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Working Washington' Calls for Prosecution of Amazon.com—for Amazon's Use of Ordinary Political Tactics
Post Date: 2018-05-16 15:01:17 by tpaine
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'Working Washington' Calls for Prosecution of Amazon.com—for Amazon's Use of Ordinary Political Tactics According to the group's theory, a vast range of political hardball is a crime. Eugene Volokh|May. 9, 2018 7:52 pm Washington law provides, A person is guilty of intimidating a public servant [a felony] if, by use of a threat, he or she attempts to influence a public servant's vote, opinion, decision, or other official action as a public servant. "[T]hreat" includes, alongside threats of crime and a few other kinds of conduct (such as revealing embarrassing secrets), "communicat[ing]" "the intent" (i) To bring about or ...
SCOTUS lays off online betting to states
Post Date: 2018-05-14 16:27:53 by Tooconservative
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What were the odds? They turned out to be 6:3 in favor of allowing states to determine if they want legalized online gambling in their state, and the revenue that flows from it. Writing for the six-person majority in Murphy v NCAA/ NJTHA v NCAA, Justice Samuel Alito called the federal Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act passed in 1992 “a direct affront to state sovereignty”: The U.S. Supreme Court acted Monday to bust Nevada’s monopoly on legal sports betting, allowing more states to get in on the action and reap the tax benefits. The court, in a 6-3 ruling, struck down a federal law that required states to ban gambling on the outcome of sporting events. The ...
Secret FBI Program Now Jailing Activists for Speaking Out Against Police Brutality on Facebook
Post Date: 2018-05-11 19:48:58 by Deckard
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Dallas, TX – When militarized FBI agents clad in tactical gear raided the home of Rakem Balogun in December 2017—forcing him and his 15-year-old son outside in their underwear on the cold and windy night as agents ransacked his residence—he thought it had to be a mistake. In an exclusive report by The Guardian, Balogun explains that he was stunned to later learn that he was under investigation for “domestic terrorism” and had been under law enforcement surveillance for years. Incredibly, Balogun’s arrest and the FBI raid on his home were partially due to a simple, and constitutionally protected, Facebook post that was critical of police. ...
Man Protests Police Department's Violation of Speech Rights, So Cops Arrest Him
Post Date: 2018-05-11 04:56:24 by Deckard
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Stamford, Connecticut, police chief objects to salty language on a sign. That’s not a crime.The chief of police of Stamford, Connecticut, personally oversaw the arrest of a protester who held a sign that criticized the police department's disrespect for freedom of speech. In April, Michael Picard staged a protest outside the Stamford courthouse with a sign that read "Fuck Free Speech —Stamford PD." Picard was showing support for a buddy, Michael Friend, who had been arrested earlier that month for standing around in public holding a sign warning drivers of a police checkpoint designed to catch and ticket distracted drivers. Police ordered Friend to dump the sign. He ...
Here’s How The Supreme Court Already Repealed The Second Amendment [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2018-05-09 11:31:39 by Deckard
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The Supreme Court effectively repealed the Second Amendment in District of Columbia v. Heller by restricting the amendment to common arms.In March, retired Supreme Court justice John Paul Stevens called for repealing the Second Amendment, implicitly admitting that it does what, in his dissent in District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), he pretended it does not: prohibit laws infringing the right to keep and bear arms. Why Stevens called for repeal and dissented in Heller is a mystery, however. The Second Amendment was repealed, in effect, by Heller’s majority opinion. The opinion went beyond questions raised in the case and laid out a rationale by which Congress, states, and courts could ...
We’re All Trespassers Now in the Face of the Government’s Land Grabs
Post Date: 2018-05-09 10:27:56 by Deckard
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“No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.” — John Jay, first Chief Justice of the United States We have no real property rights. Think about it. That house you live in, the car you drive, the small (or not so small) acreage of land that has been passed down through your family or that you scrimped and saved to acquire, whatever money you manage to keep in your bank account after the government and its cronies have taken their first and second and third cut…none of it is safe from the government’s greedy grasp. At no point do you ever have any real ownership in anything other than the clothes on your back. Everything ...
Rand Paul: Congress Moves to Give the President Unlimited War Powers
Post Date: 2018-05-07 13:16:23 by Deckard
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In a TAC exclusive, the Kentucky senator warns the new AUMF is a massive abdication by the legislative branch.In the near future, Congress will debate a new Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF). I use the word “debate” lightly. So far, no hearings have been scheduled, and no testimony is likely to be heard unless something changes. That’s a shame, because this is a serious matter, and this is a deeply flawed AUMF. For some time now, Congress has abdicated its responsibility to declare war. The status quo is that we are at war anywhere and anytime the president says so. So Congress—in a very Congress way of doing things—has a “solution.” Instead ...
Life after Janus [compulsory union dues cast, USSC]
Post Date: 2018-05-02 10:02:22 by Tooconservative
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Government unions dodged a bullet in 2016 when an eight-member Supreme Court deadlocked 4–4 on a case that would have ended the right of labor groups to collect fees from workers who don’t want to be members. In late February 2018, with Justice Neil Gorsuch replacing the late Antonin Scalia, who died before the Court rendered the 2016 decision, the justices heard a new challenge to the compulsory fees in Janus v. AFSCME. Though the Court isn’t likely to render a decision on the case until late spring, worried labor leaders, anticipating that the ruling will go against them, are scrambling to prepare for the worst: a world in which they can no longer forcibly dun workers. ...
Appeals Court: Driving Attentively While Black Isn't Probable Cause For A Traffic Stop
Post Date: 2018-05-01 10:41:07 by Deckard
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from the ends-still-not-a-justification-for-the-means dept The courts have allowed police officers to engage in pretextual traffic stops. Minor moving violations -- including some that aren't actually moving violations -- have been used to engage in fishing expeditions for drugs, cash, or evidence of some other criminal activity. The Supreme Court dialed this back a bit with its Rodriguez decision, allowing pretextual stops but forcing them to end once the stop's objective is complete. When an officer hands out a citation or warning, the person is free to go, no matter how much the officer may want to ask more questions or run a drug dog around the vehicle. This hasn't ...
It’s Time For The United States To Divorce Before Things Get Dangerous
Post Date: 2018-04-10 13:25:40 by Liberator
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This idea of breaking up the country may seem a bit outlandish now, but you won’t think so once real domestic unrest comes to your town. “When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another…” — The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776 Divorce is hard, but it’s easier than cutting the brake lines on your wife’s car. It is long past time for an amicable divorce of the United States of America. There is simply no common ground with the Left anymore. We are now the couple screaming at each other all night, every night as the kids hide in their room. We cannot come ...
Repealing the Second Amendment Is Easier than You Think
Post Date: 2018-03-29 06:14:36 by Deckard
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03/27/2018Ryan McMakenIn Tuesday's New York Times, former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens calls for a repeal of the Second Amendment, calling it a "relic of the 18th century." In response, many commentators have focused on what would be involved in repealing the amendment, noting that the formal amendment process is very costly and difficult. Amending the Constitution requires securing two-thirds majorities in both the House and the Senate — and then three-fourths of the states would have to ratify the amendment.We Don't Amend the Constitution the Old-Fashioned Way AnymoreIt's true that amending the constitution the old-fashioned way is not ...
Treason and Sedition Alert: Repeal the Second Amendment
Post Date: 2018-03-27 11:16:48 by Deckard
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Rarely in my lifetime have I seen the type of civic engagement schoolchildren and their supporters demonstrated in Washington and other major cities throughout the country this past Saturday. These demonstrations demand our respect. They reveal the broad public support for legislation to minimize the risk of mass killings of schoolchildren and others in our society. That support is a clear sign to lawmakers to enact legislation prohibiting civilian ownership of semiautomatic weapons, increasing the minimum age to buy a gun from 18 to 21 years old, and establishing more comprehensive background checks on all purchasers of firearms. But the demonstrators should seek more effective and ...
Suozzi Suggests Using the ‘Second Amendment’ on Trump
Post Date: 2018-03-19 18:55:45 by Hondo68
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Democratic rep’s campaign forwarded a quote from Thomas Jefferson to ‘take arms’ against rulersRep. Tom Suozzi, D-N.Y., suggested people could take up arms against President Donald Trump. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo) Democratic Rep. Tom Suozzi suggested at a town hall that President Donald Trump’s opponents could take up arms against the president.The New York Democrat was speaking at an event in Huntington, New York, last week and said it was important to put pressure on the president, in a video obtained by the New York Post.“This is where the Second Amendment comes in, quite frankly,” Suozzi said. “Because you know, what if the ...
President Trump and the Freedom of Speech
Post Date: 2018-03-15 09:15:24 by Deckard
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When James Madison drafted the First Amendment — “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech” — he made sure to use the article “the” in front of the word “freedom.” What seemed normal to him and superfluous to moderns was actually a profound signal that has resonated for 227 years. The signal was that because the freedom of speech existed before the government that was formed to protect it came into existence, it does not have its origins in government. The freedom of speech has its origins in our humanity. It is a natural right. It exists in the absence of government. By the exercise of normal human reasoning, all rational ...
Trump pushing gun reform proposals that include age limit increase on purchases
Post Date: 2018-03-12 18:27:48 by Hondo68
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White House deputy press secretary Raj Shah speaks during the daily press briefing at the White House on Feb. 22, 2018. (Evan Vucci/AP) President Trump's plan to combat school shootings will include a push to put armed staff in schools and raise the minimum age to buy certain guns — but appears to fall short of including universal background checks for gun buyers. “There’s going to be a series of proposals,” deputy White House press secretary Raj Shah said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.” The plan will include policies Trump has pushed for since the school shooting that killed 17 people in Parkland, Fla., including arming teachers and raising the age ...
HOW REAGAN DEALT WITH UC BERKELEY PROTESTERS (Blueprint for Trump?)
Post Date: 2018-03-08 12:07:48 by Liberator
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Gov Ronald Reagan ~ "If it takes a bloodbath, let’s get it over with. No more appeasement.” The same Commie-Dem freaks and anarchists back in 1969 at Berkeley are the one and same Jerry Brown-Democrat backed Antifa rebellion. 50 years later, guess who's running San Francisco, Berkeley and the State of CA? It's merely their spawn. Poster Comment:Trump has to bust a serious move before it's too late. He, his governance and courage are being challenged to a dangerous a game of "Chicken" or "I-DARE-YA!" This current insurrection and defiance of the US Constitution by the outlaw CA State Governor and Oakland Mayor must be addressed a lot more ...
misterwhite outs himself again, claims States can infringe...
Post Date: 2018-03-03 17:38:01 by tpaine
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misterwhite: ---- Keep in mind, the entire Bill of Rights was written to impose limits only on the federal government. The second amendment was written to protect State Militias from federal infringement by protecting the rights of Militia members (the people) to keep and bear the arms of a Militia. But who were "the people" referenced in the second amendment? Not everyone. At the time the second amendment was written, "the people" didn't include women, slaves, blacks, non-citizens, children, or those who didn't own land. "The people" were those with something to lose -- white, adult, male landowners. That's also a description of a Militia ...
Supreme Court curbs rights of immigrants awaiting deportation
Post Date: 2018-02-28 11:03:47 by Tooconservative
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday curbed the ability of immigrants held in long-term detention during deportation proceedings to argue for their release in a ruling in sync with President Donald Trump’s get-tough approach toward immigration. The court’s conservative justices carried the day in the 5-3 decision that overturned a lower court’s ruling that required that immigrants held by the U.S. government awaiting the outcome of deportation proceedings get a bond hearing after six months of detention to seek their release. The ruling could lead to indefinite detentions of certain classes of immigrants, including some with legal status who the ...
Idaho Passes Strongest Anti-NDAA Bill in America Out of Committee
Post Date: 2018-02-26 21:00:34 by Hondo68
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Thanks to the work of the Panda Idaho, an Idaho house committee passed the Restoring Constitutional Governance Act, H473, by a vote of 11-2 on February 20, 2018. This legislation, drafted by the Patriot Coalition, is the strongest in the nation as it explicitly prohibits the laws of war from being used on non-soldiers in Idaho, and Idaho citizens anywhere, and will punish any person, including Federal or international agents, who attempts to utilize those powers. A Quick Refresher On The NDAA Introduced by State Rep. Bryan Zollinger, H473 would ban the state of Idaho from enforcing sections 1021 and 1022 of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act. These sections purport to give ...
Assault Weapons Not Protected by Second Amendment, Federal Appeals Court Rules
Post Date: 2018-02-26 10:21:11 by Deckard
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Maryland's ban on 45 kinds of assault weapons and its 10-round limit on gun magazines were upheld Tuesday by a federal appeals court in a decision that met with a strongly worded dissent. In a 10-4 ruling, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, said the guns banned under Maryland's law aren't protected by the Second Amendment. "Put simply, we have no power to extend Second Amendment protections to weapons of war," Judge Robert King wrote for the court, adding that the Supreme Court's decision in District of Columbia v. Heller explicitly excluded such coverage. advertisement Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh, who ...
Cut the Crap: We Need Full Constitutional Carry, ------
Post Date: 2018-02-23 22:50:55 by tpaine
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Cut the Crap: We Need Full Constitutional Carry, Several Dozen Insane Asylums, and a FULL BAN ON ANTIDEPRESSANTS See this kid? Yeah, where I’m from, that’s called, “crazy as a shithouse rat”. Here’s a nutty idea. Stay with me. How about we put the crazy people in a facility where they can receive supervision, care and treatment? We could call it… hmmm… let’s see… an “insane asylum”, or even a “mental hospital”. That is, a place where people who are insane and/or mentally ill could receive shelter and care, and at the same time the rest of society would likewise be protected from them. Because CRAZY PEOPLE CAN BE EXTREMELY ...
Appeals Court: Handcuffing A Compliant Ten-Year-Old Is Unreasonable But Deputy Had No Way Of Knowing That
Post Date: 2018-02-19 07:28:54 by Deckard
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from the those-without-common-sense-will-inherit-the-earth dept Time and time again, courts remind officers of the law don't actually have to know the law to enforce the law. Yes, that's how it all works out for citizens, who are just as frequently reminded ignorance of the law is no excuse. This has lead to the prevalence of pretextual stops where minor traffic violations (that may not even be violations) are used to initiate long conversations with law enforcement officers with the end goal of obtaining consent for a search or to bring a drug dog onto the scene. Qualified immunity, along with the good faith exception, have allowed an untold amount of law enforcement abuse. This ...
E-Verify Threatens Us All
Post Date: 2018-02-13 06:27:12 by Deckard
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In addition to funding for a border wall and other border security measures, immigration hardliners are sure to push to include mandatory E-Verify in any immigration legislation considered by Congress. E-Verify is a (currently) voluntary program where businesses check job applicants’ Social Security numbers and other Information — potentially including “biometric” identifiers like fingerprints — against information stored in a federal database to determine if the job applicants are legally in the United States. Imagine how much time would be diverted from serving consumers and growing the economy if every US business had to comply with E-Verify. Also, collecting the ...
Rand Paul & Kelli Ward discuss Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act “FISA” Abuse - Scottsdale AZ, Feb 16
Post Date: 2018-02-09 17:05:49 by Hondo68
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Rally With RandFeb 16 by Kelli Ward for U.S. Senate $25 – $50 Dr. Kelli Ward, Candidate for U.S. Senate Welcomes Senator Rand Paul to Scottsdale, Arizona to discuss Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act “FISA” Abuse Dr. Paul and Dr. Ward are trained healers and problem solvers that are determined to protect our Constitutional liberties and freedoms, especially from an overbearing, over-reaching Federal Government. Join us for an excellent conversation in support of Liberty! Doors open at 4:30 PM and program will start promptly at 5:00 PM Kelli Ward for U.S. SenateOrganizer of Rally With Rand Contributions to Kelli Ward for Senate, Inc. are not deductible for federal tax ...
Giving Middle Finger to Police Is a First Amendment Right
Post Date: 2018-02-06 16:39:09 by Hondo68
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Giving Middle Finger to Police Is a First Amendment Right, Man Argues in Lawsuit Over Ticket He says flipping the bird means being free.An Indiana man argues in a federal lawsuit filed last week that he had a First Amendment right to give the middle finger to a state trooper, and that his free speech was violated when the gesture earned him a ticket.The defendant, Mark May, is seeking unspecified damages from Indiana State Police Master Trooper Matt Ames. According to a complaint filed Thursday, Ames “aggressively cut in front” May at a state road intersection in Terre Haute in August 2017. May realized Ames was pursuing another motorist, but he was annoyed because he thought the ...
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