Like candy?: Hillary Clinton’s former chief of staff Cheryl Mills and two other staffers were granted immunity as part of the now-closed FBI probe into the former secretary of state’s email practices, according to a top House Republican who questioned … Continue reading →
That was quick. And not really surprising, from what I’ve seen and read so far. More facts will no doubt be coming out as the case proceeds. I plan to write more tomorrow on the topic. In a different but … Continue reading →
One person killed during riots. Powerline offers this bio of the black police officer who shot Lamont, the act that has sparked the protests.
Continue reading →I have a post up at Legal Insurrection that is a comprehensive look at what we know about the Terence Crutcher case so far (or at least, what we knew last night, when I did the bulk of the research … Continue reading →
[Scroll down for more updates.] More information on the Crutcher case is coming out, and the situation may be even worse than what I had discussed earlier today. The claim now is that Crutcher wasn’t even reaching into his car … Continue reading →
This incident looks like the real thing: a trigger-happy cop panicking and killing an innocent black man, Terence Crutcher. We don’t know enough about it to make a final judgment, but so far the fact situation looks bad. The exchange … Continue reading →
It’s such a familiar story. After acts of terrorism (or even non-terrorist mass shootings) we hear one of two refrains: he (or she, but it’s almost always a “he”) was a quiet and regular guy and no one saw it … Continue reading →
We’ve grown used to criticizing Europe’s intelligence and police systems for letting homegrown or home-dwelling jihadis slip through the cracks. But it’s not easy to deal with this problem, not at all, while attempting to keep the countries themselves from … Continue reading →
This is quite a story, one I hadn’t followed till now. It’s complicated, but here’s the basic outline: Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane was convicted Monday of perjury, obstruction, and other crimes, after squandering her once-bright political future on … Continue reading →
In a pattern that’s become all too familiar around the nation, the death of a black man at the hands of a police officer has sparked riots. This time it’s in Milwaukee. Here’s a lengthy article on the subject in … Continue reading →
Maybe. Would be nice, though. And would be nice if they could announce some findings prior to November. It’s not going to happen, of course.
Continue reading →The IRS —up to its old tricks again: The Washington, D.C., Circuit Court, overturning a June lower-court decision, let the suit go forward because, as LSU law professor Philip Hackney noted in the Surly Subgroup blog, “it found that the … Continue reading →