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Timothy Howard
Long before his name became synonymous with the modern legal thriller, he was working 60-70 hours a week at a small Southaven, Mississippi, law practice, squeezing in time before going to the office and during courtroom recesses to work on his hobby—writing his first novel.
Born on February 8, 1955 in Jonesboro, Arkansas, to a construction worker and a homemaker, John Grisham as a child dreamed of being a professional baseball player. Realizing he didn’t have the right stuff for a pro career, he shifted gears and majored in accounting at Mississippi State University. After graduating from law school at Ole Miss in 1981, he went on to practice law for nearly a decade in Southaven, specializing in criminal defense and personal injury litigation. In 1983, he was elected to the state House of Representatives and served until 1990.
One day at the DeSoto County courthouse, Grisham overheard the harrowing testimony of a twelve-year-old rape victim and was inspired to st
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Howard saw policies implemented by New York State to stop the spread of Covid-19 as unconstitutional. “My outrage at that was tremendous,” he said of efforts to restrict the size of gatherings during the pandemic. “The government could not control what we do in our homes. Our whole history of our country is against that … for the government to säga you cannot gather and shut down churches, this is a First Amendment issue. During the Christian Holy Day of Easter, they were actually saying you could not have gatherings in your church. That does not sound like a free country. It sounds very much like a communist country.”
When The New Republic asked him to explain what he meant by “communist,” he conceded that he didn’t quite know. “It’s a good thing you said it, because communism, socialism, it all gets to be confusing,” he said. “But if we talked about a monarchy or oligarchy or democracy, it’s misleading that we think that we’re a democratic nation because we believe in democracy.
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The 10 Worst Sheriffs in America
In a job with virtually no oversight, abuse of power runs amok
by Nicole Audrey Spector
Sure, the president of the United States wields immense power, as does the average member of the Senate and House of Representative, but when it comes to unchecked lawlessness, abuse of authority and corruption, they’ve got nothing over the county sheriff. The sheriff theoretically works for the people of the state—not the state’s commissioners. He or she (the role is heavily male-dominated, so going forward we’ll just say “he”) doesn’t answer to the county government, but rather, works in concert with it. Just as the people of the country elect its president, the people of the county elect its sheriff. The only exceptions to this rule are Hawaii and Rhode Island, which have statewide law enforcement agencies appoint their sheriffs instead of voting them in. Even more untraditional are Alaska and Connecticut: t