Here’s why. Excerpt: Why do we have guidelines and manuals? Because we want our law-enforcement officers to operate within clearly legitimate boundaries, not constantly to test the margins of their lawful authority. Having guidelines encourages this. It provides a standard … Continue reading →
The Weekly Standard’s Eric Felten takes a good long look at the Steele dossier itself, and finds it impossible to believe on the face of it. Forget all the brouhaha surrounding it. Just reading it should have discredited it and … Continue reading →
Let’s look at what Trump said, in context: Vice President Mike Pence: Violence, restraining orders, California has a version of this. And I think in your meeting with governors earlier this week, individually, and as a group, we spoke about … Continue reading →
McCarthy says the Schiff memo is worse for the Democrats than for the Republicans. An excerpt from McCarthy: To be clear, the only reason Steele’s own biases have any pertinence is that the FBI and the DOJ relied vicariously on … Continue reading →
The Parkland shootings—and the police reaction to them—have sparked predictable responses on both sides. Here’s the way the liberal position on this seems to work, based on some or all of the following beliefs: (1) “Good guys” don’t kill people … Continue reading →
It’s even worse than you may have thought [emphasis mine]: The change took the people of the Keystone State unawares. While we dozed through a rainy three-day weekend, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court declared itself a lawmaking body, one over which … Continue reading →
…the DACA can back: Under a lower court order that remains in effect, the Department of Homeland Security must continue to accept renewal applications from the roughly 700,000 young people who are currently enrolled in the program, known as DACA. … Continue reading →
It would be a tedious and lengthy process to list all the ways in which the authorities messed up during the events leading up to and including the Parkland shooting. If you’ve followed the coverage, you probably already know what … Continue reading →
Can the Parkland victims’ families sue the FBI for what appears to be stunning incompetence resulting in a failure to protect? Almost certainly not: There are a number of legal doctrines which would make it nearly impossible for the families … Continue reading →
If the guard isn’t willing to engage the killer, the guard’s weapon does no good. This is a very very disturbing report: Scot Peterson, who was the last line of defense at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas resigned after video surfaced … Continue reading →
Long before Nikolas Cruz decided to shoot up the high school in Parkland from which he’d been suspended, he was known to be troubled and to have the potential for violence either to himself or others. But it’s a myth … Continue reading →
Actually, it appears that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has rubber-stamped a professor’s redrawing of Congressional districts in the state. Here’s the story: Republicans probably just lost at least 4 or 5 seats in the House. This afternoon, the Pennsylvania Supreme … Continue reading →