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21 May 2016, 2:24 pm
Trump's comments seemed reminiscent of an era when crime rates were far higher -- the Willie Horton ads attacking Michael S. [read post]
21 May 2016, 5:49 am
Trump’s comments seemed reminiscent of an era when crime rates were far higher — the Willie Horton ads attacking Michael S. [read post]
25 Apr 2016, 3:33 am
Speakers and Chairs Gary Born WilmerHale (Keynote speaker); Justice Winston Anderson Caribbean Court of Justice; Agnieszka Ason Technische Universität Berlin; Elizabeth Bakibinga Commonwealth Secretariat; Professor George Barker Australia National University; Dr David S Berry University of the West Indies; James Bridgeman FCIArb; N Jansen Calamita BIICL; Barbara Dohmann QC Blackstone Chambers; Conway Blake Debevoise & Plimpton LLP; Professor Sue Farran University of Northumbria; Stephen… [read post]
15 Apr 2016, 6:11 am
Note that it refers to "whispers" about Willie Horton, as if Sen. [read post]
12 Apr 2016, 2:58 pm
An unnamed Republican Senate aide is quoted as follows in responding to the Wendell Callahan sentencing reform scandal, in which two little African American girls and their mother were knifed to death by a federal inmate given early release under a 2010 sentencing reform law:You're never going to eliminate the Willie Horton type of situation, the political ads aside, of somebody coming out [of prison] and committing a crime. [read post]
16 Feb 2016, 2:54 pm
, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Linda Hirshman, and Scott Horton discuss Scalia’s legacy on civil rights issues. [read post]
9 Feb 2016, 9:04 am
When Ronald Reagan went to Philadelphia, Mississippi for his first post-convention speech, when Bush pere ran the Willie Horton ads-- and on down the years, the conservative punditry was stitching together the monster that is now running amok. [read post]
29 Jan 2016, 3:58 am
While Michael Dukakis was stuck in a photo op with an ill-fitted helmet, the opposition trotted out Willie Horton. [read post]
26 Oct 2015, 8:29 am
Here, it has turned into the return of Willie Hortonism, as the story makes clear).But the first word in the story's headline is questionable at best. [read post]
24 Jul 2015, 6:30 am
“Why is there no apostrophe in Hortons? [read post]
28 Jun 2015, 9:01 pm
In particular, we have known for years that much of the architecture of the criminal justice system has been built around precisely such symbols: Willie Horton, the welfare queen, the crack whore. [read post]
4 Nov 2014, 7:38 pm
Willie Horton is the poster child for the kind of appeals that have typified the approach taken by Republicans. [read post]
17 Oct 2014, 3:03 pm
Says Salon's Luke Brinker about this new ad from the National Republican Campaign Committee:Here's the famous Willie Horton ad for comparison:Here's a New Yorker article from 2 years ago about Larry McCarthy, the man who created the Willie Horton ad. [read post]
13 Jun 2014, 4:15 am
The Department of Justice supports limited retroactivity, so it only applies to those people who wouldn’t embarrass anybody if they show up in a Willie Horton ad. [read post]
3 Jun 2014, 1:26 pm
"Taranto also provides a reminder on the reality of the Willie Horton episode: Willie Horton has become a sort of urban legend on the left, which seems to remember him vaguely as a victim of some sort of discrimination. [read post]
13 May 2014, 3:54 am
But then, if there is broad, non-partisan support for the Smarter Sentencing Act, then the threat of being Willie Horton’d loses its mojo. [read post]
29 Apr 2014, 1:18 pm
For many readers, references to arrest after release will conjure up images of Willie Horton, the furloughed Massachusetts prisoner who committed a brutal assault and rape in 1987 and who was then featured in a notorious attack ad in the 1988 presidential campaign. [read post]
3 Apr 2014, 5:59 am
Once people realize that this was all hype from the outset, it could take decades before turning it around with another Willie Horton commercial. [read post]
21 Mar 2014, 5:18 pm
Horton Rehears a Who: NLRB Files Petition for Rehearing with Fifth Circuit – Joshua Seidman and Nadia Bandukda of Seyfarth Shaw on the firm’s Wage & Hour Litigation Blog The CFPB’s Debt Collection Complaint Report: Lots of Fury Signifying Nothing – Atlanta lawyer Christopher Willis on the firm’s blog, the CFPB Monitor Developing a Corporate Strategy to Address Known Risks – Arden Hills lawyer Tiffany Schmidt of Abrams… [read post]
24 Feb 2014, 3:56 am
Historically Democrats have risked being Willie-Horton’ed if they don’t maintain a tougher-than-tough-on-crime posture. [read post]
