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Showing posts with label citizens. Show all posts

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Feb 28, 2019 Marijuana legalization bills are advancing in several states fromForbes:    Marijuana legalization advocates came into 20...

Juries Were Supposed To Be Able To Overturn Laws

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by Clay Conrad.     History is clear. The law is unclear on exactly what a jury is. Juries can range from four to 12 members, depending ...

VIDEO: Jury Nullification, Jury Rights & Jury Independence

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Robert Gebelhoff: How Powerful Should Our Juries Be?

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Justice is a result, not just a process.   In 1986, Leroy Reed faced criminal charges he didn’t understand. A mentally disabled ex-convi...

Patients In Pain, And A Doctor Who Must Limit Drugs

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Gov't declares war on pain relief. Susan Kubicka-Welander, a short-order cook, went to her pain checkup appointment straight from the...

It’s Far Past Time To Take Back Our Nation

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by David J. D'Addabbo.    Obama and his global agenda allies are using the media as a propaganda machine to create the Illusion that s...

Jury Nullification Has Long History Of Righting Wrong Laws

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by Frank Parlato.       Because justice is a result, not just a process.  In 1215, when the Barons of England compelled King John to sign ...

Law Enforcement Ranks Terrorists Threats To America

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by Zack Beauchamp.  If you asked law enforcement professionals which extremist movements most threaten America, what would you expect the...

Kate Mather: Good News For Citizens! LAPD Urges Officers To Be Community Guardians, Not Warriors On Crime

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Promoting peace officers rather than robocops.    For years, Los Angeles police officers have worked under the shadow of the department...

The Case Against Jury Nullification -- Rebutted

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by Ilya Somin, Washington Post.      JUSTICE IS A RESULT, not just a process.  In a recent post , co-blogger Orin Kerr offers a thoughtful...

Michigan City Makes The Citizens Pay For Police Brutality

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The beatings will continue until revenue improves.   One time tax hike needed to pay settlement. Think that since you “aren’t breaking ...

John W. Whitehead: The Government Is On The Warpath

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Time for ‘We the People’ to circle the wagons.      In an age of overcriminalization, government officials are constantly telling American...

VIDEO: Walter E Williams - On Immigration

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Rowan Lee: ACLU Releases App To Track & Record Police

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What if citizens required justice? The ACLU has begun to roll out a new program through the form of an app that they call the Mobile Just...

Americans Get It: Record Low Confidence In Government

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by Emily Swanson.       Is the sleeping giant waking up?  Americans' confidence in all three branches of government is at or near reco...

An Innocent Frequent Flyer Detained 23 Hours By TSA

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by Ronnie Polaneczky.       Apparently, working as a supervisor for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) at Philadelphia Inter...

Radley Balko: The Flashbang Menace

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Officer safety always trumps citizen safety. ProPublica has just published a long investigation of the use of flashbang grenades, an i...

The IRS Customer Service Will Be Extra Bad This Year

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by Lori Mongomery.    Taxpayers will face the worst levels of service in more than a decade from the Internal Revenue Service this filing...

Wendy McElroy: The Brain Drain, Gain and Retain

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On incentives, freedom and prosperity.        America is making emigration more difficult and expensive. Last year, for example, the cos...

NYPD On "Strike" And Everybody Is Better Off!

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by Michael Minkoff.     Citizens reap dividends from intra-government squabble. The NYPD Officer Union has called for a semi-limited ...