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Terrorist Expatriation Act

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If it passes, you can lose your U.S. citizenship if you are found to have provided material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization (as designated by the Secretary of State) or participated in actions against the United States.
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Double jeopardy: can 2 states both prosecute you for murder?

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In the early 1980s, a man living in Alabama arranged for the kidnapping and murder of his wife. The kidnapping occurred in Alabama, but the murder took place across state lines - the victim's body was found in a car in Georgia.
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Arizona's police-state, anti-immigrant law terrorizes locals

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On Monday, the Arizona legislature passed a new immigration law that not only allows racial profiling, it legally requires it. The police in Arizona may now stop anyone for any reason - or for no reason at all - and demand the person produce documentation that he or she is a U.S. citizen. This measure will harass U.S. citizens who happen to be Hispanic, and it will terrorize and intimidate the undocumented workers who reside in the state.
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British court denies right to jury: first time in 400 years

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Earlier this month, a British judge sentenced defendants in a criminal case without any sitting jury, for the first time in 400 years. The whole point of a jury is to serve as a bulwark against arbitrary state punishment or an overzealous prosecutor. Abolishing the right to a jury offends basic notions of civil liberties and democratic rights.
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Will Obama appoint someone more liberal than Stevens?

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Stevens described himself as "pretty darn conservative" in a 2007 interview for the New York Times magazine, and yet everyone else on the court is to his political right. Stevens' retirement spells doom for liberal reform, let alone radical change, coming from the Supreme Court in the future.
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Should 3 strike laws be unconstitutional?

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In Harmelin v. Michigan, the defendant was convicted of possession of 672 grams of cocaine and was given the mandatory sentence of life without possibility of parole. Should the Supreme Court find a proportionality requirement between sentence and crime inherent in the 8th Amendment?
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D.C. bill: teachers to be fired for sex with students

Emergency legislation sponsored by D.C. Council member Kwame Brown (D-At Large) would go part of the way toward addressing that issue, by requiring the school system to fire any teacher who is found to have engaged in a sex act with a student, regardless of the student's age.
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USEFUL

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Commons Sense

Refining a theory of the commons, Dr. Koepsell distinguishes among commons by choice, commons by practical necessity, and commons by logical necessity.
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Should Retroactive Registration Laws Apply to Sex Offenders?

Read this one slowly, it's a good one. If a law requires you to register as a sex offender is passed after you commit the offense, is it fair to charge you with breaking that law? "Carr was clearly in violation of Indiana law, but claims he shouldn't be subject to punishment under SORNA, a law that went into effect more than a year after he moved to Indiana and three years after committing the sex offense."
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Shon Hopwood, Mediocre Criminal Turned Top Jailhouse Lawyer

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Mr. Hopwood spent much of that time in the prison law library, and it turned out he was better at understanding the law than breaking it. He transformed himself into something rare at the top levels of the American bar, and unheard of behind bars: an accomplished Supreme Court practitioner.
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FAIR

FOUL

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Did Apple's Law Firm Confirm The Tablet?

An interesting bit of drama unfolded on the Internet when Gawker Media recently offered $100,000 for pictures and/or information of the unannounced Apple tablet. Predictably, Apple's law firm has struck back, issuing a cease and desist letter to Gawker Media. How much can be assumed by what Apple's lawyers say?
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Microsoft Word Gets Facelift -- InformationWeek

It looks like the courts still have power over monopoly; that patents from the less huge can still be upheld against the huge usurper. Maybe we should sue our representatives who follow the money too, instead of the peoples' patent.
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