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Quote of the Day: Boredom May Be Trump’s Worst Enemy

by GenieMcGuigan Posted on March 2, 2017

Mother Jones

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From LA Times reporter Brian Bennett, writing about the possibility of President Trump brokering some kind of comprehensive immigration deal:

But immigration experts are skeptical Trump has the attention span or the desire to pass a sweeping immigration overhaul, a deeply complicated undertaking.

I have a feeling we’re going to be hearing versions of this sentence a lot over the next four years.

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Quote of the Day: Boredom May Be Trump’s Worst Enemy

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5 Death Penalty Cases Tainted by Racism

by AYZShantell Posted on March 24, 2015

Mother Jones

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The intersection of race and justice on the street has loomed in the headlines this past year or two, with racially charged killings—Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and Tamir Rice, among others—sparking widespread protests and highlighting stark police biases: A recent Justice Department investigation, for instance, found that blacks in Ferguson, Missouri, accounted for an overwhelming majority of traffic stops, traffic tickets, and arrests over a two-year period—nearly everyone who got a jaywalking ticket was black. When black drivers were pulled over in Ferguson, the DOJ found, they were searched at twice the rate of white drivers.

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5 Death Penalty Cases Tainted by Racism

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