Emil Guillermo, 06/27/12

Award-winning journalist and commentator; author, 'Amok: Essays from an Asian American Perspective'

With the arrival this month of the 30th anniversary of the murder -- and after writing about the case for years -- I felt the need to hear Ebens express his sorrow with my own ears, so that I could put the case behind me. So I called him up, and he talked to me.

Nancy Parrish, 06/27/12

President, Protect Our Defenders

There is a crisis in our military and, while Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has done more than his predecessors in acknowledging the crisis, he is fundamentally failing to fix the problem. So today our veterans are going to our nation's capital to demand change.

Ellen Magnis, 06/26/12

Chief of External Affairs, Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center

Now that the national consciousness has been raised around this issue, a common question is, why do they do it? What happened to Sandusky and others like him who took the path of such cruelty?

Nkechi Taifa, Esq., 06/26/12

Senior policy analyst, Open Society Foundations

Despite improvements by Congress, the Sentencing Commission, the Department of Justice and the Supreme Court, the fight for fairness and justice in crack cocaine sentencing is not over.

Paul Heroux, 06/27/12

Public Policy and Administration Consultant

Bogus and false arrests happen. Most people are quick to judge until someone they know and care about screws up and is on the wrong side of the law. When that happens, you'll want that person to receive fair treatment, and for fair justice to run its course, even if the person is guilty.

Ed Sayres, 06/26/12

President, ASPCA

While these 50 dogs will never fight again, our goal is to ensure that dog fighting is eliminated across the country. We are working toward that goal on several fronts.

Scott Morgan, 06/25/12

Associate Editor, StoptheDrugWar.org

It's worth repeating that the person who is literally in charge of stopping everyone from taking drugs is somehow incapable of explaining to us the difference between the various drugs we shouldn't be taking.

Meryl Ain, Ed.D., 06/27/12

Your Education Doctor

As parents and educators, we have to stop being reverent, diffident and polite, and learn to be vigilant in regard to children's welfare and safety.

David Coleman, 06/24/12

Public Defender (Ret.) and Adjunct Law Professor

As the trial wound down to its inevitable conclusion, Jerry Sandusky's attorney Joe Amendola topped all his prior gaffes and professional missteps with his comments about the inevitability of a guilty verdict.

Sec. Hilda Solis, 06/25/12

U.S. Secretary of Labor

We know -- historically -- that young people face challenges finding that first job opportunity. For those with juvenile records, the challenges of entering the workforce can be especially great.

John W. Whitehead, 06/25/12

Attorney and Author

If you're dark-haired, brown-skinned and have the misfortune of living in Arizona in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in State of Arizona v. United States of America, get ready to be stopped, searched and questioned.

Bob Cowser, 06/25/12

English Professor, St. Lawrence University

Reilly's implication that we want prisoners to continue to mete out street justice while locked up sends a mixed message of the worst kind. Let's not set these men up for failure by implying that violence is acceptable, expected, and that they're good for nothing else.

Howard Meitiner, 06/25/12

President and CEO, Phoenix House

I applaud politicians like New Jersey Governor Chris Christie who have recognized the need to invest in halfway houses and other treatment programs versus prisons. That being said, a treatment program is only viable as an alternative to incarceration if it lives up to its promise.

David Leopold, 06/25/12

General Counsel and Past President, American Immigration Lawyers Association

The Court's ruling makes it crystal clear that America stands for the greater principles of equal treatment and non-discrimination, and racial profiling is unconstitutional and won't be tolerated.

Jim Luce, 06/25/12

James Jay Dudley Luce Foundation

Recently I was surprised to meet Miss America following her rousing speech on the rights of prisoners and their families to a particularly well-heeled crowd at the church-turned-ballroom known as 583 Park Avenue.

David R. Ginsburg, 06/24/12

Executive Director, UCLA School of Law’s Entertainment, Media, and Intellectual Property Law

Recent weeks have seen much attention to an aggressive dispute between CBS and ABC over a pair of "reality" television shows. What motivates the relentless attempts by reality TV plaintiffs to seek injunctive and damage relief that courts are simply not granting?

Radley Balko, 06/22/12

Senior Writer and Investigative Reporter, The Huffington Post

We're now about halfway through 2012, and this year is on pace to be the safest ever for America's police officers. Oddly, no one is reporting it.