On AlterNet: judicial system

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Corporations Are Working to Destroy One of the Few Tools We Have to Stop Their Abusive Behavior

Larry Beinhart, AlterNet. March 11, 2011.

When you hear about frivolous lawsuits and tort reform, what that really means is taking away your ability to make right a harm that’s been done to you.

Why Are We Locking Up Traumatized Veterans for Their Addictions Instead of Offering Them Treatment?

Penny Coleman, AlterNet. November 11, 2009.

This Veterans Day, let's get past the bunting and ribbons and look at our returning troops' real needs.

W's Worst Judges

Stephanie Mencimer, Mother Jones. September 17, 2008.

Forget Roberts or Alito for a minute; in eight years, Bush installed more than 300 federal judges. Here are a few to keep a close eye on.

Deluded Judge Suggests Domestic Violence Victim Wanted to Be Hit

Karen Houppert, AlterNet: PEEK. October 25, 2007.

Karen Houppert: If a woman falls in a parking lot and no one is around to hear, does she make a sound?

Judge Orders Lesbian Mom to Marry A Man Or Lose Her Kids

Guest Blogger, AlterNet: PEEK. July 27, 2007.

Jessica Valenti: A judge in Spanish child custody case links lesbians with satantic sects.

Judge Bans the Word 'Rape'...During a Rape Case.

Guest Blogger, AlterNet: PEEK. June 21, 2007.

Jessica Valenti: It's not enough that rape survivors are re-victimized in the courtroom, now they can't even call their assaults, well...assaults.

Bush's KKK approved judicial nominee

Guest Blogger, AlterNet: PEEK. May 31, 2007.

Howie Klein: Bush wants to appoint an openly racist homophobe to Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, will the Democrats stop him?

California DA: Witnesses, DNA evidence not enough to prosecute rape case

Jessica Valenti, AlterNet: PEEK. May 28, 2007.

Jessica Valenti: A travesty.

Alabama Judge borrows from Nazis to sentence Wal-Mart shoplifters

Guest Blogger, AlterNet: PEEK. May 25, 2007.

AlterNet reader Eddie Torres: "I am a judge; I weakened America."