Comments on: April 19 roundup

By: Hugo S. Cunningham

Hugo S. Cunningham — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 03:10:33 +0000

Constitutional case law protects media who can afford good lawyers from abusive libel lawsuits by non-judges, but not necessarily when the abusive libel plaintiff is a judge. “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?”
The legislature should impeach offenders for abuse of power, as well as the judges who enable them.

By: mojo

mojo — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 18:13:30 +0000

I sued Mother Nature, and Won the Whole World!

By: Mark Phaedrus

Mark Phaedrus — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 14:26:39 +0000

Amazing. First people said ‘Too many people are getting habeas corpus granted.’ So they passed AEDPA, which tightened the federal habeas standards to the point where obtaining habeas relief is virtually impossible. Now they say ‘Look at all these failed habeas petitions — habeas is obviously a waste of time and abusive and we should restrict it even further.’

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 13:11:40 +0000

Did the Bolivians just legalize cannibalism? ‘All nature’ would mean the soy plants those Bolivian hippies get their tofu from would have the same rights as the hippies themselves, right?