Law and Police (2001-2018)

Trump lawyer — Rudy Giuliani's showily manipulative intellect — demonstrates how integrity's absence is rewarded in the United States (21 August 2018)

The rampaging uselessness of American government — no justice for cop-slaughtered Eric Garner — after 4 years of pretended investigation (20 July 2018)

Justice Kennedy's retirement timing — an example of our "conservative" judiciary's too-characteristic dishonor (30 June 2018)

The repressive Protect and Serve Act of 2018 (03 Jun 2018)

Second Amendment requires that kids burn up in school fires? (19 May 2018)

Looks like Gina the Torturer is going to make it through confirmation — what do you think that says about 'Murica? (10 May 2018)

Agreeing with — sometimes insufferably paleo-conservative — Pat Buchanan (04 May 2018)

Can I empathize with our embattled Toddler President — and still be considered reasonable?(03 May 2018)

Is Stormy Daniels' anti-non-disclosure strategy — more interesting than the alleged skin tingle that Donnie Little Boy Trump seeks to hide? (26 March 2018)

A nation of fascistic law? (09 March 2018)

President Trump's conflict of interest — regarding his organization's management dispute with a Panamanian hotel owner (05 March 2018)

Cliven Bundy walks — while Feds lick self-inflicted legal wounds (09 January 2018)

Nitwit jailers at Guantánamo Bay? — now art is evil (28 November 2017)

The FCC's attack on net neutrality — "Agitating Ajit" romps with Goebbels (24 November 2017)

Jim Hightower's "end user license agreement" example — supports Chris Hedges' "Dance of Death" analysis (02 August 2017)

Congress wants to felonize free speech — that is directed against Israel's oppressive treatment of Palestinians (28 July 2017)

The American Secretary of Homeland Security — defined treason by way of inapplicable example — demonstrating (again) how autocratically inclined American leadership is (02 June 2017)

John Brennan casually smeared the Trump Administration— without providing any evidence — yet no eyebrows were raised at his arguably dishonorable grandstanding (24 May 2017)

US lapdogs — Sweden embarrassed itself with 7 years of made-up Julian Assange accusations — while the United Kingdom kept compliant goosestep (22 May 2017)

The latest Lamestream-Deep State stupidities — attack inferred Trump-Comey conversation recordings (13 May 2017)

Clever Sally Yates toileted Senator "Turdish Ted" Cruz (09 May 2017)

Proto-totalitarian FBI Director James Comey is at it again — for our own good, of course (07 May 2017)

America's Brown Shirts are loose now — "What religion are you?" (28 February 2017)

Is it possible to commit treason against Liberty — by lying all the time? (10 February 2017)

Such a casual disregard for Fourth Amendment privacy — Attorney General Lynch spreads the NSA's spy data far and wide (20 January 2017)

Common sense descended into the American Zoo — a federal court stopped the 2016 Michigan presidential election recount (08 December 2016)

Implications for the American Fourth Amendment — a terrorist under French house arrest — murdered Father Jacques Hamel at mass in Normandy, France (27 July 2016)

The All Lives Matter movement — and other murderous stupidities from the White Establishment — Jonathan Bachman’s Reuters photograph sums the American condition (11 July 2016)

Regarding FBI Director Comey’s assessment of — Hillary Clinton’s email carelessness (07 July 2016)

US Supreme Court’s reasoning in Utah v Strieff is bone headed — goodbye much of the Fourth Amendment’s (already marginal) protection against police harassment (23 June 2016)

Given the Orlando and San Bernardino terror attacks — ex-CIA officer John Kiriakou thinks that the FBI is incompetent — Is he right? (15 June 2016)

The Absurdity of an Auschwitz SS Medic Being Found Unfit for German Trial (29 February 2016)

Lying Government versus Apple’s Secretive Tim Cook? (25 February 2016)

Masha Gessen’s Article about the Difficulties of Publishing Children’s Books in Russia — Reminds Us How Valuable Our First and Fourth Amendments Are — and also — How Eager Some of Our Own Citizens and Bureaucrats Are to Intrude on both (18 February 2016)

Imagine if You Were One of the Many Victims in this String of Sexual Assaults — and None of the Criminal Accountability Jury Looked Like You (06 November 2015)

FBI Director James Comey Needs to Get Booted — a Little too Much Totalitarian Lip Flapping(27 October 2015)

New York PD Is Using Xrays to Penetrate Vehicles and Buildings — Evidently Looking for Terrorist Paraphernalia — Can You Imagine what these Do to Your Body when You’re in the Way? — And Police Commissioner Bratton Refuses to Tell Us anything about What Is Going on(15 October 2015)

The Painful Joke that Is the US Congress — Going after Litigation Financing — while Accepting the Gargantuan Overflow of Quasi-Bribery that Citizens United Permitted (28 August 2015)

Peter Van Buren’s Essay about Guantanamo Prisoner Tariq Ba Odah — Shows Us an Excellent Example of Hannah Arendt’s “Banality of Evil” (12 August 2015)

The FDA’s Bland Perspective on the Cardiovascular Dangers of Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs) — and My Observation regarding How to Protect Yourself (27 July 2015)

We Humans Do Love the Cycle of Violence — Take Israel’s New Rock Thrower as Terrorist Law(23 July 2015)

The Irony of the United States’ Prosecution of FIFA’s Money Grubbers — Is Inadvertently Summed in a Quote from Attorney General Loretta Lynch (02 June 2015)

The Problem with Creeping Totalitarianism at the Core of American Government — Is Not that Its Minions Are Necessarily Evil People — It Is that the Minion-Keepers’ Paranoid Tunnel Vision Prevents Them from Understanding How Democracy Is Constitutionally Supposed to Work (11 May 2015)

There Should Be a Larger Uproar over the DEA’s Plan to Surveil Us — Wherever We Drive — Gestapo America Rolls on (28 January 2015)

An Example of How Institutionalized Racial Discrimination Works — Texas and (Hair Braider) Isis Brantley (12 January 2015)

Pusillanimity Appears to Have become the New American Watchword — Lou Turco’s Asinine Statement that “Main job is to ensure the safety of yourselves and your officers” — A Comment Regarding the Predictable Emergence of the Racio-Neo-Fascist Political Right — after the Murder of NYPD Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos (22 December 2014)

With Jeff Follmer Heading Cleveland’s Police Patrolmen’s Association — It Is Not Surprising that a Noticeable Proportion of the City’s Cops Are Apparently Clueless — regarding the Nature of Constitutional Policing (15 December 2014)

Thanks to Missouri’s “Kill Em on Sight” Use of Force Statute — Grossly Incompetent Officer Darren Wilson Escapes Moral Justice — Even with Michael Brown’s Contributing Violence, African-Americans Have Reason to Be Enraged (25 November 2014)

Welcome to the Autocracy — Implies FBI Director James B. Comey (29 September 2014)

Paul Szoldra’s Objection to the Militarization of American Policing Forces Mirrors My Own Ex Cop’s Perspective — Serve and Protect Has Given Way to Kill and Occupy (13 August 2014)

The American Judiciary already Has More than Its Share of Ideologically Driven and Unrealistic Fools — Let’s Not Add Michael Boggs (05 June 2014)

Constitutional Law Professor Jonathan Turley Teed off on the American Judiciary — in His “Constitutional Tipping Point” — Separation of Powers — Testimony to Congress (08 March 2014)

An Unarmed Pedestrian Who Acted Crazy in New York City Vehicular Traffic Has Been Charged with Felony Assault — Even though He Didn’t Attack Anyone — on the Theory that His Traffic-Impeding Sudden Movements Caused Overaggressive New York City Police Officers to Shoot Two Innocent Bystanders — This Incompetence-Covering Prosecutorial Idiocy Sums the Plutocratic American Police State to a Tee (05 December 2013)

King Obama’s Judicial Mouthpiece Said that the King Can Kill You — and There Aint $#*t You Can Do about It — the Incorruptible George Washington Would Be Mortified (20 July 2013)

The Flip Side of Hiding the Supreme Court Conservatives’ Non-Logic underneath a Layer of Apparently Reasoned Analysis — as Chief Justice Roberts Did in regard to Section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act — Is Justice Scalia’s Obvious Inability to Maintain His Mental Faculties, while Writing about the Majority’s Somewhat Reasoned Trashing of the Defense of Marriage Act — Taken together, both Opinions’ Legal Styles Highlight Why “Conservative” — Used in Conjunction with “Supreme Court Justice” — Is Likely to Mean Bigoted, Power-Hungry, and Duplicitous (28 June 2013)

If You Were an Economically Privileged White Fat Cat —You Would Understand and Agree with the Illogic of Justice Roberts’ Intentionally Ignorant Majority Opinion — regarding Section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 — a Brief Look at Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder (26 June 2013)

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Has Detailed the Failure of the War on Marijuana — and Its Egregious Racial Bias — in a Factually Scathing Indictment of the American Criminal Justice System (05 June 2013)

Pakistan’s Peshawar High Court Ordered the Pakistan Government to Confront U.S. Drone “War Crimes” at the United Nations — Is American Human Rights Hypocrisy Finally Going to Go on Global Display? (16 May 2013)

There Are Times when a Former Supreme Court Justice Should Not Give the Media Her Superficially Delivered Opinion — Retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor Is Now Quoted as Questioning the Advisability the Supreme Court’s Intervention in Bush v Gore — but She apparently Ventured this Statement without Providing any Substantive Legal Reasoning to Justify Her Thinking (29 April 2013)

A Must Read for Wannabe Lawyers — Tucker Max on Why You Should Not Go to Law School — and Comments regarding My Own Statistically Unlikely Experience in Law (19 February 2013)

1971’s Wilmington 10 Were Finally Pardoned on the Last Day of 2012 — Thirty-Two Years after the 4^th Circuit Court of Appeals Overturned the Original Trial Verdict — on Grounds Equivalent to Perjury, Prosecutorial Misconduct, and Implied Racism — a Reminder that American Justice too often Is Not (01 January 2013)

A Little Covered Story that Deserves Attention — Cadet Blake Page’s Third Year Resignation from West Point — due to the Authority-Bound, Unconstitutional Christian Proselytizing that Is Taking over America’s Military Officer Corps (05 December 2012)

Adam Hanft’s Interesting Take on Why Apple Beat Samsung in an American Court — and My Comment about Our Irrational and Anti-Competitive Patent System (27 August 2012)

I Could Not Have Said It Better — Journalist Chris Hedges’ Single Paragraph about Evaporated American Freedom — in an Article about the Un-Constitutionality of Section 1021 of the National Defense Authorization Act (14 August 2012)

An Apparently Fair-Minded Chief Justice — an Exercise of Jurisprudential Integrity against Run-Amok Partisanship — Perhaps only a Thoughtful Attorney Can Fully Appreciate the Interpretive Grace Contained in Justice Roberts’ Majority Opinion (29 June 2012)

Remember the Pepper Spraying of Peaceful Students at California-Davis in November 2011? — The Investigative Task Force’s Report Has Been Released and it Lambasts University Authorities (12 April 2012)

The Supreme Court’s Reasoning in Yesterday’s United States v. Jones Decision (about the Fourth Amendment) Illustrates the Kind of “Devil in the Details” Analysis that Is a Necessary Requirement for Meaningful Politics (24 January 2012)

Why Originalism Is an Intellectually Questionable Constitutional Philosophy — and Why Conservatives Are Disingenuous when They Depend on It to Achieve Reactionary Political Positions (17 October 2011)

When the Judiciary Has to Force the Other Two Branches of Government to Act Ethically, Are We Seeing Warning Signs of a Morally Failing Society? — The U.S. Supreme Court’s Decision in Brown v. Plata and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ Opinion in Veterans for Common Sense v. Shinseki (24 May 2011)

A Quiet American Greatness and the Power of Its Good Example — New York Police Arrested International Monetary Fund Director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, on his Alleged Rape Victim’s Story Alone — Women’s Human Rights Attorney Cheryl Thomas Draws Our Attention to What’s Right with the United States (19 May 2011)

If You Are Black and Poor, You Get Thrown in Jail — If You’re White or an Asian Tiger Mom, You Skate — The Case for Jury Nullification (01 February 2011)

While We Americans Lounge around the Illusory Free Market Pool, China Is Taking Authoritarian, Predatory Capitalism to High Strategic Ground (24 January 2011)

Small Study Finds that Decision-Makers Take 40 Percent Longer to Discontinue Life Support in the Absence of Previous Health Care Discussions with Affected Patients — the Importance of Advance Health Care Directives and Agents (21 January 2011)

Alcohol, Impulsivity, and a Finnish Gene — Implications for Freedom of Will and Genetic Manipulation (27 December 2010)

Simultaneously Too Little and Too Much Regulation — a Suggested Fix from Former Virginia Governor, Now Senator Mark R. Warner (16 December 2010)

Racially Motivated Unlawful Detention (Stop-and-Frisk) Allegedly Continue in New York City Law Enforcement (26 October 2010)

Stop and Frisk Gun Reduction Breeds Disguised Harms (2001)

Ending Racial Profiling in Law Enforcement (2001)

Mad Cows and Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease ─ The New Stature of the Precautionary Principle in European Law and Health Practice (April 2001)

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