petitions of the week

Issue: Whether, when there is newly discovered evidence making it more likely than not that, in a new trial, the defendant would be acquitted, it violates the 14th Amendment’s due process clause to deny a new trial based on Ohio’s uniquely elevated burden of proof in which criminal defendants..

decimation of the rainforests and the money men

This article was posted on Friday, September 27th, 2019 at 6 26am and is filed under, Forest Fires, Fossil Fuels, Industrial Farming, Land ownership, Land Use, Life Animal Rights, Logging, Militarism, Neoliberalism, Ocean Acidification, Opinion, Planet Earth, President Jair Bolsonaro, Rain Forests,..

some people never learn

Even the ABC identified problems with the article: . An internal ABC review found significant problems with the article, including that it didn’t mention that all the largest five and most of the top-ten companies by value pay corporate tax; that depreciation, amortisation and operating..

constitutional chaos in america

Judicial review is nowhere to be found in the text of Article III, and the Court is merely supreme over lower federal courts. ... It permitted the Necessary and Proper Clause to mean needful and helpful, rather than necessary. ..

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