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…
It’s Super Bowl LV time in Tampa, Fla., which means local law enforcement is arresting sex workers in advance of Sunday’s kick-off between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Kansas City Chiefs. Cops and prosecutors claim they’re combating “sex trafficking,”…
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…
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…
