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Federal Judge Richard Posner Sees No Value in Studying “Outdated” Constitution

June 30, 2016June 30, 2016 Kelly W. Patterson 1462 Views 14th amendment, 18th century, 21st century, 7th circuit court of appeals, Accountability, An email conversation about the news of the day, bill of rights, Civil rights, colloquium, common law, constitution, constitutional law, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, Corruption, culture, David Strauss, eighteenth century guys, exercise in futility, Fourteenth Amendment, freedom, gives no fucks, History, Judge Richard Posner, Justice System, kelly patterson, Mediaite.com, men in robes, modern culture and technology, no value in studying the Constitution, old-timey ways, police, Police State, rights, Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, Slate.com, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Breakfast Table, Supreme Court Justices, Technology

According to Judge Richard Posner, of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, the “eighteenth-century guys” responsible for writing the Constitution

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A Touch Of Dystopia: Milwaukee Police Hid Stingray Use From Courts, Says ACLU

February 20, 2016February 20, 2016 Isiah Holmes 1793 Views 7th circuit court of appeals, Accountability, ACLU, america, american civil liberties union, American police culture, amicus brief, blog, Brutality, cell phone data, Civil rights, comment, constitution, cop block, copblock.org, cops, Corruption, courts, data collection, Department of Justice, discuss, Dishonesty, DoJ, double-standards, Drug war, dystopia, Ed Flynn, eff, Electronic Frontier Foundation, encouraging police to prey on the people, excessive force, FBI, federal bureau of investigation, federal probe, federal program, freedom, fugitive, Harassment, illegal, Illegal search/entry, insanity by definition, intelligence cop, jail, journalism, judge, Justice System, milwaukee, Milwaukee Journal Sentinal, milwaukee police, monitoring, MPD, news, no victim no crime, nondisclosure agreement, oddly vague language, orwellian, overuse, phone tracking, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police brutality, police industrial complex, Police State, politics, PR event, prison industrial complex, rights, scrutinous pressure, Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, share, stingrays, streamlining convictions, strike the root, subverting the courts, Surveillance, surveillance state, sustainable democratic models, Transparency, undisclosed Stingray use, unethical, Update, warrantless data collection, Warrior Cop, wi, Wisconsin, wisconsin police, writing

Scrutinous pressure continues to bury Milwaukee’s police department despite its recent DOJ-sponsored public forum. Days later, the ACLU blasted the

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Illinois Gets With the Times – Lifts Threat of Jail for Filming Police

May 15, 2012May 13, 2012 Pete Eyre 1027 Views 7th circuit court of appeals, ACLU, Ademo Freeman, Anthony Graber, chicago, chris drew, eavesdropping, Featured, felony wiretapping, Illinois, Maryland, massachussets, michael allison, nato, Pete Eyre, police accountability, Simon Glik, tiawanda moore, Transparency, War on Cameras

Last week a judge for the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago said that eavesdropping legislation, long used by

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