Texas continues to debate its policy of randomly testing student athletes for steroid use especially after it was reported last month that only 2 students tested positive out of a total of 10,000 students tested. GritsforBreakfast recently offered some of the pros and cons of these random tests.
Since I’ve argued against continued steroid testing [...]
Although this article is one month old, I thought that the recent indictments in the FLDS case in Texas and the similarities between that case and this one as pointed out by Eugene Volokh of the Volokh Conspiracy, would make this an interesting article to post.
It was reported by both the Winnipeg Free Press and [...]
It was announced on the SCOTUSblog that the state of Louisiana filed a Petition for Rehearing on Monday for the case Kennedy v. Louisiana. In this case, the Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment for a defendant convicted of raping a child violates the Eighth Amendment. The Supreme Court reached its decision by [...]
In a follow up to yesterday’s post, Reuters and Grits for Breakfast announced today that a Texas grand jury indicted 6 members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints yesterday. The leader of the church, Warren Jeffs, was charged with sexually assaulting a child, a charge that could lead to [...]
The Houston Chronicle reported today that FLDS members were called to testify before a grand jury today. Members may face indictment on charges of child abuse. However, the women called in to testify are refusing to do so by pleading the fifth amendment. For background information on this case, please check out [...]
