Before leaving office, Biden deprived Trump of whatever grisly enjoyment he might have gotten from presiding over the executions of 37 of the 40 inmates on the Bureau of Prisons death row (see story here). There’s likely a public consensus that he’s welcome to the remaining three: Dzhokh[...]
Posts Tagged ‘constitutional rights’
December 26th, 2024 - 8:18 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
Trump retaliates (sort of) against former death row inmates
December 26th, 2024 - 3:53 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Border czar floats “halfway homes” for birthright kids
Trump’s future “border czar,” Tom Homan, says “halfway homes” for U.S.-born children “may be a necessary part of Trump’s plans for mass deportation” of illegals, The Hill reported on Thursday, December 26, 2024 (read story here). “As far as U.S. children — childre[...]
Governors don’t get to decide which political advertising is “false”
It’s now clear it was Gov. Ron DeSantis who ordered Florida TV stations to stop airing ads for an abortion-rights initiative. The cease-and-desist letter to TV stations was signed by the state health department’s top lawyer, who has since resigned and now says he was coerced to sign the [...]
Are mass deportations feasible?
Sure they are, our government could do that if a political administration is committed and organized enough, and invests enough taxpayer resources. During World War 2, the U.S. rounded up and imprisoned 120,000 Japanese-Americans, two-thirds of whom were American-born citizens. This violated their c[...]
March 8th, 2023 - 4:37 pm § in Politics, Republicans
The GOP’s attack on free speech
For 49 years, American women could take abortion rights for granted. Now those rights are gone. With that victory under their belt, Republicans are targeting free speech. They’re going after teachers and professors, librarians and students, journalists and bloggers. Read what they’re up [...]
May 5th, 2022 - 3:59 pm § in Law and Courts
The issue that’s bigger than abortion
It’s true the conservative justices likely to overturn Roe v. Wade are right-to-lifers. But there’s more going on. While legal analysts like to refer to them as “strict textualists” (i.e., if the Constitution doesn’t explicitly state something, it isn’t there), it[...]
What happens when Democrats behave like Republicans
California’s Democratic governor has “directed his staff to collaborate with the legislature and attorney general to draft a bill” to offer cash bounties to citizen legal vigilantes who sue “anyone who manufactures, distributes, or sells an assault weapon or ghost gun kit or part[...]
December 5th, 2021 - 2:33 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
What the heck was he thinking?
Marine Sgt. Travis Glosser insisted to investigators he “never had any intent to harm anyone.” He never considered “selling, giving, or even showing anyone” the 13 lbs. C4 plastic explosive he stole. That’s enough to blow up three “antifa” buses (video below), [...]
Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid!
(Copied, with my sidebar, from Seth Harp, The Intercept) “I should have kept my mouth shut about the guacamole; that made things worse for me. Otherwise, what I’m about to describe could happen to any American who travels internationally. It happened 33,295 times last year.? “My work[...]
June 19th, 2019 - 9:28 am § in America, Donald Trump
Doesn’t this picture smack of something the Chinese would do? The Soviets?
Are Mass Trials Constitutional? How can any individual exercise her rights if she is one of 70 defendants? And what happens when one of the defendants is a baby? Such mass trials have been taking place in American courts in the Texan cities of Brownsville, Laredo, and El Paso.. In one typical [...]