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  Friday Feb 5, 2021 at 8:02 AM Feb 5, 2021 at 8:02 AM Columns share an author’s personal perspective. ***** Trump Derangement Syndrome isn’t just for snowflakes. It’s bipartisan now, an equal opportunity destroyer. It may also turn out to be former President Donald Trump’s greatest contribution to criminal justice reform. Trump Derangement Syndrome was once a tongue-in-cheek description of leftists who reacted dramatically, vehemently to Trump’s policies, statements and tweets. But now MAGAts have turned that sword into a shield. In their arguments for pr...

The Byron White Federal Courthouse, home of the 10th Circuit. (Courthouse News photo / Amanda Pampuro) (CN) — The decades-long sentences of three Kansas men convicted of plotting to blow up a Mosque were affirmed by the 10 th Circuit on Monday. After a jury trial in which the government called 15 witnesses and submitted 500 exhibits and the defense called 10 witnesses and offered 40 exhibits, a federal judge in 2019 sentenced Curtis Allen, 53, and Gavin Wright, 55 — members of the so-called Kansas Security Force militia group — to 25 years each in federal prison for plotting to blow up ...

Associated Press photo by: Associated Press This combination of Oct. 14, 2016, file booking photos provided by the Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office in Wichita, Kan., shows from left, Patrick Stein, Curtis Allen and Gavin Wright, three members of a Kansas militia group who were convicted of plotting to bomb a mosque and an apartment building filled with Somali immigrants in Garden City, Kan. (Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office via AP, File) WICHITA (AP) — A federal appeals court has upheld the convictions and sentences of three militia members facing decades in prison for their roles in a foil...

WICHITA, Kan. — A federal appeals court has upheld the convictions and sentences of three militia members facing decades in prison for their roles in a foiled 2016 plot to massacre Somali Muslims in southwest Kansas. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected all the arguments raised by attorneys for Gavin Wright, Curtis Allen and Patrick Stein. The court was not swayed by claims that the men were entrapped and the method of selecting jurors was flawed. Jurors convicted them in 2018 of conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction and conspiracy against civil rights for a scheme to blow up...

Police use tear gas around the Capitol building where pro-Trump supporters riot and breached the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, 2021. Photo: Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket/Getty ImagesPolice use tear gas around the Capitol building where pro-Trump supporters riot and breached the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, 2021. Photo: Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket/Getty Images Capitol Mob May Say Trump Made Them Do It. But That Hasn’t Always Worked as a Defense. A Kansas man who plotted to blow up Somalis argued that he was swayed by the president’s anti-immigrant r...