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Gardenhire kills ‘constitutional carry’ by ‘blowing smoke,’ Harris says

Sen. Todd Gardenhire takes the GOP establishment’s position against the right to bear arms. (Photo Nashvillepublicradio.org) On March 8, 2016, Sen. Todd Gardenhire helped kill so-called constitutional carry in Tennessee in a Senate judiciary committee vote. Or nonvote. Sen. Gardenhire declined to say yay or nay on the proposal that would have allowed all law-abiding […]

2 prosecutors, trooper don’t have ‘absolute immunity,’ suit says

A free user of the public roads convicted under the state’s vague “intent to go armed” and its commercial motor vehicle license statute is fighting Nashville’s efforts to disentangle two prosecutors and a highway patrol deputy from litigation. Arthur Jay Hirsch sued district attorney Kim Helper, Tammy Rettig and trooper Jeff Reed operating in Middle Tennessee […]

Judge hopeful Little explains deep law, insists justice possible

Defense attorney Mike Little answers tough questions about criminal court, whether it can be just, why so many defendants are poor people and are there any “outs” in the ethics rules that let judges do whatever they want outside of justice. (AM 1240 Hot News Talk Radio) Tweet Pin It

County puts inmate calls in hands of surveillance giant

A person in a jail uses a Securus phone in a story that points out that as technology increases in jails and prisons, isolation grows. (Photo NBC news) By David Tulis A giant in the prison-industrial complex has secured a contract with Hamilton County that lets it siphon profit from the conversations among inmates, family […]