- Since political belief has not been made a protected class under New York public accommodations law, it’s no surprise — various memes notwithstanding — that a judge would find taverns entitled by law to deny service to a candidate’s supporters [Julia Marsh, New York Post]
- Florida: “Attorney faces federal prison after admitting role in $23M auto insurance fraud” [Paula McMahon/Sun-Sentinel, more]
- Pardons, double jeopardy, and now-departed Attorney General Eric Schneiderman: “Historically, New York was proud of providing greater constitutional protections than the feds offered, but that was before Trump.” [Scott Greenfield]
- Megan McArdle follows up on her Alfie Evans column (and thanks for mention) [Washington Post, earlier]
- Not your conventional presidential lawyer: two reports look at the legal practice of attorney Michael Cohen [Ilya Marritz and Andrea Bernstein/WNYC, Seth Hettena/Rolling Stone]
- Harshing the mellow: Regulation, taxes driving some cannabis culture back underground in California [David Boaz, Cato]
Filed under: crash faking, Donald Trump, double jeopardy, illegal drugs
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Re: Political belief–does anyone think that the rejection of an Obama supporter would get tossed so easily?
Rejection of an Obama supporter would be prima facie racism and might get the Feds involved. Or would have, three years ago.
Hmm. Schneiderman wanted double jeopardy under more circumstances, so that’s Trump’s fault. Of course. Yesterday, the NY Times’ OP/ED take on his resignation because he was choking women was that was that he was a courageous proponent of women’s rights. Of course.
Bob
Many jurisdictions regard marijuana as a motherlode from a tax and regulatory fee POV. They seem to be unaware that the extensive black market for MJ will be suppressed by legal MJ but only inversely to the taxation/regulation level. In NY and NYC over 50% of tobacco consumed is untaxed, ie black market. Other states with particularly high tobacco and alcohol taxes have significant % of sales that are untaxed, ie brought in in small amounts or by the truckload for sale subrosa. MJ taxation/regulation to the extent that seems to be developing will most likely result in continuing black market sales of MJ when the taxes are at levels reported so far.