Since the men and women who serve as judges attended law school, the question must be asked what these law schools are teaching. Or perhaps a better question would be, “with what are these law schools indoctrinating their students?” Far too often we learn of judicial decisions that make no sense, and we’re not talking only of the bizarre decisions federal judges have made regarding President Trump’s travel ban.
The courts have power because the people respect them and the executive branches enforce their decisions. Take these away, and the courts just turn into editorial departments. Sometimes it seems like that is the direction they wish to take.
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again the judges making law, not interpreting it…and we the sheep let them
Kansas is getting kinda goofy.
I think it is more with a subset of the war on drugs. When we added a profit motive to law enforcement things have gone bad fast.
Originally all forfeited funds were to go to victims of the crime, then the left over to general victims of crimes. Thing started going bad when the departments started getting the funds instead.
We need to get rid of civil forfeiture. And then all forfeited funds we need to use those for victims. The police should be funded by the public and not by finding crimes which leave them money to seize.
Ray Todd Stevens Perfect!!!!! Thank you!!
I think you are on to something about what is being taught in law school. I think the schools are teaching law students a more favorable mind set for the government and less for the average citizen.
The beginning of the rapid descent was the Supreme Court’s approval of “consent searches”. Since then, instead of cops using their brains and powers of observation to formulate articulable probable cause, they simply roust folks in the neighborhoods on foot and in vehicles for BS offenses as a pretense to get their consent to search. And for every fool that consents to a search while holding drugs, there’s 25 pissed off citizens they did the same thing to with no results. And they point to that one bust as justification for all of it. It’s the number one contributor to the animosity the public has for the police, especially in poor neighborhoods where folks can’t afford to get that brake light fixed until payday and they get stopped and shook down 4 times that week.
This is the reason that Judges (ALL judges) should be elected, not appointed. Make a few bad rulings and the rational public will show you where the door is. At least is wasn’t unanimous.
I spent many hours in annual inservice training learning how to construct circumstances that I could use in court that “would make a reasonable person feel as if he were free to go”. The purpose of this was so my subsequent “consent search” would stand up in court. It’s complete and utter b******t. I once asked in class: “Rather than go through all of that, why not just tell the person that if he doesn’t want to consent, that he’ll still be free to go?” I was laughed out of the classroom. The admitted reason? “If we do that, who in their right mind would consent to a search? Exactly, Sherlock.
Crimes by decree and regulation, to fill for profit prisons and gove coffers. Eventually peeing will be a crime, to generate more money. At some point citizens will simply kill every cop and attorney the see.
When your leadership picks and chooses which laws THEY decide to follow – one cannot blame the average citizen for being a bit pissy over these fucked up “laws”.