Democracy • Legal
Is Trump preparing to invoke the Insurrection Act? Signs are pointing that way
Brett Wagner
San Francisco Chronicle
A joint Department of Defense and Homeland Security report will soon recommend whether or not to invoke the Insurrection Act over illegal migration
Published On: 03/05/2025
Legal
Energy Transfer’s High Stakes Legal Attack on Greenpeace
Janine Jackson
FAIR Counterspin
...this case is one of the most extraordinary examples of abuse of the US legal system that we have encountered in at least the last decade. And anyone who is concerned about protecting free speech rights, or is concerned about large corporations abusing their power to silence their critics, should be paying attention to this case, even though it’s happening in North Dakota state court." -- Kirk Herbertson, EarthRights International
Published On: 02/28/2025
Democracy • Legal
FCC’s Knives Are Out for First Amendment
ARI PAUL
FAIR
Brendan Carr, newly appointed chair of the Federal Communications Commission, is waging a war on the news media, perhaps the most dangerous front in de jure President Donald Trump and de facto President Elon Musk’s quest to destroy freedom of the press and the First Amendment.
Published On: 02/26/2025
Legal • Technology
DOGE Sparks Surveillance Fear Across the US Government
Paresh Dave, Dell Cameron, Alexa O'Brien
Wired
A federal law enforcement source warns that monitoring could theoretically be used to gather political intelligence on federal employees, while the administration looks for more palatable reasons to terminate them later; similar to how law enforcement may obtain evidence that's inadmissible in the course of a criminal investigation, but then search for another evidentiary basis to file charges.
Published On: 02/21/2025
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