Baltimore Attorneys Reviewing 2,000 Cases Where Police Secretly Used Phone Tracking Devices On Petty Criminals
by Wils Robinson. Lawyers in Baltimore are challenging almost 2,000 criminal cases where police secretly used cell phone tracking devices. Defense attorneys will reportedly ask the judge to 'throw out' a number of the cases where cops tracked down a suspect with stingray and reopen a 'large number' of others. It is a device that acts as a cellphone ... MOREMan Jailed Over $5 Theft For Months Without Bail Dies
by Jon Swaine. Jailer says 24-year-old died of natural causes. A young black man arrested by police in Portsmouth, Virginia, has been found dead in jail after spending almost four months behind bars without bail for stealing groceries worth $5. Jamycheal Mitchell, who had mental health problems, was discovered lying on the floor of his cell by guards ... MORE
Orwellian Justice Upholds NSA Spying on Americans: Court of Appeals Upholds Unconstitutional Mass Surveillance
by Stephen Lendman. Virtually unrestricted NSA data mining tramples on Fourth Amendment rights brazenly. In December 2013, Federal District Court of the District of Columbia Judge Richard Leon ruled NSA spying unconstitutional, saying: The threshold issue is whether plaintiffs have a reasonable expectation of privacy that is violated when the ... MORESWAT Raids, 'No-Knocks' On Rise In Frequency And Profile
By Brad Petrishen. Exploiting the legal monopoly on violence. A 7-year-old girl shot in the head and killed while sleeping in her Detroit home. A 1-year-old boy permanently disfigured in Georgia by a flashbang grenade that landed in his crib. Closer to home, a 68-year-old grandfather of 12 shot and killed inside his house in Framingham while ... MOREJudge Blocks Federal Power Grab Over State Waters
by Stephen Dinan. “Inexplicable, arbitrary and devoid of a reasoned process” President Obama’s push to extend the EPA’s
regulatory hand to ditches and small streams to enforce clean water
rules was blocked Thursday by a federal judge, who said the
administration had overstepped its bounds in trying yet another end run
around Congress. Judge ... MOREThe Next Front In The War On Religious Freedom
by David Harsanyi. Stop bellyaching about Washington. All the country's best fascists are on your local city council. Not long ago, Colorado became a leader in the fight against religious freedom, when its Civil Rights Commission, self-appointed ministers of justice and theology, decided that a shopkeeper who refuses to participate in a gay ... MOREFBI Investiges Whether Hillary Breached The Espionage Act
by Catherine Herridge & Pamela Brown. The latest spy-thriller-worthy plot point in the ongoing real-life drama
over Hillary Clinton's exclusive use of a privately run email account
comes via Fox News, which reports, via an anonymous source, that: An FBI "A-team" is leading the "extremely serious" investigation into
Hillary Clinton's server and ... MOREBoston Gun Buyback Program Nets One Firearm This Year
by Matt Vespa. According to the Associated Press, over 400 firearms were turned over during Boston's Your Piece for Peace gun buyback program last year. Recipients received a $200 Visa gift card for their participation. Boston Police say this initiative never ended, but the number of guns turned in has dropped due to lack of publicity. As non- ... MOREJudge Tells IRS It Can’t Hide White House Emails
by Mark Tapscott. White House emails to the IRS about individual tax returns cannot be
exempted by the embattled agency under the Freedom of Information Act, a
federal judge ruled Friday. United States District Court for the District of Columbia Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled that
Section 6103 of the tax code does not justify the IRS from ... MOREJohn W. Whitehead: The Raping Of America
Mile markers on the road to fascism.“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”—Martin Luther King Jr. There’s an ill will blowing across the country. The economy is tanking. The people are directionless, and politics provides no answer. And like former regimes, the militarized police have stepped up ... MOREBob Knudsen: Denver Police Display Contempt For The Law As They Ignore Court Order To Stop Harassing Protesters
Police State America: Court unable to restrain cops. Prominent Colorado civil rights attorney David Lane is asking for a federal court to hold Denver
Police Chief Robert White in contempt of court following the
dismantling of protester tents outside of the Lindsey-Flanigan
Courthouse near downtown. The dismantling occurred on August 27, two ... MOREA PC Guide To This Year’s Political Correctness Debates
by David Lightman. Is it racist to call rioters thugs? Donald Trump’s war against what he calls political correctness has
helped fuel his summer surge -- and spark a fierce new debate over how
far politicians can go. “I think the big problem this country has
is being politically correct,” Trump, the Republican presidential
front-runner, said at the candidates’ ... MOREDonna Carol Voss: Gun Control Drives Me Crazy
Murderers and weapons will always exist. Gun control drives me crazy. I’m willing to consider any logical
argument, but gun control is so untethered from reality that it makes me
hyperventilate just thinking about it. It is reality that people are killed by guns every day. The reporter and photograhper who were gunned down
on live TV are only ... MOREDenver Concedes Distributing Jury Nullification Pamphlets Near A Courthouse Is Constitutionally Protected Speech
by Jacob Sullum. But, it still won't drop charges against those arrested for doing so. Yesterday a federal judge in Denver issued
a preliminary injunction protecting the First Amendment rights of
activists who want to distribute jury nullification pamphlets outside
the Lindsey-Flanigan Courthouse. Two activists, Mark Iannicelli and Eric Brandt,
did ... MORE
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