Florida’s Republican governor has vetoed a bipartisan bill passed by the legislature, where Republicans have supermajorities, to require the state health department to issue water quality advisories and close beaches when pollution reaches unsafe levels (see story here). What gives? Why did he[...]
Archive for June, 2024
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[...]
Does Mountain Dew cure dementia?
Fox News is a huge network. Its hosts are paid millions of dollars. For what? Not talking intelligently, as this clip from “Fox Business” shows. In it host Maria Bartiromo, once a credible business reporter but now a silly Fox talking head, carries on a deadpan discussion with Rep. Eric [...]
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[...]
June 26th, 2024 - 4:24 am § in Misc.
A drawbridge like you’ve never seen (video)
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June 26th, 2024 - 2:50 am § in Donald Trump, News Media
Reporter at George Floyd protests is dying from police wounds
A reporter who covered the George Floyd protests in Minneapolis in 2020 is dying from her police-inflicted injuries. Linda Tirado (photo, left), then a 38-year-old photojournalist, drove from Tennessee “to cover the unrest” in Minneapolis after a rogue cop murdered George Floyd, an NPR s[...]
June 26th, 2024 - 2:04 am § in Law and Courts
When you build a house on the wrong lot
A basic rule of law is that real property is unique. Thus, two lots, side by side, are not interchangeable; and if a property owner builds a house on the neighbor’s lot by mistake, he’s got a big problem. First, he can’t force his neighbor to swap lots, or sell her lot with his hou[...]