It is always dangerous to human freedom and due process when politics interferes with criminal prosecutions. Yet, present-day America is replete with tawdry examples of this. The recent exposures of …
Judge’s Opinions
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In 1966, two famous Russian literary dissidents, Yuli Daniel and Andrei Sinyavsky, were tried and convicted on charges of disseminating propaganda against the Soviet state. The two were authors and …
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“Those who have sown the wind shall reap the whirlwind.” – Hosea 8:7 The federal antipathy to compliance with the Constitution is well known and well documented. Presidents have declared war …
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“America goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy … She might become the dictatress of the world, But she would no longer be the ruler of her own …
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“Every move you make And every vow you break Every smile you fake Every claim you stake I’ll be watching you.”– “Every Breath You Take,” song by The Police The …
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Among the lesser-known holes in the Constitution cut by the Patriot Act of 2001 was the destruction of the “wall” between federal law enforcement and federal spies. The wall was …
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In the months following the attacks of 9/11, the government laid the blame for orchestrating them on Osama bin Ladin. Then, after it murdered bin Ladin, the government decided that …
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Sometime before he withdrew from the presidential race, President Joe Biden secretly reaffirmed his own self-willed and self-created authority to kill persons in other countries, so long as the CIA …
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“Freedom is always just one generation away from extinction.” — Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) In December 1776, just six months after the Declaration of Independence had been signed and a year …
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The world is filled with self-evident truths — truisms — that philosophers, lawyers and judges know need not be proven. The sun rises in the east and sets in the …