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This is the 3rd paragraph of the NYT's new article on the nightmare Border Patrol facility in Clint, Texas. It only escalates from here. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
Cruelty as a routine:
Don't share these excerpts too much, or a column will fault you for "putting more of your faith, and investing more of your efforts, in them instead of us," and for making "too many Americans feel like strangers in their own country." After all, "they speak Spanish. We don’t."
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! PA adopted legislation (signed by Dem governor) to transfer some of the Philly DA's powers to the AG for 2 years, in an apparent effort to counter Larry Krasner's reform politics. theintercept.com/2019/07/08/da-…

Bill enables Philly police to work directly with AG, cut out Krasner.
The Intercept reports that some Dems who voted for the law are saying that they were "duped into voting" for this provision (which singles out Philadelphia and only Philadelphia); it was added to a later version of bill.
Say what you want about what you think DAs should or shouldn't do. Bottom line: DA have long exercised massive discretion in ways that grew mass incarceration. Now a few DAs are using discretion differently, & only now are state lawmakers weakening them — see TX, MA, PA, FL.
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Taniel
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just in: Parisa Dehghani-Tafti OUSTS Arlington's prosecutor Theo Stamos.

She said she was running to "dismantle" mass incarceration. She told me she'll never seek death penalty nor prosecute pot, that she'd treat "addiction as a medical problem," & more. appealpolitics.org/2019/interview…
Dehghani-Tafti is a former public defender who works at the Mid-Atlantic Legal Innocence Project.

She told me that her work as a defense attorney meant dealing with single cases as they came along, but that she ran for prosecutor to address mass incarceration more head-on.
Stamos, the incumbent, joined a lawsuit in 2016 against @TerryMcAuliffe's executive order restoring voting rights to people post-sentence. This led McAuliffe to back Dehghani-Tafti this year.

But get this: Dehghani-Tafti told me she opposed disenfranchising at *any* point.
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Taniel
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in 2016, the Dem prosecutors of Virginia's Arlington & Fairfax signed on to a lawsuit against @TerryMcAuliffe's order restoring voting rights

this Tuesday, they face primary challengers, who're asking why any citizen shld be disenfranchised

my primer: appealpolitics.org/2019/virginia-…
When the Supreme Court struck down @TerryMcAuliffe 's executive order over GOP lawmakers' lawsuit (with prosecutors' supporting brief), the then-governor then wrote in a statement that the court "has placed Virginia as an outlier in the struggle for civil & human rights."
McAuliffe then signed orders individually restoring rights of 173K people post-sentences. I asked the 2 challengers whether they'd back going even further to abolish disenfranchisement

@parisa4justice: yes (left)
@SteveDescano: never heard a good reason to disenfranchsie (right)
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Good god: One 2-year-old’s eyes were rolled back in her head, and she was “completely unresponsive” and limp, according to a lawyer who visited a Border Patrol facility. huffpost.com/entry/four-sev… via @HuffPostPol
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NE02, final. Bacon 51, Eastman 42
A good result for Republicans, though not a huge surprise in a lean Rep. district. Still, this could have been a top race and it doesn't look like one.
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From what I’ve seen so far at the #Texas border, there are a lot of young girls and their mothers packed into cement cell blocks. They don’t look like criminals to me, but they are definitely fleeing from criminals in their home countries.
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