Again Justice Antonin Scalia gives reason for a judicial malpractice clause in our Constitution. In a recent interview, this is what Scalia had to say: In 1868, when the 39th Congress was debating and ultimately proposing the 14th Amendment, I don’t think anybody would have thought that equal protection applied to sex discrimination, or certainly […]
For years I have been saying that police officers who break the law not only break the law, but also their oath to enforce it. It’s not just the crime, but the betrayal of public trust that really bothers me. Now we might finally be seeing some equal justice: Four New Orleans police officers could […]
From the Party of Family Values: LEXINGTON – Former state Rep. Steve Nunn had pornographic images of girls between the ages of 10 and 12 on a hard drive recovered after his ex-fiancee was found murdered last fall, a Lexington police detective said Thursday. The external hard drive was found in a box that Nunn, […]
Via Sullivan comes this very interesting map: I would be happy to see us become a green colored nation, but wouldn’t mind becoming blue either. Of course we need more than an abolishment of the death penalty; we also need an entire overhaul of our justice system. When it comes to per populace incarceration rates, […]
Yeah the poor oil company couldn’t afford the 2.5 billion for their disasters spill of the Valdez. Instead they only have to pay $500 million. In other SCOTUS news, no death penalty for child rapists.
While I do not believe these few soldiers represent the greater United States military, I fear that Iraqi’s will not want to distinguish them from their peers as easily: U.S. soldiers stepped outside the law when they murdered three Iraqi detainees “in cold blood,” a prosecutor told a U.S. military hearing on Friday. “U.S. soldiers […]
Now the Republican White House does not like Republican passed laws: An obscure law approved by a Republican-controlled Congress a decade ago has made the Bush administration nervous that officials and troops involved in handling detainee matters might be accused of committing war crimes, and prosecuted at some point in U.S. courts. Senior officials have […]
Our military presence in Iraq is a major problem – period. People try to argue the “stay the course” line over and over again, but look at these stories from today alone: Four more U.S. soldiers have been charged with rape and murder and a fifth with dereliction of duty in the alleged rape-slaying of […]