[That] procedural safeguards have developed and have become part of our legal system manifests the deliberate judgment of the people that the integrity of the individual in a democracy is so valuable that it is more important that he be accorded a fair trial than that every culprit be punished.
– Leo Pfeffer
HORNBERGER'S BLOG
February 9, 2026The Evil of U.S. Economic Strangulation of Cuba
To justify his targeting the Cuban people with severe economic privation, including a high risk of death by starvation and illness, President Trump has declared a “national emergency.” What’s the “emergency”? He says that Cuba’s communist regime poses a grave threat to the United States because, he says, it is a supporter of terrorism and because it has aligned itself with America’s “adversaries.”
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