Federal prosecutors have failed, for now, in their most repugnant smear tactic to date in the case involving veteran journalists and onetime Backpage.com owners, Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin. In a ruling issued May 7 from Phoenix’s federal court, Judge…
In a four-page ruling issued on April 5, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously rejected a defense petition that the court order federal Judge Susan Brnovich’s recusal from the Lacey/Larkin case. Attorneys for award-winning newspaperman…
It’s an oft-repeated refrain that journalists are supposed to comfort the afflicted, but The New York Times recently abandoned that principle in a March 18 article about the recent slayings of eight persons at three “Asian” spas in the Atlanta…
Many Democrats and progressives have so embraced cancel culture and illiberalism that one could be excused for thinking that the left currently has a lock on censorship. Whether it’s Pepe Le Pew getting the axe, Abraham Lincoln being jerked from…
A game of legal ping pong has ensued in the Lacey/Larkin case, with U.S. District Court Judge Susan Brnovich shooting down a defense subpoena seeking the same docs from her husband, Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, as a public records…
As the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ponders her removal from the case, U.S. District Court Judge Susan Brnovich on Friday reset the start of the trial for veteran newspapermen Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin to August 23 in Phoenix’s…
Larry Flynt, the iconoclastic pornographer who successfully fought government censorship and all manner of prudes to become a hero of the First Amendment, died of heart failure in L.A. on Wednesday at the age of 78. Born to hardscrabble poverty…
Update 2/13/2021: Please note, on February 12, Judge Brnovich reset the start date of the trial for August 23, 2021 due to COVID concerns. UPDATE 2/5/2021: On February 2, one week after the post below, the Ninth Circuit issued a…
Censorship is the mainstream media’s prescribed panacea for the Jan. 6 MAGA mob violence in Washington, D.C., the elites’ supposed cure for all that ails the American soul. A recent episode of the MSNBC talk show, Morning Joe offers an…
It’s almost as if 2020 and the nationwide demonstrations against police violence never happened. In the wake of the Jan. 6 MAGA riot at the Capitol, which led to the second impeachment of Donald Trump and an FBI dragnet for…
