A little-noted lawsuit in Oklahoma could block a state law with no actual adversarial litigation. Also: My Thursday reading, as I started catching up from vacation.
Interesting that this case was filed in the Eastern District of Oklahoma. This is the smallest of the three districts in the state and has only two district judges. It is headquartered in Muskogee and encompasses the southeast quarter of the state. The Northern District encompasses the northeast quarter of the state and is headquartered in Tulsa. The Western District is the largest district, covering the western half of the state and is headquartered in Oklahoma City which is also the state capitol. Drummond and Trump are judge-shopping and obviously avoiding OKC.
"Pure, unbridled bloodlust and cowardice ... the brutal and unchecked abuse of government power.”
Those were the words of Kelley Henry, attorney for 69 year-old Byron Black, who was officially murdered - I refuse to use to use the whitewashing term "executed" - by the state of Tennessee on August 5.
It was the 28th official murder this year, matching the number from 2015 and a number all but certain to rise. Nine more people across seven states are scheduled to be officially murdered during 2025.
I can't understand how this remnant of barbarity, this state-sanctioned, endorsed, even celebrated embrace of what it claims to oppose - cold-blooded killing - persists in our society even as it has been abandoned, either de jure or de facto, by three-quarters of the nations of the world.
Oklahoma is very regressive. Some might argue the most regressive in the country. Nothing they do down there surprises me and I should know, I used to live there. Fine people live there, but the deepest of red state politics.
Interesting that this case was filed in the Eastern District of Oklahoma. This is the smallest of the three districts in the state and has only two district judges. It is headquartered in Muskogee and encompasses the southeast quarter of the state. The Northern District encompasses the northeast quarter of the state and is headquartered in Tulsa. The Western District is the largest district, covering the western half of the state and is headquartered in Oklahoma City which is also the state capitol. Drummond and Trump are judge-shopping and obviously avoiding OKC.
"Pure, unbridled bloodlust and cowardice ... the brutal and unchecked abuse of government power.”
Those were the words of Kelley Henry, attorney for 69 year-old Byron Black, who was officially murdered - I refuse to use to use the whitewashing term "executed" - by the state of Tennessee on August 5.
It was the 28th official murder this year, matching the number from 2015 and a number all but certain to rise. Nine more people across seven states are scheduled to be officially murdered during 2025.
I can't understand how this remnant of barbarity, this state-sanctioned, endorsed, even celebrated embrace of what it claims to oppose - cold-blooded killing - persists in our society even as it has been abandoned, either de jure or de facto, by three-quarters of the nations of the world.
Oklahoma is very regressive. Some might argue the most regressive in the country. Nothing they do down there surprises me and I should know, I used to live there. Fine people live there, but the deepest of red state politics.
Sounds to me like a conspiracy. A conspiracy of AG’s. State and Federal. So THAT is what you call a group of attorneys general! A CONSPIRACY