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In 2020, the Yale Law Journal published an interesting essay by alum-attorney James Mooney titled “The Power of Police Officers to Give ‘Lawful Orders.’” In it, Mooney observes that an insistence on overbroad discretion “allows police to needlessly escalate confrontations due to civilian confusion or minor noncompliance.”
That’s a pretty good descri
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The defendant appeals a trial court order finding his continued detention necessary due to charges of criminal sexual assault, citing a real threat to safety and community under statutory authority.
ilcourtsaudio.blob.core.windows.netHis seat in Congress was already gone: Homer Thornberry, having won the Democratic primary in the Tenth District, was assured of election in November. And he was in imminent danger of having his reputation tarnished so badly that even if he were to desire another political post—appointive or elective—he might not be able to get it. He was in danger
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson II
The cold divisive logic of the RCO impoverishes us, all of us, and brings us closer to that primitive state that the political philosopher Thomas Hobbes called “the war of every man against every man.”
Alan Jacobs • How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds
Until 1957, in the Senate, as in the House, his record —by that time a twenty-year record—against civil rights had been consistent. And although in that year he oversaw the passage of a civil rights bill, many liberals had felt the compromises Johnson had engineered to get the bill through had gutted it of its effectiveness—a feeling that proved co
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson II
During his first year in the Senate, Johnson had delivered two major speeches. The first, in March, had announced his enlistment in the ranks of the southerners who ran the Senate. The second had demonstrated that he could be an effective leader in their causes. “In the minds of many,” Lowell Mellett wrote, “the shame of the Senate, in the session
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
Even the false argument over why the United States “tilts” toward Israel while the rest of the world is even-handed is often tinged with a not-so-subtle anti-Semitism. “The Jews control America,” it is claimed, and that is why the United States is so pro-Israel.
Alan Dershowitz • The Case for Israel
Jean-Paul Sartre and the Problem of Being “Progressive Except for Palestine”
Ruqaiyah Zarookcurrentaffairs.org
such "fairness" that, as we have seen, triggered the credit crisis of the late 2000s. The common law is under attack, the means of attack is legislation,