In 2022, before the midterm elections, federal judges — some appointed by Trump — struck down Alabama’s congressional districting maps as racially motivated. The Supreme Court temporarily reinstated those maps during the 2022 elections, but on June 8, 2023, ruled they violated the [...]
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June 7th, 2023 - 6:51 pm § in Law and Courts
Get tough on gun crimes
Republicans are arming America, and that’s creating a false sense of security among some gun owners, because the laws of self-defense haven’t changed. Even in Florida, with its laissez-faire gun laws, you can’t just shoot people. Self-defense only applies to an imminent threat of d[...]
June 7th, 2023 - 2:44 pm § in Law and Courts
What leftwing violence looks like
“Jane Doe” didn’t murder George Floyd, Derek Chauvin did. She wasn’t a Minneapolis cop, and didn’t testify as a defense expert in Chauvin’s trial, although her ex-husband, Barry Brodd, did. She got their California house in the divorce. In April 2021, when that h[...]
June 6th, 2023 - 9:24 pm § in Law and Courts
What liberal propaganda looks like
When Michael Tisius (photo, left) was 19, he participated in a jailbreak. He killed two unarmed guards, and landed on Missouri’s death row (see story here). Twenty-three years later, as his execution approached, Huffington Post ran a story (here) pleading for commutation of his death sentence.[...]
Can you have two primary residences?
Yes, you can have more than one “primary residence.” Rep. Reuben Gallago (D-AZ), the most likely Democrat to replace Kyrsten Sinema in the U.S. Senate, bought a house in Washington D.C. where he works, which he claimed as his “primary residence” for purposes of getting a V.A[...]
Oklahoma board votes to use public funds for Catholic education
An Oklahoma state school board has approved “the first publicly funded religious school in the nation, despite a warning from the state’s attorney general that the decision was unconstitutional,” ABC News reported on Monday, June 5, 2023 (read story here). “The Statewide Virt[...]
June 2nd, 2023 - 4:01 am § in Law and Courts
Guns are changing American life
An entire generation of American kids are growing up in fear of being gunned down in their classrooms, or shot at a shopping mall. The NRA likes to say, “An armed society is a polite society,” but the data say otherwise. Guns are now the leading cause of death of Americans under age 19 ([...]
Oath Keepers sentences
Leading figures in the Oath Keepers, a rightwing paramilitary group (details here), are getting the longest Capitol riot sentences so far. It seems pretty clear federal courts consider the group revolutionaries. But their sentences for Jan. 6 crimes also reflect judges’ reaction to advance pla[...]
May 26th, 2023 - 12:22 am § in Law and Courts
This state practice is so rancid all SCOTUS justices nixed it
It isn’t often the Supreme Court makes everybody happy, but the court’s decision in Tyler v. Hennepin County will please liberals, conservatives, and libertarians alike. “The case centered on Geraldine Tyler, a 94-year-old Minnesota woman whose home was taken by Hennepin County a[...]
May 25th, 2023 - 10:20 pm § in Law and Courts
Taking the law into his own hands?
His lawyers insisted he’s not the perp, and innocent people do get convicted, but a Florida jury decided he sought revenge against the wrong people after he was robbed and shot on his ice cream truck route. Prosecutors told jurors Michael Keetley (photo, left) was “frustrated with law en[...]