impeachment

Occasionally one hears about how underfunded New Mexico’s public defenders are, but it’s unclear if New Mexico’s system is as bad off as Missouri’s vastly underfunded public defenders. A new report says that state’s criminal justice system is at the “brink of collapse” because of lack of money, the Associated Press reports.

The U.S. Senate started impeachment hearings against Judge Samuel Kent, a federal judge currently serving a term in prison for an obstruction of justice conviction and who has been indicted on charges of sexual abuse against two court employees.