Due process? What’s that?
So what’s this “due process” thing all the kids and the Constitution are talking about? What is it? Notice and hearing? Isn’t that what we learned in law school? So, like, when the State wants to take away my freedom and throw me in a tiny concrete cell, I get notice of why and a hearing on that, right? And if the State says I can gain release on bond, I get notice of that and a hearing on it, right?
Not here folks! Here you can have a bond hearing in front of one judge who sets bond at X, then another judge can call the jail and raise your bond over the phone to X times 4! We don’t need no stinking due process!!
Some days I really really really love my job. Or, ok, I’ll be honest: Some days this job makes me so angry I feel like I’m going to spontaneously combust b/c the point of doing this job is to be in a position to do something about injustices like this and here I find I’m as helpless as any random dude on the street. Ignorance, bliss, where are you?
In other news, my mom got a scare this week when she started having excruciating and random pain on her scalp and a doctor suggested she might have trigeminal neuralgia. It’s a condition I’d never heard of before, but after a little research it’s clear that having it would be seriously not good. (See also here, here, A few days and another doctor visit later, and there’s reason to hope it’s just some random muscle spasms and no big deal. Keep your fingers crossed.
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