Tyranny at Nuremberg
Paul Craig Roberts
The showtrial of a somewhat arbitrarily selected group of 21 surviving Nazis at Nuremberg during 1945-46 was US Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson’s show. Jackson was the chief prosecutor. As a long-time admirer of Jackson, I always assumed that he did a good job.
Police Are the New Aristocracy
“Law and order conservatives,” who defend the police regardless of the evidence of the massive crimes the police commit against citizens, have enabled the creation of a new aristocracy that is above the law:
http://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/anything_goes_when_youre_a_cop_in_america
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Authored by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute,
“There is one criminal justice system for citizens - especially black and brown ones - and another for police in the United States.”
- Redditt Hudson, former St. Louis police officer
President Trump needs to be reminded that no one is above the law, especially the police.
All the latest moves coming from Jeff Sessions would seem to imply that the beleaguered Attorney General has every intent of aggressively pushing forward with Trump's agenda in order to mend broken fences with the White House and try to keep his job. The latest such move comes in the form of the following rather direct official statement from Sessions in response to Chicago's lawsuit filed earlier this morning regarding federal funding, or lack thereof rather, for sanctuary cities.
Authored by Ron Paul via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity,
Attorney General Jeff Sessions recently ordered the Justice Department to increase the use of civil asset forfeiture, thus once again endorsing an unconstitutional, authoritarian, and increasingly unpopular policy.
Civil asset forfeiture, which should be called civil asset theft, is the practice of seizing property believed to be involved in a crime. The government keeps the property even if it never convicts, or even charges, the owner of the property.