News From Around the South, 8/12 to 8/19
SOUTH CAROLINA: Anderson County housing development plans to pave over potential slave gravesite. Neighbors object PENDLETON, S.C. — A 175-acre tract of land along S.C. Highway 187 is one of many in the area that developers are pursuing for housing development, but...
The FBI ‘Visits’ Scott Ritter
Among the lesser-known holes in the Constitution cut by the Patriot Act of 2001 was the destruction of the “wall” between federal law enforcement and federal spies. The wall was erected in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, which...
Alabama Chooses to Preserve the Last Slave Ship Where it Sank, Citing Structural Decay
The Alabama Historical Commission plans to keep the last known vessel to transport enslaved Africans to the United States in its current location in the Mobile River, saying the ship is too deteriorated to be raised above water. The Clotilda transported 110 Africans...
Two Contradictory Decisions on AR-15 Bans Reflect Clashing Views of Supreme Court Precedents: Does the Second Amendment Allow the Government to Ban Guns in Common Use for Lawful Purposes?
Last month, a federal judge ruled that New Jersey’s ban on AR-15 rifles is unconstitutional. A week later, a federal appeals court deemed a similar ban in Maryland perfectly consistent with the Second Amendment. These dueling decisions reflect a basic...Obiter Dicta
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