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9 Oct 2014, 7:30 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The Texas Public Policy Foundation's Marc Levin has been promoting the idea of codifying the rule of lenity, so I was interested to hear prosecutor association rep Shannon Edmond's take on the topic, testifying Tuesday before the House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee: We have it in Texas already. [read post]
8 Oct 2014, 9:42 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Grits liked Marc Levin's suggestions to the House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee yesterday to reduce the proliferation of new laws and criminal penalty enhancements every session. 1) To create criminal penalties outside the penal code should require both the Criminal Jurisprudence Committee and whatever committee normally handles the code to approve the bill. [read post]
3 Oct 2014, 11:06 am by Gritsforbreakfast
National Journal credits the Texas Public Policy Foundation's Marc Levin as the explanation for "How Republicans Stopped Being Tough on Crime. [read post]
1 Oct 2014, 4:24 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
TPPF's Marc Levin recently authored a column arguing that the rule of lenity should apply in Gov. [read post]
2 Jul 2014, 3:48 am by Amy Howe
  in the longer run, we suspect that [it] will generate few, if any, additional victories for commercial employers seeking to impose the costs of their religious convictions on their employees”; Zoe Henson, who in The New Republic offers the perspective of a woman who uses contraception for medical reasons; Jonathan Cohn of The New Republic, who analyzes what he sees as the underlying reasons for some opposition to the mandate; Andrew Koppelman in The New Republic, who describes the… [read post]
16 May 2014, 7:18 am by Legal Profession Prof
The Maryland Court of Appeals has disbarred an attorney who made false statements and submitted false documents to his law firm Respondent, Ronald Marc Levin, violated the Maryland Lawyers’ Rules of Professional Conduct (“MLRPC”) during his employment at Joseph, Greenwald... [read post]
24 Apr 2014, 9:27 am by Gritsforbreakfast
" Speakers were Gary Bledsoe of the Texas NAACP, Marc Levin of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Norman Reimer of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and former New York Police Department Commissioner Bernard Kerik. [read post]
9 Apr 2014, 7:37 pm by Ezra Rosser
Civil Rights History Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement Daniel Levine A Civil Right to Organize Richard D. [read post]
8 Apr 2014, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
Are Under Investigation” [Jennifer Lynch, EFF/Gizmodo] Kansas family spent $25K establishing that loose tea leaves, hydroponic gear were reasons for SWAT raid on their home [KSHB, Radley Balko] “Kids Doing Time For What’s Not a Crime: The Over-Incarceration of Status Offenders” [Marc Levin and Derek Cohen, Texas Public Policy Foundation, PDF] Tweet Tags: Connecticut, illegal drugs, immigration law, Kansas, Los Angeles, police, public employmentPolice… [read post]
12 Mar 2014, 10:51 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Read Nate Blakeslee's interview with Right on Crime founder Marc Levin of the Texas Public Policy Foundation on the topic of "Why fewer prisons are good for Texas's economy." [read post]
10 Mar 2014, 7:35 am
California legislators Rob Bonta and Marc Levine introduced AB 2525 (Bonta and Levine): Limited Liability Worker Cooperative Act. [read post]
7 Mar 2014, 4:34 pm by Kevin O'Keefe
Panelists include Tim Wu of Columbia Law School, Joshua Peck of Duane Morris, Karen Sloan of the National Law Journal, Kyle McEntee of Law School Transparency, Marc Randazza of Randazza Legal Group, Vivia Chen of the Careerist, Nabiha Syed of Levine Sullivan Koch & Shulz, Jessie Kornberg of Ms. [read post]
26 Feb 2014, 7:16 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Among those giving testimony was Marc Levin of the Texas Public Policy Foundation. [read post]
19 Sep 2013, 10:13 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Rand Paul's comments calling federal prisoners convicted of low-level drug possession "victims" and likening the drug war to Jim Crow grabbed most of the headlines, the Texas Public Policy Foundation's Marc Levin yesterday testified before the US Senate Judiciary Committee on the subject of mandatory minimums. [read post]
10 Sep 2013, 7:51 am by Gritsforbreakfast
When Marc Levin, Jerry Madden or Grits cite numbers in the 150,000s for Texas' prison population, what we're quoting are TDCJ reports on the number of people actually, presently incarcerated in one of Texas' 109 prisons and state jails. [read post]
5 Sep 2013, 8:58 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Certainly no one has stepped up to fill Jerry Madden's shoes after the now-retired West Point graduate made this issue his signature, championing bipartisanship in the name of budgetary pragmatism that was praised on both sides of the aisle.Texas is getting credit lately because it's taken folks from D.C. and New York six years to figure out what happened, and also because Marc Levin, Vikrant Reddy and Co. at the Texas Public Policy Foundation have been at the center of… [read post]
16 Aug 2013, 8:41 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Marc Levin and Vikrant Reddy from the Texas Public Policy Foundation wrote in The National Review that Holder had adopted "conservative sentencing reforms" while columnist Charles Krauthammer bloviated that the decision amounted to "lawlessness." [read post]