I just read Snipes’s petiton for cert and discovered that his lawyers’ arguments are wackier than I had first thought. Before his criminal trial Wesley Snipes claimed that venue was not proper in the Middle District of Florida, Ocala Division. The Court then allowed the venue issue to be presented to the jury. The jury found, by [...]
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We are all familiar with Parkinson’s Law which states: Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. After following the big tent circus some people like to call the Wesley Snipes tax case, I have discovered a new law: The number of legal arguments available to a Defendant increases in proportion to the [...]
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Race and gender hustlers have done an excellent job over the years of convincing minorities that only government officials who share their countenance and culture will treat them fairly. For example, the idea that a white police officer might be just as inclined as a black officer to treat a black citizen with dignity and respect is foreign to them. And the idea [...]
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The Wall Street Journal reports that President Obama will nominate Solicitor General Elena Kagan to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by the retirement of Justice John Paul Stevens: In making his choice, aides said the president looked for someone with not only a top legal mind but also the ability to bring people of differing [...]
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Declan McCullagh writing for CNET News says that in spite of being one of the most liberal Justices on the court, John Paul Stevens is the author of arguably the most important pro-business/anti-tax opinion of the e-commerce age: Amazon.com, Newegg.com, Overstock.com, and other major Internet retailers can trace much of their growth in the last [...]
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A fellow named Bret Michael Dykes in article written for Yahoo news makes much of the fact that a majority of Americans are opposed to the Supreme Court’s recent ruling in Citizens United: A new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds that the vast majority of Americans are vehemently opposed to a recent Supreme Court ruling [...]
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The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto spoke with First Amendment God Floyd Abrams a few days ago about the Citizens United decision banning bans on corporate political speech: “Here is a very committed, very conservative entity that does a film attacking then-Sen. Hillary Clinton when she seemed likely to be nominated for president by the Democratic Party,” Mr. Abrams says. “I [...]
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