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5 Maine Law Enforcement Charged Federally, Connected to Illegal Weed Scheme. Posted by Edmund R. Folsom October 28, 2021 In a big breaking story in Maine news today, 4 cops and an Assistant D.A. have been charged in federal court … Read More
Maine Breakthrough Deaths Are 59% of All Maine COVID-19 Deaths, 10/15-10/22/21. Posted by Edmund R. Folsom October 23, 2021. Last week, breakthrough COVID-19 deaths of the fully vaccinated were 13 of Maine’s 22 deaths with COVID-19. That’s 59% of Maine’s … Read More
Maine Breakthrough COVID Deaths Hit 50% Week of 10/9 – 10/15. Posted by Edmund R. Folsom October 17, 2021 Last week, 48.4% of new COVID-19 hospitalizations in Maine were breakthrough hospitalizations among the fully vaccinated, and 50% of new COVID-19 … Read More
How Far Does The Principle Underlying Vaccine Mandates Extend? Posted by Edmund R. Folsom, Esq. October 1, 2021 “Carrie Buck is a feeble-minded white woman who was committed to the State Colony [for Epileptics and Feeble Minded] in due form. … Read More
I See a Bad Moon Rising Over Maine’s Indigent Defense System. Posted by Edmund R. Folsom August 30, 2021 Bad things are afoot in the realm of indigent defense in Maine. A lot of damage has been done, and it … Read More
Woke Dopes, Drunk on Progressive Fantasy, Gaze Dispassionately at Their Sacrificial Altar, From Afar. Posted by Edmund R. Folsom August 24, 2021 Because selectively enforced law is a plaything of corruption, and because law cannot exist effectively in an atmosphere … Read More
A Lawless Southern Border and a COVID spike. Posted By Edmund R. Folsom August 5, 2021 Our federal government is allowing vast numbers of people to illegally flood into the U.S. over our southern border and stay here, a … Read More
Lang v. California: What Difference Does it Make? Posted by Edmund R. Folsom, June 26, 2021. Lang v. California, 594 U.S. __ (2021), decided June 23, 2021, tells us that police are not automatically justified in entering a home without … Read More
State v. Cardilli, Self-Defense with a Gun — It’s Complicated and Dangerous. Posted by Edmund R. Folsom, June 2, 2021. The law of self-defense is complicated. State v. Cardilli, 2021 ME 31 demonstrates some of that complexity. It also makes … Read More
Yelling “Fire” In a Crowded Theater & “Absolute” Constitutional Amendments. Posted by Edmund R. Folsom May 4, 2021 President Biden has taken a shine to repeating something about constitutional rights that is very misleading. He said it in his recent speech … Read More