They don't give a liquid shit about you or your family. I posted a note in this space a week or so ago from my sister begging people to stop hoarding (that is, stockpiling more than they need) the highest quality N95 masks that healthcare workers need desperately. But...
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3/27/20 Patrick Jaicomo on Our Unaccountable Overlords
Patrick Jaicomo of the Institute for Justice discusses the (brief) history of the "qualified immunity" doctrine, which makes it very difficult for civilians to sue government agents for constitutional rights violations. Jaicomo breaks down the different types of legal...
Prison Officials Refuse to Let ‘Likely Innocent’ Death Row Inmate Get COVID-19 Test
And when they say, "likely," that's in the words of the District Attorney's office, which has completely disavowed their predecessors' unjust prosecution of this man. So why is he still in prison at all? I tell you what.
States Lifting Regulations to Help Business During COVID-19 Shows How Useless These Laws Are
From the start of the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States, state and local governments responded in various ways from issuing emergency orders—citywide shutdowns to school closures and beyond—but it’s the suspension of various laws and regulations that is...
9th. Circuit Ferry Fight Has Potential To Free Up Entrepreneurs
Pasadena, Calif.—On Monday, March 30, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will consider a case in which two entrepreneurs have spent 23 years trying to travel 55 miles by boat—and they have yet to reach their destination. Read the full article at the Institute for...
Politicians Have Used This Crisis to Remind Us They’re Mostly Wannabe Dictators
The virus has unleashed petite tyrants to haunt their tiny jurisdictions, using the cover of crisis to arrogate powers belonging to the people. Witness Robert J. Taylor, mayor of Ostrander, Ohio (population: 643 in the 2010 census), who just declared his village to be...
Amid COVID-19 Outbreak, Arrests Plummet, Departments Close and Chaos Does NOT Ensue
As TFTP reported last week, prisons across the country are facing potential massive outbreaks inside their walls and are being forced to make the decision to release non-violent offenders to stave off catastrophe. Thousands of non-violent prisoners have been released...
News Roundup 3/25/20
US News Colorado abolishes the death penalty. The governor also reduced the sentences of the last three remaining death row inmates to life in prison without parole. [Link] A commission examining if the US should include women in the draft or abolish it reached the...
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