SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 19, 2024

Share The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday in the case of a 76-year-old Texas woman , Sylvia Gonzalez, who was arrested on charges that she had violated a state law that prohibits tampering with government records. The post Texas city council member argues retaliatory arrest appeared first on SCOTUSblog.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Under the 2018 rule, anyone who owned or possessed a bump stock was required either to destroy them or turn them over to the ATF to avoid criminal penalties. Michael Cargill, the owner of a Texas gun store, surrendered his bump stocks but also went to federal court, seeking to have the rule thrown out.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

Newsom cited the kidnapping statute but apparently failed to read it or the underlying cases. While there is a fair debate over the policy of relocation by states like Texas and Florida, the effort to use the criminal process as part of that political debate is … well, pathetic.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 8, 2022

From about the 1600s, they had a gigantic Criminal Code where everything was a felony and every felony was punishable by death. However, after the industrial revolution [and the rise of] the English working classes, there just weren’t enough police to keep whacking people over the head with the criminal law.

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