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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2026

[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, 2026
The 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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