Putin's insistence on blocking any diplomacy on Syria that might move out "his guy," President Bashar al-Assad, his abuse of Russian gays and lesbians, and his blatant use of rule-by-law tactics to silence any critics mean that we're not getting anything from this relationship anymore, nor are many Russians.
Thus, if there is any means left to us for thwarting the government in its relentless march towards outright dictatorship, it may rest with the power of juries and local governments to invalidate governmental laws, tactics and policies that are illegitimate, egregious or blatantly unconstitutional.
Although some have expressed concern that a ruling against Chicago would cripple "stop and frisk" and other law enforcement tactics against illegal carrying of guns on the street, nothing in Heller itself would jeopardize those tactics.
But Mr. Walczak said the law enforcement tactics seemed all too familiar.
The incident received wide attention as an example of law enforcement tactics based on race rather than on individual characteristics.
"I've been waiting eight months for this," cracked Ms. Rice, who spent months deflecting criticism from Mr. Brodsky of her law enforcement tactics.
In cases concerning GPS searches and drug-sniffing police dogs, the justices have been expressing increasing skepticism about law enforcement tactics that evade the traditional warrant requirement.
A public negotiation process could also lead to the dissemination of details of sensitive law enforcement tactics that should remain confidential".
If anything, they say, it is the government's newly aggressive law enforcement tactics, like wiretapping the phones of stock traders, that will deter insider trading.
But possibly the most important problem is that the areas where liberals and libertarians agree tend to be on issues that are mostly decided locally in America, like school curricula, law enforcement tactics, and marriage law.
Xhopakelxhit said law enforcement tactics were part of a much broader trend of mistreatment of Native Americans, noting that police killed indigenous people at an alarmingly high rate.
