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According to the NY Post, comments on social media about assassinating President-Elect Trump soared immediately after the election. While the Secret Service investigates all social media postings containing credible threats, it distinguishes between someone saying they’re planning to kill the president and suggesting that someone else should attempt an assassination. Generally, indirect threats are not prosecuted. What Constitutes An Illegal Assassination Threat Against the President?......
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To you the holidays may seem like a time of gift-giving, over-eating, self-reflection, and hope. However, not everyone feels that way. In fact, some people see the holidays as an opportunity to grinch out, particularly in the courts system. From anger over Christmas displays to ugly Hanukkah sweaters, the litigious are out in full force. Putting it all in perspective, we’ve compiled the 16 Holiday-Themed......
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What is the Electoral College? The founding fathers established the Electoral College as a compromise between election of the President by Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The U.S. Constitution states in Amendment XII, ratified by the states in 1804: “The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a......
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Fact! The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution typically requires government searches to be “reasonable” meaning a warrant is required before the government can search property or persons. The border search exception allows searches and seizures at international borders and their functional equivalent without a warrant or probable cause. Federal law actually allows certain federal agents to conduct search and seizures within 100 miles of......
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Candidates Are Not Legally Required to Release Tax Returns No. There is no legal requirement of any kind that presidential candidates release tax returns from any year. Indeed, there is a strict, strong constitutional right to privacy for all tax returns. Thus, tax returns can be released by an individual taxpayer, but cannot released by the IRS to the public. However, one Senator has proposed......
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You think it could never happen to you. You’d never hand over your hard-earned money to someone who doesn’t even have a law degree, would you?? Wrong! In Pennsylvania, fake lawyer Kimberly Kitchen was convicted of using forged documents to pose as an estate lawyer for a decade even though she didn’t have a law license. Kitchen was hired by a law firm after forging a......
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Back in December 2015, Donald Trump told a room of gathered law enforcement officials that all police murderers would receive the death penalty under a Trump administration. That may not be legally feasible since individual states set sentencing laws. According to the FBI, an average of 64 law enforcement officers were killed each year from 1980–2014 in the line of duty. Recently, the killings of five police......
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Kanye West just released a new music video called Famous, in which a seemingly naked Taylor Swift is shown lying in bed next to Kanye West in a gigantic bed along with 11 other famous people. As the camera slowly pans over Swift’s naked “body,” which is a waxwork, Kanye sings, “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex. Why? I made that......
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In a horrifying story that shocked the world, a two-year old was killed recently when he was snatched by an alligator in the Seven Seas Lagoon within the Grand Floridian Resort at Disney World. It was the first fatal alligator attack at Disney World since it opened. The attack here occurred after 9 pm, which wildlife experts call “prime” feeding time for alligators. A day......
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Yesterday in San Jose, California, Trump rally attendees were chased and attacked by mobs of protestors. Video Link: https://youtu.be/2Lk1kvZ_WNY In 2011, Santa Clara County, of which San Jose is a part, joined hundreds of other cities in refusing to hold jailed non-citizens beyond their sentence for immigration agents to deport them. These are also called “sanctuary cities.” What Is A “Sanctuary City” and How Did......
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