The Supreme Court confirmation process has become a raw power struggle, with both parties abandoning shared rules and norms, and the judiciary now seen as a partisan enabler, leading to a crisis of faith in the Court's legitimacy.
Civil rights attorney Alec Karakatsanis accuses elite media institutions of helping to normalize mass incarceration by distorting the intentions behind it, and argues that the New York Times article glorifying a federal prosecutor's career built on caging low-income people in the Bronx and Vermont is an example of this "Big Deception".
A Sacramento lawsuit challenging police violence during the 2020 George Floyd protests has resulted in a monetary settlement, but the court refused to impose lasting injunctive relief, leaving the plaintiffs and advocates frustrated and vulnerable to repeat abuse.
The writer was transferred from Santa Rita Jail in Alameda County to San Bruno Jail in San Francisco after being targeted for his journalism exposing the jail's conditions and deaths, and was placed in isolation in San Diego for 10 days after testing positive for Covid.
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