Ethan Brown

News: @garrisonproj will fold its operations into @deepsouthtoday, a nonprofit network of local newsrooms that includes Mississippi Today and Verite News. Enormous thanks to all of my reporters and a 🧵of some of their stories. 1/8 deepsouthtoday.org/2025/08/12/the…

U.S. Supreme Court Oral Argument: Pitchford v. Cain, examining whether a death row inmate waived his right to challenge racial discrimination in jury selection - LIVE online here: c-span.org/event/public-a…

NEW/DEEP DIVE by @davidvoreacos Prosecutor Pushed Her Bosses for Epstein’s Arrest Multiple Times Marie Villafana was ready to charge Jeffrey Epstein with 60 counts of sex trafficking and other crimes in 2007. Her bosses’ reaction: What’s the rush? bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

New story for @BaltimoreBanner: Maryland faces around 12,000 legal claims from people who allege they were sexually abused in the state's juvenile justice system. Lawmakers have not articulated a plan to pay them. #comments-header" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thebanner.com/politics-power…

On March 31, SCOTUS will hear Pitchford's case. It has numerous issues, including jailhouse informants and undisclosed evidence. But at the heart of the case is Mississippi's failure to grapple with its enduring crisis of Black people struck from its juries. 7/7 mississippitoday.org/2026/03/12/mis…

The @MSTODAYnews analysis also found that MS prosecutors struck Black people from juries for "strange hair," a bad "vibe," living in a "high crime area," or claiming (often without evidence) that a Black juror was a "known drug user" or an alcoholic. 6/7 mississippitoday.org/2026/03/12/mis…

A new @MSTODAYnews analysis of criminal appeals considered by the Mississippi Supreme Court between 2015 and 2025 finds that during that period the court hasn’t provided relief in a single claim where strikes of Black jurors were raised. 5/7 mississippitoday.org/2026/03/12/mis…

But relief for Terry Pitchford and other defendants who claimed state prosecutors illegally struck Black people from their juries was elusive. In 2023, Justice Sonia Sotomayor blasted the MS Supreme Court for disregarding the SCOTUS decision in Flowers entirely. 4/7 mississippitoday.org/2026/03/12/mis…

Evans became one of America's most notorious prosecutors+Flowers went to SCOTUS in 2019 where the court decided in his favor. “The State employed its peremptory strikes to remove as many black prospective jurors as possible," wrote Justice Brett Kavanaugh. 3/7 mississippitoday.org/2026/03/12/mis…

From 1997-2014, Evans tried Curtis Flowers for the same murders six times, each time with an all-white or majority-white jury who sentenced him to death. But things seemingly began to change after the popular 2018 podcast about Flowers, "In The Dark." 2/7 mississippitoday.org/2026/03/12/mis…

New: In 2006, Terry Pitchford went to trial in a capital case in Mississippi where prosecutor Doug Evans struck all about one Black juror. Since then, Evans and the state have become notorious for striking Black people from juries+blocking post-conviction relief. 1/7 mississippitoday.org/2026/03/12/mis…

New: Last week, a jailed NYC migrant told me YouTuber Nick Shirley directed ICE to arrest him. He’s just been ordered released by a federal judge, who said ICE “violated their own regulations” in detaining him. courthousenews.com/judges-orders-…

Victory for Afroman over the sheriff's deputies who sued him for defamation and invasion of privacy through false light. "In all circumstances, the jury finds in favor of the defendant. No plaintiff verdict prevailed. So the matter will be concluded with defense verdicts."

I wrote for @bw about the Epstein files and capitalism's credibility problem. Its hard to have faith in business when the world's leading businessmen look so craven, and so dumb. Gift link: bloomberg.com/news/features/…