Talk about cutting it close to the bone. With a trial in the Lacey/Larkin case currently set to begin April 12 in Phoenix, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has scheduled an oral argument for March 3 on the defense’s…
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…
It was one step forward, one step back for free speech icon Julian Assange last week as a London court first denied a U.S. request to extradite the WikiLeaks founder to be tried in Northern Virginia on federal Espionage Act…
Kamala Harris marching arm-in-arm with civil rights leaders of the 1960s. Harris as a kid, Photoshopped into a historic image of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama. The young Harris posed a la Harriet Tubman, leading escaped slaves to freedom…
In a Dec. 29 submission to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals as part of an attempt to force federal Judge Susan Brnovich to recuse herself from the Lacey/Larkin case, defense attorneys batted away the prosecution’s contention that prejudicial statements…
Update: On Dec. 8, 2021, four days after the hearing described below, a two-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, headed by Chief Judge Sidney Thomas, ordered federal prosecutors to respond to the defense’s request for a…
In the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent 5-4 decision forbidding New York state from enforcing certain COVID restrictions on houses of worship, Justice Neil Gorsuch comes off as the judicial embodiment of that notorious line from U.S. Sen. Barry Goldwater: “Extremism…
Vanity license plates in California may now call their owners “OGs,” reclaim the term “queer,” and proudly exclaim the British expletive,”Bollocks!” — all thanks to a new ruling from a federal judge nixing the state DMV’s regulations forbidding rude and…
On Nov. 18, veteran newspapermen Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin took the extraordinary step of filing a petition for a writ of mandamus with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, asking it to intervene in their ongoing criminal case and…
