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Common Dreams reports
The Trump administration's anti-science bent has reached the Department of Justice (DOJ), with Attorney General Jeff Sessions saying [April 10] that the department is ending the National Commission on Forensic Science.
The 30-member panel was described by ThinkProgress as "a group of scientists, judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, and other experts tasked by the Obama administration in 2013 with raising standards for the use of forensic evidence in criminal proceedings".
In its place, a senior forensic advisor will be appointed "to interface with forensic science stakeholders and advise department leadership", Sessions' statement said.
[...] "The reliance of law enforcement on questionable science and the overstatement of the reliability of that science has been a leading cause of the wrongful conviction of innocent people", said National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) president Barry Pollack on Monday. "The reason the National Commission on Forensic Science has been so important is that it includes leading independent scientists, allowing an unbiased expert evaluation of which techniques are scientifically valid and which are not. NACDL is terribly disappointed that even while acknowledging the crucial role played by the National Commission on Forensic Science, the Attorney General has chosen to disband it."
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(Score: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday April 16 2017, @09:54AM (3 children)
Yeah, speaking of voter suppression, what about all those nonviolent Trump supporters who are getting gang-jumped and beaten and sliced-up by leftist thugs?
What I assume you're bitching about is requiring citizenship and ID to vote. Well, no shit. The reason why Trump's deportations are scaring the shit of the left is because he's putting a stop to their scheme of destroying our culture and safety by importing hordes of new and uncivilized Democratic welfare-voters.
Abiding by the rule of law? Huh, imagine that!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 16 2017, @11:08AM
Now tell us the one about The Three Bears.
If the event to which you are referring is anything like the one in Huntington Beach late last month, the "journalists" got it completely wrong on the 1st try.
What happened in OC was that Trump-fan skinheads jumped some reporters/photographers who were there trying to do their jobs.
The aggressors were wearing Neo-Nazi insignia and had brought knives and brass knuckles.
An organizer of the Trump event got squirted with pepper spray by accident when she was standing in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Someone trying to defend himself from multiple attackers had his aim jostled.
The story without the alt-truth:
OC Weekly Journalists Say Trump Supporters Attacked Them at Huntington Beach Rally [truthdig.com]
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requiring citizenship and ID to vote
There's a story in the queue right now about how in Kansas their resident dumbass has been looking for 2 years, wasting how much money is anybody's guess.
He has found a grand total of 8 people, with irregularities.
Most appear to be understandable screwups.
Kansas Secretary of State Finally Convicts an Immigrant of a Voting Irregularity [soylentnews.org]
If julian wasn't referring to outright fraud by state voting officials, I'll link to that.
This guy is an investigative reporter who has been tracking voter purging for years.
Greg Palast [google.com]
He has also made a movie about the fraud: "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy"
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by julian on Sunday April 16 2017, @06:20PM (1 child)
What a lovely pastiche of right-wing fever dream hallucinations; a pathetic litany of tired, content-free, non-arguments. Get some new material before you take your act on the road again.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday April 17 2017, @01:06AM
Suck my dick, you goddamn nigger.