#Courts

I can't wait to see - now that Trump is gone - to see who gets to climb the crazy tree. I suspect the Wokes will not look all that
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So, in a backhanded way, Trump did do us a favor. He showed that most of our protections against a dictatorship are built on trust. Trust that no one will
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Okay, this thread appears to me to summarise concisely what former Federal Prosecutor @SidneyPowell1 has alleged in her US election case, filed yesterday at courts in Georgia.Please note: it states
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Because you all are the best people, we're getting lots of questions about NEPA. Let's review. The National Environmental Policy Act was signed by President Nixon in 1970. It requires
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1 The passing away of Justice Ginsburg #RBG and the prospect of decades of an alt-right domination of #SCOTUS under the mantle of 'the rule of law' will shed light
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Some observations & questions about the plan for the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuillas to build an 8,400 bed prison on their reservation at the Salton Sea & lease it to
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The “prioritize popular things” school doesn’t account for issues like court expansion and impeachment where public opinion follows elites. If Dems unify, it’ll become a 50-50 issue. If they let
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There’s a debate on police reform whether too much attention is paid to individual police misconduct and too little on the need for systemic change. For example, there are multiple
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Line of Duty characters as journalists: a thread. Ted Hastings: news editor. Been on the paper for 30 years. Dispenses wisdom and guides the stories. Occasionally loses his shit but
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“But the greatest dissents do become court opinions and gradually over time their views become the dominant view. So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today,
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The genius of America's Constitutional framers is in their disagreement with one another. The compromises they produced were occasionally horrific - e.g. 3/5 clause - and at other times sublime.
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Tomorrow MPs, or some of them anyway, will vote on whether to disenfranchise up to 17.5 million voters. THREAD When the pandemic hit, Parliament introduced (on a temporary basis) remote
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Critical thinking - “the objective analysis and evaluation of an issue in order to form a judgment.”We’ve had 4 years of data flowing in on this president: 1 Trump
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I’ve spent the last 5 yrs researching a book on the history of the Texas death penalty. I’ve been stunned how many times someone has been executed despite evidence they
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People in power over us,librarian who says which authors can speak,art director who says which artists can work,professor who assigns grades,supervisor who drafts performance reviews,MSM, courts, FBI, Congress-never should persecution
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BREAKING: Government launch independent panel to examine reform to judicial review -- the process by which citizens can challenge decision made by government or state bodies. Panel will be chaired
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