Author: Justin Lane

  On Wednesday, the Supreme Court handed down a decision in Riley v. California that hopefully marks the Court’s movement to join the rest of the population in the modern age. For years, the Court has been siding with the government and eroding the privacy rights of individuals, favoring the authority of government spying. In Riley, the Court may have signalled that that is starting to change. The government has long argued that its ability to collect information should be regulated by outdated standards that fail to grasp the power and breadth of the technologies it ruled on. These...

  Russell Brand has a problem with Fox News, specifically the “Justice w/ Judge Jeanine” program. Watch Brand go point for point with the Fox Host and come to the conclusion that her program and, by proxy, Fox News are more dangerous than ISIS. Joshua is a writer and researcher with Ring of Fire. You can follow him on Twitter...

  The California legislature recently passed a measure calling for a Constitutional Amendment to reverse the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United. The measure comes as a response to the overwhelming public disapproval of the Supreme Court’s decision to allow unlimited corporate money into elections.     Joshua is a writer and researcher with Ring of Fire. You can follow him on Twitter...

  Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is getting a lot of attention for his statements at the Pastors-for-Life conference in Mississippi. At the conference, Moore made some shocking claims about rights in the United States. Watch here.   Joshua is a writer and researcher with Ring of Fire. You can follow him on Twitter...

On Tuesday, SunTrust Bank agreed to pay $968 million to settle charges stemming from the 2008 financial crisis. U.S. allegations included the mislabeling of large quantities of defective mortgages and abusing borrowers. “Banks that fail to put the interests of their customers ahead of their of own greed deserve what’s coming to them,” commented Peter Mougey, a partner with the Levin, Papantonio law firm and director of the firm’s Business Torts and Securities Litigation departments. The settlement will be divided between 49 states and multiple agencies. $500 million will go to relief for customers who suffered from the banks...