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Warrantless Cell Phone Tapping? How Police May Be Secretly Tracking You

Clarence Walker, Drug War Chronicle. May 25, 2012.

Warrantless cell phone tracking has become a powerful and widely used surveillance tool for police officials who use it aggressively with little or no court oversight.

Why Oregon's Attorney General Election May Be Referendum on Medical Marijuana With National Consequences

Steven Wishnia, AlterNet. May 21, 2012.

Oregon AG candidate Ellen Rosenblum promises to make marijuana enforcement a low priority, but will it affect medical marijuana policy on a national level?

Facebook IPO: An Anatomy of Wall Street Overreach

Heidi Moore, Comment Is Free. May 18, 2012.

Before trading, Facebook's bankers were ready to count their profits in billions. By close, they'd had to bail out their own IPO.

Giant Tax Loopholes and Tax Breaks: All About the Multi-Billion Dollar Facebook IPO

Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet. May 17, 2012.

Shares of the social network go on sale Friday at an initial public offering expected to be one of the largest ever--so how's it managing to get a $3 billion tax break?

How Corrupt Prosecutors Get Away With Sending Innocent People to Jail

Phillip Smith, Drug War Chronicle. May 15, 2012.

Prosecutors are arguably the most powerful figures in the American criminal justice system, a system that is not equipped or willing to punish their crimes.

Why The Ridiculous, Mandatory Drug Test Laws Flooding The Country Are Struggling To Pass

Phillip Smith, Drug War Chronicle. April 27, 2012.

The bills are finally being recognized as targeting the most downtrodden and disadvantaged -- the poor, the sick, the jobless -- in the guise of helping them.

The WikiLeaks War Logs Don't Show Rare War Crimes--They Show The (Legal) Reality of War

Chase Madar, TomDispatch.com. April 15, 2012.

The real problem with the laws of war is not what they fail to restrain but what they authorize.

7 Rules for Recording Police

Steve Silverman, Reason.com. April 8, 2012.

Things you should and shouldn't do when armed with a camera against the police.

Trayvon Martin and America's Long, Horrific History of Vigilante Justice

Michael Gould-Wartofsky, AlterNet. April 5, 2012.

The line between law enforcement and lawlessness has been blurred in the streets of our towns and cities.

How The War on Women Opens the Door for Politics in Your Doctor's Office

Tina Dupuy, AlterNet. March 20, 2012.

Both Arizona and Kansas are considering bills giving doctors the legal authority to withhold potentially crucial information about a woman's health, and in this case her child's.

The Truth About Drug-Testing the Unemployed

Steven Wishnia, AlterNet. March 1, 2012.

The law has many problems, including Constitutionality. And while proponents say tax money should not fund drug use, opponents see more sinister stereotyping at work.

How Working Outside the Law Helped Labor Win on the West Coast

Josh Eidelson, Salon. February 26, 2012.

Occupy movement support and defiance of labor law yield a union victory in Washington state.

Why Romney's "Self-Deportation" Idea Defies Reality, Legality, and American Values of Dignity and Human Rights

Raul A. Reyes, Other Words. February 24, 2012.

Some spectators in the audience giggled at Romney's answer. "Self-deportation," however, is no joke. It amounts to laws that harm undocumented immigrants and Latinos.

Who's Behind Arizona's Harsh, Anti-Immigration Law SB 1070 -- And Why?

Ben Winograd, Immigration Impact. February 22, 2012.

The Supreme Court brief offer a revealing look at the identities and motivations of SB 1070’s most ardent supporters.

Occupy Takes Bolder Actions Against Unjust Immigration Policies

Cloee Cooper, Immigration Impact. February 17, 2012.

Occupy Oakland and the Free Pancho campaign were already successful in their efforts to get one immigrant released from ICE.

Civil Rights Groups Call on Alabama Automakers to Oppose Harsh Anti-Immigration Legislation

Elena Shore, New America Media. February 8, 2012.

Civil rights groups are turning to a new potential ally in the fight against Alabama’s harsh immigration law: the state’s top automakers.

Amend the State Constitution, Legalize Pot? How Advocates in Montana are Sticking it to the Feds and Local Republicans

Phillip Smith, Drug War Chronicle. February 3, 2012.

Provoked by federal raids and Republican attempts to eradicate medical pot, activists are rolling out a campaign for a constitutional amendment to legalize pot in Big Sky County.

Eyewitness Identification Has 50% Error Rate? How We Throw People in Prison Based on False ID

Patricia J. Williams, The Nation. January 23, 2012.

From Sacco and Vanzetti to Troy Davis, witnesses to crime scenes get it wrong too often. So why did the Supreme Court just make it harder to challenge such evidence in court?

What do Rihanna's Pot-Smoking Photos Really Reveal? The Divide Between Mainstream Culture and Drug Law

Kassandra Frederique, AlterNet. January 20, 2012.

Rihanna is another example of how normalized marijuana use has become in mainstream culture, but as common as pot may be, getting arrested for it is no joke.

Reefer-Mad Feds Step Up Medical Pot Crusade and Threaten Colorado Distributors

Phillip Smith, Drug War Chronicle. January 13, 2012.

Colorado US Attorney sent letters to 23 medical marijuana dispensaries and their landlords across Colorado warning them to shut down in 45 days, or lose their property.

The Horror: What a Republican President Could Mean for the Supreme Court

Dahlia Lithwick, Washington Monthly. January 9, 2012.

If a Republican is elected, they could wreak havoc on America's federal court system.

Future of Anti-Immigrant State Laws on the Line for 2012

Valeria Fernandez, New America Media. January 8, 2012.

A showdown in 2012 between Arizona and the federal government over SB 1070 may provide crucial guidance for other federal courts on newer state laws.

How the Feds Fueled the Militarization of Police

Justin Elliott, Salon. December 26, 2011.

Billions in post-9/11 taxpayer dollars have paid for combat-style gear on display in the Occupy crackdowns.

Supreme Court to Weigh in on Injunctions Against Arizona's Infamous Immigration Law, SB 1070

Ben Winograd, Immigration Impact. December 13, 2011.

Technically, the question before the Justices is simply whether four of the law’s provisions should be temporarily blocked pending resolution of a larger legal challenge.

99% in Action: A Look at the Movement for Community and Nature's Rights

Shannon Biggs, AlterNet. November 2, 2011.

"We have the opportunity now to shift more than just politicians but the political and economic paradigm," says Global Exchange's Shannon Biggs.

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