In the early morning hours of October 19, 2007, Michael Lacey, then-executive editor of the Village Voice Media chain of alternative newsweeklies, stood outside Maricopa County’s Fourth Avenue Jail, addressing a scrum of reporters as he hitched his belt through…
In what must sound like manna from heaven to Fox News producers, President Trump is promising to expand his recent, Putin-like treatment of protesters in Portland, Oregon to other U.S. cities, dispatching federal officers clad in camo and tactical gear…
Consider this karmic boomerang: Back in 2018, Facebook supported the passage of free-speech-trampling federal legislation known as FOSTA/SESTA, which effectively made adult ads and anything resembling them illegal in the U.S., resulting in a panic wave of censorship and self-censorship…
If you believe in freedom of speech, internet privacy, freedom from unreasonable search and seizure, and other such rights and privileges, the Democrats are not your friends, as they proved recently in the Senate Judiciary Committee, where they helped green-light…
Over the objections of federal prosecutors, U.S. District Court Judge Susan Brnovich on Monday ordered a delay to the start of the Lacey/Larkin trial in Phoenix over concerns related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. With cases of COVID-19 surging daily…
Great scribes sometimes think alike, and when it comes to the U.S. Department of Justice’s June 19 takedown of the adult ad site CityXGuide.com, New Republic writer Melissa Gira Grant andTechdirt editor Mike Masnick are in agreement: the federal government…
Reason magazine’s Elizabeth Nolan Brown is the Conor McGregor of Twitter cage fights. Step into the octagon with her, and you’re guaranteed to wake up the next morning nursing your fractured ego, as Josh Hawley, Missouri’s junior U.S. Senator, can…
In a May 19 filing at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, First Amendment attorney Robert Corn-Revere leaves federal prosecutors’ arguments in the Lacey/Larkin case looking like Steve Buschemi’s character in Fargo following his date with the wood chipper. In…
Before they were newspapermen, Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin were young iconoclasts, fed up with the Vietnam War, the Nixon administration and the Kent State Massacre. But as they both explain in recent interviews for the paper they founded 50…
On March 30, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals dealt federal prosecutors yet another setback in the government’s two-year-long quest to hold onto millions of dollars in publishing assets belonging to veteran newspapermen Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin, former owners…
