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JOHN KIRIAKOU: Cellphone Seizures & the Courts

corinna barnard — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:27:47 +0000

We cannot trust that federal agents will just be looking for child pornographers or international drug traffickers when they demand access to our electronics at the border. By John Kiriakou Special to Consortium News After years of conflicting decisions by…

JOHN KIRIAKOU: America’s Barbaric Death Penalty

corinna barnard — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 19:00:06 +0000

Three quarters of the rest of the countries in the world do not have the death penalty. They see it as barbaric and immoral, which it is. By John Kiriakou Special to Consortium News The Texas Supreme Court in October…

Trump Doesn’t Hide Plan to Use Military Against Protestors & Immigrants

corinna barnard — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 22:00:55 +0000

The recent Supreme Court decision granting presidents nearly absolute immunity for official acts leaves fewer guardrails to prevent Trump from abusing his authority, writes Marjorie Cohn. By Marjorie Cohn Truthout “The next time, I’m not waiting” before committing troops to suppress…

Deal or No Deal?

corinna barnard — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 04:09:01 +0000

In a traditional trial of the Gitmo defendants, versus a plea agreement, George W. Bush et. al. could be indicted and tried in foreign countries for war crimes, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. By Andrew P. Napolitano “Oh, what a tangled…

WATCH: Assange’s Testimony in Strasbourg

Consortiumnews.com — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 01:54:44 +0000

The liberated WikiLeaks publisher testified on Tuesday in his first public appearance since his plea deal hearing in June. Watch it on replay here. Please scroll to 12:45 for the start. Julian Assange appeared before the Committee on Legal Affairs…

A Brief History of Free Speech in America

corinna barnard — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 23:29:29 +0000

When the feds claim that articulating views of the war in Ukraine from a Russian perspective is somehow criminal they ignore the core purpose of the First Amendment, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. By Andrew P. Napolitano “Congress shall make no…

Gitmo & Politics

corinna barnard — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 17:00:28 +0000

Andrew P. Napolitano on a state of affairs unheard of in American jurisprudence, where judges don’t have bosses telling them what guilty pleas to accept and what to reject. By Andrew P. Napolitano It is always dangerous to human freedom…

The Right to be Left Alone

corinna barnard — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 16:00:48 +0000

Privacy is the most violated of personal rights, writes Andrew P. Napolitano, as government agents evade the natural right to privacy and pretend the Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to them. By Andrew P. Napolitano “Every move you make And every…

The FBI ‘Visits’ Scott Ritter

Consortiumnews.com — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 04:00:19 +0000

Andrew P. Napolitano on the Patriot Act’s destruction of the Fourth Amendment wall between law enforcement and spying. By Andrew P. Napolitano Among the lesser-known holes in the U.S. Constitution cut by the Patriot Act of 2001 was the destruction…

JOE LAURIA: Why the US Let Assange Go

Consortiumnews.com — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 18:26:40 +0000

The Consortium News editor examines the cumulative factors that led to the United States releasing WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange from prison. These are remarks given in a speech in Sydney, Australia on July 7. The text, with additional material, follows.…