April 2021

Chauvin Trial Verdict Prediction (of Sorts): On legal merits alone, not guilty — but political dynamics drive injustice

Posted by Andrew Branca on April 18, 2021 69 Comments

Welcome to our ongoing coverage of the Minnesota murder trial of Derek Chauvin, over the in-custody death of George Floyd. I am Attorney Andrew Branca for Law of Self Defense.

Teacher’s Union Head Under Fire for “Jewish Ownership Class” Remarks

Posted by Samantha Mandeles on April 18, 2021 29 Comments

Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and who is Jewish, faced accusations exploiting anti-Jewish sentiment when an interview she had given to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency emerged.

Border Crisis: Biden Admin Set To Release Into The U.S. 400 Illegal Alien Families Per Day

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on April 18, 2021 17 Comments

Unwilling to take the necessary steps to secure our border and unable to handle the surge of migrants then-candidate Biden all but invited to come to the U.S. illegally, the Biden administration has apparently decided to simply release 400 illegal alien families per day into the U.S. As a point of reference, the total number of such released families earlier this year was 50 per day.

Former Home Of Chauvin ‘Use of Force’ Expert Witness Vandalized, Smeared With Pig’s Blood

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on April 18, 2021 28 Comments

Vandals smeared pig's blood and left a severed pig's head on the porch of the former residence of Barry Brodd, the defense use-of-force expert in the Derek Chauvin trial.

Maxine Waters: Protesters Need to “Get More Confrontational” If No “Murder” Conviction Of Derek Chauvin

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on April 18, 2021 94 Comments

California Rep. Maxine Waters traveled to Brooklyn Center, Minnesota to attend a protest over the reportedly accidental police shooting of Daunte Wright. While there, Waters said that rioters need to "get more confrontational" if they don't get the guilty verdict they're demanding in the trial of Derek Chauvin.

Prof Suggests the Problem With Academia is That it Simply Has Too Many Conservatives

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 18, 2021 7 Comments

"They run the university. They sit in admin & on university boards enforcing manufactured austerity"...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQiWn9Sn7Nc

Golf, Civil Disobedience, and Coronavirus: One Year Later

Posted by Randy Steinberg on April 18, 2021 4 Comments

About a year ago, Legal Insurrection published an essay I wrote titled Golf Can Be An Act of Civil Disobedience During the Coronavirus Crisis.

Duke University Students Snitch on Local Bar for Not Following COVID Protocols

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 18, 2021 5 Comments

"It looked just like it was before the pandemic. There were hundreds of students in there, unmasked, not socially distancing"...

Alan Dershowitz: Packing Supreme Court Would be a ‘Disaster’ for the Court, Due Process, Free Speech

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 18, 2021 21 Comments

Democrats are actively looking for a way to pack the U.S. Supreme Court with four additional, presumably liberal, justices. Biden has even launched a committee to study the issue. Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz says this would be a disaster in many ways.

Amherst College Students Stage Walkout Over Daunte Wright and Call for Abolishing Police

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 18, 2021 3 Comments

"From this country’s beginning, society has determined that Black citizens need to be controlled and white citizens need to be protected."...

CNN is Propaganda Week at Legal Insurrection

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 18, 2021 1 Comment

All the news you may have missed....

Chauvin Trial Going to Jury – Legal Insurrection Will Hold Post-Verdict Online Event (Date TBA)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 17, 2021 74 Comments

On Monday, April 19, 2021, closing arguments will be held in the prosecution of Derek Chauvin for the in-custody death of George Floyd, and the case then will go to the jury. This is a heads up that after the verdict, Legal Insurrection will hold a post-verdict webinar assessing the outcome and how the case was handled. Andrew Branca and I will be panelists, it's not clear yet if we will add others. There will be an opportunity for Q&A.

Rep. Devin Nunes Lambastes Democrats, Intel Community For Declaring War On Republicans/Conservatives As ‘Domestic Terrorists’

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on April 17, 2021 18 Comments

Everyone in America is being programmed–in K-12 classrooms, universities, their workplace, on social media, and in our cultural output–to accept inherently racist initiatives like Critical Race Training as not just normal but as positive steps "forward"; everyone is required to not just tolerate but to vocally support Black Lives Matter, open borders, blanket amnesty, the Green New Deal, biological men competing against women in women's sports, and defunding the police; and everyone is required to police their own thoughts lest they utter something that runs afoul of the cultural revolutionary guard.

China Mulls Deploying Troops to Afghanistan After U.S. Pullout

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on April 17, 2021 30 Comments

China is considering sending troops to Afghanistan after the planned U.S. military withdrawal in coming month. "China may send peacekeeping force to Afghanistan after US troops leave," the Hong Kong daily South China Morning Post reported Friday, citing senior Chinese national security experts.

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