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How often do police officers use the excuse that they smelled marijuana to justify searching people and cars?
If you get into a car accident in Texas would you expect the police to order a “forced blood draw” because they claimed to smell marijuana? Continue reading “Chief Deputy Claims Airbag Deployment Smelled Like Marijuana”
When two Nashville police officers responded to a home burglary report in 2014, they found Alexander Baxter hiding in a basement. Baxter put his hands in the air. Nevertheless, the police unleashed a K-9 unit, which bit Baxter under his armpit.
Baxter sued the officers for excessive force, but in 2018 the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that, whether or not Baxter’s rights were violated, the officers were immune from his lawsuit. It wasn’t clearly established, the court said, that using a police dog to apprehend him while his hands were raised was unconstitutional. Continue reading “Police Sicced a Dog on a Surrendering Man. Will the Supreme Court Review the Doctrine That Gave Them Immunity?”
The Organic Prepper – by Dagny Taggart
If you live in Florida and want the freedom to plant food on your own property, I have great news for you.
Late last month, the Florida Senate affirmed the right of self-reliant people statewide to grow vegetable gardens in their front yards. Continue reading “Florida Will Generously Allow Homeowners to Garden in Their Own Yards”
A lawsuit brought by people incarcerated in California’s prison system alleges harrowing conditions that include mice and maggots falling from the ceiling in prison cafeterias, according to NBC.
The lawsuit also alleges that holes in the ceiling of state prisons allow rain and bird excrement into the buildings, leading to a build up of mold. Continue reading “Mice and Maggots Are Reportedly Falling From the Ceiling in California Prisons”
Texas Tribune – by Alex Samuels
After news broke that an activist pushing a “constitutional carry” gun proposal tried to visit the homes of several Texas House leaders, state Rep. Jonathan Stickland, R-Bedford, declared his bill on the matter dead and wrote in a statement Friday he’s “officially canceling” his request for a committee hearing. Continue reading “After gun activist shows up at lawmakers’ houses, Texas representative declares his “constitutional carry” bill dead”
The Daily Sheeple – by Sean Walton
Federal authorities charged a DC-area suspect Monday with a plot to use a stolen truck to run down pedestrians on the National Harbor waterfront, a popular tourist site along the Potomac River near Washington.
“Federal authorities have charged a man they believe was plotting to ram a stolen truck into pedestrians at the National Harbor waterfront development in Maryland, just outside the nation’s capital,” reports ABC News. Continue reading “Terrorist attack thwarted near DC”
Washington Examiner – by Susan Ferrechio
The American Civil Liberties Union has issued a travel advisory for “immigrants and people of color to use extreme caution” in Florida because of a pending immigration bill the state legislature is considering that would ban so-called sanctuary cities.
The Florida Legislature has advanced legislation that would require local law enforcement to work with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in detaining undocumented immigrants. Continue reading “ACLU warns ‘immigrants and people of color,’ against travel in Florida”
Two migrants are dead after an alleged human smuggler led El Paso Sector Border Patrol agents on a pursuit Saturday evening. Agents apprehended 10 migrants who survived the crash and the U.S. citizen driver.
El Paso Sector agents received information about suspicious behavior involving a minivan near mile marker 131 on Highway 9 in New Mexico. As the agents arrived on the scene, they attempted to stop the minivan by using their emergency lights and siren. The driver failed to yield and drove away, according to information obtained from El Paso Sector Border Patrol officials. Continue reading “Two Migrants Dead as Vehicle Chase Ends in Roll-Over Crash”
A U.S. judge on Monday halted the Trump administration’s policy of sending some asylum seekers back across the southern border to wait out their cases in Mexico, stopping a program the government planned to expand to stem a recent flood of migrants.
The ruling is slated to take effect on Friday, according to the order by U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg in San Francisco. The preliminary injunction will apply nationwide. Continue reading “U.S. judge halts Trump policy of returning asylum seekers to Mexico”
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The Illinois House of Representatives has passed a bill mandating that all publicly-traded companies headquartered in the state will need to have a woman and an African-American sitting on its corporate board by 2021.
Failure to comply could result in fines of up to $300,000. Continue reading “Illinois House Passes Bill Requiring Women, African-Americans on Corporate Boards”
The College Fix – by Lexi Lonas
A federal court permitted a lawsuit to proceed against an Illinois school district that allows high school boys to use girls’ locker rooms, restrooms and showers in order to accommodate transgender students.
But girls who don’t want to be seen naked by boys got bad news: The judge ruled that they have no right to “visual bodily privacy” if the government says so. Continue reading “School district that forced girls to shower with boys can’t get out of Title IX lawsuit”