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Criminality and law and order
Unfortunately, not all politicians believe in practising clean politics. One cannot consort with the criminal underworld when engaged in politics, which was originally conceived as an activity which kept the common good in focus,
Updated: 03/09/2012 03:32P

SC Lt Gov Ard indicted on criminal ethics charges
Attorney General Alan Wilson said Friday that Ard gave $75000 of his own money to people who then gave that money back to him as individual contributions. Wilson says Ard also received $87500 in contributions that could not be matched to the person who
Updated: 03/09/2012 03:32P

On the Mortgage Meltdown, Has the DOJ Done Enough? Chuck Grassley Has Doubts
According to this post over at the BLT Blog, Grassley is pushing the Department of Justice for details on what it has done to bring justice against the major Wall Street banks and executives who he says are responsible for the nation's financial crisis
Updated: 03/09/2012 03:30P

Turning Over the DFIP Part I: Are the Afghans Embracing Non-Criminal Detention?
does not currently assert–or at least did not previously assert–the authority to detain under color of the law of armed conflict, but rather took the view that captured persons must be routed into the (emergent) Afghan criminal justice system.
Updated: 03/09/2012 03:22P

UC study endorses maximum-security inmates in lower-level California prisons
The 18-month study by five criminology experts comes as a new state law sends thousands of lower-level offenders to local jails instead of state prisons. The shift leaves state prisons housing the most violent, serious or sex offenders.
Updated: 03/09/2012 03:14P

Northrop Grumman's Law Enforcement Information Exchange System Receives Public
MCLEAN, Va., March 9, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) announced that its Law Enforcement Information Exchange System (LInX) crime and incident reporting system received the Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce Public
Updated: 03/09/2012 03:13P

Reasonable Doubt: Who is Joseph Kony, and what is the International Criminal
Every state has its own laws and ways of enforcing those laws; here in Canada we have the Criminal Code and criminal courts to ensure that people are tried for the crimes that police have investigated and with which the Crown has charged them.
Updated: 03/09/2012 02:51P

Ard indicted on criminal ethics charges
Ken Ard was indicted Friday on criminal ethics charges and resigned from office. During his 2010 campaign, Ard put together a scheme to use his own money and cash from other big donors to make it look like he had a groundswell of support from a large
Updated: 03/09/2012 02:48P

Apartheid is a Crime, Not an Analogy
An apartheid 'analogy' is fatally flawed, specious, absurd, and wrong for Israel because apartheid is not an analogy, but a crime as well-defined in law as embezzlement or kidnapping. The most relevant statute, the 1973 International Convention on the
Updated: 03/09/2012 02:27P

SC Lt. Gov. Ard resigns amid criminal investigation; McConnell to take place
is the focus of a state Grand Jury investigation for ethics laws violations that is now entering its ninth month. South Carolina Lt. Gov. Ken Ard resigned Friday amid a criminal investigation into whether he spent campaign money on personal items.
Updated: 03/09/2012 02:05P