November 6, 2013
Tenth Amendment Reviewed by SCOTUS, Police Negligent Training
[From article]
Haynes noticed the bright orange compound but could not get local police interested in investigating.
She called at least a dozen times, but police suggested that she take her car to a car wash and suggested that the chemicals might be cocaine
[. . .]
When Haynes found the compound on her mailbox, she complained again to police, who told her to call the United States Postal Service.
[. . .]
‘The state of Pennsylvania exercised its prosecutorial discretion not to pursue this matter,’ Bond's lawyer said.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2488078/Supreme-Court-hear-bizarre-details-love-triangle-battle-state-federal-jurisdiction-woman-poisons-husbands-pregnant-mistress.html
Supreme Court to hear bizarre details of love triangle in battle over state and federal jurisdiction after a woman poisoned her husband's pregnant mistress
Carol Anne Bond of Pennsylvania found out that her best friend Myrlina Haynes was pregnant with her husband's child
Bond, who works as a lab technician, spread an arsenic-like substance on her love rival's door knob, tail pipe and mail box
Haynes called police to have it checked out and they dismissed her fears, telling her to call the post office who considered it a federal crime
Her lawyer now arguing that it is an example of federal overreaching
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER and ASSOCIATED PRESS
PUBLISHED: 18:08 EST, 5 November 2013 | UPDATED: 18:08 EST, 5 November 2013
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[From article]
The issue is: Can Congress’s powers, which supposedly are limited because they are enumerated, be indefinitely enlarged into a sweeping police power by the process of implementing a treaty?
[. . . ]
But a judge, although concurring in the ruling against her, called her case “a troublesome example of the federal government’s appetite for criminal lawmaking” (the federal criminal code includes more than 4,450 crimes).
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/will110213.php3#.Unn7Q900i6Y
Jewish World Review
More evidence of a government run amok
By George Will
November 2, 2013
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