political pressure

Transparency Theater, Part II: The 12 Magic Words That Shut You Up

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I wrote before about ‘Transparency Theater.’ This one is the pocket decoder: the 12 lines they use to shut questions down.” They love to say government is transparent. They say it with a straight face, under bright lights, with a flag behind them and a podium that looks like it came straight from the Department … Read more

When Politics Blocks Justice: The Anatomy of a Malicious Prosecution

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Malicious prosecution is one of those phrases that sounds like legal jargon—until you’ve watched the machinery up close. Then it stops sounding abstract and starts sounding like something simpler: A system that can’t stand the words “we were wrong.” This isn’t about hating cops. It isn’t about demonizing prosecutors. And it isn’t about defending criminals. … Read more