Archive for the ‘Legal News’ Category
Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Dear Ms. Sotomayor,
Ms. Sotomayor - Sonia, if I may presume to call you that - former Speaker of the House, Mr. Newt Gingrich, may be stepping away from his claims that you are a racist, but I am afraid I cannot let you off the hook quite so easily. ...
Posted in Legal News, Political, satire | 6 Comments »
Thursday, May 7th, 2009
"My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over." Gerald Ford spoke those words after being sworn in to replace a disgraced Richard Nixon. One of his first acts in office was to pardon Nixon under the guise of trying to reunite the nation after a very wrenching era. It ...
Posted in Current Affairs, Iraq War, Legal News, Politics | 17 Comments »
Friday, March 6th, 2009
Attorney General Eric Holder announced last week that the DEA will no longer raid medical marijuana dispensaries as long as they’re in compliance with state laws.
During a campaign speech in late 2007, Obama said: “My attitude is if the science and the doctors suggest that the best palliative care ...
Posted in Legal News, Police State | 5 Comments »
Monday, March 2nd, 2009
This should be a no-brainer, but the Supreme Court will be deciding this question later this year: Do prisoners have the right to undergo DNA testing to prove their innocence?
Forty-four states already have laws allowing convicts to test DNA evidence. The Supreme Court case involves a rapist, William ...
Posted in Legal News, corruption | 4 Comments »
Saturday, February 21st, 2009
Thank God for America's judicial branch. Our executive and legislative branches may be more crooked than Lombard Street, but judges are much less prone to bribery and corruption.
The following tragedy could only happen in some Godforsaken Third World shithole. Two judges — or whatever passes for a “judge” ...
Posted in Legal News, corruption | 8 Comments »
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
Remember those infamous SLAPP suits (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) that were popular in the 1990s? They usually involved a developer trying to squash all public opposition to a project. Go to a public meeting and testify against a proposed development — or even write a letter to ...
Posted in Economics, Legal News | 6 Comments »
Friday, February 6th, 2009
That’s right, be a squatter. In your own home. Best of all — it’s completely legal in a lot of cases.
Amy Goodman writes that a lot of subprime mortgages “were made, then bundled into securities and sold and resold repeatedly…The banks foreclosing on families very often can’t locate ...
Posted in Economics, Legal News | 4 Comments »
Monday, January 19th, 2009
This is a day of hope and change....for lots of people. Especially Haji Bismullah:
For nearly six years, Haji Bismullah, an Afghan detainee at Guantánamo Bay, has insisted that he was no terrorist, but had actually fought the Taliban and had later been part of the pro-American Afghan government.
Over the weekend, ...
Posted in Afghanistan, Bush, Homeland Security, Legal News, Middle East, Politics, Torture | 18 Comments »
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
The United States Constitution guarantees us the right to a speedy trial. The Supreme Court will soon decide whether spending three years in jail — waiting to be tried — is considered a “speedy trial.”
HEELLLLOOOO!!!!
Most people with an IQ higher than their shoe size will agree that three years ...
Posted in Civil Rights, Legal News | 18 Comments »
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
It would seem life on the mean streets of the post-Bush era is tough for ex-AGs – particularly political gadfly and ex-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Gonzo loyally protected his boss with the world’s worst imitation of an amnesiac and George repaid his efforts by kicking him to the curb when ...
Posted in FOIA, George W. Bush, Legal News, Political, Politics, Right Wing Nut, conservative | 3 Comments »
