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The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that police cannot go snooping through people's cell phones without a warrant, in a unanimous decision that amounts to a major statement in favor of privacy rights.
Utah state troopers who used a drug dog as a pretense to search a car belonging to an innocent woman are in legal trouble. The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit ruled that the victims could sue the troopers
The Fifth Circuit Court ruled the state can collect all of the location history data from your cellular phone without a warrant, and they can compel service providers, through the threat of force, to hand over data without any probable cause.
The Supreme Court debated whether Maryland’s decision to collect DNA samples from people arrested for serious crimes represents an unconstitutional invasion of privacy or a crime-solving breakthrough with the potential to be the “fingerprinting of th
A Pennsylvania lawmaker’s refusal to lead the Pledge of Allegiance sparked an onslaught of controversy.
An exploration of the huge questions behind the James Holmes Batman movie theater massacre. Questions include: * Where did James get his bomb-making training? * How did James acquire his military-style weapons and gear? * Why were his actions su
Think you have the right to speak freely via cellphones, websites and social media? Well, the companies that provide you with access to the Internet don’t.
Since its inception, the Second Amendment was created in order for US citizens to form their own militias against threats to their sovereignty both foreign and domestic.
For his part, Bloomberg defended the street checks and insisted that neither he nor New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly will permit abuses. “I understand why some people want us to stop making stops. Innocent people who are stopped can be treat
Police in Nashville have filed Tennessee’s first public nuisance lawsuit against a street gang consisting of Kurdish refugees, seeking to prohibit them from meeting in an area of downtown Nashville that includes city parks, an elementary school and n
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Secret Service agents are shielded from a lawsuit brought by a man who said his free speech rights were violated when he was arrested after confronting Vice President Dick Cheney.
When I was a kid, beginning to learn what it is to be an American, I found a hero in George Mason, a leading Virginia delegate to the 1787 Constitutional Convention. Mason refused to sign on to the Constitution that was passed by the convention. Why?
Last week the U.S. Supreme Court found another exception to the Constitution’s prohibition on double jeopardy. I don’t agree with the Court’s decision, but that’s not really even the most objectionable part of this case.
Did you hear the one about the New York state lawmakers who forgot about the First Amendment in the name of combating cyberbullying and “baseless political attacks”? Proposed legislation in both chambers would require New York-based websites, such
Arkansas may retry a man for murder even though jurors in his first trial were unanimous that he was not guilty, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday. Alex Blueford, who is accused of killing his girlfriend’s 1-year-old son, is not protected by the Co
The City Council of Tampa, Florida is asking Republican Governor Rick Scott to issue an executive order that would keep people with permits for concealed weapons from — wait for it — carrying concealed weapons.
Because Mr. Mehanna’s conviction was based largely on things he said, wrote and translated. Yet that speech was not prosecuted according to incitement to “imminent lawless action” but intent to support a foreign terrorist organization.
Can Congress legalize tyranny by passing a law that says it can? Can Congress shred the Bill of Rights by passing a law that says it can? Advise Congress to do the correct thing for once in their sordid little careers and vote for the Due Process Gu
A man who was tackled by a cop and placed in a chokehold while video recording a traffic investigation won a $1.4 million settlement this week. Michael O’Brian said the 2009 incident left him brain-damaged and unable to return to work as a correct
After his comments were published the state board that licenses funeral directors and embalmers revoked his license. Now Schoeller is challenging that punishment arguing the revocation violates his constitutional right to free speech.
In case you did not know… This blog and I are being investigated by the NC Board of Dietitians due to egads!!! … I tell people to eat like I do!!!! …without a license!! Horrors!!! Here’s my story if you don’t know it… I’m just a formerly ob
There is no reasonable alternative construction or deconstruction of the language that renders any permutation of the right against self-incrimination to yield a contrary result.
"No Legitimate Issue, Mr. Jablonski? by Paul Andrew Mitchell, B.A., M.S. Private Attorney General, 18 U.S.C. 1964 January 27, 2012 A.D. "No legitimate issue, Mr. Jablonski? We the People are co
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American citizens can be ordered to decrypt their PGP-scrambled hard drives for police to peruse for incriminating files, a federal judge in Colorado ruled today in what could become a precedent-setting case.
In an essentially unanimous decision (Scalia delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Roberts, Kennedy, Thomas, and Sotomayor joined. Sotomayor also filed a concurring opinion, and Alito filed an opinion concurring in the judgment, in which Ginsb
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“God did not just give us rights,” pontificated His High Holiness Rick Santorum. “He gave us a moral code by which to exercise them.” And morality, Santorum believes, is best instilled through State coercion, including officially sanctioned murder.
The sentiment pervading American Patriots today caught on film. I 'feel' you, Mark, I really do. - Ed
The US Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear a case to determine whether the use of police dogs sniffing for drugs outside homes is a violation of the constitutional rights of the residents.
Americans should realize that, coupled with the Patriot Act, the NDAA, for all intents and purposes, completely nullifies a good portion of the Bill of Rights, turns the United States into a war zone, and places US citizens under military rule.
New York’s governor proposed making the state the first in the country to take mandatory DNA samples from anyone convicted of a crime, including relatively lesser offenses. Governor Andrew Cuomo said currently DNA was collected in less than half of c
