The case against mandatory minimums. I, like anyone else, whether a member of Congress or a parent, am concerned with the well-being of our children. We all want to keep our families and our communities safe. We want to see violent predators and criminals put behind bars and punished for the harm they do to others and to. ... MORE
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Sen. Rand Paul: Minimizing Authority Of Judges
The case against mandatory minimums. I, like anyone else, whether a member of Congress or a parent, am concerned with the well-being of our children. We all want to keep our families and our communities safe. We want to see violent predators and criminals put behind bars and punished for the harm they do to others and to. ... MOREJacob Sullum: Plead Guilty Or Go To Prison For Life
The injustice of mandatory minimums. Chris Williams, a Montana medical marijuana grower, faces at least five years in federal prison when he is sentenced on February 1. The penalty seems unduly severe, especially because his business openly supplied marijuana to patients who were allowed to use it under state law. Yet five years is a ... MOREJacob G. Hornberger: Drug-War Tyranny In Its Purest Form
Government is efficient at ruining lives. Stephanie George, who is now 42 years old, has spent the last 15 years of her life in jail. That might turn out to be a short period of time, given that her sentence is life without parole. She has no hope of ever being released from jail. Her crime? Living in a house in which her boyfriend maintained a ... MOREThere Is A Snitch Riding In Your Car With You
Black boxes in cars raise privacy concerns. Many motorists don’t know it, but it’s likely that every time they get behind the wheel, there’s a snitch along for the ride. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Friday proposed long-delayed regulations requiring auto manufacturers to include event data recorders — better known as “black boxes” — ... MOREIsaiah Thompson: The Philly Cash Machine
The Philly D.A. has a license to steal. When Philadelphia Police officers stopped Dwayne Marks as he was driving north on Broad Street near Temple University last year, Marks says he wasn’t particularly worried. Marks, who is a black man in his late 30s from East Mount Airy, has faced drug charges in the past — but he’s straightened up, ... MOREObama's Benghazi Scapegoat Gets A Year Of Prison
Politically incorrect speech trumps free speech. The filmmaker behind an anti-Islam YouTube video that was initially blamed for sparking deadly protests in the Muslim world admitted today violating his probation and was sentenced to a year in federal prison. Mark Basseley Youssef, 55, who previously used the name Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, admitted ... MOREConrad Black: Blind Justice
Justice is blind, just not in the way it was intended. An article in the Wall Street Journal last week having pointed out that 97 percent of U.S. criminal prosecutions are now guilty-plea bargains, and that 85 percent of the remaining 3 percent are trials that return guilty verdicts, I return to the spavined bête noire of the justice system. These are totalitarian ... MORETed Nugent: Crimes Against Gibson Guitars
Uncle Sam is Uncle Sham. My all-American sonic-bombast weapon of choice for 50 years has been those world-class pieces of musical art, the mighty Gibson guitar. I own a stunning arsenal of them. It wouldn’t surprise me if some Fedzillastooge from Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.’s Department of Gunrunning Injustice will try to tell us American ... MOREJury Nullification Can Highlight Flaws In The Law
Lou Rom: Jury Nullification In The Roger Clemens Verdict?
Perhaps a protest against minutia. The Rocket launched another unbelievable shutout Monday, leaving federal prosecutors holding their bats in disbelief at the end of a costly, drawn-out perjury trial. A day after the verdict, the consensus is that Clemens' acquittal doesn't mean he's innocent, but rather that the jury was unconvinced of his guilt ... MORE
Ethan Nadelmann: Obama's Hypocritical War On Marijuana
Good for ye, but not for me. A forthcoming biography on President Obama is making headlines, with new details about the president smoking marijuana with his teenage friends in Hawaii. David Maraniss' book, Barack Obama: The Story, describes Obama as a marijuana enthusiast: "When a joint was making the rounds, he often elbowed his way in, out of turn ... MOREThis Memorial Day, Freedom Is Dying Before Our Very Eyes
by Andrew Napolitano. What if Memorial Day reminds us of times when we had more freedom? What if freedom is dying right under our eyes? What if the memory of the past is more fulfilling than the reality of the present? What if the federal government could write any law, regulate any behavior and tax any event, no matter what the Constitution ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: What Constitutes A Fair Trial?
Hard questions and inconvenient truths. The trial of the alleged masterminds of 9/11, which began last week at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will address some of the most profound issues of our era. Are natural rights truly inalienable, as Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence, or can the government take them ... MOREPaul J Larkin Jr: How Well Do You Know The Law?
Overcriminalization in America. You’ve been invited to participate on a new game show called Do You Know the Law? Two wrong answers eliminate you. “Why not?” you say to yourself. “I know as much law as the next person. What’s the worst that could happen: embarrassment?” The first panelist correctly answers the question, “Can you steal your neighbor’s car?” ... MORER B Parrish: Supremes Uphold Your Right To Be Framed
"A prosecutor ... may receive absolute immunity from suit for acts violating the Constitution in order to advance important societal values." -Elena Kagan, Solicitor General, 2009 After the Civil War, Congress passed several civil rights laws, including one allowing anyone whose said rights had been violated to sue those ... MORESteve Chapman: A Bribery Ban Backfires
Choosing feeling good over doing good. Until 1977, there was no country that criminalized the practice of bribery abroad. But that year, President Jimmy Carter signed a law making the United States the very first. In due course, this measure eliminated corruption from every nation where our corporations operate. Yes, it did—right after Carter got a ... MOREBenjamin Weiser: Jury Statute Not Violated Rules Judge
A victory for the cause of jury nullification. The next time the 80-year-old retired chemistry professor takes his protest to the plaza outside the federal courthouse in Manhattan, he may make it home without being locked up. A federal judge on Thursday ordered the dismissal of an indictment against the professor, Julian P. Heicklen, who had been ... MOREThomas Sowell - What Is 'Racist'?
Of race, lies and media. Whatever the ultimate outcome of the case against George Zimmerman for his shooting of Trayvon Martin, what has happened already is enough to turn the stomach of anyone who believes in either truth or justice. An amazing proportion of the media has given us a painful demonstration of the thinking — and lack of thinking — that ... MORE
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