Senate to Vote on Deputy AG Pick: The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved President Obama's Deputy Attorney General nominee David Odgen by a 14-5 vote as reported BLT.
GOP committee members voting against Ogden cited his representation of
pornographers and appellate defense of St. Louis murderer Christopher
Simmons, discussed here by Heritage Foundation Fellow Steven Groves. The nomination is likey to be approved by an upcoming vote of full Senate.
Drug Cartels will be a major focus of the new administration's Department of Homeland Security. Washington Post writer Spencer S. Hsu reports that in remarks before the House Homeland Security Committee, HS Secretary Janet Napolitano said that the violent backlash by cartels to Mexico's crackdown on drug trafficking "deserves our utmost attention right now." The new focus on the Mexican border comes as law enforcement officials in states such as Arizona respond to significant increases in violence by Mexican nationals as reported by Daniel Newhauser of the Cronkite News Service.
Pa. Judges face 3rd suit: In an article, Michael Rubinkam, of the Associated Press, writes "two disgraced Pennsylvania judges charged with taking kickbacks to send youth offenders to private detention centers are facing another civil lawsuit tied to the scandal." After Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan pled guilty to taking $2.6 million in bribes, "the suit filed Thursday claims Ciavarella detained kids for offenses 'as trivial as shoplifting a $4 jar of nutmeg or taking change from unlocked cars.'" Prosecutors are claiming Ciavarella, sentencing "a quarter of his convicted juvenile defendants to detention center from 2002-2006, compared with a statewide rate of one in 10," was "overly harsh."
See CJLF previous entry here.
No longer "death by natural causes": The Associated Press writes, "police and medical examiners who thought a man died of natural causes changed their minds after funeral-home workers found bullet holes in his head." After realizing the mistake, authorities attempted to secure the victim's house, but it had already been cleaned. Unfortunately, "this was the second time in 17 months that a Kansas City funeral home returned a homicide victim's body mistakenly ruled a natural death by the medical examiner's office."
Drug Cartels will be a major focus of the new administration's Department of Homeland Security. Washington Post writer Spencer S. Hsu reports that in remarks before the House Homeland Security Committee, HS Secretary Janet Napolitano said that the violent backlash by cartels to Mexico's crackdown on drug trafficking "deserves our utmost attention right now." The new focus on the Mexican border comes as law enforcement officials in states such as Arizona respond to significant increases in violence by Mexican nationals as reported by Daniel Newhauser of the Cronkite News Service.
Pa. Judges face 3rd suit: In an article, Michael Rubinkam, of the Associated Press, writes "two disgraced Pennsylvania judges charged with taking kickbacks to send youth offenders to private detention centers are facing another civil lawsuit tied to the scandal." After Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan pled guilty to taking $2.6 million in bribes, "the suit filed Thursday claims Ciavarella detained kids for offenses 'as trivial as shoplifting a $4 jar of nutmeg or taking change from unlocked cars.'" Prosecutors are claiming Ciavarella, sentencing "a quarter of his convicted juvenile defendants to detention center from 2002-2006, compared with a statewide rate of one in 10," was "overly harsh."
See CJLF previous entry here.
No longer "death by natural causes": The Associated Press writes, "police and medical examiners who thought a man died of natural causes changed their minds after funeral-home workers found bullet holes in his head." After realizing the mistake, authorities attempted to secure the victim's house, but it had already been cleaned. Unfortunately, "this was the second time in 17 months that a Kansas City funeral home returned a homicide victim's body mistakenly ruled a natural death by the medical examiner's office."
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