posted by SarmaadAmin on Jun 28
… ospitals: A woman admitted to Montreal’s Royal Victoria Hospital for an induced birth was forced into a do-it-yourself delivery last month, with only her non-medically t rained common-law partner to assist….
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posted by NickNikolis on May 31
Sunday, May 31, 2009. Bad Con Law Makes Hard Cases [Ramesh Ponnuru]. The other day I suggested in passing that the idea that empathy for particular litigants should affect judicial decisions gets much of what plausibility it has from …
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posted by Admin on May 27
My colleague Jessica Vaughan, one of the leading authorities on the 287(g) program (that trains local cops in immigration law ), wrote me to respond to Richard Nadler’s critique of the program: …
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Local Cops & Immigration Law – Mark Krikorian – The Corner on …
posted by MattCrick on May 21
Now, he said, voters should be ready to accept a law that legalizes illegal immigrants and rewrites immigration rules.” Uh, not yet. First of all, this is a man who tried to filibuster the Secure Fence Act, so the only thing he’s …
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posted by SimonaCoates on May 3
This is Rule-of- Law 101. Given that a key political constituency that helped elect the President, unions, are a party to the Chrysler dispute, the potential for undermining the rule of law is obvious and severe. …
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President Obama and the Rule of Law – Jim Manzi – The Corner on …
posted by IainMackintosh on Apr 21
In fact, the laws against Holocaust denial have only led people to call the Holocaust into question. After all, there’s no need for a law against denying World War II, because everyone knows it happened. ..
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Holocaust Denial Law Denial – Mark Steyn – The Corner on National …
posted by LaurenceHarmon on Apr 20
Simmons) that Koh and other American transnationalists use international law selectively as an ideological weapon: they invoke it when it advances their own hard-left ideological agenda and ignore it when it doesn’t. …
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Harold Koh, Serial Violator of International Law – Ed Whelan …
posted by BrandonBrewer on Apr 13
Monday, April 13, 2009. Justice Ginsburg and Foreign Law [Ramesh Ponnuru]
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posted by RakeshGaikwad on Apr 13
Bravo to the Navy SEALs, though it’s too bad the fourth pirate was “on board the Bainbridge as part of ongoing negotiations.” Negotiations? In any case, maybe the president did learn something useful in Chicago: “You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun.
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Perdicaris Alive and Raisuli Dead!
posted by NickNikolis on Apr 13
When it is prosecuted as a criminal offense, piracy is about as serious as it gets. The controlling statute is Section 1651 of Title 18, U.S. Code (i.e., the federal penal code). As statutes go, it’s refreshingly short and sweet: Whoever, on the high seas, commits the crime of piracy as defined by the law of nations, and is afterwards brought into or found in the United States, shall be imprisoned for life. The “Law of Nations” is mentioned in the Constitution. Article I gives Congress the
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Lawfare 101: Piracy As A Crime