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Ted Cruz backs unlimited campaign cash: 'Money absolutely can be speech'

15-03-2015 21:16

Texas senator and possible 2016 presidential contender says the super-rich should have the right to donate as much as they want to candidatesUnlimited political cash would give rank-and-file conservative activists greater sway in picking their representatives, including the president, White House hopeful Ted Cruz told New Hampshire voters on Sunday.Cruz, a first-term senator who represents Texas, said deep-pocketed donors should have the same rights to write giant campaign checks as voters have

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The Ministry of Justice’s double standards on domestic violence | Letters from Jonathan Black, Vera Baird

15-03-2015 20:51

Domestic abuse victims are being let down and unnecessarily exposed to intimidation and confrontation in court (Abused women cannot get legal aid, say MPs, 12 March). A parliamentary committee found last week that the most vulnerable are forced to represent themselves and face their abuser in court, thanks to unrealistic time restrictions on abuse evidence to qualify for a legal aid lawyer.As a criminal lawyer, I am astonished at the Ministry of Justice’s double standards. On the one hand, it

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Pentagon denies UN investigator chance to interview Guantánamo detainees

15-03-2015 20:44

Official confirms Juan Méndez, the UN’s special rapporteur on preventing torture, was invited to visit detention center but there are restrictionsShortly after the Pentagon took a battery of pro-Guantánamo US senators for a tour of its infamous detention center, it confirmed that it will deny the United Nations’ torture investigator interviews with Guantánamo Bay detainees.
Juan Méndez, the UN’s special rapporteur on preventing torture, “has been invited to visit

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Selachii LLP Consolidates Its Position As UK's Leading Bitcoin Law Firm - CryptoCoinsNews

15-03-2015 12:06

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Selachii LLP Consolidates Its Position As UK's Leading Bitcoin Law Firm
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Selachii LLP became the first law firm in the UK to accept payment in Bitcoin for its services in 2013. According to information contained on its website, Selachii LLP chose to get in “at the start” and has used Bitcoin to grow what it describes as an ...

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The Observer view on divorce | Observer editorial

15-03-2015 01:05

Family law must change with the timesThe former new-age traveller Dale Vince, aged 53 – founder of the green energy company Ecotricity – is a multimillionaire. His ex-wife, Kathleen Wyatt, mother of four – including Dane, her son by Vince – lives on benefits in a former council house. Last week the supreme court decided that Wyatt could go to the family court to pursue her claim for £1.9m in maintenance, almost a quarter of a century after the couple divorced, splitting nothing, as

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