Denial of Bail
2022-01-27 – Today’s post is just food for thought. It needs some research. So it’s just a question. Here is a story about a January 6 rioter who is being […]
Tag Archives: law
Don’t Let Him Off the Hook, Put Him on a Different Hook!
2016-06-09 – I don’t think much about the (so-called) criminal justice system in this country. Policing is unaccountable and erratic. Folks who get arrested don’t really have an effective right […]
Supreme Court Turns to the Left?
2015-06-23 – It’s been a tactic of the political right to accuse the political center of being out-of-touch lefitists. That makes the near right the new center and the far […]
Religious Sanctuary From the Law?
2014-08-26 – I recently heard that a friend’s church voted unanimously to become a sanctuary. So I thought I’d write about it. I have no idea what the church meant […]
Government Shall Not Substantially Burden a Person’s Exercise of Religion
2014-07-01 – “Government shall not substantially burden a person’s exercise of religion even if the burden results from a rule of general applicability.” That is the provision of federal Religious […]
No Other God
2014-02-19 – You’ll excuse me for using this space to respond to a review that is currently appearing in The Nation called Beyond Naturalism: On Ronald Dworkin. The gist […]
Corporate Right of Habeas Corpus
2013-12-10 – EightOh9 has been informed that the Corporate Rights Project has filed a petition on behalf of the corporation Citizens United for a writ of habeas corpus in the […]
Equality in the Pursuit of Happiness
2013-03-27 – With the Supreme Court arguments about gay marriage come and gone, I thought I would give you my take on the subject. It comes down to this: I […]
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