Blood, Delusions, and Corruption in the American West
"This country is now full of men and women with long-term personal experience of contemporary guerrilla insurrection."
"This country is now full of men and women with long-term personal experience of contemporary guerrilla insurrection."
Steve and Dwight Hammond became a cause célèbre for angry ranchers and another example of inflexible mandatory minimum sentences.
Judge cites "flagrant prosecutorial misconduct" on the government's part.
The law still considers the killing of Finicum justified.
FBI agents now under criminal investigation for possible misconduct regarding killing Finicum after the Oregon wildlife standoff.
Many unanswered questions remain about both the bulletin and the DHS-funded intelligence-sharing operation that produced it.
With LaVoy Finicum's funeral being held today, Utah police are on the lookout for "armed extremists." What sort of advice are they getting?
A little empathy could go a long way
Details vague; passive voice deployed.
Federal dominance of western lands sets Americans against each other and fuels anger at Washington, D.C.
The resentencing of Dwight and Steven Hammond illustrates the injustices wrought by mandatory minimums.
A TV film that was so misleading, the screenwriter asked the surviving Davidians for forgiveness
The Hammond case illustrates how federal law forces judges to impose sentences they consider grossly disproportionate.
Terrorism is the use of violence against noncombatants for a political purpose. That's not what's happening here.
First Cocktail Chatter of 2016!
We all deserve fair treatment under the law, and we all lose when people let aesthetic and ideological differences obscure that basic truth.
Not by the reasonable definitions of the word
Tune into MSNBC after 8:40 p.m. ET to hear whether white ranchers are being treated differently than if they were Muslims
Relentlessly demonizing misunderstood opponents is a bad idea.
A federal judge rejected mandatory minimums for Dwight and Steven Hammond as unconstitutional; an appeals court disagreed.
Unfounded terrorism allegations are the health of the state.
Justice Department appealed the sentence to get it extended to the mandatory minimum, which the district chief judge thought was "grossly disproportionate."
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