Justice

WHEN POLICY GOES TO POT: Its time to change Colorados strategy in the war on drugs 0
- October 19, 2005
If President Bush gets his 2006 national drug control budget, Colorado will lose millions of dollars in federal funding for local drug enforcement. But rather than a crisis, the loss of federal drug war dollars would be a unique opportunity for Colorado to gets its own statewide drug control priorities in order.
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Who Will Defend Property Rights in Colorado?0
- October 5, 2005
In June of this year, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the U.S. Constitution allows local governments to seize private property to make way for private development that might create new jobs or increase tax revenues. Now nobody’s home or business is safe from either greedy government, or moneyed special interests looking for sweetheart deals backed by government muscle.
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How Many Laws Did You Break This Week? Overcriminalization in Colorado 0
- September 8, 2005
There is a principle in jurisprudence that “ignorance of the law is no excuse.”1 In other words, no one can justify his illegal conduct on the grounds that he was unaware of the law. But what happens when the sheer volume, complexity, and ambiguity of the law means that neither citizens, nor the government, can reasonably know what is and is not against the law?
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New Crimes Mean More Criminals: Colorado has plenty of both already 0
- July 21, 2005
On July 1, several dozen of the more than 400 new laws passed by the 2005 Colorado Legislature went into effect. Some of these laws are changes and updates, while others actually advance personal freedoms. But the Legislature also managed to create more new crimes where no actual criminal behavior exists.
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States Rights Up in Smoke 0
- July 2, 2005
On May 6th, in Gonzales v. Raich, the U.S. Supreme Court did more than just rule on the federal/state conflict over medical marijuana. The Court also gutted what was left of federalism and gave Congress the go ahead to regulate virtually any aspect of American life.
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The New McCarthyism: Depriving Constitutional Rights Based on Mere Suspicion 0
- June 25, 2005
The civil libertarians who warned about a New McCarthyism in the United States turned out to be right. As in the early 1950s, politicians- abetted by an uncritical press- are using national security as a pretext to take away constitutional rights. Like the Old McCarthyism, the New McCarthyism wants constitutional rights eliminated without due process, based on mere suspicion. Like the Old McCarthyism, the New McCarthyism’s leading advocate happens to be a congressperson named McCarthy.
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