Inside the Legal Labyrinth of a Campus Rape Case
RealClearInvestigations
The football player, the freshman and a fateful one-nighter: Ashe Schow unpacks a University of North Carolina frat-house hookup turned prolonged rape case, and finds a legal labyrinth of costly, overlapping inquiries of a sort that could well outlive the policies of the Obama era. Jeff Sessions Has Lawyer Friends Back Home in Trouble
RealClearInvestigations
Critics are calling on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to recuse himself from investigations involving Balch & Bingham, a white-shoe Alabama law firm he is closely allied with. Two of its attorneys were indicted Thursday on charges of conspiracy and bribery, one of two cases under federal investigation with links to the firm. Price's Military Flights to Europe, Asia With Wife Cost $500K
Politico
The White House approved military aircraft for multi-national trips by Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price to Africa and Europe this spring, and to Asia in the summer, at a cost of more than $500,000 to taxpayers. The overseas trips, which included Price's wife, bring the total cost to taxpayers of Price's travels to more than $1 million since May. Saudi Aramco's Disastrous 2015 Apartment Fire
Wall Street Journal
Saudi Aramco, which is planning what could be the biggest IPO ever, ignored warnings from its own safety experts about the construction of a compound housing foreign hires and their families. At least 10 people died in a disastrous 2015 fire. It's relevant today because safety issues come to the fore when oil companies go public: Lawsuits loom and markets pay attention. Sacramento's High Teen Murders, by Bullets to the Head
Sacramento Bee
Since 2007, 114 teens in Sacramento County have died, mostly from gunshot wounds to the head. The county has a higher teen murder rate than California and the U.S. as a whole. Officials point to local gang culture as a major obstacle to solving many of the killings. Employees Worry VA Used Vets as ‘Cash Cows'
Washington Examiner
Employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs in New York claim the VA was rushing to reconnect with thousands of veterans who hadn't used the clinic that year in order to maintain funding. Reconnecting with the veterans would mean up to $9.7 million in revenue for the facility. Conservatives Back Free Lawyers for the Poor
Marshall Project
Some conservatives are now backing public defenders as a way to protect individual rights. The vast majority of criminal cases are settled with plea bargains -- often unjustly, in the view of many -- largely because free lawyers are scarce and overburdened. | 
