A man was arrested for playing Darth Vader's theme music, "The Imperial March," behind National Guard troops walking through Logan Circle. Now the ACLU is suing on his behalf. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

With Judge Armstrong retiring, we are losing a wonderful TN Court of Appeals colleague -- I look forward to seeing what bright judges & lawyers in TN’s Western Grand Division (who are at least 30 & 5 yrs a TN resident) are going to step forward to be considered for this vacancy –

In 2022, Congress passed legislation requiring the FCC to ensure "just and reasonable" charges for phone and video calls from jails and prisons. On Tuesday, the FCC undermined the legislation in passing a rate cap increase that could raise prices by 83%. eji.org/news/fcc-raise…

TN: THP trooper decommissioned, placed on administrative leave after DUI arrest Story by Danica Sauter wsmv.com/2025/11/02/thp…

Democrat Larry Krasner, a national figurehead for reform prosecutors, has won reelection as Philadelphia’s district attorney.

When you lose the sandwich case, the joke’s on you

Woman grazed in 'road rage' shooting outside Nashville courthouse, police say tennessean.com/story/news/cri…

Veterans are overrepresented on death row across the United States. The Death Penalty Information Center's (Death Penalty Information Center) new report explores the cases of veterans sentenced to death and the injustices they face in the criminal legal system. deathpenaltyinfo.org/research/analy…

Imagine how they treat people who aren’t more important to the government than them…

Calvin Duncan, a former prisoner who was wrongly incarcerated for nearly 30 years, wins Orleans clerk of court race He ran as someone who struggled for years to retrieve his own case records in his bid to prove his innocence veritenews.org/2025/11/16/cal…

Thinking about that time an Arizona sheriff bragged about giving incarcerated people a 56¢ Thanksgiving meal 🤨 Cutting corners to give cheap, nutritionally inadequate slop is not a triumph – it's a public health concern.

On this day in 1955, police in Montgomery, Alabama, arrested seamstress and activist Rosa Parks for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated city bus. calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti…

More than half a million people in the U.S. are held in local jails on any given day, and, unlike people held in state prisons, most remain eligible to vote. Yet they are rarely included in the democratic process, let alone part of forums like this one. boltsmag.org/flint-michigan…

Radical abolitionist John Brown was executed on this day in 1859 for trying to spark a revolution to free millions held in bondage. “I have only a short time to live, only one death to die, and I will die fighting for this cause.”

A.P. Hill took up arms against the U.S. government to further the goals of the Confederacy and maintain slavery. The son of a wealthy white family, slavery surrounded his life. The name of Fort A.P. Hill was reinstated earlier this year. eji.org/news/fort-a-p-…

Hey, Google. Are the police reading my search queries without a warrant? therecord.media/google-searche…

Often very rare risks with new technologies are treated as a common wide spread risks - especially by incumbents. This is more common than simply making up a theoretical risk, much more persuasive too

Bob Dylan explains Willie Nelson stereogum.com/2483523/bob-dy…

👀 NASHVILLE COP TO TN TROOPER: “I don’t care who you are, touch me again I’m gonna lock you up.” Speaker Speaker Cameron Sexton’s speeding detail refused to pull over, then got in the officer’s face. Our GOP supermajority thinks laws don’t apply to them. Full: wkrn.com/news/body-cam-…