"Trump officials have vowed to prosecute Assange and destroy WikiLeaks. The central oddity of Assange’s case — that he has been effectively imprisoned for eight years despite never having been charged with, let alone convicted of, any crime — is virtually certain to be prolonged once Ecuador hands him over to the U.K."
"It’s not a stretch to say that it’s one of the most important lawsuits to ever cross the desk of a federal judge. The core of the Bill of Rights is in play, and a wrong result could formalize a slide into authoritarianism that began long ago, but accelerated after 9/11."
"'We should prohibit U.S. persons from buying or mining cryptocurrencies,' the California Democrat - whose largest donor is credit card processor Allied Wallet - declared."
"Fiscal-Gonzalez said she didn't know taking the shells from the beach was illegal. She was planning to give the state-protected mollusks away as gifts."
"The White House budget office now estimates that the deficit will rise to nearly $1.1 trillion in the fiscal year that begins this October, or 5.1% of gross domestic product, up from $984 billion projected in February’s budget proposal. The U.S. ran a deficit of $666 billion for the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 2017, or 3.4% of GDP."
"Would the ACLU ever offer a 'Pro-Liberty Case for Fourth Amendment Restrictions?'"
"It seems that we may need to be reminded every generation or so of the perils of foreign military intervention and the simple truth asserted by General Graves."
"So long as we're going to tolerate government officials exempting themselves from the rules they inflict on the rest of us, we might just have to be happy when there's no body count."
"The most telling thing about the entrapment prosecution is the sentencing memo, which blatantly lays out the feds' fear and contempt for any attempt to keep a financial transaction private, whether or not anything inherently illegal is happening."
"Officials no longer want to publicize what kind of transactions fall under the reporting requirement. They worry that making too much information public will give money launderers a road map to stay off the radar of regulators."