As previously noted, on November 10, a U.S. District Court struck down Nebraska’s county distribution requirement for statewide initiatives. Here is an editorial from Omaha’s daily newspaper, which seems to approve of the decision, but which also advocates that the legislature require signatures from each of Nebraska’s three U.S. House districts. …read more
This story says the percentage of registered voters who voted in some California congressional and legislative races was only one-fourth of the registered voters. The story quotes several experts who express dismay, but no one quoted in the article mentions the point that perhaps California voters don’t like general election ballots with only two candidates(More)… …read more
Saratoga Springs, Utah – Two months ago, 22-year-old Darrien Hunt was shot and killed by police while wearing a samurai costume that included a fake sword.
As with most police murders, the officers claimed that they were in fear for their lives, and that Hunt was attempting to attack them with his fake sword.
The police department has been largely silent in the aftermath of the killing, it even took the internal affairs investigators weeks to finally even get around to interviewing the officers responsible for the murder.
The few details that have been released from the police department have all been …read more
Mistakes are not mistakes when they serve an intended purpose.
Ferguson, MO– Lawrence O’Donnell has exposed prosecutors in the case of Officer Darren Wilson’s killing of unarmed teenager Michael Brown – proving the demonstrators fears of misconduct to be absolutely correct.
On September 16, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Kathy Alizadeh handed the grand jury a copy of Missouri statute 563.046- the state’s use of force doctrine.
This 1979 doctorine was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court based entirely on the portion of the statute that was helpful to Officer Darren Wilson, the part that states police officers are permitted to shoot any suspect that’s …read more
This article describes the arguments on both sides in federal court on Wednesday, November 26, in Congressman Ron Barber’s lawsuit over whether certain voters unlawfully had their ballots rejected. A decision might come on Friday, November 28. …read more
Murray Rankin, the member of Parliament for Victoria, British Columbia, has this op-ed in the Times Colonist, the daily newspaper for Victoria. Rankin argues in favor of proportional representation for Canada. The comments underneath the article are interesting. Many commenters don’t realize that there are systems of proportional representation that do allow voters to choose(More)… …read more
Two journalists from a Russian news agency were attacked by a group of youths during unrest in Ferguson. Police then refused to help them get to their car. After later discovering their vehicle had been burnt, they struggled to file a police report.
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A police car burns on the street after a grand jury returned no indictment in the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri November 24, 2014.(Reuters / Jim Young)
Two correspondents – a Russian citizen working for RIA Novosti and a UK national and freelance journalist from Sputnik agency – were attacked on the street by a group of …read more
Cleveland, Ohio – As we reported earlier this week, police in Cleveland shot and killed a 12-year-old boy who was playing with a toy gun in a local park.
Without any hesitation, police shot young Tamir Rice because they allegedly believed that he was pointing the gun at them, although the person who dialed 9-1-1 told them twice that the gun was “probably fake.” After they killed him, police inspected the gun to discover that it was an air soft pellet-gun, which is basically a toy.
Now, video surveillance footage of the encounter seems to contradict the official story, but unfortunately, the …read more
The unofficial election returns for U.S. House, Arizona 2nd district, are: Republican Martha McSally 109,704; Democratic incumbent Ron Barber 109,543. This is so close, there will be a recount. But Congressman Barber, along with some voters, have filed a federal lawsuit which argues that some legal votes were not counted. Barber v Bennett, 4:14cv-2489. It(More)… …read more
On November 21, the Ohio Libertarian Party filed this reply brief in Libertarian Party of Ohio v Husted, s.d., 2:13cv-953. The issue in the lawsuit at this point is whether SB 193, passed in late 2013, which rewrote the definition of “political party”, is constitutional. One of the Libertarian Party’s contentions is that the 2013(More)… …read more
