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• Constitutional Advocacy Organizations

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 133
       The following organizations provide legal information about and advocacy on behalf of constitutional issues.  Self-descriptions for each organization are provided in quotes.   Alliance for Justice   - "Alliance for Justice is a national association of environmental, civil rights, mental health, ...
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• Editorial: When Prisoners Phone Home

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 906
  Families of inmates in New York State lost a suit seeking damages for exorbitant phone rates, but they did show that prisons shouldn’t be using inmates’ families to balance budgets.
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• Supreme Court Will Rule on Florida Shoreline Protection Program

  
  EcoSalon — Authority: 537
  It’s a classic feud predicated upon the idea I have my land, now you cannot have yours . In this case, the land is the pristine white beach that stretches along the Florida Panhandle, a beach that has been restored over the past 30 years through a renourishment and restoration program . Turns out homeowners with ...
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• Top ten reasons the Founding Fathers would do it over again today

  
  The Ohio Republic — Authority: 131
  From Matt Biancos blog, The Bound Dragon : Some of the same reasons Thomas Jefferson enumerated in his Declaration of Independence and for which the Founding Fathers who signed it declared independence from Great Britain and King George III’s rule in 1776 apply today to the current United States Government. ...
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• Where Was The Libertarian Party?

  
  Last Free Voice — Authority: 104
  Election Day 2009 has come and gone. Relatively speaking, this election was as insignificant as any off-year election is, as opposed to a mid-term election, but it still could have been an important year for the Libertarian Party, if we had simply bothered to show up. There were six elections / ballot initiatives ...
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• Great Cases Dont Always Make Bad Law

  
  Litigation and Trial - Max Kennerly — Authority: 409
  As Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote , Great cases, like hard cases, make bad law. For great cases are called great, not by reason of their importance in shaping the law of the future, but because of some accident of immediate overwhelming interest which appeals to the feelings and distorts the judgment. ...
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• Sheepshead’s Senators Stand Alone In Gay Rights Battle

  
  Sheepshead Bites — Authority: 140
  A distinction to be proud of? We think not.Sheepshead Bay’s two state senators – Carl Kruger (D) and Marty Golden (R) – remain the only Brooklyn-area representatives standing against gay marriage in New York.Of the nine members of the Brooklyn delegation to the State Senate, seven have publicly stated support ...
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• Partial Judicial Immunity Granted To Corrupt Luzerne County Judges

  
  Litigation and Trial - Max Kennerly — Authority: 409
  Following up on my post of two weeks ago on judicial immunity in the "kids for cash" Luzerne County scandal , Judge Caputo of the Middle District of Pennsylvania issued his ruling yesterday, which holds in pertinent part: For judicial immunity to apply, only two requirements need to be met: jurisdiction over ...
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• Heroic Human Rights Lawyer Lynne Stewart is Jailed By Stephen Lendman

  
  Creative-i — Authority: 149
  Defiant to the end as she embraced supporters outside the federal courthouse in Lower Manhattan, Lynne F. Stewart, the radical lawyer known for defending unpopular clients, surrendered on Thursday to begin serving her 28-month sentence for assisting terrorism.
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• PARENTS RIGHTS ACTIVIST MURTARI IMPRISONED FOR CHALK PROTEST, AND RELEASED

  
  Stop Corrupt DSS — Authority: 136
  Parents rights activist Murtari imprisoned for chalk protest, and released   http://www.examiner.com/x-15873-Family-Rights-Examiner~y2009m11d16-Parents-rights-activist-Murtari-imprisoned-for-chalk-protest Parent activist and founder of akidsright.org, John Murtari was arrested today in Lyons, NY after a ...
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• The Pledge of Allegiance controversy continues (*sigh*)

  
  The Ohio Republic — Authority: 131
  Scott Piepho, publisher of Phos Akron Pages , cites a story from the Youngstown Vindicator about a high school student in Hubbard who conscientiously objects to reciting the Pledge of Allegiance: Roxanne Westover, 17, of Elmwood Drive, had been reprimanded by the school for refusing to stand during the ...
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• Bill OReilly v Judge Andrew Napolitano

  
  The Ohio Republic — Authority: 131
  This exchange was posted today on the LewRockwell.com blog . In the midst of a discussion of the upcoming trial of Khalid Shaikh Muhammed for 9-11, Judge Napolitano (at 1:51) attempts to explain the Constitution to Mr. OReilly, for which he was rewarded with this: "I dont care about the Constitution. Dont be a ...
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• Why Are You Read Your Rights?

  
  Yodle Local Articles — Authority: 156
  It has become standard procedure for law enforcement to “read your rights” to you before you are arrested or questioned in jail. But, have you ever wondered why they do it? It seems so monotonous and begrudging for an officer to have to repeat the five or six sentences to every person they arrest, regardless of ...
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• Democracy; Tool of Enslavement

  
  The Proud Political Junkie's Gazette — Authority: 139
   by: Alan Adaschik“Remember, democracy never lasts long.  It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” – John Quincy AdamsWho among us can stand against democracy?  Isn’t it the most ideal form of government?  What better way is there to decide ...
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• Judge: Feds must grant gay lawyer insurance pay

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 175
  San Francisco, CA (AP) -- A federal lawyer who was prevented from enrolling his same-sex spouse in his government-sponsored health plan must be reimbursed the cost of outside insurance and other medical expenses, a California judge ruled Tuesday. Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Stephen Reinhardt said Brad ...
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• Same Sex Marriage, the Courts, and Religious Liberty: How Much of a Conflict?

  
  The League of Ordinary Gentlemen — Authority: 677
  Time for some blawging. Rod Dreher makes the case, once again, that same-sex marriage presents a unique and unavoidable conflict that will drastically undermine religious liberty in this nation, concluding that the ”conflict between gay rights and religious liberty is deep, serious and irresolvable to the ...
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• Buenos Aires grants first marriage license to gays

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  (Buenos Aires) Two men were granted a marriage license in Argentina’s capital on Monday, breaking ground in a country and region where laws ban gay marriage. Jose Maria Di Bello and his partner Alex Freyre won the right to get married when a judge ruled last week that a ban on gay marriage violates Argentina’s ...
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• TIRED OF CPS AND CASA STEALING YOUR CHILDREN?

  
  Free the FLDS Children - AKA The Freedom Liberty Defenders Society — Authority: 470
  November 16, 2009 Key Objectives: Join us for for Children’s Day for Parental Rights in Washington, D.C. Call your congressman on “Universal Children’s Day.” Host a meeting in your district! Dear Region 4 State Leaders & District Coordinators , We have been ...
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• And Justice For All: 9/11 Suspects To Be Put On Trial, Pt. II

  
  Democrashield.com — Authority: 432
  One of the more idiotic talking points I’ve heard on the Obama administration’s decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and several other 9/11 suspects in criminal court is that, by doing so, the administration is somehow granting those individuals rights they otherwise wouldn’t be entitled to.But it doesn’t ...
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• RAYMOND JESSOP PREPARES FOR HIS PERSECUTION.

  
  Free the FLDS Children - AKA The Freedom Liberty Defenders Society — Authority: 470
  I,ve been asked how Raymond is doing while he awaits the paperwork necessary to put him into the State’s “Corrections” system. Like so many Mormon’s before him, he is not happy with the prospect of being persecuted for his religious beliefs, but also knows that his fate is in the hands of Heavenly Father, ...
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