Saturday, July 13, 2013

Tom Marino, GOP Congressman, Floats Idea Of Filing Criminal Charges Against Obama

Tom Marino, GOP Congressman, Floats Idea Of Filing Criminal Charges Against Obama

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/12/tom-marino-obama-_n_3588114.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

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In a SCOTUS decision it was ruled that Anti-Abortion activists can be held legally liable under the RICO laws...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOW_v._Scheidler

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeer_Influenced_and_Corrupt_Organizations_Act#Pro-life_activists

RICO laws were successfully cited in NOW v. Scheidler, 510 U.S. 249, 114 S. Ct. 798, 127 L.Ed. 2d 99 (1994), a suit in which certain parties, including the National Organization for Women, sought damages and an injunction against pro-life activists who physically block access to abortion clinics. The Court held that a RICO enterprise does not need an economic motive, and that the Pro-Life Action Network could therefore qualify as a RICO enterprise. The Court remanded for consideration of whether PLAN committed the requisite acts in a pattern of racketeering activity.

THE GOP is clearly in violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, commonly referred to as the RICO Act or simply RICO, is a United States federal law that provides for extended criminal penalties and a civil cause of action for acts performed as part of an ongoing criminal organization. The RICO Act focuses specifically on racketeering, and it allows the leaders of a syndicate to be tried for the crimes which they ordered others to do or assisted them, closing a perceived loophole....

http://www2.law.columbia.edu/faculty_franke/Civil%20Rights/NOW%20S.pdf


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