Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) the new Chair of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel, pressed a panel of judge advocate generals for answers regarding sexual assault during her first hearing as Committee Chair for the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel. The officers, judge advocate generals from the Army, Navy and Marines were told […]
By William Boardman [email protected] 15TH AMENDMENT TO THE U.S. CONSTITUTION [Ratified February 3, 1870] Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Section 2. The Congress shall have power […]
Nassau County police dropped a case in which three ninth-grade boys allegedly sexually assaulted a 15 year-old, mentally challenged girl. The reason: the attackers have low IQs. Police said that because the girl was also mentally challenged, the act was “consensual” and “not something for us to get into.” Daily News reported that on May […]
Rape is rape, right? Evidently not, according to an existing 19th century barbaric law in California. A Los Angeles appeals court argued that the measure, penned in 1872, does not protect single women against rape as it does for married women. California appellate judges pushed legislators to update the egregious law because of a recent […]
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was confronted by a student Monday over his prior claims that homosexuality is similar to bestiality. Speaking at Princeton University, a gay student questioned the conservative justice about a 2003 dissenting decision written by Scalia in support of anti-sodomy laws. The student, Duncan Hosie, who identified as gay, questioned […]