Hot Air » courts http://hotair.com The world’s first, full-service conservative Internet broadcast network Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:52:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Judge drops three out of eight murder charges against Gosnell http://hotair.com/archives/2013/04/23/judge-drops-three-out-of-eight-murder-charges-against-gosnell/ http://hotair.com/archives/2013/04/23/judge-drops-three-out-of-eight-murder-charges-against-gosnell/#comments Tue, 23 Apr 2013 20:01:06 +0000 Erika Johnsen http://hotair.com/?p=256869

"This wasn't a baby moving!"

After more than a month of prosecution testimony on the eight counts of murder and other charges against Kermit Gosnell, the judge in the case — at the request of the defense — decided to throw out three of those murder charges on Tuesday, concurring that there wasn’t enough evidence to conclude that those babies [...]

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Rights

This has been making the rounds quite a bit over the weekend, including some of our readers talking about it from an article earlier today. Quite a few people seem to be concerned (fair enough) or outright confused (including yours truly) over the situation where Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was not read his Miranda rights before being [...]

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Log jam

Among the many things not getting done in Washington these days, filling up the bench of the Judicial branch is still near the top of the list. This backlog of judicial nominees has been going on for at least a decade now, with some ebbs and flows in high profile cases. The D.C. Circuit Court [...]

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Progressive.

A majority of voters believe President Obama has been no better than his immediate predecessor, President George W. Bush, when it comes to balancing national security with the protection of civil liberties, according to a new poll for The Hill. Thirty-seven percent of voters argue that Obama has been worse than Bush while 15 percent [...]

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Terror.

The attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq compelled the United States to boost the speed and accuracy with which it targets terrorists. But it was not until the Obama administration that U.S. technology and intelligence caught up with the need to take down terrorist networks rather than just individual [...]

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