Turns out they do, so that was good news for Ashley Brandt, who was therefore allowed to fly back from Phoenix to her home in the District of Columbia. Which, as some of you may know, is part of the…
Well, this is stupid. Recently I noted that on February 18, a hearing would be held to determine what punishment should be inflicted on three anti-nuclear activists, one of them an 84-year-old nun, who had the bad manners to break…
On January 28, unexpected snow postponed the sentencing of 83-year-old Sister Megan Rice and two fellow activists in Knoxville, Tennessee. They face up to 30 years in prison for "willfully damaging federal property" (which they did) and "sabotaging national defense material" (which…
He didn't use exactly those words, and the words weren't originally his. But he did retweet and explicitly agree with the following: This is getting a lot more attention than it otherwise might because the tweeter, Joshua Black, is currently…
Which was probably a bargain for New Mexico.
At least for now the order itself is sealed, but Judge Alsup provided some details in a summary he released today in the Ibrahim case (Reuters report). As you may recall, things were not going so well for the government in…
As you may recall, the rap duo Insane Clown Posse and its fans, known as "Juggalos," have been up in arms for a while now because of the FBI's decision to classify Juggalos as "a loosely organized hybrid gang." See "Legal…
When we last checked in with the TSA—or, at least, the last time I mentioned it—it had just been outwitted by a child. Again. See "TSA Embarrassed by Nine-Year-Old Boy" (Oct. 11, 2013). Possibly still smarting from that incident, the agency has now…
That’s what Judge William Alsup wants to know, according to this post by Mike Masnick at Techdirt (based on coverage by the identity project). The trial, going on right now in federal court in San Francisco, involves claims by a former…
Still no democracy in Wallsburg, Utah. Not because anyone's opposed to it (as far as we know), they apparently just forgot about it. Wallburg's city recorder, described by the Salt Lake Tribune as "the employee responsible for oversight of elections," not only failed…