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| | When the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in the death penalty case Hurst v. Florida in January 2016, it effectively changed the course of Melanie Kalmanson's career. "That's when my passion for these issues started, when I was seeing it in real life, living these cases, working on these cases, seeing how it affected Florida," Kalmanson says. "The thing that really hit me was how little society knows about the reality of the death penalty." |
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| | | | A former Iowa county attorney who was elected to the prosecutorial position made crude comments at work. Reuben Neff, who was first elected as the Wapello County Attorney in 2018 and resigned in March, did not convince the Iowa Supreme Court that he had a First Amendment right to say those things. »Read more |
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| | In "The Highest Law in the Land: How the Unchecked Power of Sheriffs Threatens Democracy," lawyer and journalist Jessica Pishko takes a deep dive into the history of this position in American life and at a far-right movement hoping to co-opt it. |
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