On this day in 1964 the United States passed the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution making it illegal to impose poll taxes at the voting booth. A year later Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would push President Lyndon B. Johnson to pass the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Two years ago the United States …
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Welcome back to the David Dorer Show. You can listen to this show live at 6PM by using the spreaker player application below. Once the show starts, it will automatically update. This week’s episode is the “…You Can’t Always Get What You Want” Edition where we will discuss failed efforts at gun control in the …
Continue reading “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” EditionSince Mapp v. Ohio, the United States Supreme Court has held that evidence obtained as a result of a violation of the Fourth Amendment cannot be used in any criminal prosecution of a defendant. This is called the exclusionary rule, and it encompasses both the “primary evidence obtained as a direct result of an illegal search …
Continue reading An Invalid Stop Can Still Lead to Admissible Evidence?There are, in the physical universe the we occupy, certain things the government needs to show with evidence in order for the government to properly bring a case to the Foreign Intelligence Service Act court, the FISA court. The FISA court is the one that Snowden brought to light, and is where the NSA is granted secret …
Continue reading Hey Rule of Law, Say Hello To My Little FriendYesterday 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 PrivacyAP is reporting today that the Senate rejected expanded background checks, ostensibly making the pushes for gun control regulations following Sandy Hook dead. I was under the impression that in the early 90’s the NRA supported universal background checks. Apparently, those facts were skewed by Joe Biden. I did a little research on the Republican platform on Gun …
Continue reading The Law that Killed Gun Control Protects Abortion RightsWelcome back to the David Dorer Show! This week my panelists and I discuss recent proposed legislation in the Georgia General Assembly. My panelists this week include John Buckner (@JGigBuckner), an attorney with the Democratic Party of Georgia, T-Bone (@tboneafterkdark), a Middle-Georgia criminal defense attorney, and Anderson Lipscomb (@alipscomb25), a legislative strategist with the …
Continue reading David Dorer Show: Georgia General Assembly 2014 EditionBefore oral argument started for Hollingsworth v. Perry yesterday, the Supreme Court handed down it’s decision in Florida v. Jardines. The crux of the decision is this: a warrant is required when law enforcement use drug-sniffing dogs on a citizen’s property. The true question before the court was whether or not a “dog sniff” obtained by …
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