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JUSTICE SCALIA: You really want us to go through these 2,700 pages?
(Laughter.)
JUSTICE SCALIA: And do you really expect the Court to do that? Or do you expect us to give this function to our law clerks?(Laughter.)
JUSTICE SCALIA: Is this not totally unrealistic? That we’re going to go through this enormous bill item by item and decide each one?
http://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/03/29/thursday-morning-open-thread-shouldve-locked-the-doors/#more-99357
NO GLOVES: Did The Sanford Cops EVER Take The Trayvon Martin Case Seriously?
NO GLOVES!!!
The Martin/Zimmerman police report said that the shooter had a broken nose and grass all over his clothes, and Zimmerman claimed that his victim banged his head repeatedly on the road. Now ABC news has video of the night when they brought Zimmerman in for questioning and – surprise! – his shaved head looks pristine, his nose looks fine and his clothes look like he just washed them. If the cops thought he might have blood on him then protocol requires them to touch him with gloves. They seem fine with bare hands.
http://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/03/28/its-bigger-than-trayvon-martin-now/
VIDEO:
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/trayvon-martin-case-exclusive-surveillance-video-george-zimmerman/t/story?id=16022897
Trayvon Martin Video Shows No Blood or Bruises on George Zimmerman
Source: ABC
A police surveillance video taken the night that Trayvon Martin was shot dead shows no blood or bruises on George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch captain who says he shot Martin after he was punched in the nose, knocked down and had his head slammed into the ground.
The surveillance video, which was obtained exclusively by ABC News, shows Zimmerman arriving in a police cruiser. As he exits the car, his hands are cuffed behind his back. Zimmerman is frisked and then led down a series of hallways, still cuffed.
Zimmerman, 28, is wearing a red and black fleece and his face and head are cleanly shaven. He appears well built, hardly the portly young man depicted in a 2005 mug shot that until a two days ago was the single image the media had of Zimmerman.
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/trayvon-martin-case-exclusive-surveillance-video-george-zimmerman/story?id=16022897#.T3Otj2Egc1J
VIDEO HERE:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/video/george-zimmerman-police-surveillance-16024475
MORE:
BIG BUT!!!
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-03-28/news/os-trayvon-martin-zimmerman-video-20120328_1_police-video-video-shot-patrol-car
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Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/03/28/2719868/network-broadcasts-surveillance.html#storylink=cpy
Trayvon Martin Case: Department of Justice to investigate entire Sanford Police Department
Source: Palm Beach News
SANFORD — The Trayvon Martin case is bringing more scrutiny on the Sanford Police Department. The Department of Justice will now investigate all cases handled by the police department, after receiving complaints from Sanford citizens.
It's been more than a month since 17-year-old Martin was killed and only a week since the Department of Justice, the U.S. Attorney's Office and the FBI launched investigations into why George Zimmerman shot him. Now, the Department of Justice is launching another investigation into the entire Sanford Police Department.
"The citizens of Sanford will continue to have some idea that their concerns would be heard by an independent agency when they have issues with the Sanford Police Department," said Sanford City Manager Norton Bonaparte.
Bonaparte announced the new investigation Tuesday afternoon after receiving numerous complaints about the way officers handled other cases.
Read more: http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/state/trayvon-martin-case-department-of-justice-to-investigate-2266580.html
Scalia Says Court Can’t Be Bothered To Read Obamacare: ‘You Really Want Us To Go Through These 2,700
Source: Think Progress
Scalia Says Court Can’t Be Bothered To Read Obamacare: ‘You Really Want Us To Go Through These 2,700 Pages?’
By Amanda Peterson Beadle on Mar 28, 2012 at 4:51 pm
During the last day of Supreme Court hearings about the Affordable Care Act, the justices covered whether or not the entire law could stand if the individual mandate was struck down and the law’s expansion of Medicaid. But Justice Antonin Scalia seemed surprised that someone would have expected the justices to read the text of the health care reform law before the hearings:
JUSTICE SCALIA: Mr. Kneedler, what happened to the Eighth Amendment? You really want us to go through these 2,700 pages? (Laughter.) And do you really expect the Court to do that? Or do you expect us to — to give this function to our law clerks? Is this not totally unrealistic? That we are going to go through this enormous bill item by item and decide each one?
Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/special/2012/03/28/454099/scalia-says-court-cant-be-bothered-to-read-obamacare-you-really-want-us-to-go-through-these-2700-pages/
NYT: Business bets on GOP backfiring
Business Bets on the G.O.P. May Be Backfiring
Business groups that worked hard to install a Republican majority in the House equated Republican control with a business-friendly environment. But the majority is first and foremost a conservative political force, and on key issues, its ideology is not always aligned with commercial interests that helped finance election victories.
“Free market is not always the same as pro-business,” said Barney Keller, spokesman for the conservative political action committee Club for Growth.
There could be real-world consequences to the conservative rebellion. The 90-day extension of the highway trust fund that House Republican leaders say they will pass this week in lieu of a broad highway bill would keep existing projects moving for now. But business groups say few new government-funded infrastructure projects can get under way without longer-range certainty about federal backing.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/29/business/with-bank-teetering-a-bet-on-the-gop-backfires.html?_r=1
Bad Company
The U.S. last year was the only country in the Western hemisphere or the G8 to kill its prisoners, and was responsible for the fifth most known executions in the world, behind China, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Iraq. (As an independent country, Texas would have ranked 7th, between North Korea and Somalia, with its 13 executions in 2011.)
http://blog.amnestyusa.org/deathpenalty/the-death-penalty-in-2011-three-things-you-should-know/
The Daily Texan Publishes Cartoon Calling Trayvon Martin ‘Colored Boy’
The Daily Texan Publishes Cartoon Calling Trayvon Martin ‘Colored Boy’
By Adam Peck on Mar 28, 2012 at 3:00 pm
The Daily Texan, the student newspaper at the University of Texas-Austin, is facing charges of racial insensitivity after running a bigoted cartoon in their daily paper yesterday. The cartoon, seen below, calls Trayvon Martin a “colored boy,” and labels the news media’s coverage of the story “yellow journalism.”
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As Campus Progress reports, The Daily Texan’s editorial staff has responded to the uproar by distancing itself from the cartoonist. The statement from the campus paper:
A controversial editorial cartoon on the Trayvon Martin shooting was published Tuesday on the Opinion page of The Daily Texan. The Daily Texan Editorial Board recognizes the sensitive nature of the cartoon’s subject matter.
The views expressed in the cartoon are not those of the editorial board. They are those of the artist. It is the policy of the editorial board to publish the views of our columnists and cartoonists, even if we disagree with them.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/03/28/453866/daily-texan-cartoon-trayvon/
On House floor, Dem lawmaker recounts being raped, molested
Source: The Hill
On House floor, Dem lawmaker recounts being raped, molested
By Pete Kasperowicz - 03/28/12 01:44 PM ET
Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wis.) on Wednesday afternoon recounted her experience being sexually abused as a child and then raped as a young woman.
"Violence against women is as American as apple pie," she said on the House floor. "I know, not only as a legislator, but from personal experience.
"Domestic violence has been a thread throughout my personal life, up to and including being a child repeatedly sexually assaulted, up to and including, being an adult who's been raped. I just don't have enough time to share all these experiences with you."
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"I mean, this is what American women are facing."
Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/218775-on-house-floor-dem-lawmaker-recounts-being-raped-molested
VIDEO:
http://thehill.com/video/house/218777-on-house-floor-dem-lawmaker-recounts-being-raped-molested
Goddamned Limey Pantywaist Cops
Goddamned Limey Pantywaist Cops
Posted by Gen. JC Christian, Patriot
Take a look at this letter from a London police commander to a goddamned dirty hippy. In it, he apologizes for invading the dirty commie's house and removing a poster of Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron upon which the word "wanker" had been printed.
Our cops would have at least pepper sprayed the bastard. Heck, they'd have shot him if he was darker than a paper bag or wore a hoodie. God damned limey wussies.
That's why we're better than them.
http://hoffman.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/Wankergate/G0000Erp1cG.zBfE/I0000NoOMsJJO30A/0#.T29mo2Cpiy4.twitter
http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/2012/03/goddamned-limey-pantywaist-cops.html
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