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...decades of outside scrutiny and persistent threats to its survival have so cowed the bureau that it now shies from certain categories of investigations, including probes of licensed gun dealers. Instead the ATF focuses more on such politically safe targets as crack gangs, outlaw bikers and ordinary killers. One indicator: the number of firearms ATF has taken into custody dropped 27%, to 12,965, from 1992 to 1994. Of those guns, 6,261 were handguns, or about three for each of the bureau's 2,000 agents. An ATF spokesman says such fluctuations are meaningless, but Kay Kubicki, a former...
Soon we'll know whether the Outlaw pulled off one last great escape. James E. Starrs, professor of law and forensic sciences at George Washington University, has been awarded the right to open up Jesse James' grave in Kearney, Mo. to settle whether James actually staged his murder in April, 1882, as some believe. Allowed 90 days to study the remains, a 15-member team hopes to determine the identity of the body in the grave, and assuming it is James, establish the caliber of bullet that killed him and the angle and distance from which it was fired...
...fight cyberporn. The first blow was struck by Senators Exon and Coats, who earlier this year introduced revisions to an existing law called the Communications Decency Act. The idea was to extend regulations written to govern the dial-a-porn industry into the computer networks. The bill proposed to outlaw obscene material and impose fines of up to $100,000 and prison terms of up to two years on anyone who knowingly makes "indecent" material available to children under...
Even those legal scholars who think Thomas would have voted to outlaw segregation believe he would have done so in such a way as to severely hobble the drive toward racial equality. "He takes a more limited view than any other justice for the past 40 years of the proper scope of authority of a federal court confronted with a deliberate violation of the Constitution," says Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe...
...economic productivity. But five of the Justices disagreed with that logic. Chief Justice William Rehnquist called the Act "a criminal statute that by its terms has nothing to do with 'commerce' or any sort of economic enterprise, however broadly one might define those terms." More than 40 states already outlaw gun possession on or near school grounds. Those laws are not affected by today's ruling. But Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.), the federal law's sponsor, said he was "astonished that the Supreme Court has said that Congress cannot protect our children from guns," and asserted that today...