USA: Trump advocates depriving undocumented immigrants of due-process rights - by Philip Rucker, David Weigel

President Trump on Sunday explicitly advocated depriving undocumented immigrants of their due-process rights, arguing that people who cross the border into the United States illegally must immediately be deported without trial — and sowing more confusion among Republicans ahead of a planned immigration vote this week.

In a pair of tweets sent during his drive to his Virginia golf course, Trump described immigrants as invaders and wrote that U.S. immigration laws are “a mockery” and must be changed to take away trial rights from undocumented migrants.

“We cannot allow all of these people to invade our Country,” Trump wrote. “When somebody comes in, we must immediately, with no Judges or Court Cases, bring them back from where they came. Our system is a mockery to good immigration policy and Law and Order. Most children come without parents.”

“I don’t want judges,” Trump said Tuesday. “I want border security. I don’t want to try people. I don’t want people coming in. Do you know, if a person comes in and puts one foot on our ground, it’s essentially, ‘Welcome to America, welcome to our country.’ You never get them out, because they take their name, they bring the name down, they file it, then they let the person go. They say, ‘Show back up to court in one year from now.’”

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Poland - WWII: Poland to open new front in EU clash - by Andrew Rettman

The Polish government is preparing to claim World War II reparations from Germany, opening a new front in its clash with the EU establishment.

Arkadiusz Mularczyk, an MP from Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party, announced the move on Wednesday (2 August) amid commemorations of the Warsaw uprising.

He told the Polish news agency, Pap, that parliament would conclude a legal analysis of the claim by 11 August, describing the initiative as a “moral duty”.

Ryszard Czarnecki, a Law and Justice MEP, said: “If Jews have gotten compensation - and rightly so - for loss of property, why shouldn't we also make claims?”.

The former Communist regime in Poland waived WWII claims from Germany in 1953, but Antoni Macierewicz, the Polish defence minister, said on Tuesday that this commitment was invalid because it was made by a “Soviet puppet state.”

Note EU-Digest: The Polish government is not acting in a mature and professional way. Today they also have very little support from within their own voters base and they better watch out what will happen in the next general elections. This is also seems to be one of the main reasons they want to take control of the judicial system in Poland.
 
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Poland: EU Commission unmoved by Polish president's veto - by Eszter Zalan

Andrzej Duda decided to veto two of the controversial draft laws, which would put the judiciary under political control, but the EU executive is awaiting details before deciding on whether to launch legal probes on Wednesday

The commission's spokesman, Margaritis Schinas, said the EU executive is “following the events and situation in Poland very closely".

"Things are changing even as we speak," Schinas told reporters only two hours after Duda's announcement.

He confirmed that the college of EU commissioners will discuss the situation in Poland on Wednesday, and decide on the next steps.

"All developments, and all the changes that are going on will be addressed by the commission on Wednesday,” he said.

"This is a political commission, this is up to the political masters to discuss," he added, but declined to call Duda’s veto a positive development.

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Russian Legal System Being Scrutinized by the West : Former Russian Oil Magnate Khodorkovsky Found Guilty - by Andrey Volkov

Despite cries of corruption from Amnesty International and the U.S. government, a Moscow court on Monday found former Russian oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky guilty of stealing fuel from his own companies and money laundering during the period from 1998–2003.

The court did not announce a particular term for his imprisonment. The decision is the result of the second trial against him and his partner, Platon Lebedev, initiated in 2006.

The case against Khodorkovsky has been among the highest-profile issues in Russia over the last several years. It has been characteristic of Russia’s image as an authoritarian state, where politics, the judicial system, and the criminal underworld are closely tied.

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AP: Dutch say unlocked bike not enticement to steal

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Dutch say unlocked bike not enticement to steal

The Dutch Supreme Court has rejected the appeal of a bicycle thief who stole a decoy bike planted by police. Lawyers for the convicted thief — a repeat offender who was sentenced to 22 days in jail — had argued that leaving the bike unlocked amounted to entrapment. But the five-judge court has rejected that, saying the man wasn't personally targeted.Tuesday's court ruling said placing an unlocked decoy bike didn't make the suspect do anything he had not intended doing beforehand.

www.livingstondaily.com - Legal Mumbo Jumbo - the world is getting crazier - US versus European Legal System

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Legal Mumbo Jumbo - the world is getting crazier - US versus European Legal System

"Last week, an Associated Press story crossed my desk about a man in Washington, D.C. who is suing the South Korean immigrant owners of a small dry- cleaning company for $65 million. The issue? He claims the mom-and-pop business owners lost a pair of pants from a $1,000 suit. Even though the owners said they didn't lose the pants, they've made several offers to settle. First for $3,000 and, finally, for $12,000. Now, remember, the suit only cost $1,000 and the couple's lawyer says the plaintiff's pants are hanging in his office. No matter. The customer won't settle. According to the AP story, the bulk of the $65 million claim comes from the plaintiff's "strict interpretation of Washington consumer protection law, which imposes fines of $1,500 per violation, per day." He's counting 12 violations over 1,200 days and multiplied by three defendants.It's a travesty, and it goes beyond farce.

Alternative approaches to the US legal systems and the protections inherent to it exist in other countries, particularly France and Germany. In the US legal system the emphasis is on providing a fair trial, and in particular, protecting the rights of the individual being tried. As a result, the actual trial itself is more adversarial than in most European countries.In choosing which system is best it really comes down to what you think is more important, imprisoning a guilty man or making sure an innocent man is not imprisoned. In the US legal system the emphasis is on protecting the individual from state misconduct, the protections the US has in place do a good job of preventing this. The risk the US run with this system is that those protections will sometimes protect the guilty as well.

In the European system the system is designed to punish the guilty first and foremost. This does mean that there may be some individuals who are wrongfully convicted but, as a whole, the guilty are punished and the state is preserved.