In Hudson v. Michigan, Antonin Scalia wrote of police violating rights without probable cause “it is not credible to assert that internal discipline, which can limit successful careers, will not have a deterrent effect”. Scalia also wrote “the social costs …
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The “Unconstitutional Conditions Doctrine” or UCD is case law that rich people created to stop the government using money to coerce them. Suppose the government makes a political decision to spend money building houses. The government cannot require private builders …
Judge Carlton Reeves promotes disastrously incorrect ideas that the injustice against Desmond Green is the result of the misconduct of a police officer, rather than the failure of state law and courts to provide due process. If a cop lies …
Human impulses long for a system of information processing and decision making that produces inferior results, socialism. I have many times pointed out that the system which people in Brevard County think is the solution to corruption of their criminal-justice …
Would there be any fentanyl bought or sold if all recreational drugs were legal and had zero costs for smuggling? Evidence is that recreational drug users would not buy any fentanyl given the choice, but fentanyl is progressively pushed into …
HOW POLITICIANS IGNORED BASIC ECONOMICS TO CREATE THE FENTANYL OVERDOSE CRISIS Read more »
Radley Balko is one of these people who advocates a social process for discovering guilt or innocence rather than courts, and then wonders why innocent people are in prison. He might as soon wonder why people go hungry in socialist …
During oral arguments in Trump v. Anderson, the US Supreme Court trashed state courts as incapable of anything but rubber-stamping the will of the executive branch in mock trials. The justices suggested state courts are totally incapable of measuring fact …
STATE COURTS ONLY COMPETENT TO KILL NEGROS (JUST DON’T TOUCH TRUMP OR JESUS) Read more »
Jailhouse informants recite news reporters’ own gossip back to them, leading them to conclude the prosecutor is doing a good job convicting people in the public interest. Notice in the story below about Brittanee Drexel, how the news channel is …
In 1974 Professor Henry G. Manne founded The Law and Economics Center. Manne studied at the University of Chicago when Thomas Sowell’s thesis adviser George Stigler was there. They inherited a tradition from Friedrich von Hayek and Milton Friedman, that …
THE FATAL MISTAKE IN THE CRADLE – THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY AND STATES’ RIGHTS Read more »
On page 251 of “A Conflict of Visions”, Thomas Sowell suggests that judges need to be elected. The Foundation for Economic Education claims that the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 “was motivated by the spirit of Magna Carta”. Hillsdale College misrepresents …
THE RECENT AND MISPLACED EMPHASIS ON VOTER CHOICE IN REPUBLICAN IDEOLOGY Read more »