DEA’s Army of 18,000 Informants Pocketed $237 Million Over Five Years Ryan Devereaux FROM The Intercept

Think Government Surveillance Is No Big Deal? Talk to These Victims of Police Stalking. by Scott Shackford FROM Reason

Law Graduate Gets Her Day in Court, Suing Law School By ELIZABETH OLSON from The New York Times

Opinion | Laurence H. Tribe [Harvard Law Professor] Under Ted Cruz’s own logic, he’s ineligible for the White House

I suggest stop reading at "Consider immigration."

Texas armed standoff ends after 15 years by Jason Whitely FROM USA Today

Did a 14-year-old Indian boy invent email? By Dean Nelson FROM The Telegraph

Are Supreme Court Justices Too Privileged to Understand Average Americans? by Steven Mazie FROM Big Think

Explainer: Everything You Ever Needed to Know About Grand Juries by Joe Carter FROM Acton Institute

Ethan Nadelmann: Why we need to end the War on Drugs FROM Ted Talk

Private Courts by Anthony Caprio FROM Daily Anarchist

Hubertus Knabe: The dark secrets of [the East German] surveillance state FROM Ted Talk

Knabe was himself betrayed by his best friends.

USE LINK BELOW!!

Why We Need Government: To Prevent 9-Year-Olds From Running Free Little Lending Libraries

 by Brian Doherty FROM Reason

Zoning’s Racist Roots Still Bear Fruit by A. Barton Hinkle FROM Reason.com

Fake China Did that lion just bark at me? Counting down China's most radical and odious counterfeits by Brent Randall FROM Dazed

The Brothel King: Dennis Hof on Prostitution, Spitzer and Weiner, Wild West Libertarianism, and "Pimpin' for Paul" FROM Reason.com

A 27-minute long video.

Top 5 Secrets of the Private Prison Industry By Nicole Goodkind FROM Daily Ticker [1 page]

America’s Prisons: The Worst National Disgrace By Anthony Gregory FROM The Independent Institute

Our Prison System Is Our De Facto Mental Health Care System by DAVID EAGLEMAN FROM Big Think

Courtroom Quotes FROM Disorder in the American Courts

These are [SUPPOSEDLY] from a book called Disorder in the American Courts, and are things people actually said in court, word for word, taken down and now published by court reporters who had the torment of staying calm while these exchanges were actually taking place.


Q: Are you sexually active?
A: No, I just lie there.
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Q: What is your date of birth?
A: July 15th.
Q: What year?
A: Every year.
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Q: What gear were you in at the moment of the impact?
A: Gucci sweats and Reeboks.
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Q: This myasthenia gravis, does it affect your memory at all?
A: Yes.
Q: And in what ways does it affect your memory?
A: I forget.
Q: You forget? Can you give us an example of something that you've forgotten?
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Q: How old is your son, the one living with you?
A: Thirty-eight or thirty-five, I can't remember which.
Q: How long has he lived with you?
A: Forty-five years.
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Q: What was the first thing your husband said to you when he woke up that morning?
A: He said, and I quote: Where am I, Cathy?
Q: And why did that upset you?
A: My name is Susan.
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Q: Now doctor, isn't it true that when a person dies in his sleep, he doesn't   know about it until the next morning?
A: Did you actually pass the bar exam?
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Q: The youngest son, the twenty-year-old, how old is he?
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Q: Were you present when your picture was taken?
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Q: (asked of the mother) So the date of conception (of the baby) was August 8th?
A: Yes.
Q: And what were you doing at that time?
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Q: She had three children, right?
A: Yes.
Q: How many were boys?
A: None.
Q: Were there any girls?
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Q: How was your first marriage terminated?
A: By death.
Q: And by whose death was it terminated?
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Q: Can you describe the individual?
A: He was about medium height and had a beard.
Q: Was this a male, or a female?
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Q: Is your appearance here this morning pursuant to a deposition notice which I sent to your attorney?
A: No, this is how I dress when I go to work.
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Q: Doctor, how many autopsies have you performed on dead people?
A: All my autopsies are performed on dead people.
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Q: ALL your responses MUST be oral, OK? What school did you go to?
A: Oral.
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Q: Do you recall the time that you examined the body?
A: The autopsy started around 8:30 p.m.
Q: And Mr. Dennington was dead at the time?
A: No, he was sitting on the table wondering why I was doing an autopsy.
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Q: Are you qualified to give a urine sample?
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Q: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?
A: No.
Q: Did you check for blood pressure?
A: No.  
Q: Did you check for breathing?
A: No.
Q: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the
autopsy?
A: No.
Q: How can you be so sure, Doctor?
A: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
Q: But could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless?
A: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law somewhere.

Jury Nullification by Doug Linder (2001) FROM University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Law

I know I'll end up talking about jury nullification too, so here is an article about this form of nullification.