Julian Assange And Personal Freedom
“I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude.” — Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) It wasn’t until 1969 that the Supreme Court’s modern First Amendment jurisprudence made it clear that whenever there is a clash between the government...
“There is not one of you a slave now”: Escaped Union Prisoners Announce Freedom in South Carolina
While Juneteenth started as a celebration of the announcement of emancipation in Galveston, Texas in 1865, other accounts of freedom announcements to enslaved communities also offer joyful moments during the Civil War years. In his published narrative Seven Months a...
The Second Amendment Allows New Gun Restrictions
When the Supreme Court vindicated the right of individuals to own firearms for self-defense, it might have opened a new era of calmer debate about regulation of guns. The National Rifle Association had always trumpeted the danger of complete bans and mass...
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PENNSYLVANIA: Did FBI Lie to Federal Judge About Finding Civil War Gold? The FBI either lied to a federal judge about having video of its secretive 2018 dig for Civil War-era gold in Pennsylvania, or illegally destroyed the video to prevent a father-son team of...Obiter Dicta
Among the lesser-known holes in the Constitution cut by the Patriot Act of 2001 was the destruction of the “wall” Read More
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SOUTH CAROLINA: New preserve protects SC sea island cotton fields and memory of the enslaved who toiled there COOSAW ISLAND — What started as a idle observation made during the isolated days Read More