"The situation we are now in is one where the criminal justice system is not a terror to bad conduct, as Paul says government is meant to be (Romans 13), but is refusing to punish it."
"At the time of the incident, Covarrubias was 53 years old and his victim was 11 years old."
"Court records indicate that some of those released were convicted of violent crimes, including 64 convicted murderers."
"Imagine living in a country that puts 550,000 people in jail every year who have not been convicted of a crime."
"Boris might be well-advised to amend the Extradition Act 2003, which enables EAWs to be applied in the UK, before November."
"Now that we are exiting the EU, the time has surely come when we should reform the terms of the EAW, or any extradition warrant, so that the receiving British court may examine the evidence already gathered against the suspect, assess it, and if it thinks it is manifestly insufficient, refuse the extradition request. "
"Will the "bipartisan consensus" in Washington blame the coronavirus for the coming economic downturn?"
"...Anne Sacoolas, was reportedly driving on the wrong side of the road near the RAF Croughton airbase in Northamptonshire, which hosts the communications facility, when she had a head on collision with motorcyclist Harry Dunn, killing him instantly."
“People must be able to speak their minds. If we don’t have free speech, we don’t have a free society.”
"...prison officers fear being taken hostage by Islamist prisoners and beheaded..."
"He was at FVI before but got transferred back to Kent because he got caught having sexual relations with female inmates."
"Judge Kurrein had previously been investigated for misconduct following a complaint about his behaviour during different court proceedings."
"Holly Austin Smith was abducted when she was 14 years old, raped, and then forced to prostitute herself. Her pimp, when brought to trial, was only made to serve a year in prison."
"This morning the federal prosecutors said they would not oppose a continuance of the filing date if deadlines to file responses were also extended. The trial court judge then changed the schedule."
"Rochdale grooming gang victim Ella Hill is calling on the government to change police guidance so that racial and religious grooming crimes can be recorded as hate crimes."
"The primary argument in the motion to withdraw the guilty plea was that the Justice Department (DOJ) had breached and broken the plea bargain agreement it made with Flynn. The motion also mentioned issues of prosecutorial vindictiveness and a violation of constitutional due process through an unconstitutional motive on the part of the DOJ prosecutors."
"...thousands of girls across the country are being systematically abused as police and others fail to address child sexual exploitation that they are already aware of."
How ironic that these woke university types, who routinely denounce organisations like churches for attempting to handle sexual abuse complaints internally rather than reporting them to the proper authorities, put John through the university’s kangaroo court process.
"Reflecting on the scale of police evidence collection, and the manner in which a warrant was obtained and phones were searched, Mok is in no doubt that it amounted to a ‘fishing’ operation, and that failure of legal protection in this instance may well point to broader abuse of existing legal protections."
"The reforms, touted by Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo, are meant to mimic those passed recently in New Jersey. They fail, however, to note the fact that New Jersey’s bail reform maintained a key element: the discretion of the judge to consider public safety in determining whether or not an alleged perpetrator can be released without bail."
This is absurd. This man abused this girl repeatedly and, when she tried one final act of self-defense, she wound up facing the charges that Volar most certainly should have himself been facing, if not worse.
Rather than a shock, China can afford to play a longer game, sniping down the insurrectionists one-by-one – the million flea bites.
The fact of the matter is that, in waging a scorched earth, no-holds-barred war of “Resistance” against this Administration, it is the Left that is engaged in the systematic shredding of norms and the undermining of the rule of law. This highlights a basic disadvantage that conservatives have always had in contesting the political issues of the day.
Honey Badger Powell's terrific lawyering and insistence on getting her hands on the evidence the US Government is withholding has now backed the Mueller team into a corner. Sidney Powell has exposed staggering misconduct and malfeasance. Michael Flynn will be exonerated. The only real question is whether or not the prosecutors will be held in contempt and tried.