The Feds and Their Own Bribery - Normally, when the government asks a judge to dismiss criminal charges against a defendant, the judge will happily do so. This does not occur frequently, but occasionally, the government will reevaluate the strength of its own case and conclude it cannot prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty. What happens […]
Pentagon moves to restore Fort Bragg name to North Carolina’s Fort Liberty - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has approved reverting the name of military base Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg. Hegseth approved a memorandum Monday to change the name, but with a different namesake. Located just west of Fayetteville, the base was initially named in 1918 after Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg. It’s one of the largest military […]
Dear Secretary, Cure Long COVID - You made it. There are any number of reasons you should not have been confirmed, but Republicans were afraid to buck Trump. They voted in lockstep (except polio survivor Mitch McConnell, who Trump then ridiculed), and now you are the most powerful man in the world when it comes to health care. There are many […]
News From Around the South 2/10 to 2/17 - SOUTH CAROLINA: SC Native American tribes sign treaty promising to work together The treaty was likely the first of its kind in the country, tribal leaders said COLUMBIA — South Carolina’s Native American tribes will pool their resources and advocate as a group for protections under a treaty signed Wednesday, prompted by fears of erasure […]
The Myth of Emergency Powers - “The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times and under all circumstances. No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than that any […]
