What groups like Moms for Liberty and their opponents both ignore is the fact that kids are deprived of many basic rights and protections under the law.
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Snail mail might be fading away, but the government’s ability to read your mail is not.
Innocent people from marginalized communities are the most likely targets of massive expansions in law enforcement powers.
Lawmakers are spitting mad at the attorney general. So maybe that could, y’know, pass a law?
The New Jersey Democrat’s bill is flawed—but it’s a helluva lot less flawed than the dumb, mean war on marijuana use that Jeff Sessions wants to make dumber and meaner.
“Who taught you how to this stuff?” “You, alright! I learned it by watching you!”
Critics of for-profit prisons have a point. But they’re just a symptom of the over-criminalization epidemic that started with government.