It's from the Wiki article I cited above: "According to David Neiwert, they recruit with emphasis on right-wing 15–30 year old white males who come pr...
He wouldn't condemn Proud Boys, a far right organization, but, to be fair, it has liberalized since its founding. Its original rules banned masturbati...
It sounds like a grand juror watched the news and compared it what they heard in the grand jury room and felt their decision would have been different...
Maybe Green Day isn't so deep, but these lyrics about moving on grabbed aholt of me. Such freedom in offering good riddance to all that draining senti...
I just don't believe that's what she meant. She has made prior comments that were negative about Trump: From https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ginsburg...
I noted that it was worthy to note that is what you believed, not what ought be believed. At any rate, you've left yourself with little room in betwee...
You're the only person with that strained interpretation, but it is worthy to note your belief that if she did mean what the rest of the world thinks ...
She said "new," which I take to be distinct from "old," as in when I get a new car, I'm no longer driving the old one, like if the old president was T...
I stand corrected. I should have said, "hopefully Biden or Jorgenson," since it is possible the "new" president may not be Biden, but there exists the...
Interesting philosophy. Not sure why we really need a legislature, since the Court under your system is permitted to make the law whatever it is it th...
People are nuanced, complicated, and not entirely consistent in their thinking or actions, so I don't think you can really figure people out that accu...
Do you believe that those whose economic position would improve under a Marxist system are logically compelled to believe in the virtue of Marxism? It...
The reason she provided suggests that she didn't believe a Republican Senate would have approved someone as liberal as she was, so she felt she was pr...
And herein lies the problem. You've not presented any argument that her ruling was legally wrong. Assuming the assessment of the Alliance for Justice ...
But see below: the ABA code of ethics for prosecutors: "Standard 3-4.6 Quality and Scope of Evidence Before a Grand Jury (a) A prosecutor should not s...
Let's also not lose sight of the fact that the purpose of the grand jury is to afford the accused protections against meritless prosecution, and the i...
In other news, will the revolution begin with a bang but end with a whimper. https://news.yahoo.com/pledge-dismantle-minneapolis-police-collapsed-1558...
In practice, the Grand Jury does whatever the prosecutor asks them to do. It's pretty much a rubber stamp. They offer political cover in instances whe...
Interesting questions because they point to what appears to be significant differences in Dutch vs American law. Witness testimony, and evidence gener...
You seem to be taking the position that the police would have been unjustified if the warrant were based upon fully valid facts, the occupants of the ...
Indeed. I stand corrected. But keeping the facts straight is difficult, which makes these issues complicated because conclusions can depend upon subtl...
The article above lays out the facts. The officers were serving a warrant issued by a judge. They knocked. An occupant in the home fired a shot throug...
Keeping the facts straight... The warrant issued by the judge at the request of other officers was a no knock warrant. That means the officers executi...
I've not delved that deeply into the facts, so I'm not ready to arrive at a judgment, but if the facts show that these officers were provided a search...
I really don't see where I've argued any of that. All I said was that the prosecutor made the correct decision if his judgment was not to seek charges...
Since it is the prosecutor alone who presents matters to grand juries, it takes very little to obtain an indictment or to have the case dismissed (no ...
This isn't correct. Facts that are discovered in a civil suit can be used in a criminal suit, but a "finding" cannot, at least to the extent you're us...
Answer this specific question: If Article 3, Section 2 of the US Constitution creates the power for the Supreme Court to review the constitutionality ...
Yes, thanks for this cite, which clarifies my confusion about why the Court is in most events an appellate court. These are the "exceptions" reference...
Conservatives are at their heart believers in law and order. I understand the left's position that the right's concept of law and order amounts to sup...
For likely the past 5 years or more, a dying geriatric woman of doubtful intellectual competence clung to a job as a placeholder for a political ideol...
While I'm sure you enjoy making these quips, you remain entirely incorrect in your understanding of the Constitutional provision you cite. Your avoida...
That's non- responsive. You're not quoting Marbury. You're quoting the Constitution. This really isn't a philosophical question. It's entirely answera...
My point stands, which is that the provision you cite has nothing to do with the Court's ability to strike down laws as unconstitutional. If that prov...
It's open to considerable interpretation, but I think if you're going to assert God's omniscience, then when he says that you will one day eat from th...
I don't read it that way. It states: "And the LORD God commanded him, “You may eat freely from every tree of the garden, but you must not eat from the...
Prior to getting into the nuts and bolts of American law, I'd first point out that I don't challenge the holding of Marbury, nor does any contemporary...
That provision confers jurisdiction on the Court to interpret statutes and common law, but nowhere does it confer power to strike down legislation as ...
Jefferson thought otherwise: "To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and on...
For an example of a country with a Constitution that lacks a constitutional court and how that is possible, talk to @"Benkei" about what they do in th...
A constitutional court is one specifically vested with the power to strike down laws when violative of a constitutional provision. The US Constitution...
There was no such thing as a constitutional court at the founding. The idea that the Supreme Court had the right to strike down laws as unconstitution...
I'm glad she's off the bench, not that she died. Her wish was that she survive this presidency so that her replacement might be decided by a more libe...
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