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No One is Above the Law?

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2024

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HORNBERGER’S BLOG

June 12, 2024
No One is Above the Law?
In the recent criminal prosecutions of Donald Trump and Hunter Biden, prosecutors and others emphasized that “no one is above the law.” Really? No one? How about retired Lt. Gen. James R. Clapper, Jr.? When he was serving as the Director of National Intelligence, he got caught lying under oath to Congress after he falsely denied that “the NSA was collecting data on …
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PRESIDENCY
Hunter Biden Verdict Shatters Family’s Myth of Legal Invincibility, Endangering Joe
by James Bovard
New York Post
THE FREE MARKET
The Super Market
by Donald J. Boudreaux
AIER
CRIMINAL JUSTICE
The States of Indigent Defense, Part Three: Florida and Georgia
by Radley Balko
The Watch
CIVIL LIBERTIES
Biden Should Pardon His Son — And Every Other Prisoner of the Wars on Drugs and Guns
by Thomas L. Knapp
Garrison Center
SOCIALISM
Socialism: the Great Anti-Theft Movement
by David S. D’Amato
Counterpunch
CONSERVATISM
Anti-Liberty Conservatives Want More Theft
by Ron Paul
Ron Paul Institute
FOREIGN POLICY
The Unnecessary, Futile and Dangerous Prolongation of the War in Ukraine
by Branko Marcetic with Scott Horton
The Scott Horton Show
CIA
When the CIA Messes Up
by Daniel Immerwahr
New Yorker
IMMIGRATION
Hundreds of Doctors Demand Biden End Solitary Confinement in Immigration Prisons
by Mike Ludwig
Truthout
JFK
On This Day: JFK’s Visionary “Peace Speech”
by Jefferson Morley
JFK Facts

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