It is difficult, for sheer outrage, to rival the French Revolutionary Tribunal where Georges Danton instructed the courthouse functionaries: “Let us be terrible, so that the people do not have to be.” His savage directive lives yet to this very…
With COVID 19 still wreaking havoc in federal and state courts across the nation, U.S. District Court Judge Susan Brnovich granted a defense motion on Friday to delay for another four months the Phoenix trial of veteran newspapermen Michael Lacey…
A new report from the National Registry of Exonerations, a U.S. database of individuals whose wrongful convictions have been overturned, finds prosecutorial misconduct to be rampant in federal white-collar convictions that eventually result in exoneration. According to “Government Misconduct and…
The FBI recently returned scores of personal possessions belonging to veteran newspapermen Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin as the result of a judge’s finding that the bureau violated their Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable search and seizure when its agents…
On Saturday, August 29, the Los Angeles Press Club honored video journalist Paul Detrick of Reason magazine for his brilliant, 2019 documentary, The War on Backpage.com Is a War on Sex Workers, awarding it second place for best investigative journalism…
Ruling strictly on procedural grounds, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently dismissed a challenge to the federal government’s seizure of millions of dollars in assets belonging to longtime publishers and journalists Michael Lacey and Jim…
Libertarians have stones the size of Mount Rushmore when it comes to championing civil liberties, challenging police power and battling government overreach. Such subjects used to be the purview of true-blue liberals, but too often these days, social justice warrior-ing…
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…
There are two things one can be certain of when it comes to the intense media speculation over Joe Biden’s pending choice of a running mate: Kamala Harris desperately wants the gig; and the press would love to crown her…
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…
