Latest Articles: U.S. Constitution
Pot Prohibition Makes Self-Defense Illegal Post Date: 2018-09-13 06:05:24 by Deckard
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The case against Krissy Noble shows how drug and gun laws conspire to deprive people of a fundamental right.When a stranger forced his way into her apartment, tackled her, punched her repeatedly, and tried to cover her mouth with a cloth, Krissy Noble says, she did what she thought was necessary to protect herself and her unborn baby. She grabbed a handgun from the coffee table and shot the man three times, then ran to a neighbor's apartment and asked her to call the police. Although local prosecutors agreed that the shooting was justified, Noble faces charges that could put her behind bars for years, thanks to a marijuana conviction that made it illegal for her to possess firearms. Her ...
If Cody Wilson Won’t Be Allowed To Give Files Away, He’ll Just Sell Them Post Date: 2018-09-01 15:50:44 by Deckard
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Theres been this rampant fear over Defense Distributeds Cody Wilson and his desire to give away 3-D printer files that allow people to make firearm parts and, in one case, a full firearm. They have freaked out and screamed and gotten the courts involved. Theyre terrified at the idea of people being able to hop on the internet and download files that may allow them to build a firearm without the governments permission. The fact that people have been doing just that for years is completely irrelevant, apparently. However, Cody Wilson has been the personal target of all of this. The courts have been focused on him. Anti-gun activists have been focused on him. All this ...
President Trump forced to unblock dozens of Twitter users after court ruling Post Date: 2018-08-29 17:42:15 by Hondo68
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Trump was forced to unblock 41 Twitter accounts after a judge ruled the President was violating Twitter users' First Amendment rights by blocking them on the site.Image: Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images If the President of the United States blocks you on Twitter, that means hes violating your First Amendment rights. Donald Trump has been forced to unblock 41 Twitter users who had apparently irked the President on the social media platform. However, this isnt a choice Trump willingly made. A federal judge ruled that the tweets posted on the Presidents account are public forums and blocking a user violated their Constitutional right to free speech. SEE ALSO: ...
Texan says he’s selling 3D-printed gun plans, despite ruling Post Date: 2018-08-29 05:18:27 by Deckard
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) The owner of a Texas company that makes untraceable 3D-printed guns said Tuesday that he has begun selling the blueprints through his website to anyone who wants to make one, despite a federal court order barring him from posting the plans online. Cody Wilson said at a news conference that he started selling the plans Tuesday morning and that he had already received nearly 400 orders. He said hell sell the plans for as little as a penny to anyone in the U.S. who wants them. Anyone who wants to get these files is going to get them, Wilson said, noting he can only sell to U.S. customers. They can name their own price. ...
Have You Committed Your Three Felonies Today? Post Date: 2018-08-28 10:10:01 by Deckard
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Several years ago the Commonwealth of Virginia enacted a law restricting firearms purchases to one per month. This was intended to discourage smuggling of weapons to urban areas outside Virginia with tight gun control laws and (unsurprisingly) high homicide rates. The law didnt seem to do much good and in a rare outbreak of common sense was later repealed, though theres recent misguided talk from Attorney General Mark Herring of reviving it. During its short period in force, the prohibition spawned a popular saying in the Old Dominion: Buy one gun a month its the law! A similar attitude may be appropriate in light of an estimate that due to ...
Papadopoulos to ditch plea deal? Analyzing Mueller’s Sentencing memo Post Date: 2018-08-19 22:45:32 by buckeroo
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Hillary is in trouble.
Bruce Ohr May Have Broken More Than The Law By Pushing His Wife’s Opposition Research To The FBI Post Date: 2018-08-18 20:27:27 by buckeroo
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Did Ohr 'personally and substantially' participate in a particular matter in which his spouse had a 'financial interest' while he worked for the Justice Department?A review of publicly available information causes a reasonable person to wonder whether Bruce Ohr broke the law by promoting his wifes anti-Trump research to the FBI when he was working at the Justice Department. The law prohibits public officials from involvement in matters in which their spouse has a financial interest. The question is, Did Ohr personally and substantially participate in a particular matter in which his spouse had a financial interest while he was employed by the ...
Federal courts now accepting cryptocurrency for bail Post Date: 2018-08-18 11:13:42 by Willie Green
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High-tech criminal charges call for high-tech bail in Silicon Valley. A man charged with hacking the Redwood City video game company Electronic Arts has been ordered to pay his bail in cryptocurrency, according to the U.S. Attorneys Office. Martin Marsich, 25, a Serbian and Italian national living in Udine, Italy, was arrested at SFO on Aug. 8 and made his first appearance in federal court in San Francisco on Thursday (Aug. 16), when federal Judge Jacqueline Corley ordered him to pay $750,000 in Bitcoin or any other kind of cryptocurrency to be released to a halfway house. U.S. Assistant District Attorney Abraham Simmons said he doubted it was the first time a judge had allowed ...
Getting Them Used To It . . . Post Date: 2018-08-07 18:02:58 by Deckard
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CNN recently did a story video below about armed government workers forcibly detaining people for exercising their Fifth Amendment right to not answer questions. The armed government workers are Border Patrol workers but theyre not anywhere near the border. They are dragnet stopping every car on roads often as far as 100 miles from the border and interrogating drivers as to their citizenship. When a person asserts their Fifth Amendment right to remain silent, they are punished for doing so by being forcibly detained for as long as several hours. As in the case of another despicable practice civil asset forfeiture the people havent been charged with ...
Ignorant Hysteria Over 3D Printed Guns Leads To Courts Ignoring The First Amendment Post Date: 2018-08-03 08:58:37 by Deckard
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from the can-we-somehow-add-in-a-3rd-amendment-issue-here dept A year and a half ago, we wrote about a troubling ruling by the 5th Circuit siding with the US State Department waving a magic "national security" wand to ignore the First Amendment implications of banning the internet distribution of the CAD files for 3D printing components for guns. As we pointed out over five years ago, the hysteria over these 3D printed gun plans was silly. Attempts to ban them from the internet wouldn't just fail, but would actually draw much more attention to them. However, in the last few days the hysteria has returned... and much of it is misleading and wrong, and while most people ...
President Trump Is No Friend to 3D Printed Plastic Guns, Says WH Press Secretary Post Date: 2018-08-02 05:36:23 by Deckard
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White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders touts President Trump's support for printed gun bans.White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders confirmed on Wednesday that President Trump supports bans against 3D-printed plastic guns. As Reason's Brian Doherty previously reported, Defense Distributed is "a collective that organizes, promotes, and distributes technologies to help home gun-makers." In early July, the Department of Justice (DOJ) reached a settlement with Defense Distributed in a long-running lawsuit based on government officials maintaining that the sharing of the gun-making files violated munitions export rules located in the International Traffic ...
Welcome to the Quiet Skies (TSA) Post Date: 2018-07-29 21:09:58 by Hondo68
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Did you scan the boarding area from afar?Have a cold, penetrating stare?Sleep on the plane? Use the bathroom? Talk to others?This is just some of the information that federal air marshals collect on thousands of regular US citizens under a secret, domestic surveillance program.Federal air marshals have begun following ordinary US citizens not suspected of a crime or on any terrorist watch list and collecting extensive information about their movements and behavior under a new domestic surveillance program that is drawing criticism from within the agency.The previously undisclosed program, called Quiet Skies, specifically targets travelers who are not under investigation by ...
Christians and Government Post Date: 2018-07-26 06:56:34 by Deckard
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I know full well how hazardous an enterprise it is to set sail on the controversial and disputed sea of Scriptural interpretation
.Yes, same here. This is one reason (of many) that I strongly prefer to keep theological discussion off limits. I know this is difficult to do, given the topics at this post, and I appreciate that you all respect this desire. As you know, my intent behind these topics is to examine the ramifications of broad religious issues on the social, governance, and political aspects of society.I guess today I am going to somewhat cross that line. The reasons are twofold: first, the examination Casey takes on is precisely on ...
Liberal Ninth Circuit Says Open-Carrying A Gun Is A Constitutional Right Post Date: 2018-07-25 07:13:00 by Deckard
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The Federalist by Bre Payton The ultra-liberal and frequently overturned U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit just ruled that the Second Amendment protects ones right to carry a gun openly outside of the home. We do not take lightly the problem of gun violence, the majority opinion in Young v. Hawaii reads. Heres more, emphasis added. For better or for worse, the Second Amendment does protect a right to carry a firearm in public for self-defense. We would thus flout the Constitution if we were to hold that, in regulating the manner of bearing arms, the authority of [the State] has no other limit than its own discretion. Reid, ...
Key Concepts of Libertarianism Post Date: 2018-07-21 20:32:59 by buckeroo
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The key concepts of libertarianism have developed over many centuries. The first inklings of them can be found in ancient China, Greece, and Israel; they began to be developed into something resembling modern libertarian philosophy in the work of such seventeenth- and eighteenth-century thinkers as John Locke, David Hume, Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson, and Thomas Paine. Individualism. Libertarians see the individual as the basic unit of social analysis. Only individuals make choices and are responsible for their actions. Libertarian thought emphasizes the dignity of each individual, which entails both rights and responsibility. The progressive extension of dignity to more people to ...
State of New York v. Mnuchin, SDNY 18-cv-6427 (17 Jul 2018) Post Date: 2018-07-19 13:11:03 by nolu chan
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State of New York v. Mnuchin, SDNY 18-cv-6427 (17 Jul 2018) Doc 1, COMPLAINT for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief The Issue: INTRODUCTION 1. The States of New York, Connecticut, Maryland, and New Jersey (the Plaintiff States) bring this action seeking declaratory and injunctive relief to invalidate the new $10,000 cap on the federal tax deduction for state and local taxes (SALT). What is requested (at p50): PRAYER FOR RELIEF 141. Wherefore, the Plaintiff States Pray that the Court: a. Declare that the provision of the 2017 Tax Act imposing a $10,000 cap on the SALT deduction, Pub. L. No. 115-97, § 11042, is unauthorized by and contrary to the ...
What To Learn From The Social Justice Warrior Who Was Eaten By His Own Mob Post Date: 2018-07-18 09:46:15 by IbJensen
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Mob compliance is a vicious and deadly cycle. The only way to stop the cycle is to stop complying with the mobs demands. Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling predicted back in the 1950s that wed soon have a citizenry unable to think. Many of his screenplays warned of the specter of runaway mob psychology. Today it seems thats exactly the sort of citizenry weve got. Social media trolling drives mindless street theater, which drives more mindless social media trolling, and on and on. Most Americans arent taken in by it, but the illusions mob behavior promotes can wreak havoc even on reasonable people. The mob mindset seems to be in hyper-drive. ...
Senate resistance to Judge Kavanaugh is collapsing Post Date: 2018-07-11 20:19:24 by Tooconservative
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The New York Times published a piece today with the bland title For Midterms, Supreme Court Political Drama Plays to Its Audience. It turns out thats a nice way of saying vulnerable Senate Democrats are struggling between telling the base what it wants to hear and reality. Right now, it sounds as if reality is winning: Making his way through the Capitol, Senator Bill Nelson of Florida said look at my statement three times in 15 seconds when pressed about the appointment, hoping to let his carefully worded news release carry the day. Such dodges only whetted the appetites of Republicans, who taunted the Democrats for their hesitation and, in some cases, ...
Supreme Court Fallout: Calif. Teachers Sue Unions to Recoup Unconstitutional 'Agency Fees' Post Date: 2018-07-09 09:38:12 by Tooconservative
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Justice is coming for unions that forced non-members to pay "non-political" agency fees that went to prop up Democratic candidates. Last month, the Supreme Court ruled that forcing workers who disagree with a union to make these payments anyway violates the workers' First Amendment rights.Less than a week after that ruling, Janus v. Association of Federal, State, City, and Municipal Employees (FSCME), seven California teachers have filed a class-action lawsuit to recoup unjustly forced fees. "This lawsuit will enable teachers like me to recover the agency fees that we were wrongly forced to pay against our will," Scott Wilford, the plaintiff in the new lawsuit, ...
Inside Donald Trump's Supreme Court Deliberations Post Date: 2018-07-08 10:09:40 by Tooconservative
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. . . At his private club in New Jersey this weekend, Trump has been consulting with aides and advisers, including Vice President Mike Pence, who flew up to work through the pluses and minuses of each candidate. As Trump likes to do, he is also phoning friends and lawmakers to sound them out about potential contenders. As of Saturday evening, advisers say, the president had narrowed his list down to four candidates. Raymond Kethledge was the leading contender, although officials stress that Trump has not yet settled on a choice. Trump has been describing Kethledge to aides as Gorsuch 2.0, a reference to his 2017 successful nominee, Neil Gorsuch. Trump sees that nomination as ...
Judge Raymond Kethledge and the Second Amendment [Full Thread] Post Date: 2018-07-07 09:49:34 by Tooconservative
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Judge Raymond Kethledge vigorously defends and exercises individual rights under the Second Amendment. On the bench, he has faithfully applied the Supreme Courts decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, and ruled that Second Amendment rights deserve at least as much protection as any others. Off the bench, he is an avid hunter and a lecturer on originalism, textualism, and the Second Amendment. Perhaps the most important Second Amendment case to come before the Sixth Circuit in the last few years so important that the court took it en banc is Tyler v. Hillsdale County Sheriffs Department. The case dealt with a federal statute that barred anyone ...
Fox News: Kavanaugh and Kethledge new SCOTUS frontrunners? [Full Thread] Post Date: 2018-07-05 14:08:39 by Tooconservative
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Three days ago the alleged finalists were Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, but that was before Trump began interviewing shortlisters. And the interview with Raymond Kethledge reportedly went very, very well. .@FoxNews is told that @realDonaldTrump has completed the interview process for his @USSupremeCourt pick. Raymond Kethledge and Brett Kavanaugh are said to be the front-runners to replace Justice Kennedy. Announcement Monday night. John Roberts (@johnrobertsFox) July 5, 2018 Judge Raymond Kethledge If anyones well positioned to know that the winds have changed in the West Wing, its a Fox News reporter. And if anythings likely to boost a shortlister ...
Fifth Circuit Says No, You Fucking May Not Strip Search A Classful Of Female Students To Find $50 Post Date: 2018-07-05 11:13:54 by Deckard
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from the because-of-course-you-can't-the-hell-were-you-thinking dept The Fifth Circuit Appeals Court convened to write an opinion [PDF] the judges shouldn't have had to write. But then, of course, they had to because the lower court screwed everything up. The first paragraph sums up the issue -- and the appeals court's decision -- succinctly and devastatingly. (h/t Raffi Melkonian) During a sixth-grade choir class, an assistant principal allegedly ordered a mass, suspicionless strip search of the underwear of twenty-two preteen girls. All agree the search violated the girls constitutional rights under Texas and federal law. Even so, the district court dismissed the ...
The ACLU’s Longstanding Commitment to Defending Speech We Hate Post Date: 2018-06-29 23:10:27 by Gatlin
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The ACLU, the nations oldest and largest civil liberties organization, has always had its share of critics. Many condemned us for defending Nazis right to march in Skokie in the 1970s. Some, like former Attorney General Ed Meese, labeled us the criminals lobby for advocating for constitutional rights for those accused of crime. We earned few friends when we represented Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen suspected of terrorist ties and killed in a drone strike by the Obama administration. After we represented a white supremacist denied a permit by the city of Charlottesville, we were criticized for defending white supremacists. Such criticism comes with the ...
The ACLU's Biggest Roadblock to Fighting Mass Surveillance Post Date: 2018-06-29 15:14:15 by Gatlin
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IN MARCH 2015, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a type of National Security Agency bulk monitoring known as "upstream" surveillance. More than three years after the ACLU originally filed the suit, the case is still mired in procedural and bureaucratic limbo. But on Friday, a hearing over one such roadblock in Maryland district court could bring long-awaited progress. The Wikimedia Foundation, which the ACLU is representing along with cocounsel from the Knight First Amendment Institute and Cooley LLP, engages in more than a trillion communications per year with people around the world, and has hundreds of millions of visitors ...
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