When city police in Castle Rock, Washington, arrested Joel Darvell in April 2013, he stood accused of choking his wife, smacking his son in the face with a handgun, and firing the gun to the side of them during a drunken domestic rampage. After his arrest, he was charged with first- and second-degree assault with […]
After that disastrous first presidential debate in September, Donald Trump and Joe Biden managed to pull it together for round two. A lot of the words out of President Trump’s mouth last night were still incomprehensible or untrue, but he generally managed to wait his turn to say them and do so in his soft […]
Google is being sued by 11 states and the federal government, who claim the tech company “is a monopoly gatekeeper for the internet.” Google maintains this monopoly “through anticompetitive and exclusionary practices” in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act, they allege. To reach this conclusion, the complaint—filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the […]
It looks like President Donald Trump is hoping for a redux of 2016’s announcement that the FBI was investigating Hillary Clinton. With less than two weeks until the 2020 election, Trump is filling rallies and airtime with suggestions that Democratic nominee Joe Biden may be guilty of unspecified federal crimes. But Trump is also frustrated […]
The Trump administration’s family separation policies have left 545 migrant children without traceable parents, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Most of these children were detained during unauthorized border crossings in 2017, during a pilot program to test President Donald Trump’s zero-tolerance family separation policy. “We just reported tonight to the court in #aclu […]
Congress may compel Twitter and Facebook to answer for why they temporarily suppressed a New York Post article alleging corruption by Joe Biden’s son Hunter. The plan takes allegations about Twitter and Facebook’s alleged “censorship” to absurd new heights. In the name of sticking up for the First Amendment—which protects people from censorship and compelled […]
In cities around the world, crackdowns on protesting can’t seem to stop people from pouring out into the streets. Here in the U.S., federal agents just had an hourslong standoff with protestors in Portland after people tied star-shaped balloons with messages about immigration (such as “the U.S. locks up people seeking asylum”) taped to them […]
Execution squad? The more that comes out about the federal task force killing of Portland murder suspect Michael Forest Reinoehl, the worse his death looks. The president isn’t helping. “We sent in the U.S. Marshals. Took 15 minutes, it was over. Fifteen minutes, it was over—we got him,” Donald Trump told a crowd in North […]
By definition, Twitter can’t violate the First Amendment rights of the president, members of Congress, or anyone else. First Amendment violations are things the government does to the people, not the other way around. There is nothing in the Constitution prohibiting Twitter from restricting speech on its platform, and it is certainly not “censorship” (which […]
The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that the Trump administration can stop the 2020 census count right now, instead of at the end of the month. The ruling comes in response to officials arguing in an emergency request that an October 31 deadline would keep them from processing census counts by the end of the year. […]
