Archive for the ‘Civil Rights’ Category
Attorney Rob Corry on Medical Marijuana in Colorado
On September 11, 2008 in Civil Rights, Drug War, Legalization, Medical Marijuana, Video
Rob Corry Hemp Rally Speech At Denver Democratic National Convention Pt 2
On August 29, 2008 in Activism, Civil Rights, Government, Legalization, Video
From the DNC Rally to support Marijuana legalization on August 22nd, 2008, on the Colorado capital steps in Denver. This part features Corry’s pledge to represent any protestor cited by the Denver Police for less than an ounce of marijuana.
Rob Corry Hemp Rally Speech At Denver Democratic National Convention Pt 1
On August 29, 2008 in Activism, Civil Rights, Drug War, Video
From the DNC Rally to support Marijuana legalization, featured speaker Attorney Rob Corrys speech
Louisiana Lawmen Play Fast And Loose with the Constitution
On August 29, 2008 in Civil Rights, Drug War, In The News, Law Enforcement
In its 2000 decision in Indianapolis v. Edmond, the US Supreme Court held that efforts to attack the drug trade by holding a checkpoint to look for drugs was a violation of the Fourth Amendment’s protection of the right to be free from unwarranted searches and seizures. In the years since then, a handful of departments across the county, usually in the South, have brazenly trumpeted their resort to drug checkpoints. Read the rest of this entry »
Latest Illinois Report Prompts Civil Rights Groups to Call for End to Consent Searches
On August 08, 2008 in Civil Rights, Miscellaneous
The Illinois Department of Transportation earlier this month issued its annual report on race and traffic stops. The results showed that police were much more likely to ask minority drivers to consent to searches without probable cause, but that they were much less likely to actually find drugs, guns, or other contraband in consent searches directed at minority drivers.
The results are consistent with the first three years of results under the state’s traffic stop racial profiling monitoring program. That program went into effect in 2004 after the state legislature passed legislation authored by then state Sen. Barack Obama (D) enacting it. Read the rest of this entry »
