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posted by mrcoolbp on Tuesday May 12 2015, @12:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the losing-battle dept.

Sweden's highest court has thrown out Julian Assange's appeal against his arrest warrant where he is wanted for questioning. Prosecutor Marianne Ny changed her mind earlier about questioning Assange in London. Assange has repeatedly requested that the questioning take place over the phone or in London as per common practice, to avoid traveling to Sweden where he fears he risks extradition to the US. Sweden has also repeatedly refused to give assurances regarding possible extradition.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday May 13 2015, @12:51AM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Wednesday May 13 2015, @12:51AM (#182186) Homepage Journal

    "One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws." -- as written in "Letter from a Birmingham Jail".

    Some no doubt well-meaning white ministers criticized King for violating the law. They pointed out that the civil rights movement would surely get a lot more respect, were protestors to obey the law, by not blocking city streets for example.

    King's response, written one some scraps of paper he begged from the jailer, pointed out that it was imperative to obey just laws, but just as important to disobey unjust ones.

    The Supreme Court of the United States does not write advisory opinions as to the high courts of some other countries. That is, one cannot simply ask the court to strike down an unconstitutional law, you have to actually violate it, get arrested, spend a lot of time in the slammer, spend many years and a great deal of money to have your case hear in washington, at which time it might be turned away due to some petty issue such as not having standing, or that your claim could have been handled in a state court.

    It is for that specific reason, that I get myself arrested quite a lot. The best I've gotten so far is to have my cases dismissed several times.

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