensike Primus and others doing empirical work on the state of indigent defense

Rᴏʙᴇʀᴛ L. Tsᴀɪ Eve Brensike Primus Please repost this! An organized, well-trained, and well-funded public defender system is necessary (but of course hardly sufficient) for justice to be done in this country. Their case loads should be capped. Assigning lawyers randomly w/o accountability/oversight=disaster