NRA LEGAL COSTS ARE $100 MILLION According to a secret recording of its January board meeting obtained by NPR, the Fairfax-based gun lobby’s multiple legal conundrums have consumed $100 million so far–a more than tidy sum for the not-for-profit. CEO… Read More ›
State
A Century-old Solution to Protect Employees and Employers
An April 21 letter from the VA GOP to Governor Northam urged him to create a plan for the reopening of nonessential businesses, even if only partial, as soon as possible. The letter stated that such a plan “cannot be… Read More ›
Skipping Votes, Skipping Transparency
Editors’ Note: Excerpted from the Roanoke Times, April 19, 2020. Hats off to the Roanoke Times for its dedicated, extensive coverage of voting practices in the General Assembly. Legislative rules make it easy for elected officials to avoid recorded votes. Only… Read More ›
Clemency During a Plague
Editors’ Note: Reposted from the Richmond Times-Dispatch, April 16, 2020. By Cara H. Drinan Cara H. Drinan is a professor of law at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., where she teaches criminal law and procedure. Her research… Read More ›
Brief Cases
DERACINATED DAIRY Land O’ Lakes has dropped its racially themed Native American woman with braids and feather image from packaging after nearly 100 years. The packaging has long been criticized as insensitive for its depiction of the “butter maiden.” Deracinate… Read More ›
COVID and African-Americans
Editors’ Note: Excerpted from The New York Times, April 12, 2020. By Jamelle Bouie We know that Covid-19 is killing African-Americans at greater rates than any other group. You can see this most clearly in the South. In Louisiana, blacks… Read More ›
Ideology Blinds Public Interest
Mr. Shakespeare often displayed keen political insight. In Hamlet (Act I), a Danish officer, Marcellus, after seeing the ghost of Hamlet’s father, tells Horatio, “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.” Horatio repeats the ominous warning to Hamlet who,… Read More ›
Brief Cases
MENHADEN REDUX, REDUX, ET AL [See VoxFairfax, January 6, 2020; https://voxfairfax.com/2020/01/06/brief-cases-2/%5D A company that makes fish-oil supplements will keep its certification for sustainable fishing despite violations of catch limits in the Chesapeake Bay. Last year, Omega Protein caught 30% more… Read More ›