Notes from the Resistance
So, there’s no right to set a broken bone? No right to an ambulance? No right to heart surgery? No right to, say, atorvastatin? We can outlaw any medical procedure because there no right to one? You see, you don’t understand the nature of rights, or the American system of government. Under our system, people are free to conduct themselves as they like, be who they like, live as they like, however they want, as long as their actions don’t injure others. The government curtails that freedom only when it must, to protect others, and then only in the narrowest way possible consistent with that protection. That’s what freedom is. [More]
Apparently, the right to be free against being dragooned or robbed to service or pay for the above isn’t part of his (?) understanding of the nature of rights or the American system of government.
But thanks for the lecture on what freedom is.
New Mexico Is the Second State to Ban Qualified Immunity [More]
I’d say it’s about time the anti-gun Democrats did something I agree with, but I’m fearing the devil will be in the details and this will open the door to all kinds of leftist chaos and wealth transfers from the productive…
[Via bondmen]
‘THEN THEY CAME FOR ME…’ [More]
Paul Valone detects a pattern.
Another Federal Judge Rejects the DOJ’s Argument That Cannabis Consumers Have No Second Amendment Rights [More]
And then there’s action on the restraining order front…
I’ll bet a lot of “prohibited person” exclusions could be overturned with the right case, starting with the “one year” nonsense that has no bearing on proven proclivities for violence.
All to say, the Supreme Court’s original justification for qualified
immunity—that Congress wouldn’t have abrogated common-law
immunities absent explicit language—is faulty because the 1871 Civil Rights Act expressly included such language. Those sixteen lost words, by presumably encompassing state common-law principles, undermine the doctrine’s long professed foundation and underscore that what the 1871 Congress meant for state actors who violate Americans’ federal rights is not immunity, but liability—indeed, liability notwithstanding any state law to the contrary. [More]
So the whole scam is exactly that, and it’s within the power of the Supreme Court to end it…?
[Via Michael G]
Last month, Bianca Clayborne and Deonte Williams were driving through rural Tennessee with their five young children when they were pulled over. When police found 5 grams of marijuana in the car, Williams was arrested and the five children were seized by local child protective services. One month later, the couple is still fighting to regain custody of their children. [More]
Securing the Blessings of Liberty again, are you, you badged thugs?
These outrages are perpetrated on citizens by real people with names. Those ought to be known so we can see what kind of snouts are in the public trough.
And remember: Back the Blue!
[Via Michael G]
Then her father did “what any dad would—he went to hug his crying kid,” says Kaplan. “And at that point he was arrested. With handcuffs.” [More]
What can I say but “New Jersey“?
Things sure have changed since I was his daughter’s age. Kids playing unsupervised outside was the norm back in the days before widespread Ritalin prescriptions, school shootings, “single mothers,” DEI, “groomers,” and “gender dysphoria”.
This is what we stand for, above all else [More]
Yeah, well how do you vote?
Kenton County District Court Judge Ann Ruttle will be suspended for two weeks without pay in May after the Judicial Conduct Commission found she denied appointment of council to a defendant in 2021 who couldn’t afford one in a criminal case, according to court records. [More]
That’s just the way some like it.
[Via Michael G]
FBI Shielded Identities Of Undercover Assets Who May Have Been Inside Capitol On Jan. 6, Whistleblower Says [More]
“It’s going to turn out that they set this whole thing up, isn’t it?“
[Via Michael G]
“Friend was violating no law by standing on the sidewalk and displaying his sign, and [Police Sgt. Richard] Gasparino had no lawful reason to order him to desist from that conduct,” the appeals court ruled. [More]
If he wanted to engage in police-approved speech in Stamford, he should have become a paid gunsnitch.
That said, it’s probably unfair for me to judge Sgt. Gasparino until I’ve goose-stepped a mile in his jackboots.
Kinda helps explain why Connecticut is so hot for unending citizen disarmament schemes…
The ruling is major for many reasons, including that the government tried to claim that charter boat fishing is a “closely-regulated industry” to which the Fourth Amendment does not apply. [More]
Ah, the Scarborough Doctrine of authorized free speech exercisers…
And don’t forget Hogg’s Resurrected Postulate…
[Via Michael G]
