Mississippi man facing 7th trial on same charges
The Ninth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is quite simple in its language: The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not ...
Category: Due process
Presume Michael Avenatti innocent
Since I get a lot of flak from those I know about not bashing the right “enough”, I’m going to take this opportunity to do just that. One of t...
Understand Kavanaugh’s response to the allegations
Now that the nomination is through the Senate Judiciary Committee, let’s look back a moment at the allegations themselves and how they were being made. Fo...
Presume Brett Kavanaugh is innocent
Two things are definitely true about the accusation against Brett Kavanaugh: It is impossible to know if the allegation is true, and Democrats don’t care,...
Why police may not act on tips
After the recent tragedy in Florida, one question I’ve seen raised numerous times can be boiled down to this: why did the FBI and local police not act on ...
As we leave 2017
One lesson all of us should learn ahead of this Christmas given everything that’s happened politically in 2017 and also 2016: RIGHTS limit how the governm...
On improving our situation regarding firearms
This is a comment I left on a Huffington Post article called “I Have A Mental Illness And A Gun License. Here’s What I Think Of Gun Reform.” by Thom...
Legislating from the bench
Recently I got into an online argument — surprise, I know! — over the Controlled Substances Act and the extent of Congress’s interstate and in...
Revisiting Brock Turner
There’s a big reason we don’t have “justice” in the United States: justice is not objective. It’s entirely subjective. What is ...
Limiting the exercise of rights, and the risks of freedom
I go further, and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and to the extent in which they are contended for, are not only unnecessary in the proposed Constitu...