Home | Community | Message Board

Avalon Magic Plants
This site includes paid links. Please support our sponsors.


Welcome to the Shroomery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please login or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!

Shop: Kraken Kratom Red Vein Kratom   Unfolding Nature Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order

Jump to first unread post Pages: 1
Invisible5-HT2A
Registered: 01/30/10
Posts: 1,794
Justice Scalia Criticizes Scope of Federal Drug Laws
    #15219514 - 10/13/11 01:34 PM (12 years, 5 months ago)

http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2011/oct/07/scalia_criticizes_scope_federal

In an unusual hearing at the Senate Judiciary Committee October 5, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia criticized the expansion of federal drugs laws, saying the large number of federal drug cases necessitated an expansion of the federal judiciary that had diluted its quality.

"It was a great mistake to put routine drug offenses into the federal courts," he told the committee, adding that routine drug cases belong in state courts, where the vast majority of criminal cases are heard.

That got words of agreement from committee chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), a former state prosecutor himself.

Scalia's comments came at a hearing in which he and Justice Stephen Breyer discussed with senators the judiciary's role in the US constitutional system. The expansion of federal crimes, including federal drug prosecutions, threatened the "elite" nature of the federal judiciary, Scalia said.

Appointed to the Supreme Court by President Ronald Reagan in 1986, Scalia is the longest-serving justice. He has been described as the intellectual anchor of the court's conservative wing. While not generally friendly to criminal defendants -- he is a staunch defender of the death penalty and a critic of Miranda -- he has defended the right of drug defendants to confront the evidence against them by forcing lab techs to testify and he authored the majority opinion holding that warrantless infrared searches violated the Fourth Amendment. He was also a key figure in the court's Apprendi, Blakely and Booker rulings which led to federal sentencing guidelines being declared advisory rather than mandatory.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Offlinerealfuzzhead
Male User Gallery


Registered: 03/03/10
Posts: 10,783
Loc: above the smog layer Flag
Last seen: 1 year, 4 months
Re: Justice Scalia Criticizes Scope of Federal Drug Laws [Re: 5-HT2A]
    #15219595 - 10/13/11 01:53 PM (12 years, 5 months ago)

things are picking up ladies and gentleman

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Invisiblep_walter
Lurker
 User Gallery


Registered: 04/25/11
Posts: 535
Loc: Irrelevant
Re: Justice Scalia Criticizes Scope of Federal Drug Laws [Re: realfuzzhead]
    #15219744 - 10/13/11 02:22 PM (12 years, 5 months ago)

:thumbup:


--------------------
Coaster said: so i got free drug coupons witch u floozies refer to as "money"....

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineAll We Perceive
Sea Cucumber
Male


Registered: 09/24/07
Posts: 10,491
Last seen: 9 months, 3 days
Re: Justice Scalia Criticizes Scope of Federal Drug Laws [Re: 5-HT2A]
    #15220594 - 10/13/11 04:36 PM (12 years, 5 months ago)

Outside of Scalia's religious bullshit, I love him.  He is in my mind the most brilliant cat on the bench.


--------------------


"plus they atually think jambands are good or sumthing, so they clearly know absolutely nothing about music, clearly lol" -Bassfreak

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Offlinejoshisstoned
Motorcycle Enthusiast
 User Gallery

Registered: 05/24/09
Posts: 3,544
Loc: Ohio
Last seen: 9 years, 7 months
Re: Justice Scalia Criticizes Scope of Federal Drug Laws [Re: p_walter]
    #15220603 - 10/13/11 04:37 PM (12 years, 5 months ago)

It must be ridiculous to see the amount of cases in federal court. I mean all the states with mmj. All counties as well. Tough to do with the conflicting state laws. I'm surprised local cops don't get kore pissed off about it. I thought their jurisdiction was important to them. But they are assholes so....

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Jump to top Pages: 1

Shop: Kraken Kratom Red Vein Kratom   Unfolding Nature Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order


Similar ThreadsPosterViewsRepliesLast post
* The Drug War Goes Up in Smoke (lengthy but worthwhile read) Demiurge 5,385 2 08/14/03 06:17 AM
by TheHobbit
* How the Govt Lost the Drug War in Cyberspace TinTree 4,656 5 10/23/04 02:48 AM
by derx
* Federal judge denies convicted pot guru new trial motamanM 2,939 1 05/17/03 06:09 AM
by Seuss
* The Federal case against PF according to the PROFESSOR AnnoA 6,272 12 11/27/03 05:35 PM
by GGreatOne234
* S. Jersey man faces a rare drug charge motamanM 3,384 6 10/04/03 01:22 AM
by monoamine
* Comedian Chong Sentenced on Drug Charges Stein 5,394 17 09/21/03 10:42 AM
by DellComputers
* Lawmakers To Introduce Bill To Cease Federal Prosecution.... socratesmind 3,714 4 02/28/03 02:07 PM
by motaman
* Lawmakers Rebuff White House in Drug Control Bill motamanM 2,118 1 06/18/03 12:17 AM
by DailyPot

Extra information
You cannot start new topics / You cannot reply to topics
HTML is disabled / BBCode is enabled
Moderator: motaman, veggie, Alan Rockefeller, Mostly_Harmless
1,023 topic views. 0 members, 2 guests and 11 web crawlers are browsing this forum.
[ Show Images Only | Sort by Score | Print Topic ]
Search this thread:

Copyright 1997-2024 Mind Media. Some rights reserved.

Generated in 0.02 seconds spending 0.006 seconds on 14 queries.