In January of this year, prosecutors dropped charges against 129 of the people who rioted in Washington DC on Trump’s inauguration day. This week, the second round of defendants go on trial.

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Gerard Alexander, an associate professor of politics at the University of Virginia, recently wrote an article for the New York Times suggesting that when it comes to Trump, liberals are their own worst enemies. It has become a common joke for conservatives on Twitter to respond to liberal lunacy by saying...

Victor Davis Hanson recently spoke at Cornell, but unfortunately I was out of town at the time. I would have loved to meet him, he’s one of the most insightful authors.

In my 9th Anniversary post on October 12, 2017, Legal Insurrection is 9 years old, and filled with dread, I wrote about...

You read something like this and hope it isn’t true, even though you know it probably is. The Republican Security Council posted this on Facebook:

Liberal Parents Gave Us Generation Snowflake And 80% Of These Students Supported Bernie Sanders. They Are Continuing To Have A Significant Impact On The Democratic Party.

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A middle school teacher in Georgia recently decided to use her classroom as a platform to attack Trump. What she didn’t realize is that one of her students recorded it and then shared it with her mother who was not pleased.

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Do you remember the way the liberal media hyperventilated daily over the dangerous threat posed by the supposedly extremist Tea Party? Don’t expect the same reaction over recent comments by New York Democrat Tom Suozzi.

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Does everyone remember when people went to college to learn, not to become a left-wing activist?

The Washington Examiner reports:

NYU Sanctuary club to protest ICE officers presence in courthouses

A campus organization dedicated to turning New York University into a sanctuary campus for undocumented immigrants will participate in a demonstration at New York...

What was this supposed to accomplish other than letting people know that they don’t like Trump?

Campus Reform reports:

Swarthmore students removed by cops for blockading Trump Hotel

Three Swarthmore College students were removed by police last week for blockading the entrance to the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C.

Swarthmore student Arunima Shiney-Ajay, who...

Daniel Frisiello, the man who allegedly sent envelopes containing white powder to Donald Trump Jr. earlier this month, has been freed from jail while he waits for...

The school got caught, took a lot of heat and ultimately scrubbed Trump’s name from the course but we all know what was going on here.

Campus Reform reports:

SDSU impeachment course no longer explic...

Trump is not a fascist and the people at Mount Holyoke know this. They just have Trump Derangement Syndrome and this makes them feel better.

The College Fix reported:

College class studies fascism from ‘Mussolini to Trump’

A 15-year-old advanced topics in Italian class at Mount Holyoke College that studies fascism with a particular...

The liberal billionaire Tom Steyer recently distanced himself from Democrats after their failure to secure a DACA deal during the government shutdown. Now he’s surrounding himself with a large team of operatives.

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All of the left’s rules about what was acceptable under Obama have gone right out the window under Trump.

Campus Reform reports:

Northeastern prof says he ‘wouldn’t mind’ seeing Trump dead

At a public event on “The Rule of Law in a Time of Polarization,” a Northeastern University professor told the audience that he...

These were members of SDS (Students for a Democratic Society). You may remember them from their famous riot at the 1068 Democratic party convention.

The Washington Examiner reports:

Students bash Trump piñata to protest one year in office

Students for a Democratic Society at the University of South Florida held an event to “bash...

An army veteran named Ricky Taylor took advantage of the fact that Maxine Waters and other Democrats are boycotting Trump’s first state of the union address. He published a tweet asking to take Waters’ seat and it went viral.

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More than 200 people were arrested in Washington, DC last year during violent anti-Trump demonstrations. Innocent people were intimidated, windows were smashed and a limousine was even burned, yet many of those arrested are getting off with next to nothing.

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As I’ve pointed out before, Hampshire College in Massachusetts makes Berkeley look like a conservative institution.

Campus Reform reports:

Course explores ‘appropriate whiteness in the age of Trump’

Hampshire College is offering a course this semester exploring how to respond to white supremacy in the “Age of Trump.”

The course description for “White Supremacy and...