Word: states
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...hours. Bush had some political cover because even a few of the bill's supporters pulled back with concerns about giving county commissioners too much power to select the lawyers. But the front-running G.O.P. presidential candidate could still find himself embroiled in a debate about the sorry state of indigent defense, not just in Texas but in the rest of the U.S. as well. For one thing, the Supreme Court will consider later this year whether to tighten the standard for legal competency, after hearing a case involving bungled defense work on behalf of a convicted Virginia murderer with...
...pounding his head against the wall of campaign-finance reform. So far, his efforts have been thwarted by his Republican colleagues in Congress. But this week McCain will launch the battle from a different perch, in a campaign speech at the old town hall in Bedford, N.H., the state holding the first presidential primary...
Texas' reputation as a state without tender mercies for the accused is nowhere more apparent than in how it deals with defendants too poor to hire lawyers. They are provided with appointed counsel, but the competency of these lawyers, the rates they are paid and the speed with which they are assigned have shocked even impartial criminal-justice experts...
...Lack of funds is the first and foremost reason we have the situation we do," says Stephen Bright, who heads Atlanta's Southern Center for Human Rights. State public defenders and court-appointed lawyers typically make less than other lawyers--sometimes less than the minimum wage. Alabama's legislature last year voted an increase in the $1,000 top fee for lawyers handling death-penalty cases only to have the Governor veto it. In New York fees are actually shrinking; the state's chief judge recently reduced fees for lawyers representing death-penalty cases...
...waiting for him to slip up. He'll also face political challenges at home--most notably from the elected President of Kosovo, Ibrahim Rugova, and from newspaper publisher Veton Surroi. Still, the U.S. has anointed him, at least temporarily, as its man. On a visit to Pristina last week, State Department spokesman Jamie Rubin took Thaci for a highly public cup of coffee at a well-known downtown cafe. And in a busy week last week, the U.S. and NATO began putting Thaci through what some were calling "democracy school," educating him about everything from elections (he was out kissing...