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…
CAMDEN/UNIONS As a kid in Newark, New Jersey, when I got home from school, I would turn on the television to watch Officer Joe Bolton. He hosted a show that featured the Three Stooges. When you are 10, Moe, Larry…
Below is a collection of some of the many videos posted to Instagram and YouTube documenting police brutality and misconduct toward the public in the wake of the George Floyd killing. Many were posted to the instagram account for SuperChief…
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…
Update, August 1, 2020: On July 28, the Ninth Circuit issued an order dispensing with the need for oral arguments in the case. It states: “The court is of the unanimous opinion that the facts and legal arguments are adequately…
Would the Phoenix police have opened fire on Saturday if community leaders had joined the young people protesting the murder of George Floyd? Would the cops have fired their rubber bullets at the mayor, the city council members, the state…
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…
Federal prosecutors in the Lacey/Larkin case seem eager to prove the infamous boast once uttered in Errol Morris’ classic, 1988 documentary on the perversion of justice, The Thin Blue Line, that the true test of a prosecutor is being able to…
A fiery motion to dismiss filed in the Lacey/Larkin case on May 1 in federal court in Phoenix accuses the U.S. Department of Justice of “outrageous government misconduct,” claiming federal pettifoggers and government agents repeatedly trampled upon the defendants’ attorney-client…
On May 4 in Phoenix, U.S. District Court Judge Susan Brnovich nixed a defense motion to dismiss the indictment of veteran newspapermen Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin, rejecting the motion’s argument that the prosecution had improperly charged the one-time alt-media…
