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BATON ROUGE, LA. — A federal judge has ruled that Black Lives Matter is a social movement that can't be sued over an officer's injuries during a protest following a deadly police shooting in Baton Rouge last year. A Baton Rouge police officer sued Black Lives Matter and DeRay Mckesson, a prominent activist in the movement. But U.S. District Judge Brian Jackson ruled Thursday that Black Lives Matter is not "an entity of any sort," and like the tea party or civil rights movement, it can't be sued.

Despite a long rap sheet, she thought rehab was a better place for him. Now a police officer is dead. You didn’t hear a lot about the murder of New York police officer Randolph Holder, because #blacklivesdontmatter if they’re cops, and especially if the suspected killer is also black. That is of no use in furthering liberal narratives, and it also doesn’t help the news media in provoking one of its favorite things - race riots. But there are a lot of reasons you should have heard about this murder, not least of which was the fact that the apparent...

(Reuters) - A federal jury on Friday found a former Pennsylvania judge guilty in a so-called kids-for-cash scheme, in which he took money in exchange for sending juvenile offenders to for-profit detention centers. Former Luzerne County Judge Mark Ciavarella Jr. was accused of taking $2.8 million in bribes and kickbacks for putting juveniles into detention centers owned by friends. The jury in Scranton found him guilty of racketeering, money-laundering conspiracy, fraud and filing false income tax returns.

If there is one group of people liberals hate more than conservatives and libertarians, it has to be Veterans. These brave men and women have risked their lives many becoming maimed or injured in the process of protecting our God given freedom and liberty. Is it any wonder that liberals hate them so much? Returning overseas these days veterans wont come back to find grateful godly Americans but instead America hating hippies and socialists who will spit on them and curse them for daring to fight against a nation that murders its own people for the public good and that...

"A news report by Ariane de Vogue over at ABCDEmocrat News says the White House is preparing for the possibility of two Supreme Court vacancies this Spring…“Court watchers believe two of the more liberal members of the court, justices John Paul Stevens and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, could decide to step aside for reasons of age and health...." Here's a quick list of 15 possible Obama picks: Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm, Chicago lefty pal Diane Wood, Governor Deval Patrick...Secretary of State Hillary Clinton…gets her out of the way for a possible challenge in 2012... One on the list is wacko, lefty...

WASHINGTON — A federal judge has tossed out most of the government’s evidence against a terrorism detainee on grounds his confessions were coerced, allegedly by U.S. forces, before he became a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay.

A Minnesota judge has ordered the state to reinstate money for a food program that Gov. Tim Pawlenty cut from the budget, saying he acted unconstitutionally. Several people in the program for the poor sought an injunction to restore money while their court case proceeds Ramsey County District Judge Kathleen Gearin granted their wish in an order on Wednesday. Her temporary restraining order keeps the money intact indefinitely. The case stems from $2.7 billion in cuts the Republican governor announced this summer to balance the budget. He took the action using an executive power that allows the governor to trim...

A San Francisco County judge, who yesterday struck down California’s ban on homosexual marriage, today ruled on the same basis that separate restrooms for men and women are unconstitutional. Superior Court Judge Richard Kramer likened the division of washrooms to laws requiring racial segregation in schools, and said there appears to be “no rational purpose for denying women access to men’s facilities and vice versa.” “The state’s protracted denial of equal protection cannot be justified simply because such constitutional violation has become traditional,” Judge Kramer wrote. “The court finds that the legal principle of lavatorio proportio [potty parity] offers inadequate...

After a fatal crash on the crosstown last month, Fei Ni was held for criminal vehicular homicide. His bail was set at $200,000 -- nothing to the families of the two women killed when Ni, intoxicated, crossed over and caused a crash. It was certainly not enough when a judge allowed bail to be cut in half and, despite flight concerns, refused to strip Ni of his passport if he made bail. Now, Ni is in China. Families of his victims are concerned he won't stand trial for their losses, saying it is not a good example of justice. Ni...

Suspect charges $6,300 using judge's ID 9/3/2006, 9:13 p.m. ET The Associated Press     MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. (AP) — The people who burglarized Macomb County Circuit Judge Mary Chrzanowski's home in the late 1990s got caught. She's hoping the same thing happens to whoever stole her identity and charged $6,300 in her name.The thief obtained her Social Security number and birth date, then opened accounts with a Syracuse, N.Y., address and ran up a $5,800 phone bill and $500 in credit card charges."Unbelievable," Chrzanowski told The Macomb Daily of Mount Clemens in an e-mail interview. "I guess I'm...

"America, you lost. I won," Moussaoui said, clapping his hands as he was led out of the courtroom after the verdict was read. The Verdict [John Podhoretz] extract http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZTQwYmRmZDg2MGIyNDE2OTRkNjgwMDdhZmJiNzQ1M2M Zacarias Moussaoui is the only person to be charged with crimes related to September 11. He pled guilty to involvement in the plot. We have been told that if the FBI had authorized a search of Moussaoui's computer, seized a month before the attacks, we would have been able to prevent the attacks. Having judged that he was a participant in the September 11 planning, jurors nonetheless ruled that Moussaoui was...

The Clinton-appointed federal judge who tossed out half the government's death penalty case against convicted 9/11 "20th hijacker" Zacarias Moussaoui on Tuesday has a history of liberal rulings and was once named by Sen. Bob Dole to the "Clinton Hall of Shame." Even before Judge Leonie Brinkema decimated the government's case by ruling that evidence from key witnesses had been tainted by prosecutorial misconduct, veteran terrorism prosecutor Andrew McCarthy warned Brinkema not to overreact. Writing about the furor over the prosecution's blunder on NationalReviewOnline Monday, McCarthy said: "It is a tempest in a teapot that is obviously being blown out...

BOCA RATON — With the deadline for a decision on where to locate The Scripps Research Institute less than two weeks away, support for Boca Raton's proposal is gaining momentum among various homeowner associations. "People think it is the right address for Scripps," said Rick Coffin, president of the Woodfield Country Club Homeowner Association, which represents 1,300 homes in Boca Raton. "It's a nice fit." Many residents support bringing Scripps here because it would lure a "highly creative" and "intellectual population" — some of which was lost when IBM fled its sprawling Yamato Road campus in 1996 — as well...

Excerpt - A federal judge has resigned from the court that oversees government surveillance in intelligence cases in protest of President Bush's secret authorization of a domestic spying program, according to two sources. U.S. District Judge James Robertson, one of 11 members of the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, sent a letter to Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. late Monday notifying him of his resignation without providing an explanation. Two associates familiar with his decision said yesterday that Robertson privately expressed deep concern that the warrantless surveillance program authorized by the president in 2001 was legally questionable and may...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Tracey Schmitt 202-863-8614 WASHINGTON - RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman issued the following statement on the retirement of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor:“As the first woman ever to serve on the United States Supreme Court, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor shattered the glass ceiling that existed in American jurisprudence. Over the past twenty-four years, her contributions to the nation's highest court will be remembered for her thoughtful, well-reasoned rulings on the difficult issues of the day. Her presence on the Court will never be replaced, but her seat must be filled and President Bush will work to put forth...

A mother awaiting sentencing on felony charges of abandoning her twin toddlers on a Lake Worth road last year jumped bail for the second time and may have fled to Europe again, authorities said. A district court judge signed three felony arrest warrants after Christy Leann Radacy, 24, apparently cut off her court-ordered leg monitor Sunday. *** Ms. Radacy pleaded guilty this month to charges stemming from the May 26, 2003, incident in which her 22-month-old girls were left on Lake Worth Boulevard. The first time she disappeared, Ms. Radacy forfeited $40,000 bail and was apprehended by U.S. marshals in...

So, who appointed U.S. District Judge Paul L. Friedman, the guy who wants would-be presidential assassin John Hinckley Jr. to run around loose? Bill Clinton, of course. We suspected as much even before doing our research. According to the federal courts' Web site, Friedman won his appointment in 1994. Oh, and he was "Associated Independent Counsel for the Iran-Contra investigation from 1987 to 1988." The Washington Times reported in July 1999 that Friedman and the other seven judges appointed by Clinton to the U.S. District Court in Washington "meet privately every month in closed-door sessions that other jurists believe are...

Judge orders activist freed But InfoCom official remains jailed pending appeal by prosecutors 12/21/2002 By STEVE McGONIGLE / The Dallas Morning News Two days after U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft described four employees of a Richardson Internet services company as "terrorist money men" for Hamas, a Dallas federal magistrate ruled Friday that the most prominent defendant is not a flight risk and may be released from custody without having to post bond. But Judge Irma Ramirez granted a request by prosecutors to delay the release of Ghassan Elashi until Monday to allow U.S. District Jerry Buchmeyer to hear an...