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Simple Justice

As much as we may believe the acquittal is an outrage, and our sense of justice is fundamentally offended by this outcome, it’s time to step back from the emotional reaction and consider the doctrinal consequences of this call for reprosecution.

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Simple Justice

One of the great joys of sitting on an appellate bench is that one is never compelled to accept as fact things that were hashed out at enormous length and effort before the trial court. As Appellate Squawk likes to point out, facts are for kids.

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AP

Border Patrol agents at southern Arizona checkpoints routinely violate the constitutional rights of U.S. citizens with illegal searches and other actions despite the agency's mandate that stops be limited to immigration enforcement, a complaint alleg

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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)

“What if no one stopped to help you while you were getting bullied?” This expanded take on the Parable of the Good Samaritan posits an affirmative moral duty to intervene to protect an innocent person who is being bullied by an aggressor.

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by William N. Grigg (Lew Rockwell blog)

“What was going on with the police officer a few minutes ago?” I asked the young couple to whom I had offered a ride on sunny but severely cold morning. “Well, he said that we looked like juveniles, and he questioned us about being runaways,”

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Economicpolicyjournal.com

Every day that willfully ignorant political gadflies like Alex Jones, Lou Rockwell, and Charles Goyette burnish the political corpse of Ron Paul they help conflate the message of Ron Paul with the corrupted political DNA of the entire Paul family.

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Photography Is Not a Crime

Less than a week after he was arrested while video recording cops, 17-year-old Addison Mikkelson had his phone swiped by an overbearing Kansas Highway Patrol officer simply because the teen was video recording a traffic stop the officer was conductin

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Simple Justice

Nothing good ever starts with a quote by Michael Chertoff. Ever. The holding was that plaintiffs lacked standing to maintain the action. Often unrecognized by non-lawyers, Article III of the Constitution limits federal court jurisdiction to matters i

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The Newspaper

A combination of non-suspicious driving characteristics can give rise to the suspicion of criminal activity in the opinion of the full Ninth Circuit US Court of Appeals. In a Christmas Eve ruling, the judges weighed whether Border Patrol agents were

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Touré advised his African-American viewers that in order to avoid the “shop-and-frisk,” they should do their best to make themselves appear “non-threatening” by dressing well, waving to security cameras, speaking articulately, shaking security guards

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