This article contains news and sarcasm. Bill Barr had quite a week. On Wednesday, September 16, 2020, media reports said he asked federal prosecutors to look into prosecuting Seattle’s mayor under obscure an sedition law for not quelling that city’s protests. Read this story here. Sediti[...]
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September 17th, 2020 - 5:37 pm § in Law and Courts
Judges slash illegal protester bail
This article contains news with liberal commentary. Judges moved quickly to drastically reduce the unconstitutional bail demanded by Lancaster, Pennsylvania police for 9 of 13 protesters arrested on Sunday, September 13, 2020, at bail hearings held on Thursday, September 17, 2020. The other 4 protes[...]
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News and commentary from a center-left perspective To return to the Front Page, click on “Blog” in upper left corner This website contains news collected from media sources, our commentaries, politics, short movies, and offbeat humor. Directly below are the stories we’re highlighting and t[...]
September 16th, 2020 - 8:15 am § in Law and Courts
Rightwing idiots cheer illegal bail for protesters
This article contains news with liberal commentary. Police killed a Latino man brandishing a knife in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on Sunday, September 13, 2020. That night a crowd of protesters gathered outside a police station and, according to police, “piled street signs, trash cans, a metal du[...]
Trump campaign adviser shirks paying child support for 2016 campaign love child
This article contains news with liberal commentary. Courts base child support payments on the parents’ incomes, and Jason Miller, one of Trump’s top 2020 campaign advisers, is being paid ZERO for his work, according to campaign documents. Read story here. The child in question was “[...]
September 14th, 2020 - 6:22 pm § in Law and Courts
Oregon deputy suspended for inciting vigilantes
This article contains news and liberal opinion. Oregon police and fire agencies are having to devote resources to combating the false rumors. Now, one of the Clackamas County Sheriff’s own deputies is accused of helping to propagate those rumors. The deputy also is accused of inciting vigilant[...]
How the right smears BLM
This article is liberal commentary. This story begins with a vicious ambush of two Los Angeles sheriff’s deputies assigned as transit police in Compton, California, who were shot and critically wounded by a gunman who sauntered up to their patrol car, opened fire, and then ran away on foot at [...]
September 12th, 2020 - 6:53 pm § in Law and Courts
Slugging people isn’t free speech
Compiled from news reports and other sources. Five members of Patriot Prayer, a rightwing vigilante group, were hit with felony charges and a $1 million civil lawsuit for starting a brawl at a Portland, Oregon cider house on May 1, 2019. About 20 members of the group went to a business called Cider [...]
September 12th, 2020 - 5:30 pm § in Law and Courts
What lawyers do
If you’re thinking of going to law school and becoming a lawyer, or are simply wondering what lawyers do: A lawyer takes a set of facts, identifies issues, figures out which rules and legal precedents apply, then uses logical reasoning to reach a conclusion, usually in the form of a decision ([...]
September 11th, 2020 - 7:03 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Opinion: It wasn’t self-defense
Driving 30 miles across a state line with an illegally-possessed assault rifle to participate in a riot isn’t self-defense. Don’t say he was protecting persons and property, because he’s not a police officer or National Guardsman, so that wasn’t his responsibility or job. He [...]