Valentina expressed her emotional struggle, stating, 'I cried a lot. I dreaded going to school.' This highlights the profound impact of her mother's incarceration on her daily life.
The Save Willy Act would establish a 'whale desk' at San Francisco's Coast Guard station, creating a centralized place for whale sightings to be reported and mariners to be alerted, helping large ships avoid collisions.
We're spread so thin that nobody's really been given the opportunity to be adequately trained for some of the assignments that we're sent off to. The situation hasn't gotten any better, and our concerns are the same, and they're growing. Staffing shortages have existed for years in the criminal division and are being exacerbated as the San Francisco district attorney's office files more cases.
Spiralling backlogs mean a shocking 29 cases including violent crimes and drug offences have been scheduled to start as far away as 2030, with victims left waiting at least four years to have their day in court. In total, more than 2,600 Crown Court trials are not due to be heard until 2028, including 206 rape trials.
"What's most problematic is that the extraordinary has become ordinary. It's just a matter of course now that when you issue an opinion that some people don't like, you're going to get threats, you're going to get death threats, and that is obviously problematic on many levels."
People who've been waiting for years to have their asylum case adjudicated are now going to wait even more. Atkinson said she is already seeing cases that were on the calendar for this year being pushed to 2028 and 2029.
Drawing from years in public defense and her work co-founding Partners for Justice, she explains why the criminal legal system often punishes instability rather than crime - and how policy choices, not individual morality, frequently determine who enters the system.
She asked to be held in contempt just so she could get 24 hours of sleep. In a follow-up tweet, Blume added that Blackwell had called the hearing because he was frustrated that in 5 Habeas cases he was presiding over, he felt his orders were being ignored, leaving immigrant detainees unconstitutionally locked up for days. Then, Blume said, Le admitted that the government's lawyer just cannot keep up.
So I gave them a specific time and - to get it done. If they don't, then by all mean, I'm going to walk out. And before I walk out, I was able to release another individual, a juvenile. That kind of like a step - like a barrier. Like, Wait, Julie, stop. You need to go back and get more people out. That's why I'm still here.
