As we see more of our fathers, mothers, sisters and brothers behind bars, it is time that we question not only the legal precedent that grants the state the ability to take our loved ones, we must also challenge the notion of criminality itself, as well as the entire criminal justice system as a legitimate institution.
Friday's ruling establishes a precedent that applies only to the Fourth Circuit, but that circuit includes Maryland and Virginia, where most national security agencies like the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency are.
This is a dangerous precedent that is not only a serious erosion of the principle of open justice but may have opened the door to a new kind of secret justice in terrorism cases.
While the financial meltdown and ensuing bailouts came before Obama, the lack of reform or accountability does not win him any gratitude from either side, it only serves as precedent that selling bundled crap mortgages to old people goes unpunished.
Judge Alito agreed only with the proposition that Roe was an important precedent that should be given deference like any other precedent relevant to a constitutional dispute.
But it is a bad precedent, the type of precedent that causes democracies to erode.
Roosevelt lost to Woodrow Wilson, but even if he hadn't, Starr writes, he'd have understood (if only because of Supreme Court precedent) that any such social insurance could have been provided at that time only on the state level.
through the adoption of a system of social insurance". Roosevelt lost to Woodrow Wilson, but even if he hadn't, Starr writes, he'd have understood (if only because of Supreme Court precedent) that any such social insurance could have been provided at that time only on the state level.
It sets a dangerous precedent that only diminishes the hope for robust democratisation in the Arab world.
