This analysis begins in 2016 when Associate Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead in a Texas hunting lodge cabin. President Obama, then in the final year of his second (and final) term submitted to the Senate his nomination of Federal Appeals Court Judge Merrick Garland. Fast forward to September 18, 2020 and the death of […]
It was a good 20 years or so ago when a local (Hammond) cop lived so near to me as within an adjacent block. There was often a “take-home” squad car in front of the officer’s residence. I took some comfort in that and assumed that the neighborhood was at least minimally safer by reason […]