Who Knew?
Posted in Blind Justice, The Regime on May 8th, 2008
The late Mildred Loving (of Loving v. Virginia) thought of herself as an Indian.
Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Posted in Blind Justice, The Regime on May 8th, 2008
The late Mildred Loving (of Loving v. Virginia) thought of herself as an Indian.
Posted in Blind Justice, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, IOKIYAR, Impeach This, Just a Goddamn Piece of Paper, Paranoia Strikes Deep, Politics As Usual, The Regime on May 5th, 2008
“Oh, they’re not as bad as Nixon.”
Actually, yes they are - and so far, they’re getting away with it. Thanks, librul media!
You really need to read this.
Posted in Blind Justice on May 3rd, 2008
Newspapers are never better than when they dig into a case of past injustice:
Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox, Black Panthers from New Orleans who were serving time for armed robberies, were convicted of Miller’s murder. The widow did her best to go on, moving to Jeanerette, an industrial town in the heart of Cajun country […]
Posted in Blind Justice, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual, The Regime on May 1st, 2008
Don Siegelman being treated like a dangerous criminal - and what it means.
Posted in Blind Justice on Apr 29th, 2008
He should be sentenced to work on a help desk:
DENVER - A Colorado man accused of sending hundreds of thousands of spam e-mails has been sentenced to 21 months in prison after pleading guilty to tax evasion and falsifying e-mail headers.
Thirty-five-year-old Edward “Eddie” Davidson of Louisville was also ordered to pay nearly $715,000 to the […]
Posted in Blind Justice, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual, The Regime on Apr 28th, 2008
Not too many bloggers have been writing about this, which is a shame. This is an absolutely shameless partisan ruling, and if I believed in hell, I would think that Tony Scalia and his little SCOTUS friends will burn there for eternity:
The Supreme Court’s decision upholding Indiana’s vote ID law was unable to secure 5 […]
Posted in Blind Justice, Class War, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, IOKIYAR, Politics As Usual, The Regime on Apr 28th, 2008
Here we go again:
Eight years after the debacle of “hanging chads,” Florida once again seems to be courting electoral trouble. A handful of laws have been passed since the 2000 presidential recount, with state officials saying they bring order to a chaotic system.
“Some say we err on the side of caution,” said Joe Pickens, a […]
Posted in Arts & Music, Blind Justice on Apr 23rd, 2008
I fell asleep and didn’t see it, but everyone I know was raving about this week’s episode, when Alan Shore argues before SCOTUS:
Posted in Blind Justice, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual, The Regime on Apr 20th, 2008
Mark Crispin Miller:
I emailed Scott Horton, to ask him what he makes of Rove’s letter–which, I said, “seems to me to be the outburst of a very anxious man.”
Here is Scott’s reply:
“Rove has been described to me by several of my GOP sources in Alabama as being in a state of panic. He has been […]
Posted in Blind Justice, Politics As Usual on Apr 17th, 2008
Well sure, if we’ve already agreed on torture as public policy, what’s a little pain with your lethal injection?
Posted in Blind Justice, Politics As Usual, The Regime on Apr 5th, 2008
Via Bill’s Big Diamond Blog, an explanation of how voter ID laws cause vote suppression:
Posted in Blind Justice, Politics As Usual, The Regime, War Crimes on Apr 2nd, 2008
You’ll notice that not one of our presidential candidates did anything to stop this treatment - or this executive power grab:
The Justice Department sent a legal memorandum to the Pentagon in 2003 asserting that federal laws prohibiting assault, maiming and other crimes did not apply to military interrogators who questioned al-Qaeda captives because the president’s […]
Posted in Blind Justice, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual, The Regime on Mar 30th, 2008
Scott Horton talked about this at Eschacon. As Duncan notes, a very impressive guy. (But never as impressive as NTodd, or his sex toys.)
Posted in Blind Justice, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual, The Regime on Mar 27th, 2008
Pending appeal. Looks like public opinion turned the tide…
Posted in Blind Justice, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, IOKIYAR, Impeach This, Politics As Usual on Mar 19th, 2008
Hmm. Bob Novak says GOP sleazebag and dirty trickster Roger Stone told right-wing talk show host Michael Smerconish months ago that Eliot Spitzer wouldn’t finish his term.
In an interview last week, Stone cheered the governor’s demise, and hinted further that he’d known about the governor’s fall.
“I didn’t make him go to a prostitution ring,” Stone […]
Posted in Blind Justice, Politics As Usual on Mar 18th, 2008
MB points out something interesting:
The first Tuesday in February was the 5th, so that 22 days prior would be January 14th. Thus, the Nevada caucuses could be held no earlier than the 19th, the New Hampshire primary could be held no earlier than January 22nd, and so on. Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina […]
Posted in Blind Justice, The Regime on Mar 16th, 2008
You give the Justice Dept. a power and they always figure out another way to use it:
When Congress passed the Patriot Act in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, law-enforcement agencies hailed it as a powerful tool to help track down the confederates of Osama bin Laden. No one expected it would end up helping […]
Posted in Blind Justice, Politics As Usual on Mar 13th, 2008
The explanation, via Wampum.
Posted in Blind Justice, Politics As Usual on Mar 12th, 2008
The Mann Act? Something that was passed specifically to be used politically?
Yeah, Spitzer’s a jackass. But he shouldn’t be treated any differently under the law. How often do you hear about johns being prosecuted? Not very often. And with the reputation that this Justice Department has for targeting political opponents, this whole thing stinks even […]
Posted in Blind Justice, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual, The Regime on Mar 11th, 2008
Scott Horton on the odds of the case against Spitzer being politically-motivated.
Sounds to me like a classic case of selective enforcement:
Enforcement discretion is the ability that executors of the law (such as police officers or administrative agencies, in some cases) have to select who they want to enforce laws against. The use of enforcement discretion […]
Posted in Blind Justice, Just a Goddamn Piece of Paper, Politics As Usual on Mar 1st, 2008
Charles Pierce:
Too many Obama fans seem to believe the guy is made of candy-glass. He’s tough enough. However, there is one speech I want to hear him give. In his usual stumper, he occasionally comes around to a passage in which he says, in the context of the various depredations of the current government, that […]
Posted in Blind Justice, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, IOKIYAR, Impeach This, Just a Goddamn Piece of Paper on Feb 28th, 2008
The USDA has shut down a Congressional audit. Wonder what they’re going to do about it?
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Agriculture Department abruptly ordered congressional auditors to leave its headquarters and told its employees not to cooperate with them.
Posted in Blind Justice, Corporate Statism, Politics As Usual on Feb 20th, 2008
Via Duncan:
After Miami handyman Glenn Rudge was accused of shoplifting an $8 set of drill bits at Home Depot, he thought he’d settled the matter when he showed his receipt to prosecutors and they dropped the charge.
But a few weeks later, a law firm hired by Home Depot began sending him letters demanding first $3,000, […]
Posted in Blind Justice, Politics As Usual, Terra Terra Terra!, The Regime on Feb 20th, 2008
I’m sure this Supreme Court is above the political considerations:
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to the Bush administration’s domestic spying program.
The justices’ decision Tuesday includes no comment explaining why they turned down the appeal from the American Civil Liberties Union.
The ACLU wanted the court to allow a lawsuit by the group […]
Posted in Blind Justice, Theocracy on Feb 14th, 2008
Happy Valentine’s Day to Texas lovers:
A federal appeals court has overturned a statute outlawing sex toy sales in Texas, one of the last states - all in the South - to retain such a ban.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Texas law making it illegal to sell or promote obscene devices, […]
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