Not enough

They sentenced juveniles to lockup for money. A more appropriate sentence than 7 short years would be the sum of all the unjust detention orders and sentences they handed down and the forfeiture of every cent, including salary, benefits, and retirement accounts, not to mention the kickbacks.

Incredibly, it took ten years from first reports until this corruption in plain sight was stopped.

Naturally, these judges were conservative hanging judges who ruled by fear and fiat. Their light sentences are another case of double standards for the rich and powerful - and that's the real standard of their view of law.

Fish story

Republicans say that they want to protect the franchise to lawful voters by requiring proof of citizenship when registering and proof of identity when voting. Superficially, there's nothing wrong with this.

The problem is that they always draw their bills in a way that will exclude many thousands of lawful voters while catching at most a handful of ineligible cheaters. A photo ID is a perfectly reasonable requirement - if your voter registrars can provide them without a side trip across town, something that's obviously very inconvenient for anyone who doesn't have a driver's license. And that's the population we're talking about.

It's as if the Republicans are claiming that they don't want to catch the tuna; they really only want to catch the dolphins. But they're going to use a tuna net anyway.

And they expect us to believe that they're fishing for the by-catch.

Safety? I got mine, you've got mining

Looks as though Murray Energy sent its miners underground with at least glaring neglect of their safety. They died, ho hum. How's that for the investment class?