Read Justice Sotomayor’s dissent in Utah v. Strieff

On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled 5-3  that the exclusionary rule does not apply when an officer makes an illegal stop, runs a warrant check on the suspect’s ID, learns that the suspect has an outstanding warrant, and then searches the suspect incident to arrest on the warrant. But you need to read Justice Sotomayor’s …

Guy spends five months in Rikers for a $2 debt

Read a stellar example of a broken justice system, here.

So here’s Candidate Drumpf’s list of Supreme Court justice possiblities

They’re white. Every last one of them. Are you surprised? Evidently, Trump’s bypassed the Grade-A conservative-types. Here’s a little more about Judge Raymond Gruender, of Missouri. Here’s a little bit on one of his other choices, William Pryor, who would jail LGBT people for having sex in their homes, according to this.  

Do your job, Senate

A new survey says that 62 percent says that Pres. Obama’s Supreme Court candidate deserves a hearing. According to a new Monmouth University Poll: Specifically, two-thirds say that Pres. Obama’s recent nomination deserves a hearing and 3-in-4 Americans think Senate Republicans are playing politics by refusing to consider to it. Turns out the chief justice …

Want to watch the Apple hearings in D.C. today?

On the East Coast, they start at 1 p.m. and you can watch them on C-SPAN 3 here. You can also watch a live stream from the House Judiciary Committee. Want to know more? Go here. And here’s Apple’s prepared testimony, which they released on Monday.

For this, he breaks his silence?

The news is all over that Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas broke his 10-year silence (a record!) during yesterday’s oral arguments in Voisine v. United States. And the reason he spoke up? To question the gun ban that exists for domestic abusers. During a five-minute exchange with Ilana Eisenstein, the lawyer for the government, the conversation focused: largely on the …

The late Justice Scalia and privacy and you

Or: WWScaliaD in the Apple privacy case, by Rachel Levinson-Waldman, originally posed at Just Security.

RIP Justice Scalia

I couldn’t have disagreed more with Mr. Originalism, but our thoughts go to his family and friends, who are mourning the passing of the Supreme Court justice who died this weekend while on a trip to Texas. The speculation about his possible replacement started immediately. Could Pres. Obama, a Democrat, make an emergency appointment? Well, there’s this: But …

The dreadful illness of povertenza

A rich white boy from Texas escapes serious punishment after killing four people and injuring another while drunk by pleading “affluenza.” Then surely  a poor black boy can plead povertenza as an excuse for appalling behavior. Love that last link, by Jessica Ann Mitchell. Here’s more on rich white boy Ethan Couch and his enabling mother because, as Mitchell writes: Basically, …

Comes now one Sylvia Ann Driskell v. Homosexuals

Sixty-six year old Sylvia Ann Driskell has filed a federal lawsuit, as an ambassador of God and Jesus Christ, against Homosexuals (printed just like that in her own hand), in an attempt to convince the rest of us that homosexuality is a sin. You can read Ms. Driskell’s case here. It is quite involved and …