Last week, the Supreme Court ruled that evidence of a crime can still be used in some cases even if police obtained it illegally. While the 5-3 ruling deals a blow to civil rights in favor of police powers, it is likely to be remembered largely for the powerful dissent penned by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the first Latina justice on the court.
What are your thoughts on the election? The current hate-fest on the Left is just…kind of sad. The Left is famous for tearing itself apart. I’m not sure the purpose of that exercise. Hating on people has never been a great form of social change, so far as we know.
Gabe Roth, Fix the Court, joins Thom. According to a new report from “Fix The Court” - three of the nine Supreme Court justices hold common stock in public companies. But the more alarming part of the report is the fact that those justices voted in the interests of their financial holdings a whopping 89 More
Justice Roberts was appointed by President George W. Bush in 2005. I am reminded that such appointments have some of the greatest impact of any of a president’s decisions, and will probably last long after the president has left office.
The protest was organized by 99Rise. A spokesman for the group, Timothy Brown, who was not among those in the courtroom told Reuters they spent Tuesday night practicing how they would rise in succession and shout slogans including: “Reverse Citizens United” and “Money out of politics.”
Ahead of final sign-off, veteran journalist tells viewers that reaching out to their fellow citizens and neighbors is the essential task in creating the transformation so desperately needed By Jon Queally, staff writer CommonDreams.org October 24, 2014 After more than four decades as a journalist working in the public interest, Bill Moyers might soon be "signing-off" More
Many people don’t know that for a time, Dred Scott lived in Fort Snelling, where he met and married his wife, Harriet Robinson. Full story: MSR News (MN Spokesman Recorder) [youtube=http://youtu.be/0kubhN6dXvk] Published on Aug 18, 2014 http://www.democracynow.org - Just miles away from the scene of the protests in Ferguson lies the grave of Dred More
"....With Tuesday’s orders, the conservative majority has effectively endorsed the idea that religious objections to insurance that covers any form of preventative healthcare for women have merit." By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed Friday, 04 July 2014 09:15 Rise Up Times Editor's Note: Across the world women are under attack. Women in America did not expect these attacks to More
"....With Tuesday’s orders, the conservative majority has effectively endorsed the idea that religious objections to insurance that covers any form of preventative healthcare for women have merit." By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed Friday, 04 July 2014 09:15 Rise Up Times Editor's Note: Across the world women are under attack. Women in America did not expect these attacks to More
A web of deception has finally been untangled: the Justice Department got the US supreme court to dismiss a case that could have curtailed the NSA's dragnet. Why? It turns out neither of two statements that held up in the nation's highest court were true – but it took Snowden's historic whistleblowing to prove it. More
Only 36% of Americans believe the justices usually decide cases based only on the law, according to a new poll Chris Geidner May 6, 2014 BuzzFeed Staff Supreme Court justices attend the State of the Union speech on Jan. 28. Larry Downing / Reuters WASHINGTON — Only about a third of Americans believe the Supreme Court More
[youtube=http://youtu.be/0KgNjsoJCtM] Published on Apr 16, 2014 WikiLeaks whistleblower Chelsea Manning's new legal defense council is preparing for an appeals process that may go up to the Supreme Court. On Sunday, April 13th at 7:30pm, defense council Nancy Hollander and Vincent Ward will be joined by prominent FBI whistleblower Mike German and NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake to More
