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WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court's decision 50 years ago, although an immense blessing to the nation, also carries a melancholy lesson. It is that great events -- the school desegregation ruling was the largest judicial event since the Dred Scott case of 1857 -- have myriad reverberations, some beneficial, others not. Brown v. Board of Education accelerated the process of bringing this creedal nation into closer conformity to its creed. But the decision also encouraged the abandonment of constitutional reasoning -- of constitutional law. It invested the judiciary with a prestige that begot arrogance. And it seemed to legitimize a...

NEW ORLEANS- A federal appeals court has opened the door for police officers in three states to search homes and buildings for evidence without a warrant - a ruling that two dissenting judges called "the road to hell." Acting on a Baton Rouge case, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that police do not need an arrest or search warrant to conduct a swift sweep of private property to ensure their safety. Any evidence discovered during that search is admissable in court as long as the search is a "cursory inspection," and if police entered the site for...

Folks, If you are in the New York -- Baltimore -- DC part of the country and are able to attend the upcoming trial, United States of America v. Elena Ruth Sassower in Washington DC, please get in touch with the Center For Judicial Accountability, Judge Watch. Many of you know of the Center and its coordinator, Elena Sassower. About one year ago Elena was arrested in DC while protesting a federal judicial nomination. Her trial will likely take place within one month and she is facing a federal misdemeanor charge that could land her in jail for six months....

February 27, 2004 Rick Stanley Constitutional Activist Phone: 303-329-0481 E-mail: rick@stanley2002.org MEDIA RELEASE Stanley Scoop 02/27/04 ** Special Edition ** ========================================================= THE STANLEY SCOOP ** ** Visit the website: http://www.stanley2002.org ** ** Like the Scoop? Forward it to everyone you know! ** ========================================================= SPECIAL EDITION: Subject: Rick Stanley and "The Empty Holster Gathering" Rick Stanley, Constitutional Activist, former U.S. Senate candidate, Enemy of the State, and self avowed extremist on the order of our forefathers of America, gave the following media release for your use: "With the Passion of Christ and God as my witness", Rick Stanley says "fill em...

Subject: Fw: MASSIVE!!! PUBLIC OUTCRY NEEDED DURING NEXT 5 WEEKS FOR JUDICIAL REFORM HEARINGS Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 10:00:34 -0500 From: "Joe Norman" ----- Original Message ----- From: JOSEPHN126@aol.com Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2003 9:04 PM MASSIVE!!! PUBLIC OUTCRY NEEDED DURING NEXT 5 WEEKS FOR JUDICIAL REFORM HEARINGS Congress is currently completing its business for 2003. When Congress returns from the Christmas recess there will be meetings to set the agenda calendar for the spring 2004 session, I am assured the STOP BAD JUSTICE PROJECT will be on the table for discussion. Timing is everything and the time for...

Click here: The John Walsh Show or http://www.johnwalsh.tv/html/map_tickets/watch.html In response to the call to write the John Walsh show I submitted the following: I am a paralegal in Vermont that was diagnosed "clinically depressed" and advised to do other work for all the "legal abuses" I witnessed heaped upon children and families in this state by Vermont's Child Protective Services, (SRS) and our courts. I worked for the Community Law Center and Vermont chapter of the Children's Rights Council where I met many “Victims" of the agency. There have been many complaints (and successful civil suits) against the agency in...

Leonard: In all my years in advocacy I have noticed a lot of people are like lawyers they try to horde their information and promote their own stories over others ignoring others in order to do so. As you know (evident from your candidness, a man after my own heart) we need to promote everyone's story and enlist everyone possible to get attention on the horrors. To that end everyone of us involved in opposition to the governments war on children and families should; promote this opportunity to get CBS 60 minutes to do a cover piece on the plight...

A Colorado mother is appealing a child custody decision in which a court barred her from teaching homosexuality is wrong. Cheryl Clark, who says she is a Christian, has been ordered by Denver County Circuit Judge John W. Coughlin to "make sure that there is nothing in the religious upbringing or teaching that the minor child is exposed to that can be considered homophobic." The directive arose from the decision to award joint parenting responsibilities for her daughter to a practicing homosexual. "Forbidding the raising of children in the parent's Christian beliefs is an anathema to parental rights and religious...

A dispute gone awry Neighborhood feud leads to claim of Baker Act abuse LONGBOAT KEY -- When deputies came to Jean Pierre Villar's home to commit him to a mental hospital, he tried to convince them he was the victim of a neighborhood feud gone too far. Villar, 40, wanted the deputies to come in and talk to him. He'd recently had back surgery, requiring him to wear a back brace and use a walker to get around. He needed to explain he was in no condition to go anywhere. But the deputies had their instructions: A commitment order, signed...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Alabama's chief justice was suspended Friday for his refusal to obey a federal court order to remove his Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda of his courthouse. Roy Moore was automatically suspended with pay when the nine-member Judicial Inquiry Commission referred an ethics complaint against him to the Court of the Judiciary, which holds trial-like proceedings and can discipline and remove judges. Ruby Crowe, an assistant clerk working with the court, said Moore will have 30 days to respond. Moore met with the commission earlier Friday as about 100 of his supporters, several blocks away at the...

The widow of Baltimore Orioles pitcher Steve Bechler has sued the manufacturer and the distributor of a dietary supplement containing ephedra for $600 million. The 23-year-old Bechler was taking the supplement to lose weight at the start of spring training when he collapsed Feb. 16 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. His body temperature rose to more than 108 degrees and he died the next day. A bottle of Xenadrine RFA-1 was found in Bechler's locker. Toxicology tests confirmed "significant amounts" of an over-the-counter supplement containing ephedra led to Bechler's heatstroke, along with other factors, the medical examiner said. The lawsuit, filed...

Three Catholic gay activists were convicted of unlawful entry yesterday in D.C. Superior Court by a judge who then declined to sentence them, told them she was sympathetic and went on to apologize on behalf of the Catholic Church. Judge Mildred M. Edwards, who is Catholic, told the activists that she had to convict them but that she would do something she had not done in 15 years on the bench -- dispense with a sentence. "Tremendous violence was done to you . . . when the Body of Christ was denied to you," Edwards said, referring to the contention...