In a report on how lobbyists and legislators interact, Georgia reporters from Mass Report showcase how corrupt our political system is. They attempted to gain access to a private ALEC meeting where legislators’ attendance is subsidized by lobbyists and lobbyists have an equal vote at the table.
By: Samantha Page, Originally Published: 5.6.16, Source: Think Progress For the past 65 years, if someone — or some company — was illegally polluting in South Carolina, you could sue. The law was put on the books so that if South Carolina’s enforcement agencies didn’t have the time, money, or political backing to go after
The Bridgeton Landfill, about 20 miles northwest of St. Louis, is in many ways a typical pile of trash. Bridgeton is a layer cake of garbage and dirt at the bottom of an old limestone quarry, all of it covered with a frosting of clay, plastic liner, soil and grass. But for the last six
Secret meetings and lies about a landfill project in Pickens County were outlined in a statement by Pickens County Council, but the attorney for the company says the allegations are bogus.
By: Radley Balko, Originally Published: May 6, 2016, Source: The Washington Post Editor’s note: This is part 1 of a four-part series. “To this day, if you live in Kershaw County and saw those media reports, you’d still think Lori Jean Ellis was just some crazy old black lady who opened fire on a bunch
By: Howard Nations, Source: HowardNations.com The great trial lawyer Daniel Webster said: “Justice is the greatest concern of man on earth.” There is no greater professional calling than to stand as a lawyer at the bar of justice and breathe life into the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the statutory law and common law by defining,