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color photo of inflatable effigies of Joe Arpaio, former sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, and U.S. President Donald Trump, taken at a demonstration in Phoenix in the summer of 2017
First Amendment, Joe Arpaio, Media, Required Reading

Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin on the Enduring Sins of Joe Arpaio, America’s Worst Sheriff

Tom Finkel/November 17, 2017January 15, 2018 /3 Comments

Ten years ago, under cover of darkness, agents from the Maricopa County Selective Enforcement Unit came knocking at the Phoenix, Arizona, homes of Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin. On orders from Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, they hauled away both…

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banner from Roy Moore's Twitter account, showing his photo and the words, "Judge Roy Moore for U.S. Senate"
Media, Required Reading

Roy Moore Is One Sick Puppy — But It’s Not What You Thought

Tom Finkel/November 14, 2017November 30, 2017

The Front Page Confidential break room has no Keurig, and we’ve never considered purchasing one. We did, however, engage in a thought experiment this past weekend: Would buying a Keurig and then smashing it be a pro-Roy Moore statement or…

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First Amendment

Cop Rains Threats and Profanity on Driver Who Had the Gall to Honk at Him for Failing to Budge at a Green Light

Tom Finkel/November 10, 2017November 30, 2017

As if the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department didn’t already suffer from an egregious-enough image problem, we have a report from the city’s weekly Riverfront Times about a cop who unleashed a profanity-laced tirade upon a law-abiding (albeit horn-honking) citizen. Bonus:…

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Joe Arpaio, News

That Time Joe Arpaio Busted a Rock & Roll Pioneer

Tom Finkel/September 12, 2017November 9, 2017

Announced on August 25 just as Hurricane Harvey commenced to batter Texas’s Gulf Coast, President Donald Trump’s pardon of ex-Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio blew its own ill wind across the nation. Convicted on a charge of criminal contempt of…

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Backpage, First Amendment, Section 230, Sex Work

Elizabeth Nolan Brown Dissects the Latest California Backpage Ruling

Tom Finkel/September 11, 2017December 1, 2018

For the past several years, Elizabeth Nolan Brown over at Reason.com has been steadily and smartly reporting about attacks on the First Amendment via Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act. (Her in-depth feature, “The War on Sex Trafficking…

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Backpage, First Amendment, Section 230

Techdirt Update on California’s Pursuit of Backpage and the Looming SESTA Threat

Tom Finkel/September 6, 2017November 30, 2017

Embed from Getty Images  Above: U.S. Senator (and former California Attorney General) Kamala Harris Unlike the vast majority of news coverage surrounding the latest decision out of Sacramento in the Backpage.com case, Techdirt cut through the media manure and summed…

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Front Page Confidential is published by Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin and edited by Tom Finkel. We aim to bring our readers important news, commentary, and historical perspectives on all matters related to free speech — from how it affects us all to how it will affect our future rights to speak freely.

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