Mary Gay Scanlon: “SB 8 does so by creating a tortured legal fiction to avoid judicial review, and in the process, threatens other…”

I support H.R. 3497, the Medal of Sacrifice Act, which would award medals to honor those who lose their lives while serving as public safety officers. I encourage my colleagues to support it, too.

This is not supposed to be punitive, but it’s pretty hard to say that this is anything but.

Why are we jailing, essentially, people who are not a danger to our communities, who are in many cases contributing members to our economy and our communities, folks who are employed and are paying taxes? Why are these folks being put in a…

So we have the situation where people are being jailed and then forced to work essentially for free to maintain basic sanitation, food, etc.