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USDOJ: Department of Justice Challenges South Carolina's Immigration Law
Similar to Arizona's SB 1070 and Alabama's HB 56, this law will place significant burdens on federal agencies, diverting their resources away from high-priority targets, such as terrorism, drug smuggling and gang activity, and those with criminal
Updated: 10/31/2011 06:08P
Crime Analyst - Topeka, KS
The City of Topeka is an Equal Opportunity Employer Education Bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice, Social Science, Statistics, Geography or related degree. Experience 1 year experience analyzing crime in a law enforcement setting or an advanced
Updated: 10/31/2011 06:07P
Between Legalization and Criminal Offense, a Middle Ground for Marijuana
operate machinery, or otherwise make quick and correct judgments in order to protect the safety of other people. For that reason alone, any legalization argument should be discarded. So that leaves us with a very expensive criminal law.
Updated: 10/31/2011 06:04P
South Carolina immigration law challenged by Justice Dept.
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's administration sought on Monday to block parts of South Carolina's new immigration law, arguing that the federal government had preeminent authority over immigration matters. The Justice Department is asking a
Updated: 10/31/2011 05:18P
Justice Department fights SC immigration law
"By pursuing retribution and ignoring every other objective embodied in the federal immigration system (including the federal government's prioritization of the removal of criminal aliens)," the Justice Department said, the South Carolina law
Updated: 10/31/2011 05:17P
Lord Hanningfield finally apologises for his crimes
Lord Hanningfield, known as Paul White before he accepted his peerage, said he recognised he had broken the law due to “unforgiveable negligence” on his part. The ex-Tory said he understood the public anger which followed his conviction.
Updated: 10/31/2011 04:55P
New Laws Take Effect Nov. 1st
They range from changes to the way civil lawsuits are handled, new restrictions on abortion, to criminal justice reforms aimed at reducing the state's overcrowded prison system. There are also enhanced penalties for drunken drivers and a separate law
Updated: 10/31/2011 04:45P
Liz Longhurst: Violent porn law 'ineffective'
The ban became part of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill, and anyone caught with sexually violent images faces up to three years in jail. Mrs Longhurst, from Reading in Berkshire, said: "I was glad that the law had been passed in 2009 but I did
Updated: 10/31/2011 04:25P
Would you repeal all gun control if it meant smaller government and less corrupt
Remember that a criminal mentality – angry or just sick – can always obtain a gun on short notice, no matter what law we write. Experts believe that – legally or illegally – a criminal bent on murder can obtain a gun in about an hour.
Updated: 10/31/2011 04:05P
Justice Stevens Speaks His Mind
His latest essay -- "Our 'Broken System' of Criminal Justice," from the New York Review of Books -- is a great example. In it, Stevens does a great job not just of translating the language of the law to lay people -- which is the most important thing a
Updated: 10/31/2011 03:53P
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