Carl Schmitt and the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Supreme courts, power, and the exception.
Carl Schmitt, whom I have written about extensively in the past, is very relevant to things that are going on now.
Jacob Blake Sr. Makes Plea To Our Common Humanity After Lack Of Charges In Breonna Taylor Killing
“Can’t we all just get along?” Where have we heard that before?
Two police officers shot amid Louisville protests over Breonna Taylor ruling
Would it be accurate to say that a low-intensity civil war is no underway? Reuters LOUISVILLE, Kentucky, Sept 23 (Reuters) – Two police officers were shot and wounded late on Wednesday in Louisville, Kentucky, during protests ignited by a grand jury decision that civil rights activists decried as […]
Ex-Louisville police Officer Brett Hankison charged with wanton endangerment in Breonna Taylor case
If this Brett Hankison dude was a civilian, I’m pretty sure he would have had more serious charges brought against him. One set of laws for the king’s knights, another set of laws for everyone else. By Minyvonne Burke and Tim Stelloh NBC News One of the police […]
Officer shot, protests escalate after Breonna Taylor probe yields no direct charges for police
And another round begins… Richmond.Com Louisville police say an officer has been shot amid protests over a lack of direct criminal charges for officers in Breonna Taylor’s shooting death. The statement did not elaborate on the condition of the officer or the circumstances of the shooting. That development […]
SCOTUS Hysteria Is A Mass DELUSION Created By Elites
This commentary is pretty good.
Should Trump Appoint A SCOTUS Nominee In An Election Year?
GOP Will Play Dems For Suckers On SCOTUS Forever
The ongoing leftward shift of US culture combined with an increasingly solid Republican control of the courts should make for an interesting political future.
How The Elites RIGGED Supreme Court Politics To Cover Their Corporate Scam
Saager nails it in this. Fortunately, I am neither a “cultural conservative” nor a “cultural progressive” so I don’t need to care about all this Supreme Court stuff.
Crisis Triggered By RBG Death Reveals DEEP POLITICAL ROT At Heart Of US System
The system keeps falling apart.
What Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Death Means for America
The tribal civil war is about to intensify. Btw, if anyone thinks Old Hag Ruthie was a friend of freedom, liberty, rights, etc, then check out the Bennis v. Michigan case. By Russell Berman The Atlantic A furious battle over a Supreme Court vacancy is arguably the last […]
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dead at 87
Another battle royale is coming. CBS News Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died at the age of 87 from complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer. According to a statement from the court, Ginsburg died surrounded by her family at her home in Washington, D.C. Norah O’Donnell anchors […]
Study provides first estimate of total US population with felony convictions
Eight percent of the US population are convicted felons. Science Daily New research led by a University of Georgia sociologist on the growth in the scope and scale of felony convictions finds that, as of 2010, 3 percent of the total U.S. population and 15 percent of the […]
As Many Americans Have Criminal Records as College Diplomas
There are more Americans who have a criminal record than Americans who have a dog. Awesome. By Matthew Friedman Brennan Center The number of Americans with a criminal history has risen sharply over the past three decades. Today, nearly one-third of the adult working age population has a […]
Why Are More Americans Than Ever Getting Busted?
The ever-expanding police state. By J.D. Tuccille Reason With the crime rate continuing its decades-long slide, why are arrests way up? The answer matters, because arrest records—and subsequent convictions—tend to cast a shadow, limiting people’s options and reducing their income for the rest of their lives. That is, […]
How Many Americans Have a Police Record? Probably More Than You Think
Criminals are the largest and most oppressed of all minorities. Crime Power Forever! Jo Craven McGinty Wall Street Journal Pop quiz: How many American adults have a criminal history? a) 5% b) 15% c) 30% It’s often reported that nearly 1 in 3 American adults, or about 30%, […]
Krystal and Saagar DEBATE: Should Violent Protesters Be Charged With Sedition By Bill Barr?
There is a little too much “law talk” in this segment for my tastes. The ideal situation would be for the center-right, center-left, far-right, and far-left to fight, both in the electoral system/political institutions and in the streets, to the point that none of these can achieve anything […]
Police or Prosecutor Misconduct Is at Root of Half of Exoneration Cases, Study Finds
By Aimee Ortiz New York Times Official misconduct played a role in the criminal convictions of more than half of innocent people who were later exonerated, according to a new report by a registry that tracks wrongful convictions. According to the report, by the National Registry of Exonerations, […]
Ain’t Nobody’s Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in a Free Society
Peter McWilliams’ classic from the early 90s. McWilliams himself later became a casualty of the state. The primary cause of police misconduct, mass incarceration, and related issues is overcriminalization, not lack of police “training,” lack of social worker cops, private prisons, or even racism in some abstract sense. […]
A Judge Asked Harvard to Find Out Why So Many Black People Were In Prison. They Could Only Find 1 Answer: Systemic Racism
The problem with “systemic racism” analysis of this kind is that, while not factually wrong on its face, no context is provided. The assumption is that the present system would be fine if only it were less racist, which has the effect of obscuring and obfuscating critiques of […]
Edward Snowden Fully Vindicated In Court Ruling
Andrew Cuomo Says 4,000-Person NYPD Social-Distancing Taskforce Needed Before He’ll Allow Indoor Dining in NYC
The therapeutic police state. By Christian Britschgi, Reason New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) said on a press call today that he would not allow indoor dining to return in New York City unless local politicians devoted significant police resources to enforcing social distancing and other reopening conditions. […]
Officer charged in fatal shooting of Black man at San Francisco Walmart
By Jordan Freiman CBS News A police officer in San Leandro, California, has been charged with voluntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a Black man wielding a baseball bat inside a Walmart, Alameda County District Attorney Nancy E. O’Malley announced Wednesday. Officer Jason Fletcher shot and killed 33-year-old […]
William Barr: ‘I don’t think there are two justice systems’
I would be willing to concede for the sake of argument that there is only one system and that the system sucks so fuck you Fat Billy, you double-chinned slob. By Katelyn Polantz, Caroline Kelly and Christina Carrega CNN Attorney General William Barr, in an exclusive interview on […]
The Abolition Movement
By Josie Duffy Rice Vanity Fair Long before the internet caught wind of him, Henry Earl was already a local legend. By the time the Charleston Gazette dubbed him a “cult-status hero” and Newsweek called him the “town drunk,” Earl was already known around Lexington, Kentucky, as James […]
The Cato Institute on Overcriminalization
The Cato Institute, another Republican think-tank that is Koch-funded, likewise makes an indirect case for “civil unrest.” By Tim Lynch Cato Institute Policymakers should Override the old maxim that “ignorance of the law is no excuse” (given the breadth of the criminal codes now on the books, that […]
The Heritage Foundation on Overcriminalization
The Heritage Foundation, a Republican think tank, inadvertently makes the case for “civil unrest.” Heritage Foundation 1. The criminal code should reflect common understandings of morality, rather than political opportunism (such as responding to crises to appease voters). 2. Today, it is estimated that nearly 5,000 federal statutes […]
Kamala Harris Is No Ally to Transwomen
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “I have never really understood exactly what a ‘liberal’ is, since I have heard ‘liberals’ express every conceivable opinion on every conceivable subject. As far as I can tell, you have the extreme right, who are fascist racist […]
Barr ‘vehemently opposed’ to pardoning Snowden
Associated Press Politico WASHINGTON — Attorney General William Barr said he would be “vehemently opposed” to any attempt to pardon former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, after the president suggested he might consider it. The attorney general’s comments in an interview with The Associated Press come days […]
Join my fight to free Julian Assange and stop US extradition
By Stella Morris I am the partner of Julian Assange and the mother of his two sons. I am fighting against his extradition to the United States. Julian’s story The charges Julian faces concern the WikiLeaks exposures ten years ago of US war crimes and human rights abuses. […]
Bannon INDICTED Revealing Deep Grifting Instinct In Republican Party
The selective prosecution of just another fraudster political functionary.
Bannon’s indictment raises more uneasy questions about William Barr’s SDNY gambit
On the surface, this looks like a Deep State/Democrat collusion, unless Barr is secretly assuming the role of Heinrich Himmler against Bannon’s Ernst Rohm. Given that this article is from WaPo (the Bezos-owned Voice of Deep State), it’s hard to tell. By Aaron Blake Two months ago, Attorney […]
Steve Bannon charged with defrauding donors in private effort to raise money for Trump’s border wall
In our system of soft totalitarian police statism and hyper criminalization, with an arcane legal code creating hundreds of thousands of arrestable acts, everyone is technically a “criminal,” which is one reason why I can’t get too worked up about “crime” on a general level. By all means, […]
Kamala Harris Hopes You’ll Forget Her Record as a Drug Warrior & Draconian Prosecutor
With Biden and Harris on the ticket, the Democraps have arguably moved to the right of Trump, or are at least in a dead heat with Trump in terms of who is most “far-right.”
Kamala Harris’ Prosecutors Sent This Innocent Man to Prison
How progressive.
More FBI members have been indicted than Trump family members
A New York mafia family (the Trumps) vs a DC-based criminal gang (the FBI).
2020 Dem platform: Radically transform the federal courts
I generally agree with Paul’s and Joseph’s argument that as soon as they get a comfortable enough electoral majority, the Democrats will likely move toward restructuring the electoral system in a way that will essentially allow them to maintain permanent victory, through methods like court-packing, increasing the size […]
‘I’m Not Scared’: She Faces Life in Prison After Allegedly Buying Red Protest Paint
By Kelly Weill The Daily Beast Madalena McNeil is accused of buying red paint before a protest. Under aggressive new criminal charges, it could mean she spends the rest of her life in prison. McNeil, 28, was among four people charged Tuesday for their alleged actions at a […]
Mother stood ground, faces 20 years
These cases illustrate why Republicans are worthless even on 2nd Amendment issues. The laws under which all of these people were charged were made by Florida Republicans during the anti-crime hysteria of the 1990s. Over and over again, Republicans show that they are more interested in sucking off […]
The New Gun Control
Here is why “conservatives” are ultimately self-defeating on the gun control issue. Conservatives will infinitely claim fidelity to the 2nd Amendment, but they will turn around and favor mandatory minimums for any “unlawful” use of a firearm. So someone actually uses a firearm in self-defense, gets criminal charges, […]
Utah protesters face potential life sentence due to “gang” law
I always said that anti-gang laws were not only a violation of freedom of association but would eventually be used as a means of repressing political dissidents. By Li Cohen CBS News Black Lives Matter protesters in Salt Lake City have been accused of splashing paint on a […]
Many Americans Are Convinced Crime Is Rising In The U.S. They’re Wrong.
The reason Americans have an exaggerated fear of crime is that for decades the System has promoted anti-crime hysteria in order to justify the building of a police state. It is true that crime rates started to dramatically increase in the late 1960s when Nixon introduced the “war […]
Coleman Hughes on Race, Black Lives Matter, Policing, Trump
This is a good discussion.
Will ‘Law and Order’ Win Trump Reelection?
This interview contains my general take on the great lumpenproletarian cultural revolution of 2020 from a Howard Cosell perspective.
US sheriffs rebel against state mask orders even as Covid-19 spreads
Now, if these sheriffs would start rebelling against a whole lot more laws, we might have something. By Jason Wilson The Guardian Sheriffs around the country are refusing to enforce or are even actively resisting Covid-19 mask laws and lockdowns, while others have permitted or encouraged armed vigilantism […]
Epstein Docs UNSEALED, Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew, Dershowitz NAMED
Krystal and Saagar share their thoughts on new documents revealing the names of powerful people who allegedly visited Jeffrey Epstein’s private island.
ACLU Asks Judge to Find Federal Agents in Portland in Contempt of Court for Violating Order
By Tess Riski Williamette Weekly The American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon on Tuesday asked U.S. District Judge Michael Simon to find federal agents in contempt of the court for violating a July 23 restraining order that prohibited the federal officers from attacking journalists and legal observers covering Portland […]
ProPublica posts NYPD records, bypassing judge’s blockade
A sign that a state is losing its legitimacy is when judicial orders are openly defied, or when there are violent attacks on the judiciary. There was an assassination attempt on a federal judge in New Jersey last week, and now the alternative media is simply saying to […]
The Truth About Critical Methods | James Lindsay
James Lindsay on the theology of the new theocracy. The two most important things that are happening in the developed world at the present time are the re-feudalization of class relations and the growth of totalitarian humanism as the self-legitimating ideology of the rising ruling class. Just as […]
New poll reveals who voters see as LAW & ORDER president
Interestingly, it’s about even between Trump and Biden.
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