Mar 16, 2016 | President Obama, Supreme Court and Other Judicial Issues
Published: The Daily Dot (March 16, 2016)
President Barack Obama announced his appointment to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court on Wednesday. His choice is Merrick Garland, one of the most conservative judges ever chosen by a modern Democratic president.
The Internet doesn’t seem particularly impressed. Perhaps this is because Garland doesn’t have much in the way of a record when it comes to the typical divisive issues facing a Supreme Court nominee, like privacy, abortion, the death penalty, and affirmative action.... Read Original Article
Feb 22, 2016 | Civil Liberties, Internet Culture, Supreme Court and Other Judicial Issues
Published: The Daily Dot (February 22, 2016)
When it comes to the field of cyber law, it’s rather ironic that the next Supreme Court justice will replace the late Antonin Scalia. After all, the famous constitutional originalist revealed in 2012 that, if he had his druthers, his successor would be University of Chicago law professor Frank Easterbrook, a man who once compared studying Internet law to creating a hypothetical field in “horse law.”... Read Original Article
Feb 14, 2016 | Civil Liberties, Internet Culture, Supreme Court and Other Judicial Issues
Published: The Daily Dot (February 14, 2016)
Say what you will about Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia–and pundits and people on both the left and the right have been doing just that since his passing on Saturday–but when it comes to Internet freedom, he may have been one of the great legal minds of our time.... Read Original Article
Sep 25, 2015 | Criminal Justice/Prison-Industrial Complex, mic, Race and Racism, Supreme Court and Other Judicial Issues
Published: The Daily Dot (September 25, 2015)
Back in October, 59-year-old Wayne County Jail inmate Abdul Akbar suffered multiple bodily injuries—after prison guards tried to restrain him. Reports obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request claim that Akbar became violent after he overslept and missed breakfast, destroying a computer and resisting guards’ orders when they tried to control the situation.... Read Original Article
Aug 11, 2015 | Elections, Plutocracy, Supreme Court and Other Judicial Issues
Published: Question of the Day (August 11, 2015)
The United States election system may not be fatally flawed, but in many ways it’s on life support.
Here are five reasons why that is the case:
1. We make it harder for people to vote.
For one thing, as Eric Black explained in an article for MinnPost, most democratic nations don’t require citizens to register to vote — it happens automatically.... Read Original Article
Aug 6, 2015 | mic, Supreme Court and Other Judicial Issues
Published: Daily Dot (August 6, 2015)
Sandra Bland’s family is looking for answers—following the 28-year-old’s untimely and mysterious death in a Texas jail cell—and they believe a lawsuit is their last best hope. While they believe it’s “possible” Bland took her own life, the family filed a federal suit this week to help provide closure in the case that’s taken social media by storm.... Read Original Article
