Showing posts with label due process. Show all posts
Showing posts with label due process. Show all posts

Steve Silverman: 8 Jury Nullification Objections Rebutted

You can't exercise your rights unless you know them.      A recent Chicago Tribune editorial targets a new fully informed jury bill introduced by the New Hampshire House of Representatives. The bill would strengthen the current state law passed in 2012 that allows lawyers “to inform the jury of its right to judge the facts and the      ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: Kangaroo Courts On Campus

Does political correctness trump justice?     There seems to be a full-court press on to get colleges to "do something" about rape on campus. But there seems to be remarkably little attention paid to two crucial facts: (1) rape is a crime and (2) colleges are not qualified to be law-enforcement institutions. Why are rapists not reported to   ... MORE

Supreme Court Decision Signals "Post-Constitution Era"

A chilling effect on investigative reporting.         Pulitzer prize winning reporter Chris Hedges – along with journalist Naomi Wolf, Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, activist Tangerine Bolen and others – sued the government to join the NDAA’s allowance of the indefinite detention of Americans. The trial judge in the      ... MORE

Andrew Napolitano: A Legal Way To Kill?

The president's extra-judicial killings.     When President Obama decided sometime during his first term that he wanted to be able to use unmanned aerial drones in foreign lands to kill people — including Americans — he instructed Attorney General Eric Holder to find a way to make it legal — despite the absolute prohibition on          ... MORE

Civil Asset Forfeiture: 7 Things You Should Know

A Heritage Foundation fact sheet.        Civil asset forfeiture is a legal tool that allows law enforcement officials to seize property that they assert has been involved in certain criminal activity. In fact, the owner of the property doesn’t even need to be guilty of a crime: Civil asset forfeiture proceedings charge the property itself with     ... MORE

The Economist: What Civil Asset Forfeiture Means

Politicians have given police a license to steal.      Kerri Kaley was a sales representative for a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. She and some of her colleagues sometimes received excess or outdated medical devices from their clients, which they then sold, splitting the proceeds among themselves. The government believed this amounted to   ... MORE

Richard Rahn: Abusive Civil Asset Forfeiture

Theft without due process because it's government.    Do you think the Internal Revenue Service and other government agencies should have the right to seize your assets, including your bank accounts, when you have not been convicted of wrongdoing? The fact is, the IRS and other government agencies do this all of the time, and often without   ... MORE

Stephen J. Dunn: The United States Of Tyranny

Turning cops into revenue collectors with badges.      Don’t get me wrong.  I love my country.  The United States is the greatest country on the face of the earth. But the U.S. Department of Justice is executing a civil asset forfeiture program without foundation in law, in shocking violation of entrepreneurs’ civil and constitutional      ... MORE

Ryan Gorman: Mississippi Cops Legally Steal $360,000

Even though no crime was committed.      Police in Mississippi have confiscated almost $365,000 found hidden in the secret compartment of a car. Pulled over July 9 during a routine traffic stop on Interstate 20/59 in Meridian, officers suspected the car was being used for criminal activity and asked for permission to search the car.    ... MORE

Rand Paul: Big Brother Says, 'Open Your Mouth!'

Overreaching government wants your DNA.  The Bill of Rights is and should be popular. It is something most Americans overwhelmingly support. Conservatives love the Second Amendment and honest progressives defend the First Amendment. But it is sometimes harder for the public to embrace and champion the due process of the    ... MORE

Andrew Napolitano: Obama Expands His Power To Kill

While reducing our capacity to defend ourselves.      Does the government work for us, or do we work for the government? How can the president claim the lawful power to kill whomever he wishes and at the same time ask Congress to incapacitate our ability to defend ourselves against those who might seek to kill us? Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul  ... MORE

R. Emmett Tyrell Jr.: Rand Paul Comes Of Age

GOP should recognize this force to be reckoned with.   When Sen. Rand Paul took to the floor of the United States Senate the morning of March 6, he really — as they say — may have made a difference. It is a difference in our awareness of the issues facing the country. It is a difference in our perception of the man who is leading the   ... MORE

Rick Manning: McCain Goes Whacko Bird

A man whose time has gone.   Senator John McCain went all whacko bird to the Huffington Post attacking fellow Republican Senators Rand Paul and Ted Cruz.  His fellow Republican Senators crime was to have had the audacity to actually stand up to power and force the Obama Administration to accept that the U.S. Constitution does not allow the random   ... MORE

Nicole Russell: Rand's Band Of Brothers

The liberty diehards.       Whatever his ideological leanings, surely Shakespeare would have raised an eyebrow at the political scene Wednesday, if only for the content it would have stirred in his creative mind. Though Rand Paul spearheaded an epic 13-hour filibuster, he didn’t fill that time alone. Fourteen other Senators total — including one    ... MORE

VIDEO: Obama, Drones, and Presidential Kill Lists


Rand Paul stands up for American principles.

Rand Paul: Rising In Defense Of The Constitution

Insisting on a meaningful Bill of Rights.   On Wednesday, I rose to begin a filibuster on the nomination of John O. Brennan to be director of the CIA. I stood up with the intent of speaking until I was no longer able to speak. I vowed to speak as long as it took, until an alarm was sounded from coast to coast that our Constitution is important, that our rights to ... MORE

Andrew Napolitano: Obama's Secret Court For Killing

What about the laws he swore to uphold?      President Obama willingly admits he dispatched CIA agents to kill an American and his teenage son and the son's American friend while they were in a desert in Yemen in 2011. He says he did so because the adult had encouraged folks to wage war on the United States and the children were just         ... MORE