Halt the tax agency’s partisan scheming. After revelations that the Internal Revenue Service was restricting political speech and targeting conservative and tea party groups, John Koskinen was appointed to head the agency, promising reform and transparency. These promises never came to fruition. Instead of admitting fault, Mr. Koskinen’s IRS ... MORE
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Alexander Hendrie: Impeach IRS chief John Koskinen
Halt the tax agency’s partisan scheming. After revelations that the Internal Revenue Service was restricting political speech and targeting conservative and tea party groups, John Koskinen was appointed to head the agency, promising reform and transparency. These promises never came to fruition. Instead of admitting fault, Mr. Koskinen’s IRS ... MOREEminent Domain: A Million Homes Taken Since Kelo
by Mark A. Calabria, CATO. It has been just over a decade since the Supreme Court decided in Kelo v. New London that local governments can take private property by eminent domain under a very broad reading of “public use”. Cato held an event earlier this year to examine the legal impact of Kelo, featuring remarks from George Mason Law ... MOREPolice State America 2016: The Case Of An Unarmed Teen Who Flashed His Brights At A Cop And Ended Up Shot Dead
See the video from the police cruiser. The family of an unarmed teenager shot dead by a sheriff's deputy during a Michigan traffic stop in February has filed a federal wrongful death lawsuit alleging that the officer's "entire course of action was illegal." The lawsuit, filed Wednesday against Eaton County Sheriff's Sgt. Jonathan Frost and the county, ... MOREHillary Knows Civil Liberties And Executive-Power Abuse Only Matters When Republicans Run The White House
by Matt Welch. Hillary Clinton is nothing if not responsive to the changing winds of
Democratic Party opinion. As CNN's Anderson Cooper succinctly put it to
her in the very first question of last week's Democratic presidential debate,
"You were against same-sex marriage. Now you're for it. You defended
President Obama's immigration policies. ... MORE
Shaun King: Police State Torture - Savannah-Style
The cover-up of a man tortured to death in state custody. It is now abundantly clear that Matthew Ajibade was murdered by police
in Savannah, Georgia. For over 10 months, police and prosecutors have
concealed the video evidence of his murder not only from the public, but
from Ajibade's closest friends and family members. His death in ... MOREThe Worst Cases Of Police Brutality In September
by Jess Colarossi. And they talk about a "war on cops." During the first week of September, police killed more civilians than the total number of police officers killed so far this year. By the end of the month, 99 people were killed, according to the Killed By Police database. At least 77 of them were shot and killed. The Guardian reports that 873 people have ... MORERobby Soave: Man Jailed For Traffic Ticket Dies In Cell After 17 Days of Torture - Officers Watched It Happen
In the state's custody. It was a death sentence. David Stojcevski, a 32-year-old resident of Roseville, Michigan, was arrested for failing to pay a $772 fine stemming from careless driving. A court ordered him to spend a month in the Macomb County jail. Over the next 17 days of his incarceration in a brightly lit cell—where he was denied clothing ... MORENorth Carolina Teen Prosecuted For Taking Naked Selfie
by Tara Culp-Ressler. Gov't figures a little prison time should fix him. A 17-year-old in North Carolina struck a plea deal last week to avoid serving jail time on felony sex offender charges. His crime? Taking a nude photo of himself. The photo in question was discovered when the teenager’s cell phone was searched during a wider investigation ... MORERobert Verbruggen: Donald Trump And Eminent Domain
A brief history. In a free market, there’s a pretty simple process for dealing with the situation that arises when one person covets another’s belongings: The coveter makes an offer to purchase them. If the offer is rebuffed, the coveter can make a new proposal, but he cannot simply take what he wants. It’s an effective way of recognizing the ... MORECops Allow Police Dog To Maul Handcuffed Man’s Face
Those who enforce, but do not abide. In a terrifying witness video uploaded to Facebook early Monday morning, Delray Beach police are seen surrounding a handcuffed man and allowing their police dog to maul his face outside a South Florida bar. “I’m usually not the one to post about the police of police brutality, but after what I witness tonight ... MOREVideo Of NYPD Officer's Assault On Tennis Star James Blake
Cops caught in the act of being themselves. Surveillance videotape released by the New York Police Department shows Officer James Frascatore ambushing tennis star James Blake in what appears to be a startling, illegal arrest. Frascatore has been sued four times for excessive force in the past. Missing from the surveillance tape, released on ... MOREAsher-Schapiro & Owen: The People Who Police The Police
Requiring adherence to the law as well as enforcement. Jose LaSalle always told his stepson Alvin: "Watch the cops." So when three undercover NYPD officers stopped Alvin on the street, grabbed his book bag, and twisted his arm, the 16 year old didn't fight back. Instead, he hit Record on his phone and asked the police why they were giving ... MORE
‘Stop F*cking Crying', Demands Cop Holding Naked Woman And Children At Gunpoint After Raiding Wrong Apartment
by Travis Gettys. Public masters or public servants? Police terrorized a naked woman and her children at gunpoint last week during a no-knock raid on the wrong apartment. Marianne Diaz said she was awakened about 5:30 a.m. Wednesday by SWAT officers knocking down the door to her Worcester, Massachusetts, apartment as officers wearing ... MORECaptured, Cuffed, and Jailed: A Personal Story
by Jeffrey Tucker. A must read. It was a lovely day otherwise but, for me, most of it was spent in jail. From one minute to the next, I went from seemingly free to cuffed and captured. Anyone who has ever experienced such a thing knows exactly what I mean. If you haven’t experienced it, I hope you never do. It might be best described as a loss of ... MOREHow Helicoptered Kids Become Hypersensitive Students
by Lenore Skenazy. Creating the scaredy cat generation. This is the article everyone’s talking about: “The Coddling of the American Mind,” by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, on the cover of this month’s Atlantic.
It discusses the idea taking root on college campuses that students
cannot be exposed to ideas, words, or phrases that ... MOREGeoff Henley: How U.S. Laws Foster Police Brutality
Unreasonable force is sadly not the question. Pervasive police brutality will persist far longer than the public suspects. Why? The answer is simple: the law allows it. Under Graham v. Connor,
the Supreme Court requires that Fourth Amendment excessive force claims
be analyzed from the officer’s perspective during the incident. Judges
are not ... MORETim Cushing: Getting Behind The Wheel Is Pretty Much Kissing Your 4th Amendment Protections Goodbye
Cars are for criminals. There's been more good news than bad concerning the Fourth Amendment
recently. In addition to the Supreme Court's ruling that searches of
cellphones incident to arrest now require a warrant, various circuit court decisions on cell site location info
and the surreptitious use of GPS tracking devices may see the nation's ... MOREJames Queally: Why The Police Killing Of This Unarmed White Man Has Not Provoked A National Media Outcry
Black lives matter, but ... Zachary Hammond, an unarmed white 19-year-old, was in the middle of a seemingly routine vehicle stop in South Carolina last week when a police officer fatally shot him. Police have said the officer fired in self-defense during a drug sting, but a subsequent autopsy seems to counter the officer’s claim that Hammond ... MOREPolice Union: No 'Just Cause' For Firing Ray Tensing, The Ohio Campus Cop Who Shot And Killed An Unarmed Man
Keeping murderers on the force. Although former University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing faces murder charges
for shooting and killing Samuel DuBose as the man tried to drive away
from a traffic stop over a missing front license plate, Tensing believes
he ought to have his job—which provided him with a firearm and the
authority to ... MOREJeff Sharlet: An L.A. Cop Pressed His Gun Into The Chest Of An Unarmed Man And Shot Him Through The Heart
Will it matter to the LA district attorney? Five months after the March 1 Los Angeles police killing of an unarmed
black man named Charly "Africa" Keunang—a story I reported in-depth for
the July issue of GQ—the
Los Angeles coroner has finally released the results of its autopsy.
They are profoundly disturbing. Two of the six bullets that killed
Charly ... MORE
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