Attorney General Jeff Sessions has had a busy first year as one of President Donald Trump’s earliest and most committed supporters, one who now leads one of the most powerful departments in the federal government. “We inherited from our Founders—and have advanced—an unsurpassed legal heritage, which is the foundation of our freedom, safety, and prosperity,” […]
Reporter Arrested, Thrown to the Ground for Cursing…
Do the police in Fairfax County, Virginia really not know about the 1st Amendment? It certainly appears that way after watching the video of them violently arresting a reporter named Mike Stark, who was trying to cover the gubernatorial campaign of Ed Gillespie. Now, because some people will want to mention this, I’ll note that […]
Poll: Almost Four Out of Ten Americans Cannot Name a Single Right Under the First Amendment…
Thomas Jefferson called an educated public as “the only safe depositories of their own liberty.” If so, a new poll conducted by the University of Pennsylvania suggests that we have a serious problem. The poll made a truly alarming finding that many Americans cannot name a single first amendment right. Penn’s Annenberg…
In Internal Memos, CIA Inspector General Portrayed the Media as Agency’s ‘Principle Villains’…
A series of 1984 memos from the CIA Inspector General’s (IG) office reveals some alarming views on the press and how to deal with them. Among other things, the memo shows that 33 years before the Agency declared WikiLeaks a hostile non-state intelligence service, they were viewing the general press in the same terms…
DOJ Demands 1.3M IP Addresses of Visitors to Antifa Website Used to Coordinate Riots…
In what is shaping up to be a contentious battle over privacy rights and free speech, the Department of Justice has formally requested that web hosting firm ‘DreamHost’ turn over 1.3 million IP addresses and other information to ‘unmask‘ visitors to the anti-Trump Antifa website ‘disruptj20.org,’ as part of the investigation into…
Ninth Circuit OKs FBI’s National Security Letter Gag Orders…
The Ninth Circuit on Monday upheld the FBI’s use of gag orders to muzzle companies about the number and content of national security letters they receive seeking records on their customers without a warrant. A three-judge panel found that because the gag orders serve a compelling government interest — protecting national security — and because […]
Julian Assange Strikes Back at CIA Director and Talks Trump, Russia, and Hillary Clinton (AUDIO)…
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is hitting back at Trump’s CIA director Mike Pompeo following a speech last week in which Pompeo accused WikiLeaks of being a “hostile nonstate intelligence agency” operating outside of the protections of the First Amendment. “We can no longer allow Assange and his colleagues the latitude to use free speech values […]
This Time It’s Going To The Supreme Court: Hawaii Judge Blocks Trump’s Second Travel Ban…
In the latest legal setback for the President, moments ago Trump’s latest attempt to temporarily bar new immigrants and refugees from six Muslim-majority nations was blocked by a Hawaii Federal Judge, pushing the young administration toward a second defeat on one of the president’s core campaign platforms. U.S. District Judge Derrick K. Watson froze the […]
Expelled Candidate for DNC Chair Suing Democrats for Breach of First Amendment…
Vincent Tolliver, who previously ran an unsuccessful campaign for Congress in Arkansas, was expelled from the campaign by interim DNC Chairwoman Donna Brazil, after telling The Hill he didn’t believe his rival Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn) should become chairman because of his Islamic faith, citing the religion’s positions on homosexuality.“His being a Muslim is precisely […]
Time Warner CEO: The ‘Real Threat’ to the First Amendment Came from Democrats, Not Trump…
Bewkes said “we should all worry” if someone were seeking to change the First Amendment. He suggested that came from the Democratic Party, which “had a campaign plank to change the First Amendment, and they were doing it in the guise of campaign finance reform”…