> When alleged offenders can barely read, the justice system breaks down https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2026/04/29/offenders-defendants-illiteracy-police-criminal-justice-harvey-graff-joanne-telser-frere-dominguez

How just is it if the offender cannot even read documents dealing with their fate in the justice system?

On side note, in younger days I was a volunteer literacy tutor teaching adults how to read.

#AndJusticeForSome #literacy #education #reading

When alleged offenders can barely read, the justice system breaks down

Police and prosecutors must be trained to better communicate with people who read at low levels.

Chicago Sun-Times

FTA: "I signpost desperate members of the community to food banks, community lunches, or crisis loans when they finally overcome the initial barriers experienced in engaging with such services. I try to keep people away from or slipping back into a life of crime, when they have lived experience that crime can pay when being a conscientious citizen does not, because life itself contains too much injustice."

#AndJusticeForSome

> Clarence Thomas to Speak as Trump Floats Replacing Supreme Court Justices https://www.newsweek.com/clarence-thomas-to-speak-trump-floats-replacing-supreme-court-justices-11834034

Oh. . . more court stacking, huh?

#SCOTUS #AndJusticeForSome

Clarence Thomas to Speak as Trump Floats Replacing Supreme Court Justices

Clarence Thomas will speak at UT Austin as Trump raises the possibility of future Supreme Court vacancies and nominations.

Newsweek

> Man with 30 years of traffic violations drove under the influence and killed librarian, prosecutors say https://lawandcrime.com/crime/man-with-30-years-of-traffic-violations-drove-under-the-influence-and-killed-librarian-prosecutors-say/

Only reason he got light (8yrs) is he copped a plea deal. which makes you question the justice system in NC that one, allowed such light deal for a life, and two, allowed this asshole to keep driving with mostly impunity for decades.

#AndJusticeForSome #crime

Man with 30 years of traffic violations crashed into and killed librarian

A man in North Carolina has learned his fate after authorities say he drove under the influence, swerved into another lane, and crashed into a woman, killing her.

Law & Crime

> Fox News host says transgender people should not be allowed to own guns in wake of Rhode Island shooting
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/lawrence-jones-fox-transgender-rhode-island-shooting-b2922827.html

"Shall not be infringed."

Unless it is some "undesirable" in which case it will definitely be infringed.

Just ask the Black Panthers.

#ThisIsAmerica #AndJusticeForSome #CivilRights #LGBTQ #FauxNews

> Epstein files: ‘No one is too wealthy or too powerful to be above the law’; rights experts demand accountability https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/02/1166980

Aww dudes, really? you still believe that? How quaint.

#AndJusticeForSome #RealOwners #exploitation #corruption #UnitedNations #NGO

Epstein files: ‘No one is too wealthy or too powerful to be above the law’; rights experts demand accountability

The large-scale disclosure of materials known as the “Epstein Files” has revealed “disturbing and credible evidence” of what independent human rights experts describe as a possible global criminal enterprise involving systematic sexual abuse, trafficking and exploitation of women and girls.

UN News

> ICE agent unlikely to face charges in Renee Good’s death: report https://nypost.com/2026/01/13/us-news/ice-agent-unlikely-to-face-charges-in-renee-goods-death/

I hope family then sues him for wrongful death and drive him to effing bankruptcy at least.

#ThisIsAmerica
#AndJusticeForSome

> Trump launches $1m 'gold card' immigration visas https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4q1lddj8go

Hmm, I bet these 'gold card' holders don't have to submit a 5-year social media history to enter the U.S.

#AndJusticeForSome #RealOwners #PendejoInChief #GOP #PartyOfStupid #BoycottUSA #scams

Trump launches $1m 'gold card' immigration visas

The special visas will be awarded to those who can show they can make a "substantial benefit" to the US.

> Justice Department Will No Longer Investigate Claims of Systemic Racism, Sexism https://www.chronicle.com/article/justice-department-will-no-longer-investigate-claims-of-systemic-racism-sexism

Hooray! #Racism and #sexism are finally solved in the U.S. (/sarcasm)

#ThisIsAmerica #academia #HigherEd #USGovernment #AndJusticeForSome

Justice Department Will No Longer Investigate Claims of Systemic Racism, Sexism

The change could dramatically alter the way college leaders define and address discrimination.

The Chronicle of Higher Education

In reasons to avoid the #FloatingPetriDishes: "VIP" #assholes. And btw, the judge here must also be "VIP" since he let the asshole off the hook pretty much.

> 'Who the f— are you': 67-year-old man allegedly knocked unconscious by 'VIP' cruise passenger https://lawandcrime.com/crime/who-the-f-are-you-67-year-old-man-allegedly-knocked-unconscious-by-vip-cruise-passenger/

#AndJusticeForSome #crime

'Who the f— are you': 67-year-old man allegedly knocked unconscious by 'VIP' cruise passenger

Florida attorney Phillip Andrew Ortiz allegedly pushed a 67-year-old man during an altercation on board the Norwegian Encore cruise ship in Miami.

Law & Crime