Erdoğan and the European View of Free Speech
Critics of American free speech exceptionalism — which leads to the protection of some truly vile behavior — often cite Europe. Europe, they say, has[Read More…]
A Group Complaint about Law, Liberty, and Leisure
Critics of American free speech exceptionalism — which leads to the protection of some truly vile behavior — often cite Europe. Europe, they say, has[Read More…]
Filed Under: Law Tagged With: Free Speech
Grand Avenue runs through downtown Los Angeles, from the cathedral on the north side, past the Hall of Administration and the Walt Disney Concert Hall and Bunker Hill, down through the skyscrapers and eventually to the urban sprawl to the south. It's a major artery of the city. Nearly every weekday, in the middle of[Read More…]
Filed Under: Politics & Current Events
If a tree falls in the forest, does it make sound? If a right goes unrecognized and defied by the people charged with enforcing it, is it a right at all? It's not always a philosophical question. Anne King of Washington County, Georgia griped on Facebook that her ex-husband, Corey King, wouldn't go pick up[Read More…]
Filed Under: Law Tagged With: Cops, Criminal Justice, Free Speech
President Trump promised to get rid of a law that restricts churches from engaging in political speech. Trump said he would "totally destroy" the Johnson Amendment. That law is believed to say that if a church endorses or campaigns for political candidates, it loses its tax exempt status. The result has been a wave of[Read More…]
Melania Trump's defamation case against the Daily Mail was dismissed for lack of personal jurisdiction. (source) It does, however, continue against a Maryland based blogger. The Maryland court decided that the Daily Mail, a UK-based publication, had insufficient connections to Maryland to permit a lawsuit against it there. Therefore, there was a lack of personal[Read More…]
Filed Under: Law
Nevada's Anti-SLAPP law has survived a constitutional challenge to its validity in Shapiro v. Welt. Nevada's original anti-SLAPP statute, Nev. Rev. Stat. 41.637 et seq., adopted in 1993. Its protections were limited to speech "in furtherance of the right to petition," and thus it did not provide adequate protections to free speech rights in Nevada[Read More…]
Filed Under: Law
The death penalty in America is grotesque, even if you agree that it is fit for the state to execute someone. I'm not, for the moment, talking about a system that offers only a feeble semblance of due process. I'm not talking about the fact that innocent people are sentenced to death and even executed.[Read More…]
Filed Under: Law, Politics & Current Events
The Attorney General of the United States swears an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, not an oath of loyalty to the president. This is as it should be. We aspire to live by the rule of law, not the rule of any man or woman. The distinction has provided[Read More…]
Filed Under: Law, Politics & Current Events
Just think about that.
Filed Under: Effluvia
I attended a protest in Miami on Friday. The crowd was upset that Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez ordered Miami authorities to cooperate with the federal government and the INS and comply with federal immigration detention policies. Prior to this, Miami was deemed to be a "sanctuary city" – or a city where the local authorities[Read More…]
Filed Under: Law
There are good and bad immigrants. Appleton Morgan explained this in Popular Science (vol 38). Morgan concluded that some immigrants just do not belong in America, no matter how hard we try and make them fit. These immigrants are prone to violence. They do not share our culture. They do not share our language. [Read More…]
Filed Under: Effluvia