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• Meet Your Next Attorney General
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• Lawyers interviewed should be from the state that is in question
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• The legal system as horse-sh-t . . . laws are wild cards in the games of lawyers . .
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• rule of law?!
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• Dr. Rachel Maddow's best seller, DRIFT
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• the farm crisis
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• Police and the public
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• It’s not centrism
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• Corporate Welfare:
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• Super-Centers Are Leaving Part-Time Workers To Fend For Themselves

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  Walmart, our nation's largest retailer, is cutting some 30,000 part-time employee's health care benefits, due to the rising costs for the company.
• Labor Day Milestone: Fair Labor Wasn't A Standard Until 1938

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  It's standard in today's American workplace to work 8 hours a day, 40 hours a week. But did you ever wonder where they came up with those numbers in the first place? The short answer, labor unions lobbied Congress for decades until The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 was signed into law by President Franklin Roosevelt.
• Raise The Minimum Wage to 1968 Standards, It's Only Fair

  Apr 21 2014

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  In the last two State of the Union addresses by President Barack Obama, the raising of the minimum wage has been brought up. Obama urged the nation to vote on and be in support of proposed legislation that would raise the minimum wage from the national level that it is now at $7.25/hour to a more reasonable sum of $9.00/hr in his 2013 address, and $10.00/hour in his 2014 address.

• Study: Most States Have No Black Prosecutors, and Most District Attorneys...Study: Most States Have No Black Prosecutors, and Most District Attorneys...
  	Tue Jul 07, 2015 | theatlantic.com It’s no mistake that the most enduring fictional prosecutors are white guys—whether they’re dignified older men like Jack McCoy or hotheaded, handsome younger ones like Dan...

• The Echo ChamberThe Echo Chamber
  	Mon Dec 08, 2014 | reuters.com On a March morning in 2011, lawyer Ted Boutrous approached the lectern at the U.S. Supreme Court. Boutrous represented the world’s largest retailer, Wal-Mart, in one of the...

• A prominent legal expert eviscerates the Darren Wilson prosecution, in 8 t...A prominent legal expert eviscerates the Darren Wilson prosecution, in 8 t...
  	Tue Nov 25, 2014 | vox.com Following the grand jury decision in Ferguson, Missouri, prominent lawyer and MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Bloom argued on Twitter that St. Louis County prosecutors did a bad...

• Obama expected to pick Loretta Lynch for AGObama expected to pick Loretta Lynch for AG
  	Fri Nov 07, 2014 | cnn.com Loretta Lynch, the U.S. attorney in Brooklyn, is expected to be President Barack Obama's pick for Attorney General, U.S. officials briefed on the matter told CNN. An...

• Law Schools and the Legal One Per CentLaw Schools and the Legal One Per Cent
  	Thu Nov 06, 2014 | newyorker.com After every recession since the Second World War, the legal profession swiftly and robustly recovered. Not this time. The market for lawyers shrank following the post-2008...

• Brooklyn Prosecutor Could Be Nominated Attorney General In Coming DaysBrooklyn Prosecutor Could Be Nominated Attorney General In Coming Days
  	Thu Nov 06, 2014 | npr.org Two sources familiar with the process tell NPR that Loretta Lynch, the top prosecutor in Brooklyn, could be nominated by President Obama as attorney general in the coming...

• The Senate Decides Being A Lawyer Disqualifies You From Holding A Legal Po...The Senate Decides Being A Lawyer Disqualifies You From Holding A Legal Po...
  	Wed Mar 05, 2014 | huffingtonpost.com Lawyers hoping for a political appointment in the future, take note: the U.S. Senate is now judging attorneys based on their representation of politically unpopular...

• U.S. Attorney's Office Confirms It Is Looking Into Bridge ScandalU.S. Attorney's Office Confirms It Is Looking Into Bridge Scandal
  	Thu Jan 09, 2014 | talkingpointsmemo.com The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey confirmed to TPM on Thursday that it was evaluating whether federal laws were broken in the George Washington...

• Who is Loretta Lynch?Who is Loretta Lynch?
  	Fri Nov 07, 2014 Jeffrey Toobin, a former colleague of Loretta Lynch, has more about the woman who could be the next...

• International ATM Cyber Hackers Hid 'in Plain S...International ATM Cyber Hackers Hid 'in Plain S...
  	Fri May 10, 2013 The global network of thieves who targeted ATMs struck 2,904 machines over 10 hours in New York alone,...