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Florida's most hawkish Republicans see the state supreme court decision to move the certification deadline from Nov. 14 to Nov. 26 as the latest usurpation of their legislative power; the court has recently struck down a parental-consent abortion law as well as a law limiting death-row appeals. This prompted some Republicans to try expanding the number of judges on that court so they could pack it with their own. (They failed, just as Franklin Roosevelt did when he tried a similar maneuver with the U.S. Supreme Court.) A special legislative session picking Bush electors, using the original...
...happen to like Miranda. I happen to support legalized abortion. But many citizens don't. And they rightly feel aggrieved that these momentous decisions were made by unelected grandees in black robes. (The U.S. is the only Western country to have legalized abortion without the consent of its legislature...
Medicating dogs or children, in fact anyone (or anything) who cannot, for one reason or another, give informed consent is the slipperiest of ethical slopes. While the benefits of medication are quite substantial to some, and would seem to be quite ethically justifiable, other cases are not nearly so cut and dry. It seems many children are being medicated for convenience sake and not out of a true sense of stewardship of their best interest...
...Allegations of cops' dealing drugs, shooting unarmed suspects, planting guns and routinely falsifying police reports have left the force reeling. So far, 100 Rampart-related convictions have been overturned. More corruption cases involving police officers are in the works, and the city has been forced to accept a consent decree under which a federal judge will oversee police reforms. Liability suits by those wrongly accused could cost Los Angeles upwards of $100 million. Meanwhile, crime rates are rising again--homicides are up 38% in Rampart neighborhoods this year--as evidence mounts that officers are scaling back on aggressive policing...
...enough to drive cars, have consensual sex, get married without parental consent, make wages and pay taxes," said 14-year-old Jonathan Bruderlein. "Why not vote...