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Left Wing Group: Use 'Jury Nullification' to Resist Trump DOJ

Complaint: Suspect With IED at Gracie Mansion Swore Allegiance to ISIS

VIDEO - Trump Anti-DEI Executive Orders One-Year Later

The Marissa Alexander Case Wasn’t About “Stand-Your-Ground” Either

Posted by Andrew Branca on July 17, 2013 118 Comments

By now some of you may have heard about the Marissa Alexander case in Florida. Many people are trying to twist the facts of this case in a fashion that will be familiar to the rational among us who watched the Zimmerman case. Essentially they want to...

San Diego Mayor Bob Filner gives “sequester” a whole new meaning

Posted by Leslie Eastman on July 17, 2013 21 Comments

In my last report on San Diego mayor Bob Filner, I noted that he brought Washington, D.C.’s sense of teamwork and fair play with him. At that time, Filner crashed a press conference held by City Attorney Jan Goldsmith responding to the mayor’s call for a...

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Nuclear Option

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 16, 2013 26 Comments

Republicans struck a deal to avoid Harry Reid going nuclear on the filibuster of Obama nominees. So the filibuster remains in place for one of two things to happen: (1) Democrats retain control of the Senate in 2014, and Republicans continue to confirm Obama nominees and legislative...

Liz Cheney running for Senate

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 16, 2013 16 Comments

We previously wrote about this, Run, Liz Cheney, Run and Our second team. Now it's official: I wanted her to run because we need competition in primaries -- no more entitlements. Now that she's running, she'll have earn the nomination....

Feds want Zimmerman, any way they can get him

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 16, 2013 246 Comments

This no longer is about George Zimmerman, it's about a Department of Justice serving political interests....

Northwestern U. Gets 'C' Grade on Campus Antisemitism Report Card

Duke University Employees Donated $1.6 Million to Democrats

Opposition to Epic Fury on Twitter/X Being Led by Non-American Accounts

Student Govt. at U. Maryland-College Park Pledges Solidarity With Islamic Republic of Iran

Research Finds College Student Loneliness Tied to Heavy Social Media Usage

Regents Order U. Iowa to Discipline Employee Who Bragged About Getting Around DEI Ban

Law schools are turning out too many social engineers

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 16, 2013 79 Comments

This week has made my head hurt from all the shaking in disbelief. It's almost overwhelming, the multitude of absurd race-agitating actions and words coming from those who refuse to accept the facts and law as to the Zimmerman trial. This lawyer interviewed by Greta is part of the...

The war Israel is losing, badly

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 16, 2013 51 Comments

I plan on violating the EU's directive as often as possible on my upcoming trip to Israel....

Maybe KTVU Should Hire Forum Commenters to Vet Future Pilot Names

Posted by Mandy Nagy on July 16, 2013 17 Comments

Ever since California TV station KTVU erroneously aired the fake names of four pilots falsely purported to be those of Asiana Flight 214, the story has gone viral and left many wondering how the station could have possibly missed that the names were fake. Some blogs...

Zimmerman verdict energizes Salon.com’s White Privilege branding

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 16, 2013 125 Comments

Salon.com, which does not have a staff that looks like America, continues its branding as the place to go for lectures on White Privilege, Whiteness, and how race drives almost everything in America. And it's not just David Sirota. They even have a "white people" tag. In the wake...

NSA Leaker Edward Snowden Officially Files for Temporary Asylum in Russia

Posted by Mandy Nagy on July 16, 2013 25 Comments

Edward Snowden officially filed for temporary asylum in Russia on Tuesday, according to the Russian Migration Service and a Russian human rights lawyer. Wikileaks also tweeted out a confirmation of the news. https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/357115053251633153 From Russia Today: The Russian Migration Service confirmed it has received whistleblower Edward Snowden’s application...

Attorney Andrew Branca Participates on NPR Zimmerman Panel

Posted by Andrew Branca on July 16, 2013 156 Comments

"the permissible number of times my kids can have their heads bashed on the sidewalk by Trayvon Martin is zero"...

Post-Zimmerman Acquittal: Civil Rights, Immunity, and Perjury

Posted by Andrew Branca on July 16, 2013 71 Comments

Well, that's it. George Zimmerman has his legal victory. Late in the night on Saturday, July 13, 2013, George officially survived a brutal and malicious legal assault backed by the full power of a State government intent on hanging a life sentence on an innocent man...

Juror: 5 of 6 believed it was Zimmerman screaming for help (Rachel Jeantel inverview added)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 15, 2013 309 Comments

And it begins. Juror B37 gave an interview to CNN in which she said it was George Zimmerman screaming for help: [some video problems on CNN's side with embeds but appears to be working now]

Meanwhile, the prosecutors are on the TV circuit defending themselves, and calling Zimmerman a murderer:

How would Florida State Attorney Angela Corey describe George Zimmerman in one word? "Murderer."

Update: Thanks to Common Cents, here is the full video interview:

Branco Cartoon – Free At Last?

Posted by A.F. Branco on July 15, 2013 25 Comments

Note: You may reprint this cartoon provided you link back to this source. To see more Legal Insurrection Branco cartoons, click here. Branco’s page is Cartoonist A.F.Branco ...

“The jury reached the right result”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 15, 2013 68 Comments

The great thing about having your own blog is that you get to quote yourself. The title is a quote from my interview this morning with Lee Rayburn of WHCU 870 AM in Ithaca. ...

What do Steven Pagones, Kareem Brunner and George Zimmerman have in common?

Posted by David Gerstman on July 15, 2013 38 Comments

Al Sharpton aided and abetted by the media...

More Fallout After TV Station’s Fake Pilot Names Faux-Pas

Posted by Mandy Nagy on July 15, 2013 54 Comments

A California TV station and NTSB intern are facing more fallout today, after an embarrassing mistake led a KTVU anchor to read on-air the (obviously) fake pilot names of Asiana Flight 214. That plane crash landed on a San Francisco runway on July 6th, killing...