“我生命中最重要的部分是我的女儿。我一直想要的只是确保她过上美好的生活，良好的课程，按照她的需要和愿望进入这个世界，并尽可能长时间地为她服务”。
Amber Ostrom is like most single mothers. She balances family, home and work as best she can and as hard as she can and, approaches every day with the care of her daughter, Georgia, first on her mind. After all that is what single parents do right? During my multiple interviews of her I learned that she just wants what we all want: a secure,
“this is one of those rare opportunities for “the people” to really make a change.”
Attorney Sarah Swain, defending Shona Banda against multiple felony charges in Garden City, Kansas, says it time for all marijuana activists, organizations and, even users, medical or otherwise, to mobilize and stop this injustice. I agree. Some weeks ago I became aware of the case of Shona Banda. Her son, reacting to comments being made by one
New lawsuits show that government hired contractors are squeezing the poor for every dollar they can, and seemingly squeezing any semblance of justice out of the U.S. legal system.
Southwest Georgia (TFC) – Twice in the past fifteen days, two separate class action lawsuits, one in U.S. District Court, one in Grady County Superior Court, were filed naming Red Hills Community Probation (RHCP) LLC, its CEO Margaret B. Crutchfield, and the cities of Cairo, Pelham and Bainbridge, GA, that hired the private probation company, as
Of the 28 examiners with the FBI Laboratory’s microscopic hair comparison unit, 26 overstated forensic matches in ways that favored prosecutors in more than 95 percent of the 268 trials reviewed so far.
Washington, D.C. (TFC) – The Justice Department and FBI have released a statement formally acknowledging that for over two decades, every examiner in an elite FBI forensic unit offered false testimony in almost every trial in which they offered evidence against criminal defendants. In 2012, the Justice Department and the FBI launched a review of
Telecom giants “know there’s one place in the world where no one is watching YouTube, there’s only one group where ideology prevails and the actual Internet experience is irrelevant,” Reed Hundt, a former Democratic FCC chairman during the Clinton administration told Politico this past February.. “And that’s the [federal] judges on the D.C. circuit.”
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 12, 2013. (Photo: Susan Walsh/AP) Washington , D.C. (TFC) – The United States Telecom Association has filed a lawsuit to overturn the net neutrality rules set by the Federal Communications Commission this past February. In
The victims’ families are adamant that the three students were targeted because they were Muslims and have pushed for hate crime charges
Craig Stephen Hicks in court in Durham, N.C., on Wednesday. Durham County, NC (TFC) - Defendant Craig Stephens Hicks will face the death penalty for alleging killing three Muslim Students this past February. Durham County Senior Resident Superior Court Judge Orlando Hudson Jr ruled Hicks was “death penalty qualified” after an evidentiary
