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Yesterday was a landmark for the United States Supreme Court: Justice Antonin Scalia agreed with the most liberal members of the bench (Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan) in the Maryland vs. King decision. This, in my opinion, is because Justice Scalia’s more conservative leanings are directly in line with a liberal (read …

Continue reading DNA Registries and the Supreme Court’s Attack on Privacy

In this episode, I am joined by Andy, a political and legal analyst, Melanie (@pmelogna) a criminal defense attorney, and regular contributor T-Bone (@tboneafterdark) (another criminal defense attorney, uggh), where we discuss the controversies surrounding the Obama administration as of late, the newly proposed immigration bill, homosexuality and the Boy Scouts of America, and sex …

Continue reading The David Dorer Show, May 24, 2013

The IRS scandal I wrote about last week now has a new twist: Louis Lerner, the officer responsible for scrutinizing Tea Party 501(c)(4) applications, invoked her Fifth Amendment right against self incrimination on the stand in front of a house congressional meeting. Her invocation came after House Speaker John Boehner stated that he wanted to …

Continue reading Waiving the Fifth Amendment — Lois Lerner and the IRS Scandal

The news is once again a flutter with the George Zimmerman murder case for the shooting of Trayvon Martin last February. What once was prematurely characterized by the left-wing media as a hate crime and the right-wing media as the justifiable vigilante conduct of a devout second-amendment-er is now merely a run-of-the-mill over-publicized murder trial that …

Continue reading Zimmerman Can’t Stand His Ground With “Stand Your Ground”

THE POLITICAL LANDSCAPE OF AMERICAN IMMIGRATION The national debate on immigration and immigration reform has reached a pinnacle point in the American political process. Since Barack Obama modified the procedures for deportation of immigrants to the United States, Ten ICE agents filed suit, an election season was littered with accusations of amnesty, insensitivity, and racism, …

Continue reading Reforming the “Path to Citizenship” – Repaving a Dirt Road with Sand