The U.S. Supreme Court will hear Reed v Town of Gilbert, 13-502, on January 12, 2015. This is not an election law case, but it is a case involving the First Amendment, and all First Amendment decisions have some impact on election law. The issue in this case is a town ordinance that bans many(More)… …read more
It appears that this is the number of votes received by each party for U.S. House in the November 4, 2014 election: Republican 39,679,791 Democratic 35,450,701 Libertarian 965,396 Working Families 249,112 Green 246,567 Constitution 61,271 other parties 548,720 independent candidates 676,463 This is based on official election returns from each state. It does not include(More)… …read more
“Really? You’re really playing THAT song? Pull over.”
Hialeah, Florida – 26-year-old Cesar Baldelomar, a Harvard University graduate, who is currently attending law school, says that his rights were violated by a local police officer on Thanksgiving morning after he was playing loud music on his car stereo.
Baldelomar says that the officer pulled him over because he was listening to N.W.A.’s classic song “F**k the Police.”
When Officer Harold Garzon came up to the window he allegedly asked the young man, “Really? You’re really playing THAT song? Pull over.”
The officer then reportedly told Baldelomar that it is illegal to play loud music …read more
Time Inc., one of the world’s leading media companies, announced today that it is now accepting bitcoin through an integration with Coinbase. Consumers can now pay for digital and print subscriptions of Fortune, Health, This Old House and print subscriptions of Travel + Leisure using bitcoin.
Time Inc. reaches more than 130 million consumers each month across multiple platforms. With this integration, we’re helping the company further engage and expand its audience by providing consumers with a convenient, secure and fast payment method for subscriptions.
We believe this is an important step in helping the publishing industry understand and explore new business …read more
“It’s pretty pathetic when athletes think they know the law. They should stick to what they know best on the field.”
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Cleveland, OH — The choice of a Cleveland Browns wide receiver to wear a shirt to Sunday’s game that read, “Justice for Tamir Rice – John Crawford” has been met with backlash by the Cleveland Police Union.
Jeff Follmer, the president of the Police Patrolman Union in Cleveland is demanding an apology for Andrew Hawkins decision to practice free speech.
Follmer issued the following statement Sunday, after the game:
It’s pretty pathetic when athletes think they know the law. They should …read more
A time-lapse video depicting Saturday’s Millions March in New York City shows just how many people took to the streets to protest against police brutality in America and demand justice for unarmed black men killed by law enforcement.
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Tens of thousands of Americans across the country joined in massive marches against the killings of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and Tamir Rice, as well as the non-indictment of police officers in two of the cases.
The time-lapse video, uploaded by YouTube user Vinay Pulim on Sunday, shows the view from New York’s Sixth Ave and 29th Street, with people marching past the site …read more
Today we’re excited to announce that we’ve acquired and taken over development of Andrew Vilcsak’s iOS app for Coinbase. Going forward it will be the official Coinbase iOS app. Andrew did a great job with the app, using our open source code base as a starting point and we’d like to thank him for his efforts.
We will be releasing an updated version of the app soon, but the current version is already quite good. You can download and install the app here, or search “Coinbase” on your iPhone.
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The Peach Pundit has this story about Georgia’s very restrictive ballot access laws, and says there is some reason to believe a bill will be introduced in 2015 to make them somewhat less onerous. …read more
Protecting and serving is the new racketeering.
Costa Mesa, California – This week, two former police officers were arrested and charged with felonies after a plot to frame a local politician failed miserably.
Private investigators and former police officers Chris Lanzillo and Scott Impola now face felony charges of illegal use of a tracking device, false imprisonment by deceit, conspiracy to commit a crime and falsely reporting a crime.
The two were not acting independently but were actually hired by Lackie, Dammeier, McGill & Ethir of Upland, a law-firm, which at the time represented over 120 police unions across California.
According to prosecutors, local …read more
“They tried to bury us. They didn’t know, we were seeds.”
On Wednesday, December 10, International Human Rights Day, students at over 70 medical schools across the nation walked out together in protest of the death and pain caused at the hands of the police, calling it a public health emergency.
Students from coast to coast donned their lab coats and laid in silence, most for 4.5 minutes to represent the 4.5 hours Mike Brown’s body laid on display on Canfield Drive on August 9, others staying for 11 minutes for the 11 times Eric Garner plead with officers saying “I can’t …read more
