Dodds Retroactive Immunity Ammendment Fails

Feb 12th 2008

By: William

In: Politics

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Just got this from Think Progress.  The Dodd/Feingold amendment to strip the retroactive immunity provisions from the FISA bill failed to get the 51 votes needed.  The final tally was 31-67.  Hillary Clinton also failed to make the vote, though she has spoken in support of removing retroactive immunity in the past and was a [...]

Lyrical Terrorist Free

Samina Malik A.K.A the Lyrical Terrorist, who was convicted of thought crimes has escaped a long prison sentence (( 12/7/2007 The New York Times Britain: ‘Lyrical Terrorist’ Spared Prison )) . Instead of the 10 years she could have been sentenced she was given a suspended 9 month sentence. Obviously this show of [...]

Executing Justice?

Oct 30th 2007

By: William

In: Politics

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On Friday a Jury deemed that in the name of justice Lisa Montgomery should be sentenced to death for the horrific killing of 23 year old Bobbi Jo Stinnett. Of course this is not the end of the line for Montgomery, there will be many appeals, and thousands and thousands of dollars spent fighting [...]

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