*Everyone* accused of a crime βdeservesβ all their constitutional and other legal rights being respected, including the presumption of innocence
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*Everyone* accused of a crime βdeservesβ all their constitutional and other legal rights being respected, including the presumption of innocence
30.01.2026 15:46 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0How about the Eighth Amendment right to reasonable bail?
29.01.2026 23:58 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0What federal offense could they conceivably be investigating that has a statute of limitations longer than the standard five years?
29.01.2026 19:32 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Remember his beautiful βStreets of Philadelphia,β about the AIDS crisis.
29.01.2026 02:51 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Good work on that column, btw. Nancy is so eloquent. Very glad I could put you two in touch
29.01.2026 02:42 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0What were the dimensions of those sheets of paper, that a hole could be cut in the sheaf that was large enough to put a manβs head through?
29.01.2026 02:09 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0And Border Patrol
25.01.2026 19:05 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Already emailed you the name. Let me know if you need more.
24.01.2026 03:36 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Email perhaps?
24.01.2026 02:06 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Wanted to DM you a name but you donβt seem to allow private messages
24.01.2026 02:04 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Oops
12.01.2026 00:00 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0But only (a) if βforciblyβ and (b) if not under circumstances and in a manner not protected by the First Amendment
10.01.2026 20:14 β π 10 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The current ICE βenforcementβ/arrest/detention actions in cities are not border searches, and are most certainly governed by the Fourth Amendment. The fact that ICE is acting as if this were not so is not due to any ruling by the Supreme Court.
07.01.2026 21:57 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The Supreme Court has done no such thing.
07.01.2026 20:14 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Does the book have good stuff on his colleague Thaddeus Stevens, our local radical R here in SE Pa.?
29.12.2025 18:18 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0βThe House I Live Inβ m.youtube.com/watch?v=ovwH... at 7:00
26.12.2025 20:36 β π 146 π 20 π¬ 10 π 4The key phrase here is βfrom the third world,β meaning dark-skinned and non-European.
26.12.2025 20:19 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0President Thomas Jefferson.
21.12.2025 21:51 β π 9 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Malignant narcissism is a recognized mental disorder
15.12.2025 19:09 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Actually, depending on the precise framing of the question, the percentage of Texas voters who prefer a generic Democrat over a generic Republican is between 41 and 49 percent.
14.12.2025 16:07 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thanks to decades of aggressive DOJ litigation, the trigger for overcoming attorney-client privilege with an assertion of the crime-fraud exception is very lax, and the chances of refuting it, once invoked, are almost non-existent.
12.12.2025 19:40 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Donβt confuse me with the facts.
07.12.2025 17:57 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Why is that an βorβ?
03.12.2025 23:38 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Yes. See response on this thread from Bearance.
30.11.2025 22:27 β π 13 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The Supreme Court ruled in 1967 by 5-4 vote that a person must comply with a court order that applies to them even if that order is clearly and blatantly unconstitutional. firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/walk...
30.11.2025 20:23 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0And about Eastern European Jews in the 1910βs and β20s.
28.11.2025 17:18 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Youβre welcome
27.11.2025 03:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0No. Thatβs not 1976.
27.11.2025 03:01 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0A pernicious decision of the Rehnquist era. Many scholars consider it to have been wrongly decided. Nevertheless the precedent stands at this time. Google βthird party doctrineβ and Fourth Amendment. supreme.justia.com/cases/federa...
27.11.2025 02:54 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Probably not. See US v Miller (SCt 1976) (records of bank transactions belong to the bank not the customer and so can be obtained by subpoena or summons, not requiring a warrant, without impairing customerβs Fourth Amendment rights)
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