From a non-US perspective, it's quite bizarre - universities having their own "police" forces and even "courts"?! Ludicrous. I work at a university in the UK; if anyone is raped there, it's a matter...
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From a non-US perspective, it's quite bizarre - universities having their own "police" forces and even "courts"?! Ludicrous. I work at a university in the UK; if anyone is raped there, it's a matter...
That helped insulate the original issuers from the consequences of their bad loans, yes - indeed, that was government policy too, the very raison d'etre of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, between them...
In fact, this was not just "allowed" by the government, but mandated: when banks were just looking at creditworthiness, activists cried "foul", demanding that they be made to issue loans to...
I'm very much in favor of self-defense, including the use of deadly force when attacked - so on the face of it, I'd say this is a good outcome: he certainly won't be raping anyone else in future!
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Interesting. Legally, no: here at least, the acts of making and distributing the photos is the same crime; had the subject not been underage, there would be no crime involved at all. (It might be...
No, intent to possess the material in question. If Customs find a package of drugs in the post to me, for example, that isn't enough to prosecute me: they'd need to show that I was actually involved...
West Virginia and Virginia are two different states, each with their own laws, just like North Dakota and South Dakota.
If something is sent unsolicited that's usually a defense - a possession...
It's interesting: one absence of parallel seems significant, of course, that there is no weapon you can scapegoat in a rape. Nobody can use it as a pretext for demanding "penis control", trying to...
Not quite. I pointed out it's a bit of a stretch to say that killing a bunch of men and women is all about the women (maybe something to do with putting more value on his female victims and ignoring...
Before leaping to blaming the guns or associated laws, bear in mind that half his victims (3 of the 6 he murdered) were actually stabbed, not shot - the media seem to have latched on to one of his...
The judge's demands go much too far, IMO - and other countries take a different approach.
The justification for the restriction is that revealing details might influence the jury inappropriately....
I'm not sure if my previous reply posted (I got a strange error message) - I agree about the need for the judiciary to be more accountable; even in the extreme example of a judge lauding a serial...
Perhaps - though most seem to be urban legends - but there are far more cases where judges hand out ludicrously lenient sentences.
The fears about this law seem valid though: just three months...
Unfortunately, I don't think that's enough to stop politicians trying to do exactly that - and doing damage in the process. Indeed, existing laws refer to things like making you feel threatened.
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(Sorry if this shows up duplicated, my earlier post seems to have disappeared into the ether)
As I understand it, the ruling was not that it was protected free speech, just that it wasn't...
I don't think the ruling was so much "this is freedom of speech, so it's protected" (though it does seem the defense lawyer tried to argue that) - rather, the laws currently protecting privacy there...
It's hard to see any way letting failed businesses collapse - the scenario the Labour party, from Gordon Brown back, has thrown vast amounts of public money at preventing at all costs, while the...
In which case, your understanding is not correct: I've already quoted the legal requirement above. How do you think a mother aged 18 could have lived in the US for at least five years since the age...
Their logic seems badly flawed. They study small, widely-dispersed groups - of course there is little inter-group conflict, because there is little inter-group interaction of any kind! Just like...
If they had never left the country, they'd still be in the US so the child would have citizenship from place of birth. If the mother grew up in the US but left before reaching the age of 19, the...
Not 'maintain' - to pass it to their children. Simply being the child of a US citizen is not, in itself, sufficient to make you one - which, apart from anything else, is why there is a green card...
The whole theory there is that he wasn't born there - and had he been born in Kenya as the theory claims, he would not have citizenship through his mother, since she hasn't lived in the US long...
I don't think that's an issue - John McCain was also born outside the US, but both have US citizenship from birth by parentage, making birthplace irrelevant. Yes, Cruz also has or had Canadian...
One of the classification levels is 'confidential', for exactly that sort of thing, and rightly so IMO: not "national security secrets", but "stuff that shouldn't be public": troops' personal...
That's the trouble really: he wasn't "whistle-blowing", just dumping a vast cache of the secrets he was able to get hold of. He didn't pick out actual wrongdoing, he didn't go to someone in authority...