Early this year, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a plan to rescind an Obama-era policy that de-prioritized federal prosecution of marijuana laws in states that have legalized cannabis. At the time, I said the announcement gave Sessions another opportunity to rail against pot, but that it would have virtually no practical effect. I was right.…
Boldin discusses the latest news on the court case and heroic actions of Cody Wilson and Defense Distributed. Plus Jeff Sessions jumps into the fray - unsurprisingly - on the wrong side.
One might be forgiven for coming to the conclusion that Jeff Sessions' favorite past time is locking peaceful Americans in prison.
They claim the feds have to "enforce the law" unless it's a policy they don't support.
(July 2, 2018) – Yesterdat, laws went into effect in Kansas and Virginia implementing strict reporting requirements for all asset forfeitures, including cases passed off to the federal government. These new laws take a first step that could lead to more substantive reforms. The Kansas House Committee on Judiciary sponsored House Bill 2459 (HB2459). In Virginia,…
Attorney General Sessions has told us repeatedly that federal laws are to be enforced no matter what. And if you don’t like it, wait for congress to repeal, or the federal courts to overturn the law in question. But the principle author of the Declaration of Independence disagreed. In response to the Sedition Act of…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (May 22, 2018) – Missouri police departments do an end-run around strict state asset forfeiture requirements and skim millions of dollars from Missouri schools using a federal loophole to circumvent state law. Missouri has some of the most strict asset forfeiture laws in the country. Prosecutors must get a conviction or a…
CONCORD, N.H. (April 11, 2018) – Yesterday, a New Hampshire Senate committee passed a bill that would prohibit the release of any information from the state’s medical marijuana registry to the federal government without a warrant. Passage of the legislation would take another small step toward nullifying federal cannabis prohibition in effect. A coalition of…
Federal agents, along with state and local police across the country, are still taking people's stuff without due process. But some states are pushing back.
Today, Jeff Sessions issued a statement announcing that the DOJ is officially putting together regulations to ban bump stocks. In a statement, Sessions said the U.S. Justice Department is proposing to amend the rules by clarifying that bump stocks fall within the definition of a “machine gun” under federal law. The DOJ says if the proposal is made final, bump-stock-type devices…