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Despite the brouhaha over the recent Dobbs decision on abortion, the real sea change were the recent cases regarding the 2nd amendment and the right to bear arms. The text of the Bruen decision can be found here.

It’s been a big week for the United States Supreme Court.�? The one that everyone appears to be focused on is the Dobbs decision that overturns�?Roe v. Wade.�?

Just a reminder for why you don’t speak to law enforcement without an attorney. It is still legal in Virgina (and elsewhere) for the police to forge and use forensic documents (the reports related to all that fun stuff you see on television like C.S.I.) when interviewing suspects.

Here’s an article about people getting blackmailed for things they may have done online. Over the years and on numerous occasions I have had men come to my office because they were “chatting” with someone they met on an online dating site only to have a “father” contact them and tell them that the young lady in question was underage and unless the man sends him money for the child’s therapy he’s going to the police.

The article is here, upholding the Crawford decision written by the late Justice Scalia. Crawford significantly strengthened the right to face one’s accusers and this is a good decision, the government’s attempt to unwind this failed and that’s a good thing.

I know its sometime after MLK day, but the article is interesting, nonetheless. I knew a judge (since retired) that espoused the opposite belief: that unjust laws should be zealously adhered to as way of forcing change.

The ability to levy fines against ordinary citizens provides an incentive to both find wrongdoing (whether it exists or not) and to create more laws to enforce penalties.�? It is the “profit motive” of some law enforcement.�?

What the videos of “democratic” Australia and decide for yourself if those people are free.

Expect more of this and the resistance to grow.

Is that it traps people in poverty.