Here’s another interesting court decision in Oklahoma. Oh, this time it’s not a petition with hundreds of thousands of voter signatures being tossed out. And no, it’s not quite as crazy as that ruling allowing a man to photograph up the skirts of girls at the mall. This time Oklahoma’s highest court has ruled that […]
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Opposed to Answers
A Daily Oklahoman editorial laments the killing of a bill that would have created a task force to study the state’s initiative process, writing, “The initiative petition process in Oklahoma is in need of a fix.” That’s why Representative Randy Terrill sponsored the bill. Which passed the House 86 yays to only 11 nays. But […]
It’s nice to have friends in high places. Or to sit on high yourself – way up above the law. Or so Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson must think, as he chirps from his high perch. Last year, State Representative Mike Reynolds detailed publicly that Attorney General Edmondson had violated campaign finance laws. Numerous times. […]
You can’t answer every random fallacy uttered by fierce foes of facts and logic. Can’t always ignore them either. Like, when your polemical adversary is trying to jail you for ten years. I refer to Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson, who indicted me and two others for abetting democracy in Oklahoma. Before our recent arraignment, […]
Last October, two colleagues and I were indicted by Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson. Our crime? Helping a petition drive to limit the growth of government spending. Supposedly, we three willfully violated an arbitrary residency requirement for signature gatherers. As I’ve explained at the freepauljacob.com website, we acted in good faith to comply with Oklahoma’s […]
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Pardon All the Non-Criminals
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is pardoning mask and social-distancing scofflaws. He says the pandemic mitigation rules amount to overreach. “These things with health should be advisory, they should not be punitive.” I agree. But could he (and other governors) do more to help non-criminals? At Reason.com, Billy Binion argues that there’s lots of over-criminalization that […]