UPDATE April 18, 2024: Judge Humetewa has pushed back the sentencing date for the three Backpage defendants. Journalist Michael Lacey will be sentenced June 17, 2024 at 10:30 a.m. John Brunst will be sentenced the same day at 9:30 a.m….
The following opinion piece reflects the views of the author and no one else. It was dusk on Thursday, Nov. 16 as the five Backpage defendants and their attorneys filed out of the steel-and-glass doors of the Sandra Day O’Connor…
The news outlet Politico is reporting that Cindy Lou Hensley McCain, provincial beer heiress and widow of the late U.S. Sen. John McCain of Arizona, has been tapped by the Biden administration to be the next executive director of the…
If Arizona State University gave degrees in gaslighting, Cindy McCain and her lackeys at ASU’s McCain Institute would have long ago earned their PhDs in public chicanery. Case in point: A recent op-ed authored by two McCain Institute flunkies and…
At a Dec. 8th meeting of the Arizona Human Trafficking Council, Gov. Doug Ducey announced a statewide media campaign to bolster a long-discredited urban legend: that large sporting events such as the Super Bowl serve as magnets for the sex…
On April 6, 2018, the U.S. government set a disturbing precedent in the annals of modern censorship by arresting award-winning newspapermen Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin and taking down Backpage.com, a classified ads site that reportedly served almost 1,000 cities…
In an eight-page order issued Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Diane Humetewa dismissed concerns by the defendants in the Lacey/Larkin case that her connections to the late Sen. John McCain and the McCain Institute might trigger her recusal due to…
Nothing to see here, move along. That’s the government’s tack in its response to a Nov. 4 defense filing in the Lacey/Larkin case that raised the possibility of an “appearance of partiality” on behalf of federal Judge Diane Humetewa in…
A new motion filed Nov. 4 in Phoenix by defense attorneys in the Lacey/Larkin case raises questions about the “potential appearance of lack of impartiality” on the part of federal Judge Diane Humetewa due to her “close personal and professional…
When it comes to freedom of speech in this country, who can you count on to defend it? Civil liberties organizations like the ACLU? The media? Big tech? The Democrats? Oh, hell no. Yet, libertarians of the brand embodied by…
