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Don Lemon’s arrest looks like an assault on freedom of the press
Don Lemon and Georgia Fort, two journalists who covered a protest that disrupted services at a St. Paul church on January 18, were arrested last week on federal charges punishable by up to a decade in prison. While the…
If ‘you bring a gun’ to D.C., U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro warns, ‘you’re going to jail’
If "you bring a gun" to Washington, D.C., Jeanine Pirro warned during a Fox News interview on Monday, "you're going to jail." Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, was touting her…
Cop-assisted extortion of DWI arrestees in New Mexico included getting them drunk
For three decades, Albuquerque defense attorney Thomas Clear bribed police officers to make drunk driving cases against his clients disappear. The cops typically did that by deliberately failing to show up at administrative…
Uvalde verdict shows why it’s hard to convict cops for not stopping mass shootings
Adrian Gonzales was the first police officer to arrive at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on the day a gunman murdered 19 students and two teachers there. Gonzales, who worked for the school district, therefore…
Trump-appointed federal judge orders Lindsey Halligan to stop ‘masquerading’ as a U.S. attorney
On Tuesday night, Attorney General Pam Bondi said Lindsey Halligan, the lawyer whom President Donald Trump tried to install as the chief federal prosecutor for the Eastern District of Virginia, will no longer serve in that…
Renee Good was a casualty of Trump’s order against ‘political violence’
Last week in Minneapolis, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed Renee Good, who had been blocking traffic with her car. Right away, federal officials claimed Good had tried to run…
The FBI thinks Renee Good’s anti-ICE activism is relevant in deciding whether killing her was justified
A few hours after an immigration agent fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis last Wednesday, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said the 37-year-old activist was engaged in "domestic terrorism" at the time…
Invading Venezuela for ‘law enforcement’ is an open-ended license for war
Venezuela is well rid of Nicolás Maduro, a corrupt, oppressive, and illegitimate leader who presided over that country's continuing decline after succeeding Hugo Chávez in 2013. And judging from what happened after the…
A school district cop allegedly did nothing to stop the Uvalde mass shooting. Was that failure a crime?
After the 2022 shooting that killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, police officers were widely condemned for failing to act in time to prevent those deaths. The gunman was not stopped…
Cocaine smugglers who don’t get bombed often aren’t even charged by the DOJ
On September 2, President Donald Trump gleefully announced that he had ordered a "kinetic strike" on a speedboat "transporting illegal narcotics," killing 11 men he described as "positively identified…
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