Ernest Bluntway

Justice | U.S.

Real-Life Stories of Victims Caught in the Web of Civil Asset Forfeiture

October 18, 2023October 18, 2023

Civil asset forfeiture is a legal process that allows law enforcement agencies to seize and keep property suspected of being involved in criminal activity. While it may seem like a necessary tool in the fight against crime, civil asset forfeiture has come under scrutiny for its potential to be abused and violate individual rights. In…

The Melting Frontiers: Antarctica’s Diminishing Ice Shelves

October 13, 2023

The frozen bastions of Antarctica, long thought invincible, are succumbing. A new report elucidates a stark reality – the continent’s ice shelves, those silent gatekeepers holding back glaciers from the open ocean, are diminishing. Since 1997, four dozen have retreated significantly, with 28 of them relinquishing more than half of their icy grasp. An ice…

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America's Got Governance | Justice | U.S.

The Rule of Law Has a Limp, and It’s Bleeding Out in the Rose Garden

There’s a glimmer of hope this whole circus might not outlast the term. And no, that’s not a punchline. It’s a grim little flicker of constitutional candlelight flickering through a fog of executive tantrums and congressional cowardice. After 100 days of executive orders, courtroom smackdowns, and legislative narcolepsy, we can at least say this much:...

Justice | Politics | U.S.

EXILED WITHOUT TRIAL: TRUMP’S DEPORTATION OF AMERICANS

Welcome to the New American Playbook, where toddlers with cancer get deported, facts get waterboarded, and due process is just a dusty relic tossed in the trash next to Trump’s platinum-plated Bible. If you thought the first term was a slow-motion car crash, buckle up — this one’s a flaming limo doing donuts on the...

America's Got Governance | Politics | U.S.

Trump’s First 100 Days: A Roaring Dumpster Fire in a Leaky Shopping Cart

Donald Trump’s second-term reboot isn’t just a rerun—it’s a full-blown sequel with worse writing, a bloated lead, and a budget deficit so massive it makes the original look like an indie film. One hundred days in, and the orange menace is back with a vengeance—to common sense, to constitutional law, to international stability, and to...

Politics | U.S.

The Time for Nice is Over: Pritzker’s Five-Alarm Fire Roars Through the Heart of America

If you’re still whispering about norms and clutching pearls over broken decorum while fascism bangs on your front door, you’re part of the problem. Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker just lit a goddamn bonfire in New Hampshire and handed us the matches. If you didn’t feel the floor shake beneath you, check your pulse—or your spine....

Justice | Politics | U.S.

Order in the Court! Judge Calls Trump’s Perkins Coie Purge a ‘Shakedown’

It’s another glorious day in Trump’s America, and you can smell the fresh-printed executive orders in the morning. Somewhere, a bald eagle weeps as President Donald J. Trump, freshly powdered and energized by the fumes of a thousand burning legal ethics handbooks, declares war on… Perkins Coie—America’s least sexy, most litigiously liberal law firm. How...

America's Got Governance | Economy | Politics | U.S.

The Billionaires’ Cabinet: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Conflict of Interest

Picture this: It’s dawn in the swamp, and President Donald J. Trump is rolling up to the White House in a gold-wrapped Tesla Cybertruck, his cabinet of billionaires in tow, blasting “Money for Nothing” while draining the last bureaucrat from the pool with a pool skimmer made of bitcoin. Meet the wealthiest Cabinet in American...