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Category Archives: Law
Jefferson on Judicial Review
Blowhard, Esq. writes: You seem … to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions; a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest … Continue reading
Posted in Law, Politics and Economics
Tagged judicial review, Supreme Court, Thomas Jefferson
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The Law is a “Propaganda Weapon,” Says Former Supreme Court Justice
Blowhard, Esq. writes: In today’s New York Times editorial page, former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens calls for the repeal of the Second Amendment. In doing so, he attacks the majority decision in DC v. Heller written by Scalia: … Continue reading
Posted in Law, Politics and Economics
Tagged propaganda weapon, Second Amendment, Supreme Court
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Mueller? . . . . Mueller? . . .
Fenster writes: Most of my friends are liberal, which in the current era is to say progressive, which in the current moment is to say increasingly illiberal about a lot of things. A closed mind seems to many to be … Continue reading
Quote Du Jour: Usage Which is Reasonable Generates Usage Which is Unreasonable
Blowhard, Esq. writes: The usages which a particular community is found to have adopted in its infancy and in its primitive seats are generally those which are on the whole best suited to promote its physical and moral well-being; and, if … Continue reading
Possible Good News on Civil Asset Forfeiture
Fenster writes: Fenster is highly suspicious of the practice of civil asset forfeiture, and wrote of the issue here. You may know that the law often allows police or other authorities to keep the ill-gotten gains from a criminal transaction. … Continue reading
Posted in Law, Politics and Economics
Tagged Civil Asset Forfeiture, Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court
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Quote Du Jour: From Pulp Fiction to Sober Reporting
Blowhard, Esq. writes: The Old Bailey Session Papers [the law reports for London’s main criminal court] originated close to an earlier genre of popular literature, the sensation-mongering chapbooks, which were pamphlet crime reports that date back to Elizabethan times. The chapbooks … Continue reading
Quote Du Jour
Blowhard, Esq. writes: At provincial assize courts in the Elizabethan-Jacobean period (1558-1625) the average duration of a trial, including time for jury deliberations, has been reckoned at between fifteen and twenty minutes. These were cases of felony, which still in Elizabethan … Continue reading
Posted in History, Law
Tagged adversary trial, criminal law, criminal procedure, John H. Langbein, Old Bailey
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