For the first time in New York City, federal prosecutors have used the Freedom of Access to Clinics Entrances Act to secure a conviction in a case where access was blocked to a clinic that provides abortions. . . Alejandro Miyar, a spokesman for the Justice Department, said that since 1994 the agency had filed 58 criminal cases across the country related to the FACE act, resulting in 80 convictions. In addition, he said, the department had filed 19 civil suits using the act.

— 2 Convicted of Blocking New York Abortion Clinic

Cuyahoga County Juvenile Judge Alison Floyd has backed away from a court order forcing juvenile victims in several sexual assault cases to take polygraph examinations.
Floyd had ordered three juveniles to take the exams earlier this year after she found the teen boys accused of attacking them delinquent — the juvenile court equivalent of guilty.
Victims, sexual assault advocates and prosecutors all objected. None of the victims complied with the order to take the tests.

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Judge Alison Floyd backs away from ordering polygraphs for sexual assault victims

FYI this is how we like to treat sexual assault victims in Cleveland.

Shame on Arizona

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer just signed a law that will authorize officers to pull over, question, and detain anyone they have a “reasonable suspicion” to believe is in this country without proper documentation. It’s legalized racial profiling, and it’s an affront on all of our civil rights, especially Latinos. It’s completely unacceptable.

Join us in letting Arizona’s leaders know how we feel, and that there will be consequences. A state that dehumanizes its own people does not deserve our economic support.

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“As long as racial profiling is legal in Arizona, I will do what I can to not visit the state and to avoid spending dollars there.”

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Shame on Arizona [via]

I can’t really decide if all of the (racist, xenophobic, you know) goings-on in AZ should make me more or less interested in planning to have my dissertation research occur there. Which, you know,  I kind of was. At least now it is early enough where I am not tied to it.

The Democrat-written law has plenty of champions. Yep, like Fidel Castro. Welcome to communism folks.

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The Communist President is Near commenting on Companies must soon provide private space for mothers to pump breast milk: Health Care Fact Check

Obv providing a private room/time to pump is the first step down the road to totalitarian government. I guess really freedom loving women should either stay at home (OBVIOUSLY) or formula-feed.

Or pump in the bathroom, where every good meal is prepared!

The case of Sacco and Vanzetti revealed, in its starkest terms, that the noble words inscribed above our courthouses, ‘Equal Justice Before the Law,’ have always been a lie. Those two men, the fish peddler and the shoemaker, could not get justice in the American system, because justice is not meted out equally to the poor and the rich, the native born and the foreign born, the orthodox and the radical, the white and the person of color. And while injustice may play itself out today more subtly and in more intricate ways than it did in the crude circumstances of the Sacco and Vanzetti case, its essence remains.

— Howard Zinn, A-Infos (en) US, Boston, 4th Sacco and Vanzetti Memorial March and Rally, August 23, 2009

If a young adult chooses, he or she can act in pornographic films, gamble nightly, smoke several packs of cigarettes or, in some places, even engage in the truly depraved act of becoming a politician.
Yet this same young adult is breaking the law when ordering an appletini

— Let’s chuck the drinking age [via]