Second Bill of Rights’ is unaffordable
Bernie Sanders speaks to crowds at a rally at Key Arena in Seattle March 20, 2016. He has lately pitching a measure that guarantees a job at a liveable wage to Americans.
Category Archives: Law
Family that took in Parkland shooter being sued
I found this story particularly disturbing for some reason. James and Kimberly Snead are the couple who allowed the killer in the Parkland school shooting to move into their home after his mother passed away, roughly ten weeks before the attack.
Patent filings plummet in East Texas
For more than a decade, the federal courts in the Eastern District of Texas were the undisputed Mecca for patent litigation. Businesses and individuals often filed double or triple the number of patent infringement lawsuits in East Texas than any other court districts in the country.
LETTERS: “The planning process…. has proven to be doing the job.” Posted at
Traveling through Florida over the past few years, I have marveled at the beauty of Ormond Beach compared to so many other communities. Our landscaping and setback requirements are second to none.
Divided Supreme Court sides with businesses over workers
A divided Supreme Court ruled Monday that businesses can prohibit their workers from banding together in disputes over pay and conditions in the workplace, a decision that affects an estimated 25 million non-unionized employees. With the court's five conservative members in the majority, the justices held that individual employees can be forced to use arbitration, not the courts, to air complaints about wages and overtime.
Democrats’ newest midterm pitch: A crackdown on corruption
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., arrive to speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 22, 2018. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., arrive to speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 22, 2018.
Bill Whitaker: Long Twin Peaks criminal saga at last comes full circle
Scene: recent hearings in two different state district courtrooms to schedule long-delayed trials of dozens of bikers from motorcycle groups swept up in the wildly indiscriminate 2015 Twin Peaks dragnet. Mood: something between Christmas and the Second Coming.
Creating an invisible fence
The United States is being invaded. Not by little men from outer space but by foreign nationals from around the world.
Texas school shooting suspect won’t face death penalty
Accused Santa Fe HS shooter Dimitrios Pagourtzis, 17, won't face the death penalty if he is convicted of capital murder , and could be paroled when he's 57, thanks to two US Supreme Court rulings. A 2005 decision made it unconstitutional for anyone under 18 at the time of their crime to face execution, and a 2012 ruling outlawed life without parole.
Chuck Grassley Questions Whether Rod Rosenstein Knows What In the Holy Hell He’s Doing?
Friday afternoon, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman sent a letter to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director asking, over the course of seven pages if Rod Rosenstein actually knows his ass from a hot rock. The tenor of the letter expresses grave doubt that such knowledge exists.
Dems ask Ducey for special session on guns in wake of Texas shooting
Democrat lawmakers are using Friday's school shooting in Texas in a bid to get Gov. Doug Ducey to call lawmakers into special session to adopt new gun laws. In separate letters to the governor, House and Senate minority leaders said they are willing to provide the needed votes for a package.
Real Corruption: The Scott Pruitt Story
"Scott Pruitt abuses the public trust by using his position to serve the Koch brothers and other fossil-fuel magnates, and he is killing us and our kids in the bargain." Yes, Pruitt seems to be a terrible, self-centered person, who spares no expense on himself as long as someone else foots the bill.
Legislation would make attack aboard train federal crime
U.S. Sens. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois and John Hoeven of North Dakota marked the anniversary of the shooting of an Amtrak conductor in suburban Chicago with the introduction of legislation that would make such an attack a federal crime. On Wednesday, the Democrat Duckworth and the Republican Hoeven introduced the Passenger Rail Crew Protection Parity Act that calls for those suspected of assaulting or intimidating rail crewmembers to be charged under federal law.
Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch: Agents of Chaos
If you're planning on borrowing your buddy's rental car and loading it up with several dozen bricks of heroin, the Supreme Court gave you good news on Monday. In Byrd v.
Prosecutor Will No Longer Request Bail for Small Crimes
A Florida prosecutor who got into a legal fight with the governor for her blanket refusal to seek the death penalty now says her office will no longer request monetary bail bonds for defendants accused of low-level crimes. Instead, prosecutors in the Orlando-area jurisdiction of State Attorney Aramis Ayala will recommend releasing defendants on their own recognizance for crimes involving possession of small amounts of cannabis, driving without a license, panhandling, disorderly conduct or loitering.
Trump reversal of mining pollution rule challenged in court
Environmental groups challenged the Trump administration in federal court Wednesday over its rejection of an Obama-era proposal that would have required mining companies to prove they have enough money to clean up their pollution. The Idaho Conservation League, Earthworks, Sierra Club and other groups filed a petition with the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. asking it to review last year's move to drop the rule.
2 on death row for killing Houston police lose appeals
A federal appeals court has rejected an appeal from a Houston police officer's convicted killer whose attorneys argued the presence of uniformed officers during his trial prevented him from receiving a fair trial. Lawyers for 50-year-old death row inmate Shelton Jones told the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that nearly two dozen officers who attended Jones' trial daily implied to jurors that they must convict him of fatally shooting Houston Sgt.
Leading Civil Rights Organizations’ Statement on Release of Report on …
Today, a court-appointed facilitator, Ariel Belen, issued a report on community-generated reforms to New York City Police Department stop-and-frisk and trespass arrest practices that were developed as part of the Joint Remedial Process.
Marino moves on to November
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Sanctuary cities could get boost from sports betting ruling
A man watches a baseball game in the sports book at the South Point hotel-casino, Monday, May 14, 2018, in Las Vegas. The Supreme Court on Monday gave its go-ahead for states to allow gambling on sports across the nation, striking down a federal law that barred betting on football, basketball, baseball and other sports in most states.