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Tomorrow marks the second anniversary of the horrific school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. The families of 19 of the victims in the Uvalde elementary school shooting have filed a $500 million federal lawsuit against nearly 100 state police officers who were part of the botched law enforcement response to one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history, reported The Associated Press. The families said they also agreed to a $2 million settlement with the city, under which city leaders promised higher standards and better training for local police. The lawsuit and settlement announce ..read more

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Matthew T. Mangino Creators May 20, 2024 This past week marked the U.S. Supreme Court setting aside, a portion of, certainly one of the worst decisions in the Court's 235-year history. In 1896, the high court issued a ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson that held racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were equal in quality, a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal." In 1892, Homer Plessy, a mixed-race resident of New Orleans, deliberately violated Louisiana's Separate Car Act of 1890, which required "equal, but separate" ra ..read more

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On May 15, 1924, Congress passed the Johnson-Reed Act, which would constrain immigration into the United States to preserve, in Smith’s words, America’s “pure, unadulterated Anglo-Saxon stock.” How much has the view of immigration changed in the last 100 years: At a rally in December, former president Donald Trump went as far as to say that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country.” How does this rhetoric differ from the "pure Aryan blood"? According to Eduardo Porter in the Washington Post,  Smith continued “It is for the preservation of that splendid stock that has c ..read more

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The rate of assaults on American law enforcement reached a 10-year high in 2023, with more than 79,000 officer attacks reported, according to a new FBI report released according to The Associated Press. the U.S. to determine trends in violence against law enforcement. It shows that the number of officers assaulted and injured by guns is also climbing. Agencies reported 466 assaults with firearms in 2023, which is the highest level in a decade, FBI officials said. That’s up from less than 200 officers assaulted and injured by guns in 2014. There were 60 officers killed as the result of cri ..read more

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Americans’ faith in major societal institutions hasn’t improved over the past year following a slump in public confidence in 2022, reported Gallup. The five worst-rated institutions -- newspapers, the criminal justice system, television news, big business and Congress -- stir confidence in less than 20% of Americans, with Congress, at 8%, the only one in single digits. Last year, Gallup recorded significant declines in public confidence in 11 of the 16 institutions it tracks annually, with the presidency and Supreme Court suffering the most. The share of Americans expressing a great ..read more