I’m a firm believer that our ancestors already passed most of the laws we need a long time ago and that most new legislation is redundant or unnecessary. Once you’ve covered coercion and fraud you’re basically just repeating yourself to keep on passing new laws against them in their various forms. Three bills scheduled to be heard by [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Judiciary Committee’
February 17, 2009
LB260 – Nebraska Claims for Wrongful Conviction and Imprisonment Act
This bill provides for compensation and aid to people who have been wrongfully convicted and incarcerated for a crime. Some highlights are $50,000 per year incarcerated plus $50,000 per year on death row, compensation for lost wages and costs associated with criminal defense, compensation for medical expenses, five years of health insurance, and tuition reimbursement.
Given that [...]
February 4, 2009
LB 123 Watch
I’m pretty indifferent, personally, where question of drug use are concerned. However, I’m not so indifferent where liberty is concerned, and anything that limits the exercise of liberty for others–even to be unwise–is automatically suspect where I’m concerned. The standard, in my view, for limits on the behavior of others ought to be: is there [...]
January 17, 2009
Life and Death
Nebraska legislators will be looking at two options for the future of the death penalty: LB36 seeks to change the method of death penalty to lethal injection; LB306 would replace the death penalty with life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
The death penalty is a tough issue. I think we can all agree that taxpayers [...]
January 7, 2009
The Unicameral Begins Session Today
Today’s Lincoln Journal Star discusses a few things related to the beginning of the session. Since the session begins in a little over an hour, and looks to be largely a pro-forma meeting to formally assign committees and elect officers, I thought I might just toss the Journal Star’s items out there for consideration. Obviously, [...]
