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"Election Contestation and Progressive Prosecutors" The title of this post is the title of this new paper now on SSRN authored by Ronald Wright, Jeff Yates and Carissa Byrne Hessick. Here its abstract: A group of change-oriented chief prosecutors use the label “progressive prosecutor” to describe their distinctive approach to the prosecutor’s work.  But it is not yet clear how deep those proposed changes go.  Did media accounts focus on vivid but exceptional election campaigns, or did the last decade deliver a widespread change in U.S. prosecution leadership? We explore this question ...

"Election Contestation and Progressive Prosecutors" The title of this post is the title of this new paper now on SSRN authored by Ronald Wright, Jeff Yates and Carissa Byrne Hessick. Here its abstract: A group of change-oriented chief prosecutors use the label “progressive prosecutor” to describe their distinctive approach to the prosecutor’s work.  But it is not yet clear how deep those proposed changes go.  Did media accounts focus on vivid but exceptional election campaigns, or did the last decade deliver a widespread change in U.S. prosecution leadership? We explore this question ...

I’M SHARING the last responses to my “Bright Side” feature, for which readers sent details about the things they turned to during the coronavirus pandemic to stay busy and sane. I’ll begin with Donald Wright, a retiree from Locust Grove who grew up in a suburb of Chicago, worked for 30 years at the Library of Congress and traded his house in Arlington in 2003 for his home in Orange County. Wright is like others who have added a whole host of new hobbies and pastimes to fill the many hours spent inside. Wright said he’d always wanted to have a fish tank, so when he tho...

Canadian writers jump into the Climate Debate: Open Letter regarding Climate Accountability Bill signed by over 170 acclaimed writers, including Ondaatje, Atwood, Atom Egoyan, Eden Robinson.

North Carolina prosecutor calls shooting of Andrew Brown Jr. justified By Richard Fausset New York Times,Updated May 18, 2021, 4:22 p.m. Email to a Friend District Attorney Andrew Womble shows still images from police body camera footage after announcing he will not charge deputies in the April 21 fatal shooting of Andrew Brown Jr.Travis Long/Associated Press A North Carolina prosecutor said Tuesday that the fatal shooting of a Black man by sheriff’s deputies was justified, because the man, Andrew Brown Jr., used his car as a “deadly weapon” as he tried to evade arrest. The dep...