Left Side of the Aisle #167

Left Side of the Aisle
for the week of July 17 - 23, 2014

This week:

Good News: a bit of common sense in the "war on drugs"
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/11/05/voters_approve_marijuana_law_change/
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2011/04/20/sjc-burnt-marijuana-odor-not-enough-to-suspect-criminal-activity/
http://plymouth.patch.com/groups/police-and-fire/p/smell-of-pot-cant-be-used-for-car-searches-mass-supreme-court-rules47979
http://www.mass.gov/courts/docs/sjc/reporter-of-decisions/new-opinions/11481.pdf
http://medicalmarijuana.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=000881
http://www.news4jax.com/news/medical-marijuana-on-floridas-horizon/26943942

Clown Award: Bill O'Reilly
http://mediamatters.org/video/2014/07/15/millionaire-oreilly-lectures-struggling-america/200103
http://mediamatters.org/video/2012/05/14/oreilly-income-inequality-is-bull-nobody-gives/185720
http://mediamatters.org/video/2014/05/30/bill-oreilly-income-inequality-is-a-fabricated/199524

Outrage of the Week: Hobby Lobby and corporate personhood
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/06/30/supreme-court-embraces-discrimination-against-w/199935
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2010/02/footnote-to-everybodys-talkin-parts-1.html
http://theusconstitution.org/text-history/2169/next-big-test-corporate-personhood
http://sblog.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/3rd-CA-decision-on-mandate-7-26-13.pdf
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2004/02/important-thing-to-know.html

Footnote: confidence in SCOTUS at all-time low
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/30/supreme-court-poll_n_5544322.html
http://www.gallup.com/poll/171992/americans-losing-confidence-branches-gov.aspx

Not Good News: Turning back the 20th century
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2014/06/1636-update-even-imf-says-raise-minimum.html
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/06/12/3448134/the-completely-bonkers-lawsuit-seeking-to-kill-seattles-minimum-wage-repeal-the-twentieth-century/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lochner_v._New_York
https://www.soc.umn.edu/~samaha/cases/people_v_lochner_excerpts.htm
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=198&invol=45
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dred_Scott_v._Sandford
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-liberals-fear-the-lochner-decision/2011/09/06/gIQAZapUAK_story.html
http://www.amazon.com/Rehabilitating-Lochner-Defending-Individual-Progressive/dp/022600404X/ref=la_B001K7PO08_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1405501263&sr=1-1