The Supreme Court last Friday struck down one of the most controversial gun control edicts in recent years. The ruling on bump stocks is being widely hailed as a victory for an expansive reading of the Second Amendment. But it is also a stark rebuke to Donald Trump’s...
Criminal Justice
Politicians Will Always Be Damn Rascals
by Jim Bovard | Jun 10, 2024 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Former President Donald Trump was recently convicted by a New York jury after prosecutors claimed he was guilty of “hoodwinking” voters in the 2016 election by paying to cover up his boinking of a beefy porn star. Manhattan prosecutor Alvin Bragg proclaimed that Trump...
The Lesson of the Trump Conviction
by Connor O'Keeffe | Jun 6, 2024 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Last week, Donald Trump was convicted of falsifying business records with the intent to commit, aid, or conceal another crime. The Manhattan jury found him guilty on all thirty-four counts. This entire case was always ridiculous. Trump was charged for labeling...
The Trump Trial and our Injustice System
by Ron Paul | Jun 4, 2024 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles, Politics
I’ve long criticized our current U.S. justice system—on all levels—as becoming much more about political justice than blind justice. The bizarre trial and conviction of former President Donald Trump last week on 34 felonies only reinforces my concerns. The New York...
When A Man’s Life Becomes a Bargaining Chip
by Kym Robinson | Jun 3, 2024 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
How much longer must Julian Assannge suffer? Locked inside a process of BS legal limbo, Assange has committed no crime (even under the U.S. government's own determination) and yet he is a prisoner in the United Kingdom's harsh Belmarsh prison where he is treated worse...
How Will Australia Respond to Its Series of Stabbings?
by Kym Robinson | May 13, 2024 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
A person's right to defend themself is sacred. It is only through the arbitrary magic of government that we create a set of standards that determine what a person is allowed to do in the moments of frightful violence. In Australia, for example, government arbitration...
A TikTok Ban Sets a Dangerous Precedent for Free Speech
by Trenton Hale | Apr 29, 2024 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
On April 23, the U.S. Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill that included foreign aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan along with a ban on TikTok. The next day, President Joe Biden signed the bill into effect, giving Byte Dance nine months to sell the app to an American...
One Hundred Years of IRS Political Targeting
by Jim Bovard | Apr 15, 2024 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles, Politics
One hundred years ago, Senator James Couzens, a Michigan Republican, took to the Senate floor to denounce the Bureau of Internal Revenue for abusing its power and trampling innocent taxpayers. Couzens launched a sweeping Senate investigation of federal tax collectors....