New Orleans: homicides w/firearm -58% YTD; Baltimore, 5 homicides in all of April; homicides way down in Chicago

Fentanyl innumeracy in law enforcement is longstanding and far from confined to Pam Bondi. From @zachsiegel.bsky.social
in 2022:

newrepublic.com/article/1677...

The lead prosecutor in Bacote’s case described Black defendants in a capital case as “predators of the African plain" and made similar remarks even after being admonished by a judge. 2/3

News: North Carolina Superior Court finds that race was a significant, impermissible factor in the death sentence for Hasson Bacote, and in decisions by prosecutors in multiple counties to strike Black jurors from capital cases. 1/3

This is the one you're thinking of right. It's not Rove, but an unnamed aide. Which I've always loved because imagine coming up with the best cluster of quotes of the 21st century and not getting credit for it.

From @weisenthal.bsky.social's newsletter, Viktor Shvets on mass incarceration as a similar crisis to deteriorating health outcomes, a contributor to cycles of homelessness and poverty, and an aggravator of polarization.

New: North Carolina Gov Roy Cooper has commuted the sentences of 15 death row inmates to life without the possibility of parole. One person who received a commutation is Hasson Bacote, whose case is at the center of massive litigation around bias from state prosecutors.
www.wfae.org/race-equity/...

Virginia attorney who is seven months pregnant and works for indigent clients threatened with jail by judge for missing a court date she'd asked to postpone. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Michael Pollan on RFK, Jr.: "I think he's completely unfit" for HHS, likely to do real harm to the psychedelics assisted therapy movement.

www.politico.com/news/magazin...

After hundreds of women were sexually assaulted by staff at FCI Dublin, a California federal prison, they were dispersed to BOP facilities around the country. About 60 are housed at FCI Aliceville in Alabama —and they're being sexually assaulted, again, by guards. (1/2)
www.ktvu.com/news/lawyers...

"How prosecutors picked death penalty juries" in Alameda County, CA
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...