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On April 20th, 2019, Cardinal George Pell (imprisoned in Victoria, Australia, as a result of conducting a mass) quoted in his Prison Journal this sentence from a letter to him from young Catholic Seminarians: ” We know that your trials and sufferings, your white martyrdom, will be a source of great fruit for the Church in Australia, and the Church at large.” Pell wrote about this thought: ” I pray that this will be so, not least to counteract the damage, confusion and disillusion provoked by the conviction.” But we do not have to live in the shadow of the...

When do we collectively realize that the judiciary is as corrupt as congress?

Jane Roberts – the wife of Chief Justice John Roberts – was paid $10 million as a legal "recruiter" for corporate firms with cases before the Supreme Court. A flagrant conflict of interest. The Court's justices are incapable of policing themselves. Congress must act. ... the spouse of US Chief Justice John Roberts was hauling in millions of dollars as a legal "recruiter" for corporate firms – some of which had cases before her husband's court:

Hunter Biden’s beleaguered former business partner, Devon Archer, will receive a full and unconditional pardon, President Trump revealed .. The president promised Archer the pardon when they met at the NCAA wrestling championships in Philadelphia Saturday night, an encounter arranged by another former Hunter Biden associate-turned-whistleblower, Tony Bobulinski. “He’s getting a full pardon,” Trump told me Sunday. “He was screwed by the Bidens. They destroyed him like they tried to destroy a lot of people. ... The presidential clemency will end a decade-long ordeal for Archer, who was facing jail time for securities fraud over a bad deal he was...

It is simply wrong to let the government take one person’s property away in order to hand it to another private owner with more political power.’ An often-criticized precedent from the Supreme Court 20 years ago that gives local governments permission to literally confiscate a landowner’s property and give it to someone else who may have more political influence could be overturned through a new case pending before the justices. It is the Institute for Justice that has been fighting on behalf of Bryan Bowers, a New York landowner whose property was “seized” by a local government agency. It was...

Something some observers of public life in the United States and elsewhere have been wondering for a long time is whether, if you wanted to destroy American civilization, its values, traditions, and institutions, you would act differently from how George Soros has acted so far. I’m pretty sure the answer is no. Elon Musk, Tesla’s CEO and the world’s richest man, seems to agree. “In my opinion, he fundamentally hates humanity,” Musk said during an appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast. “He’s doing things that erode the fabric of civilization, getting D.A.s elected who refuse to prosecute crime. That’s...

SANTA ROSA, Calif. - A 38-year-old man convicted of sexual battery and the disfigurement of a woman in Santa Rosa, an attack that happened in front of the victim’s daughter and cousin, was sentenced to probation.

May 20, 2020, 7:21 p.m. EST: BREAKING: The Minnesota Catholic Conference and The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod in Minnesota sent Governor Tim Walz separate letters today announcing that they will resume worship services on May 26 despite Governor Walz’s current COVID-19 executive order which allows retailers to operate at 50 percent capacity but caps church worship services at ten people. Governor Walz’s latest re-opening order allows the Mall of America to open its doors to those seeking retail therapy but disallows churches from providing spiritual healing to their congregations. At the same time, The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty sent Governor...

Following the news that President Joe Biden pardoned his embattled son, Hunter Biden, despite repeatedly reassuring he would not do so, some Democrats are speaking out against the move. One Democrat governor and one Democrat member of U.S. Congress voiced anger against the pardon, which covered every crime he committed “or may have committed or taken part in” over an 11 year period. Far-left Colorado Governor Jared Polis posted on X: “While as a father I certainly understand President @JoeBiden’s natural desire to help his son by pardoning him, I am disappointed that he put his family ahead of the...

A judge ruled Friday that a man charged with killing 10 people at a Colorado supermarket earlier this year is mentally incompetent to stand trial and ordered him to be treated at the state mental hospital to see if he can be made well enough to face prosecution. Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, 22, is accused of opening fire at a busy King Soopers in the college town of Boulder in March, killing a police officer, shoppers and several store employees. Four doctors have now determined Alissa is not mentally competent to participate in court proceedings, and he has “deteriorated” over...

The speech that Attorney General Merrick Garland delivered Thursday at the Justice Department must have been intended to echo throughout the land. After thanking the DOJ’s 115,000 staff for their work to prosecute heinous crimes and hold polluters accountable, he turned to the topic, implicitly, of Donald Trump. Mr. Garland lauded the ideal of equal and impartial justice, while saying he’s seen in his tenure how DOJ employees have upheld it. “Our norms,” the AG said, “are a promise that we will not allow this department to be used as a political weapon. And our norms are a promise that...

There are likely many who have stories about how Vice President Kamala Harris’ approach to criminal justice has caused great harm. The story of actor Jamal Trulove, however, presents a particularly glaring example that Democrats would rather remain hidden.Trulove’s story presents a striking example of a wrongful conviction brought about by police misconduct and a flawed prosecution. The actor was convicted of the 2007 murder of his friend Seu Kuka in San Francisco. The case against him relied heavily on the testimony of a single eyewitness who later admitted to being coerced by law enforcement.During his trial, then-San Francisco District...

Donald Trump’s lawyers on Thursday urged the judge overseeing his Manhattan criminal hush money case to delay the former president’s sentencing until after November’s presidential election.The request came one day after Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan rejected Trump’s latest demand that the judge step aside from the case, clearing the way for the Republican presidential candidate to learn his fate as soon as Sept. 18.The lawyers argued for the sentencing to be paused to allow Trump time to appeal if Merchan, in a decision expected by Sept. 16, declines to toss the conviction based on the US Supreme Court’s...

The alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 terror attacks and two other terrorists being held on Guantánamo Bay will be spared the death penalty under a deal with prosecutors, it was revealed Wednesday. The announcement came as a bitter pill to swallow for victims’ families who have anxiously awaited the conclusion of the case for nearly 24 years — many of whom felt death was the only appropriate punishment for the perpetrators of the heinous attacks. A spokesperson for the Office of Military Commissions (OMC), which is prosecuting the case, confirmed it had entered into pre-trial agreements with Khalid Sheikh...

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Dexter Taylor, of NY, took up gunsmithing as a hobby. He never committed a crime, never hurt anyone. But following a trial in which the presiding judge said the second amendment didn't exist in her courtroom or the state of New York, Dexter was found guilty of multiple gun-related charges.

Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker will return the witness stand today for the second day of Donald Trump’s Manhattan criminal trial over covering up “hush money” payments to a porn star. Pecker will resume testimony where he is expected to detail the inner workings of a scheme he, Trump and his “fixer” lawyer Michael Cohen devised to buy up and bury bad news during the 2016 presidential election. Trump is on trial for allegedly fudging business records to conceal a $130,000 payoff to Stormy Daniels made before the 2016 presidential election. The 72-year-old ex-CEO of the Enquirer’s parent company,...

Fani Willis and the Fulton County D.A.’s office now have a personal stake in prosecuting the defendants who exposed Willis’s affair.Fani Willis and the Fulton County district attorney’s office can remain in charge of the prosecution of Donald Trump and his Republican co-defendants so long as Willis’s former lover resigns, presiding Judge Scott McAfee ruled Friday. Within hours of the decision, Nathan Wade—now Willis’s ex—exited the case. While McAfee declared that half-measure solved the problem of an “appearance of impropriety,” the court’s reasoning established that true justice requires the removal of Willis and the entire Fulton County D.A.’s office.Judge McAfee’s...

Clayton Harris, Democratic candidate for Cook County State’s Attorney and darling of Toni Preckwinkle and the Chicago Teachers Union, recently gave Kim Foxx an “A” grade for her seven years running the office. He’s especially fond of her work in exonerations, he said in a recent interview. Whether Foxx's legacy will continue will be determined in next Tuesday's primary when Harris faces Eileen O'Neill Burke in the Democratic primary. Convicted cop killer Jackie Wilson undoubtedly knows all about it; he’s about to hit the jackpot in Foxx’s wrongful conviction craze. Wilson’s lawyers in his civil case alleging police abuse recently...

British High Court Judge Dame Karen Margaret Steyn ruled that former President Donald Trump's suit for damages against Orbis Business Intelligence, a consultancy founded by former MI6 officer Christopher Steele, was "likely to fail" and that "Trump is liable for the entire amount of Orbis' legal expenses." She ordered Trump to pay £300,000 as a down payment before the total costs are decided by a specialist judge. Orbis has estimated that its costs to defend against Trump's suit exceed £600,000. The dossier prepared by Steele for Hilary Clinton's unsuccessful 2016 campaign for president falsely accused Trump of engaging in sex...