published Jul 22nd 2016, 3:01 pm, by Cass R Sunstein (Bloomberg View) — Many Democrats do not merely disagree with the Republican Party platform and with the speakers at this week’s convention. They may even struggle to understand what they are reading and hearing. That’s a problem for Republican politicians,

On August 11th, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law a bill barring grand juries from deciding on charges in cases involving police use of lethal force.  The thinking behind the bill was that grad juries are often “shrouded in scerecy” and enable prosecutors to escape accountability to the public.