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Supreme Court Confers Immunity
Mumia Abu-Jamal
We live in a country where the Supreme Court, which is the highest judicial power in the United States of America, essentially gave unlimited power and immunity to the President on the basis of party… Full Transcript
About My Federal Lawsuit
Dontie Mitchell
About my federal lawsuit. Back in 2017, I filed a federal lawsuit pursuant to Title 42 of the United States Code, Section 1983. Even though I applied for, and was granted, poor person status under… Full Transcript
Mandatory Life Without Parole May Violate 8th Amendment Under Miller
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
In Miller v. Alabama, United States Supreme Court held that imposing a mandatory sentence on a child offender constituted a cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment. The question remained whether the… Full Transcript
Prisoners Remain Less Than Human
Kenneth Hartman
Kenneth E. Hartman, California State Prison, Los Angeles County, in Lancaster. “Prisoners Remain Less Than Human.” The U.S. Supreme Court ended its term with a couple of wins for progressive voices, upholding the Affordable Care… Full Transcript
19 Years of Torture and Counting
Lorenzo Cat Johnson
When I was illiterate to corruption in our judicial system, I believed that malicious prosecutions of innocent people only existed in movies and fiction books. That was until a crooked cop would change my life… Full Transcript
Chained As Children
Mumia Abu-Jamal
In 2012 the U.S. Supreme Court decided that mandatory life sentences for juveniles was a violation of the Constitution’s Eighth Amendment prohibition against “cruel and unusual punishments.” Ever since then almost a dozen states have… Full Transcript
Moratorium
Kevin Cooper
by Kevin Cooper. I am a poor African American, innocent man on death row in America. These are three very important matters that the United States Supreme Court doesn’t acknowledge when it comes to the… Full Transcript
Dear friends, brothers and sisters, many of you, if not most of you, have heard about the court decision regarding Derrick Lee and the overturning of his mandatory life sentence by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.… Full Transcript