Liberal Forum

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Let's say selling drugs is illegal and you are selling drugs. And then you decide f this I don't wanna sell drugs and flush it down the toilet. One could argue that the 'spirit' of the 4th makes you innocent. Cause a judge may find probable cause to search your home...delayed some time...but if t...

How did it get there? Where were you, and what were you doing, and who were you with when it got there? Why were you doing that, and how, exactly, were you "with" them? Are we talking biblically, Spartcus? Besides, I think it's Sporaticus.   ...

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by … The criminalization and prosecution of a specific, individual abortion would re...

I totally disagree...

Sure. You can have rights of a defendant but that doesn't mean abortion must be legal lol.  Someone who commits murder has the exact same rights. Should murder be legal by your same argument? Should everything be legal?...

this is a good argument for the Roe v Wade decision.  However, I believe that state constitutions should trump the US constitution when they are in conflict.  Of course they don’t, and that is why I am glad Roe v Wade was struck down .  from a purely constitutional law pov, you are correct.  Roe v ...

You're so fulla ****.  None of the crap tar sands oil that was coming down the Keystone pipeline was going to increase energy security for this country.  It was set up to provide business for US refineries around the gulf coast and to export markets....

Okay, I will bear that legal principle in mind, if I am ever pregnant. ...

Like prosecuting someone for giving or getting an abortion? Are criminal prosecutions "legal cases"? And if they are, does the 4th Amendment become relevant, since your rights kick in when you do crime? Abortion is not about being pregnant. It's about NOT being pregnant. So - possible crime, th...