The Legal Dispatch
The Legal Dispatch will have a number of features and articles for people interested in the day to day application of fundamental principles of law. While we intend to make it challenging for lawyers, jurists and law students, it will most definitely be written and structured for everyone.
The mission of The Legal Dispatch is to democratize the law and engage everyone interested in developing simple, concise democratic principles to guide us in our lives. For if we do not embrace such distilled principles, we will quickly become a people subject to the caprice and ruthlessness of a handful of men. Such has been the history of this species and there is no evidence to suggest that our DNA has changed for the better.
Here are some of the stories we are working on:
Should pedophilia be considered "normal" (such a movement is underway)? If so, what impact would that have on state and federal laws which protect children and punish violators?
The United States military, CIA and numerous private research facilities are suspected of engaging in non-consensual human experiments; can this be stopped and if so, how? Consider the following:
The executive branch of our government wants immunity from all lawsuits which complain of such unethical experimentation on humans; the president maintains that there are documents, evidence, issues which are too sensitive for review by the judicial branch of our government, yet the judicial branch is a co-equal branch of our government, at least the Article III court (United States Supreme Court) is. (The other federal courts (district and appellate) are created by congressional legislation and are referred to as "Article I courts.")
Perhaps one solution would be to have the United States Supreme Court create a subsidiary court of itself, the entire purpose of which would be to review all claims of "mandatory secrecy in the name of national security" made by either of the other two branches of government and their subordinate agencies, including the military. It is illogical and destructive of the principles of constitutional equality of the three branches of our government that any one branch should have the right to withhold vital information from the other two branches by shrouding the single branch in secrecy.
Does the President of the United States suggest that the Justices of the Supreme Court (or of lesser courts) cannot be trusted with the necessary secrets of government administration? Their character, history and qualifications have been more vetted than the presidential candidates before their appointments to the bench are approved.
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