On July 1, 2024, a date which may live in infamy, an out-of-control Supreme Court issued a ruling that shields presidents from criminal liability for anything that can remotely be deemed an “official act.” The ruling appears to give White House occupants a license to murder political opp[...]
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June 30th, 2024 - 8:06 pm § in Biden, Democrats, Donald Trump, Hypocrisy, Law and Courts, Politics, Republicans
J. D. Vance suggests only Republican presidents have immunity
Sen. J. D. Vance (R-OH; photo, left) is a Yale-educated lawyer, but not a Supreme Court justice, so he make the rules. Which is just as well, because he has a funny idea of what the rules should be. Appearing on “Face the Nation,” a Sunday talk show, Vance declared “he believes pr[...]
June 29th, 2024 - 9:10 pm § in Law and Courts
Was he born a killer, or did being a cop turn him into one?
Jeffrey Nelson (photos left and below), while working as a police officer in Auburn, Washington, killed 3 people in 8 years. All 3 were shot in the forehead. A jury convicted Nelson of murder and assault for the last of those shootings, which occurred in 2019, on June 27, 2024. Jurors weren’t [...]
June 28th, 2024 - 8:23 pm § in Law and Courts
Senior citizen arrested for looking into squad cars gets $250K
Actually, that’s not all Mick Heikkola, age 70, did; when a plainclothes cop asked what he was doing, Heikkola dropped an F-bomb on him. That’s never a good idea when dealing with cops, even though it’s protected by the First Amendment, but in Heikkola’s defense he didn’[...]
June 28th, 2024 - 5:32 pm § in Law and Courts
Clarence Thomas wants to make addiction a crime
Justice Clarence Thomas is truly living in the 16th century. Now part of a Supreme Court conservative majority dragging American law backwards by overturning various precedents reflecting social progress, Thomas signaled in a recent decision he wants to reinstate status crimes. The court didn’[...]
June 27th, 2024 - 8:14 pm § in Law and Courts
Is Judgment Day coming for the Sacklers?
This family made billions of dollars by selling OxyContin, the addictive painkiller that hooked millions of Americans. Wikipedia says (here), “They have been described as the “most evil family in America” and as “the worst drug dealers in history.” Whether that’s true or not, the S[...]
Why do politicians intentionally violate the Constitution?
Most people think of the Constitution as a legal document: The original articles establish the structure of our government, while the Bill of Rights are rules for treating each other. The courts certainly use the Constitution and its amendments to resolve legal issues, and law students are taught to[...]
June 26th, 2024 - 6:11 pm § in Law and Courts
Fair arrest or retaliation?
Tommy E. Tatum (photo left), 48, of Greenville, Mississippi, was finally arrested on June 26, 2024, for his participation in the Capitol riot, NBC News reported here. He’s charged with harassing police officers, a felony, and several misdemeanors. Tatum wasn’t hard to find. He was a witn[...]
June 26th, 2024 - 1:12 pm § in Law and Courts
Something’s rotten in Oklahoma
McCurtain County is a rural county (pop. 31,000) in the southeast corner of Oklahoma. It became a focus of national news coverage when a hidden microphone picked up the sheriff, jail administrator, a sheriff’s investigator, and a county commissioner discussing lynching black people and murderi[...]
June 26th, 2024 - 9:18 am § in Law and Courts
Seattle police owe BLM protesters $680,000 for chalk graffiti arrests
During the George Floyd protests, Black Lives Matters protesters in Seattle wrote anti-police graffiti with chalk, which washes off. The unhappy cops retaliated by jailing the four protesters overnight in January 2021, despite a directive against holding nonviolent offenders in jail because of the C[...]