Criminal justice reform is an important topic for Libertarians. Not only do they want to change the laws to get rid of nonsensical and failed prohibitionist policies, such as the War on Drugs, but they also want to retroactively release anyone who’s been imprisoned for things they shouldn’t have been charged for in the first…
With the recent commuting of Rod Blagojevich’s sentence, Trump has already been freeing up several of his buddies. Now, he’s implicated in one particular opportunistic pardoning scheme. According to Julian Assange’s lawyer, the founder of the notorious whistle-blowing website Wikileaks was allegedly offered a pardon by former Republican California U.S. Representative Dana Rohrabacher. Rohrabacher supposedly…
Mary Margaret Olohan Prosecutors dropped an investigation into 2010 rape allegations against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Tuesday. Assange, 48, is being held in prison in Britain, but the investigation has been discontinued, according to Politico. The decision came after a Swedish court ruled in June that Assange would not be detained. “I want to inform about…
Julian Assange, 47, was forcefully evicted from his 2,488-day exile in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London early Thursday morning when British authorities entered the embassy with permission from the Ecuadorian government.
Chelsea Manning was sent to jail on Friday after being held in contempt of court for refusing to testify before a grand jury in a sealed case out of the U.S District Court in Eastern Virginia. Manning is an anti-secrecy activist and former U.S. Army intelligence analyst whose release of classified information to WikiLeaks in…