In the News: A Brief History of Judges Not Giving a Shit About Disabled Veterans

PPP’s own Steve Kennedy writes for Balls & Strikes:

It’s simple: Courts—not only Supreme Court justices, but also the federal district and appeals court judges below them—have a long history of caring more about making the rules simpler for the VA than about supporting suffering veterans. […] In each of these cases, a web of legalese and abstractions obscures the reality that the veterans involved had been suffering from their injuries for years, abandoned by the government that caused them. They are the product of a Supreme Court that has shown again and again that it simply does not care about doing justice.

Read more in Balls & Strikes.