Links From the Week of 04-12-2026

The Opinion No One Wrote About

Media organizations everywhere are experimenting with new ways to attract audiences. Virality is rewarded. Pithiness is king. Slow, methodical, and expensive investigative journalism is the first on the chopping block to make way for the pivot. The opportunity to do real meaningful reporting is quickly diminishing. So, you would think that, when a ten-page opinion does the work for you and perfectly encapsulates systemic and institutional failures of a government agency, one would quickly jump on reporting it. Rarely do you get a single court document and civil case that explains it so concisely for the public. 

From the linked order (UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

v. JUSTINA MARIA HOLLAND p. 8, "Conclusion" section, emphasis added.):

Nothing seems to move the nation’s federal prison system operators to improve their response to the urgent medical needs of the federal prison population. Court orders go unread or ignored. OIG reports are dismissed, recommendations unheeded. Sanctions brook no change. Outside medical referrals are like Solzhenitsyn’s sick bay in the Soviet Gulag: a coveted but nearly inaccessible refuge for which only prisoners near death qualify for admission. 

h/t Court Watch