“Trump officials have vowed to prosecute Assange and destroy WikiLeaks. The central oddity of Assange’s case — that he has been effectively imprisoned for eight years despite never having been charged with, let alone convicted of, any crime — is virtually certain to be prolonged once Ecuador hands him over to the U.K.”
“It’s not a stretch to say that it’s one of the most important lawsuits to ever cross the desk of a federal judge. The core of the Bill of Rights is in play, and a wrong result could formalize a slide into authoritarianism that began long ago, but accelerated after 9/11.”
Read more: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/how-to-survive-americas-kill-list-699334/
“Here’s hoping the internet tariff is revisited by future Courts, as it’s plainly a restraint on trade. If cities and states really want a bigger cut of our consumption they should either raise local sales taxes, or they should demand that we report what we purchase outside where we live. Rather than hiding behind the courts in order to force non-constituent businesses to collect taxes for them, they should stand up and collect taxes on their own. And when voters vote them out, a message about excessive taxation will have been sent to all grasping politicians.”
“‘We should prohibit U.S. persons from buying or mining cryptocurrencies,’ the California Democrat – whose largest donor is credit card processor Allied Wallet – declared.”
Read more: https://www.coindesk.com/u-s-congressman-calls-for-national-ban-on-crypto-ownership/
“Fiscal-Gonzalez said she didn’t know taking the shells from the beach was illegal. She was planning to give the state-protected mollusks away as gifts.”
“The White House budget office now estimates that the deficit will rise to nearly $1.1 trillion in the fiscal year that begins this October, or 5.1% of gross domestic product, up from $984 billion projected in February’s budget proposal. The U.S. ran a deficit of $666 billion for the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 2017, or 3.4% of GDP.”
“Would the ACLU ever offer a ‘Pro-Liberty Case for Fourth Amendment Restrictions?'”
Read more: http://thefederalist.com/2018/07/19/the-aclu-has-basically-quit-defending-the-constitution/
“It seems that we may need to be reminded every generation or so of the perils of foreign military intervention and the simple truth asserted by General Graves.”
Read more: https://consortiumnews.com/2018/07/18/when-the-u-s-invaded-russia/
“U.S. border officials won’t release the money, deeming it ‘counterfeit.'”
“So long as we’re going to tolerate government officials exempting themselves from the rules they inflict on the rest of us, we might just have to be happy when there’s no body count.”
Read more: https://reason.com/archives/2018/07/17/laws-are-for-the-little-people/print