Opinion: We must elect Connie Pillich Hamilton County Prosecutor to get true justice
Connie Pillich will make our community safer by making sure her office obeys the law while they enforce the law. She will require her attorneys to obey ethical rules, give unbiased justice, and hold each other accountable. Appeals courts have criticized prosecutors in Hamilton County for violating those duties. Melissa Powers has done...
jonetta rose barras: The DC Council violates the law to investigate its alleged law-breaking member, Trayon White
When I was growing up in a five-generation household in New Orleans, the elders passed around wives’ tales, family lore, adages and ethics lessons as frequently as they did crawfish bisque or jambalaya. My grandmother often warned that, “If you lie, you’ll steal and if you steal, you’ll kill.”
Guatemala is stuck with a problematic attorney general, a legal study says
Guatemala’s Attorney General Consuelo Porras has been criticized and sanctioned by countries around the world for allegedly obstructing corruption investigations and using her power to persecute political opponents, but the country is effectively stuck with her, according to a legal analysis published Tuesday.Since President Bernardo Arévalo's election last year, Porras has pursued his Seed Movement party, alleging wrongdoing in how it gathered the necessary signatures to establish itself. Her investigators raided the party offices, seized and opened ballot boxes and sought multiple times to have his immunity lifted.Arévalo has said Porras is protecting powerful and corrupt interests in...