Showing posts with label Over-criminalization. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Over-criminalization. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Pardon me? Part Deux



President Trump was responsible for several people who were unjustly punished by a corrupt judicial system used by the Deep State to victimize ordinary Americans.

Clinton Stewart was a church going programmer who was part of a company that was marketing a program to the Justice Department. He was imprisoned by a corrupt deal to allow another company to get the gig along with several of his coworkers. A blatant and disgusting abuse of power. Read all about it in the blog Red State which has improved since it fired a bunch of Never Trumpers some time ago.

This video is amazing and I hope that the Trump campaign gets it out there for people to see.

The President has to issue pardons and do whatever he can to reverse the corrupt excesses of the Deep State.

Thursday, December 12, 2013

"MALCOLM/REIMER: Over-criminalization undermines respect for legal system"

"Despite some of the sharpest political divisions in memory, Congress managed to mount one noteworthy bipartisan effort this year. Since May, the Over-criminalization Task Force, comprising five Republicans and five Democrats from the House Judiciary Committee, has worked diligently to develop recommendations that will address some of the fundamental problems plaguing the federal criminal justice system. The task force has been analyzing worrisome trends such as:"
• the dramatic expansion of the size and scope of the federal criminal code over the past few decades;

• the proclivity of Congress to enact offenses without a mens rea — “guilty mind” — requirement, which leaves people vulnerable to being sent to jail for doing something they had no idea was a crime;

• the tendency to pass laws that are so vaguely worded that the limit of their reach is constrained only by the charging prosecutor’s creativity;

• and the ever-increasing labyrinth of federal regulatory crimes.

At four public hearings convened earlier this year, task force members heard testimony from people representing a wide array of professions and ideologies — from professors and lawyers to everyday citizens who have been unfairly prosecuted. The witnesses all agreed on one thing: Legislation is needed to ensure that criminal laws and regulations are interpreted to adequately protect against unjust convictions for engaging in activities that no reasonable person would assume is against the law.
John G. Malcolm and Norman L. Reimer via Instapundit