Today's breaking news is that Edward Snowden - a Booz Allen Hamilton contractor for the National Security Agency (NSA) who released internal NSA documents to The Guardian and The Washington Post - has fled to Latin America. He's been joined by Wikileaks employee Sarah...
NATO 3: Cook County Judge Rules Illinois Terrorism Statute Constitutional
Chicago, IL Judge Thaddeus Wilson - holding down the house in Room 303 of the Cook County Courthouse in Chicago, IL - ruled the Illinois terrorism statute constitutional on its face. This ruling was issued approximately two months after the attorneys defending the...
“NATO 3”: Constitutionality of Illinois Terrorism Statute to be Decided March 27
Judge Thaddeus Wilson will hand down a ruling on the constitutionality of the Illinois terrorism statute - signed into law in the weeks after the 9/11 attacks - on March 27 at 2:00 PM CST. That announcement was made at the first oral argument at Cook County Courthouse...
NATO 3 Court Date Set for One Day Before Two-Year Anniversary of Occupy Wall Street
The People's Law Office in Chicago - which is representing one of the original "NATO 3" activists preemptively arrested before the May 2012 NATO Summit and charged with conspiracy to commit an act of "domestic terrorism" - wrote an update blog post on Nov. 19 that...