LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Paul Meekin Following the recent race-motivated stabbings in Portland, Oregon, Mayor Ted Wheeler has called for the cancellation of two ‘Alt-Right’ rallies in the city. The first titled the ‘Trump Free Speech’ Rally, and the second is a “March Against Sharia.” The Mayor has stated he will issue no…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jonah Bennett The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a Freedom of Information Act request, demanding copies of records relating to President Donald Trump’s decision to fire FBI Director James Comey. The ACLU filed the request Monday with the FBI and Department of Justice. Currently, the White House justification for…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Rob Shimshock The director of the American Civil Liberties Union disparaged President Trump, but also criticized campus safe space culture in an interview in the May 2017 issue of the Princeton Alumni Weekly. Anthony Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, told the Princeton Alumni Weekly, a magazine representing…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Dries Van Thielen On Wednesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions released a memorandum overturning former attorney general Eric H. Holder Jr.’s 2013 statement on drug-related ‘criminal activities’. Sessions urged prosecutors nationwide to “charge and pursue the most serious, readily provable offense, […] including mandatory minimum sentences”. The goal of the…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Amber Randall Activists and civil rights groups criticized the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) pause on police reform, calling the move “alarming” Tuesday. Many of the groups claimed the pause could potentially violate civil rights and harm the public, reports NBC New York. “Consent decrees are the means by which you…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield An Alabama megachurch is seeking to establish its own police department — and a bill that would green light the force is already moving through the state senate, reports NBC News. Briarwood Presbyterian Church, which has a reported 4000+ person congregation, is making arguments that it is in…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Amber Randall A former Catholic high school teacher filed a lawsuit Wednesday against his old school, alleging that they discriminated against him for being a gay. Lonnie Billard maintained that Charlotte Catholic High School fired him not long after he said he would be getting married to a man…
By Kody Fairfield In an epic move of pure hypocrisy, it appears that the Washington Post‘s (WaPo) editorial board has come out against a pardon for NSA whistle blower Edward Snowden: the same whistle blower whose sourcing to WaPo helped them to break one of the largest stories on government overreach ever to exist. In response to the WaPo Op-Ed, journalist for the Intercepter and…
In a weird twist of irony, Trump might be inspiring more Americans to read the U.S. Constitution for the first time since middle school. After his largely publicized feud with the family of a fallen Muslim-American solider , The New York Times has reported that the sale of pocket constitutions have soared. At the Democratic…
Police unions may be resistant to body cameras on officers, but technology is finding new ways to keep police accountable. A new app put out by the ACLU allows you to take video and automatically send the video to them. This means even if police seize the fun, the video has already been sent to…