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[...]
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May 26th, 2023 - 12:22 am § in Law and Courts
This state practice is so rancid all SCOTUS justices nixed it
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[...]
May 25th, 2023 - 8:28 pm § in Law and Courts
Coathanger machineguns
Machineguns are illegal without a federal license to possess one. There are several ways to convert a standard AR-15 to a fully automatic weapon. You can literally do it with a piece of coathanger wire. This video shows would it looks like. Without a federal license, that weapon is illegal, but the [...]
May 25th, 2023 - 6:19 pm § in Law and Courts
Two in, one out
On the same day Oath Keeper honchos Stewart Rhodes and Kelly Meggs were sentenced to 18 and 12 years in prison (see stories here and here), Jacob Chansley, the s0-called “QAnon Shaman,” was released from a halfway house (see story here). Chansley (photo, left), a full-time protester befo[...]
Threaten gays, go to jail
A grand jury has indicted a New York woman for making phone threats to several Denver-area LGBQT businesses shortly after the Club Q shooting (read story here). Sharon Robinson, 40, was arrested for calling four businesses and saying she was going to “shoot them up” and they were “[...]
May 25th, 2023 - 2:34 am § in Law and Courts
Seattle mail thief canceled
He stole postal vehicles, mailbox keys, mail, credit cards, and identities. A lot of them. Door cameras and security cameras in stores where he tried to use the credit cards saw him do it (see photo). After six months of this, the law caught up with Johny Mixayboua, 27, who’s now cooling his h[...]
May 24th, 2023 - 3:18 pm § in Law and Courts
Mississippi cop on domestic call shoots child
A cop responding to a domestic call shot an 11-year-old boy at the home, a local news source reported (read story here). The boy was the family member who called police. His mother slipped him the phone and told him to call 911 after the father of her other child showed up and became “irate.&#[...]
May 23rd, 2023 - 2:34 pm § in Law and Courts
49 states sue VoIP provider for scam robocalls
Avid Telecom, which provides Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services, is being sued by “nearly every attorney general in the country” for facilitating billions of robocalls, many of which were scams, CNBC reported on Tuesday, May 23, 2023 (read story here). The legal complaint alleg[...]
May 23rd, 2023 - 2:11 pm § in Law and Courts
Killer cop costs Colorado taxpayers $19 million
“The family of a Colorado man who was fatally shot last year by a deputy … after calling 911 for help when his SUV got stuck … will receive a $19 million settlement” from the state and local municipalities, NBC News reported on Tuesday, May 23, 2022 (read story here). Two dep[...]
Kari Lake rebuffed in court again
An Arizona trial court judge has again rejected Kari Lake’s claims that she lost the 2022 governor’s race because of misconduct by Maricopa County election officials (see story here). The same judge previously ruled Lake failed to prove any of her original 10 grounds for overturning the [...]