We start off this Turkey Day edition of the Abbreviated Pundit Roundup with Kimberly Atkins Stohr of The Boston Globe writing that while the guilty verdicts against Travis McMichael, Greg McMichael, and William “Roddie” Bryan for the murder of Ahmaud Arbery are a start, we still have some distance to go for “full accountability” and “justice.” I am grateful, not only as an American and an attorney who wants to believe that the nation can live up to its ideals of equal justice under the law. I’m relieved as a Black woman who experienced the shared trauma of Arbery’s slaying, which for months last year left me too afraid to continue my regular morning run routine. But if we are ever to form a more perfect union, one that lives up to its ideals that the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness belongs to everyone equally, more justice is needed. That includes full accountability for the inaction by police and prosecutors in Brunswick. The indictment of one former prosecutor, on one count of violating her oath of office and hindering a law enforcement officer, is a good start. Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr said his department would “continue to investigate in order to pursue justice.” Let’s hold him to that. Also, state and federal courts need to review and revise their procedures for ensuring that there are actual teeth in rules barring jurors from being stricken from juries on the basis of race. It’s the black-letter law, but without a sufficient enforcement mechanism, the law is meaningless. Read more