Over at CNN.com, many readers are thrilled over the prospects that government could actually make it the law of the land to make cell phone usage while driving illegal.
Here is just one simple question I have for you. How do you enforce a law that bans even hands free usage of your cell phone? [...]
In a recent commentary, commentator Rob Redding laid the blame at the feet of two people he felt could have stopped the execution of Troy Davis: President Obama and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
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I am not about to go too deep into the whole Troy Davis story. I actually followed most of the drama as it unfolded last night and posted my thoughts at the time on Facebook.
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Will Higher Standards for the Bar Exam Mean Fewer Blacks in the Legal Field?
“The American Bar Association, the accrediting agency for U.S. law schools, is considering a new proposal that will require law school graduates to score higher on the bar examination, which could in turn impact the number of minorities practicing in the [...]
What Calderon said on CNN to Wolf Blitzer yesterday. I’ll highlight it for you.
He (IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman) said insurers eventually will be required to file a document similar to Form 1099 used by financial institutions to report investment income. The agency will send letters to the uninsured notifying them fines could be deducted from their tax refunds for refusing to comply with the new law, Shulman said.
“These [...]
Pittsburgh officers accused of beating teen are suspended
Even if the reported account from the police officers is correct, this is still a hot mess.
(usnews.com) At the age of 16, Graham and an accomplice robbed a restaurant, a crime for which he served a year behind bars. In 2004, at age 17, he was sentenced to life without parole after he violated the terms of his probation by committing another robbery, this time with a gun.
Joe Sullivan, meanwhile, was [...]
Stacking the court system
From CQ Politics~
“Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick J. Leahy dropped a bill today that would create dozens of new appellate and district court judgeships.
“After years of debate and federal courts struggling to adjudicate cases despite the overwhelming burden of heavy caseloads, the time to enact a comprehensive federal judgeship bill is long overdue,” [...]
Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post deliberately leaves out some important facts in his latest column to make his case for Supreme Court Justice candidate, Sonia Sotomayor.
“Republicans’ outrage, both real and feigned, at Sotomayor’s musings about how her identity as a “wise Latina” might affect her judicial decisions is based on a flawed assumption: that [...]
Excerpts from: Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment.
Rightwing extremism in the United States can be broadly divided into those groups, movements, and adherents that are primarily hate-oriented (based on hatred of particular religious, racial or ethnic groups), and those that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor [...]
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – Federal prosecutors say Mayor Frank Melton is not entitled to a black jury when he’s tried a second time for the destruction of a duplex he considered a crack house.
Melton’s attorneys want a federal judge to reconsider his decision to choose a jury from south Mississippi.
U.S. District Judge Daniel Jordan’s decision [...]
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