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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, U.S. v. Lacey & Larkin

Elizabeth Nolan Brown Dissects the Latest California Backpage Ruling

Tom Finkel/September 11, 2017June 29, 2021

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, U.S. v. Lacey & Larkin

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

Tom Finkel/September 6, 2017April 28, 2019

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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          Required Reading

  1. Judge Declares Mistrial in Lacey/Larkin Case, Front Page Confidential (FPC), 9/14/21
  2. Backpage’s Victories in Federal and State Courts, FPC, July 11, 2022
  3. GAO Report on Negative Effects of FOSTA and Backpage Takedown,  U.S. Government Accountability Office, June 2021
  4. Lawyers, Guns, and Money (And to Hell with Free Speech), Michael Lacey’s column about the FBI raid on his home, FPC, 11/5/18
  5. The Senate Accused Them of Selling Kids for Sex. The FBI Raided Their Homes. Backpage.com’s Founders Speak for the First Time, Elizabeth Nolan Brown, Reason, 8/21/18
  6. The War on Backpage.com Is a War on Sex Workers, 38-minute Reason documentary, 6/26/19
  7. Seventh Circuit Appeals Court Judge Richard Posner’s decision in Backpage v. Dart,11/30/15
  8. Inside Backpage’s Vicious Battle With the Feds, Christine Biederman, WIRED cover story, 6/18/19
  9. Feds Bungled Preservation of Server Evidence in U.S. v. Lacey and Larkin, FPC, 10/8/2019
  10. Real Men Get Their Facts Straight, The Village Voice, 6/29/11
  11. How John and Cindy McCain Came to Hate Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin, FPC, 9/17/18
  12. Videos and Podcasts Covering SESTA/FOSTA and Backpage, FPC, 12/28/2019

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Note: Jim Larkin died in tragic circumstances on July 31, 2023, one week before the second Backpage trial was scheduled to begin. He was 74.  For more, please see: “Jim Larkin R.I.P.“

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