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Protests and vigils were held across the U.S. to mark one year since the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Floyd’s death sparked a national uprising and global movement against systemic racism and police brutality. Elizabeth Hinton, an associate professor of history and African American studies at Yale University and a professor of law at Yale Law School, connects the Black Lives Matter protests to a long history of Black rebellion against police violence in her new book “America on Fire” and notes that the U.S. has had previous opportunities to address systemic racism and state violence, but change remains elusive. “Every time inequality and police violence is evaluated, all of these structural solutions are always suggested, and yet they’re never taken up,” Hinton says.
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Earlier this week, the Seventh Circuit issued a lengthy and detailed ruling in
Ezell v. Chicago (available here), which issued a preliminary injunction against Chicago gun range ban based on the Second Amendment. The
Ezell ruling is both interesting and intricate; in this extended new post over at The Volokh Conspiracy, Second Amendment scholar and fan David Kopel astutely explains how and why
Ezell v. Chicago is a tremendously important case for Second Amendment doctrine.
I share Kopel s view about the importance of the
Ezell opinion, and I recommend highly his summary and assessment of
Ezell in his astute post. However, as evidenced by the title of my post here, I want to take issue with a key assertion Kopel makes at the start of the (otherwise astute) concluding paragraph of his post. Kopel finishes with these summary observation about what
The investigation is the second under the Biden administration targeting law enforcement agencies involved in high-profile deaths of Black residents.
A protester holds up a painting of Breonna Taylor during a rally on the one year anniversary of her death at Jefferson Square Park in Louisville, Ky., on March 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)
WASHINGTON (CN) Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Monday afternoon that the Justice Department will conduct a pattern or practice investigation into the Louisville Metro Police Department, a year after officers shot and killed a Black woman who was lying in bed.
“Today’s announcement is based on an extensive review of publicly available information on LMPD conducted by the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division,” Garland said in a press conference. He was joined by the newly confirmed deputy attorney general, Lisa Monaco, and associate attorney general, Vanita Gupta.
The change in the presidential administration has focused cannabis businesses on the potential for legalization nationwide.
Running parallel to full federal legalization will be a corresponding regulatory and taxation scheme replacing the current regime of IRC §280E which prohibits anything but the cost of goods sold being deducted from a state licensed cannabis operation’s income statement.
The evolution of the federal taxation of cannabis started with the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937, which applied tax to marijuana used for medicine.
Historians and critics alike maligned this legislation as an attempt to stop the use of cannabis rather than tax it.