Grits for Breakfast

Debates around the Texas George Floyd Act have revived discussions of accountability in drug enforcement that first arose two decades ago fo...

The justice system can be difficult to understand for experts and darn near impossible for laypeople. Grits believes that's in part beca...

After a three-month hiatus while your correspondent underwent throat-cancer treatment, here's the May 2020 episode of Just Liberty's...

The new 2019 annual statistical report for the Texas Office of Court Administration provides these broad datapoints about the Texas crimina...

Arresting drug dealers was never a winning Drug War strategy because, as long as demand existed, there was always a willing supplier ready t...

Texas has botched its response to the opioid epidemic six ways from Sunday. First, Gov. Greg Abbott vetoed a bill passed by the Texas Legi...

Here's the June 2019 episode of Just Liberty's Reasonably Suspicious  podcast: In this month's episode: Top Stories ...

"The no-knock warrants are going to go away like leaded gasoline in this city," declared Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo at a tow...

Four officers were shot and two suspects and their dog are dead after a botched narcotics raid in Houston. Friends and family of the decease...

The Texas Forensic Science Commission has completed its legislatively mandated report on the validity of field tests for controlled substanc...

Following Oklahoma's lead , Ohio appears poised to reduce penalties for low-level drug possession (not dealing) at the ballot box. See ...

At the Texas House Corrections Committee hearing this morning, meeting jointly with the Criminal Jurisprudence Committee, Rep. Matt Schaefe...

While your correspondent was on a much-needed vacation, the Houston Chronicle's indefatigable Keri Blakinger published a story updating...

Grits has written how Texas' drug-overdose problem related to meth and other stimulants is a bigger challenge here than the opioid cri...

Texas legislators continue to discuss the wrong problems when it comes to addiction and overdoses, focusing on opiod overdoses and fentany...

Having produced a special podcast promoting #cjreform planks in the Texas state GOP party platform, it's only fair that Just Liberty re...

Responding to misplaced attention by Texas legislators and law-enforcement leaders on opiods, Grits had pointed out  earlier this year that...

Does God have a Texas accent? Mandy Marzullo and I address this and other pressing questions on the latest edition (May 2018) of Just Libert...

The new Annual Statistical Report on the Texas Judiciary from the Office of Court Administration is out. Grits took a quick look at the d...

The Texas Smart on Crime Coalition released a new poll today, let's review the highlights. The most impressive finding in their sur...