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Police Clear Campus Protests

Friday, May 3, 2024

SCHOOL’S OUT: New York police at the request of the university were moving in this morning to clear out a protest encampment at NYU. The cops yesterday cleared an occupied library at Oregon State University and across the country, about 2,000 …

Police Move in on UCLA Protesters

Thursday, May 2, 2024

SCHOOL’S OUT: Riot police at times using flash-bang grenades were moving in on the UCLA protest camp at 4:00 this morning and beginning to make arrests. The police moved in slowly, but firmly.   Los Angeles Police and highway patrol pulled …

Police Clear Columbia Protesters

Wednesday, May 1, 2024

CAMPUS CLEARED: A large New York police special response team in riot helmets entered Columbia University last night and removed the protesters who had taken over a campus building and those living in a tent camp in support of Palestinians in …

Columbia Protesters Occupy Building

Tuesday, April 30, 2024

CAMPUS CLASHES: Students at Columbia University have taken over a campus building in an escalation of their protest in support of Palestinians in Gaza. They smashed some windows and put bicycle locks through door handles.   The students said in a statement on …

Arrests and Outsiders in College Protests

Monday, April 29, 2024

CAMPUS CLASHES: As pro-Palestinian protesters remain encamped on college campuses across the country, more than 200 of them were arrested at four universities over the weekend. The cops moved in Saturday at Northeastern University, Arizona State, Indiana, and Washington University in St. …

The Trials of Trump

Saturday, April 27, 2024

TRIALS OF TRUMP: Donald Trump’s former personal assistant testified yesterday that she once saw porn actress Stormy Daniels in Trump Tower and that she kept contact information for Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal, who says she had a 10 month …

Supreme Court Weighs Presidential Immunity

Friday, April 26, 2024

PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY: During arguments about Donald Trump’s claim of absolute presidential immunity from criminal prosecution, some of the Supreme Court Justices sought definition of what would or would not be a presidential act covered by immunity. They seemed to be leaning …

Arizona Election Indictments

Thursday, April 25, 2024

ELECTION INDICTMENT: Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows along with 11 fake electors were indicted by an Arizona grand jury on charges of illegally attempting to overturn the 2020 election.   Kris Mayes, …

Checkbook Journalism and Contempt of Court

Wednesday, April 24, 2024

TRUMP ON TRIAL: Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker testified yesterday that he arranged in 2015 with Donald Trump and his then lawyer Michael Cohen to print favorable stories about Trump and kill the scandalous ones to help Trump in his …

Trump’s Pecker Problem

Tuesday, April 23, 2024

ORDER IN THE COURT: The former executive of the National Enquirer tabloid testified yesterday in Donald Trump’s criminal trial that the paper paid people for their stories, setting the stage for how Donald Trump paid the porn actress Stormy Daniels for …