Emanating “tax, not a tax” penumbras, the liberal imprimatur of legitimacy and so much for the judicial “restraint” of the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court Would you rather be hung or shot? (…and be happy about it!) We the People ordained and ratified a constitution as the centerpiece of a limited government alternative to the Divine Right of Kings and parliaments | Read More »
Why conservatives applaud the John Edwards not guilty verdict [Originally published in the inaugural dead-tree version issue of the Times News of Brookhaven (DeKalb County), Georgia] Most campaign finance laws, other than those requiring disclosure of campaign contributions and expenditures, violate free speech rights under the First Amendment and foster the nefarious criminalization of politics “I think he definitely had some knowledge of where the money was | Read More »
An unnatural, liberal-Democrat, trial lawyer, intimidation-machine culture, defined deviancy (Woodstock, OWS) down; made the outrageous (Ayers, Rev. Wright, Minister Farrakhan) normal; made the normal (Cain gestures) outrageous; and re-classified Clintonian assault & battery and extortion as mere “harassment”. Decades ago, women entered an American workforce in which men were regularly harassed and offended. To live on Earth is to be regularly offended and harassed. The | Read More »
The ObamaDem criminalization of our cultural, political and economic life ALBANY, Ga. — U.S. Rep. Sanford Bishop Jr., D-Albany, gave his definition of the word “politics” to the Kiwanis Club of Dougherty County at a luncheon Monday at the Hilton Garden Inn. “Politics is all about who gets what, when and how,” Bishop said. Americans not yet schooled in the evils of symbolic speech, burned | Read More »
Congress cedes power to Obama as King and judges as oligarchs The problem of judge-made law trumping We the People’s contract with our government is as old as the Supreme Court’s rulings in Dred Scott (1857), Plessey (1896), Roe (1973), and Kelo (2005) and as new as this year’s federal district court rulings on illegal immigration enforcement in Arizona and gay marriage in California, respectively. The | Read More »
Congress narrows gap in cocaine sentencing rules This former criminal defense trial lawyer saw a lot of lives ruined by crack and cocaine, but we also saw many lives ruined by long mandatory minimum sentences for possessions of small to medium amounts of crack. Most of those latter lives ruined were those of black men, but I do not believe that the disparately lesser sentences | Read More »
For political reasons, I would not favor a Republican Party filibuster of the President’s first nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court. But her record as an appeals court judge and publicly enunciated judicial philosophy do render her unfit to serve even as a traffic court magistrate. Unfortunately, thanks in large part to past feckless GOP judicial nomination strategies, not only were previous unqualified nominees not | Read More »
President Obama has made his choice and, as DeVine Law suggested upon Justice Souter’s announced retirement, he appears to have made a bold leftist ideological choice as well as a “twofer” Democratic Party political choice, with a female and a Hispanic in Second Circuit Federal Court of Appeals Judge Sonia Sotomayor. We have suggested that the President had no reason to choose anything but a | Read More »
AG moves to overturn conviction of Republican senator in virtually unprecedented action This criminal defense lawyer of 14 years was shocked to see a North Carolina prosecutor disgraced and disbarred in the Duke Lacrosse team non-rape case. It is not rare for District Attorneys to abuse their discretion by indicting and prosecuting defendants they suspect are innocent. It is extremely rare for such immunity protected | Read More »
By Mike DeVine, Legal Editor for The Minority Report and The HinzSight Report DNA is no more a magic bullet for clearing or convicting criminal defendants and suspects than were the ancient practices of seeing if a suspect could survive poisoning of being thrown in a lake tied to a rock. And neither gamecock nor Mike DeVine, esq. needs assistance from any CockStradamus to forecast | Read More »
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