About the DKT Liberty Project

Thomas Jefferson warned, “the natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.” Mindful of this trend, the Liberty Project was founded to promote individual liberty against encroachment by all levels of government. Learn more...

Prosecution of Oklahoma pipe shop leaves residents perplexed

From Sean Murphy at the Associated Press: While other states across the nation are easing penalties for marijuana use or legalizing the drug altogether, Norman police and its Republican district attorney are taking the opposite tack: pursuing criminal charges against the now-shuttered Friendly Market shop owner Robert Cox and several of his clerks for selling glass Read the full article…

Coming Up…

Phil Harvey and Lisa Conyers’ new book — Welfare for the Rich; How Your Tax Dollars End Up in Millionaires’ Pockets — is now under way. This book will do two things: It will show how tax payments from millions of middle-class and poor people flow to much wealthier Americans who clearly do not need and should Read the full article…

NY Police Seize – – and Keep – – $ Millions from Low-Income People

DKT Liberty Project Partners with The Bronx Defenders to Stop Abusive and Unconstitutional Practices. New York police arrest hundreds of thousands of people each year, seizing cash, phones, and other personal property in most of these arrests. Now, the DKT Liberty Project and the Bronx Defenders are fighting back. With over 250 advocates and attorneys on Read the full article…

DKT Liberty Project and Jenner & Block Partner to Provide Lawyers for Immigrants at Detention Center

The DKT Liberty Project is partnering with a law firm, Jenner & Block, on a new project aimed at providing crucial legal representation to detained immigrants. Throughout the United States, more than 40,000 immigrants are jailed while facing deportation proceedings, and the clear majority – approximately 86% of them — do not have a lawyer. Read the full article…

DKT Liberty Project Fights Illegal Jailing of Indigent Citizens

The DKT Liberty Project is partnering with the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta to push back against the illegal jailing of poor people by the Recorder’s Court in Columbus, Georgia, which is part of the local court system. The jailing of people who cannot pay fines and fees is often referred to as Read the full article…

DKT Liberty Project Supports innocent store staff in Norman, Oklahoma case

In 2016, local police in Norman, Oklahoma raided The Friendly Market, taking glass smoking pipes and all of the cash in the register on the grounds that they of violated OK’s drug paraphernalia statues and eventually forcing the store out of business. The DKT Liberty Project, an organization promoting individual liberty against government encroachment, is Read the full article…

Liberty Project Intervenes, Government Drops All Criminal Charges

In August of 2015, Paul Jones and his 19-year-old son, Grayson, were driving from Georgia to California when they were pulled over by the California Highway Patrol on Interstate 80 near Truckee, California. The officer alleged that their car was “straddling the white line” on the right-hand side of the road. The police video did Read the full article…

Newsweek article on “Romeo and Juliet” case supported by the DKT Liberty Project

From Newsweek: Austin Yabandith just turned 18. But he’s not allowed to see his friends, stay out past 9 p.m., use a computer or even attend school. The Superior, Wisconsin, teen was charged with sexual exploitation for exchanging explicit pictures with his underage girlfriend last summer. As conditions of his plea agreement in December, he Read the full article…

DKT Liberty Project Comes to the Rescue in “Romeo and Juliet” Case

Seventeen-year-old Austin Yabandith was attending high school in Superior, Wisconsin when he fell in love with a 15-year old girl named Moon (not her real name). They had a consensual relationship for a year. During this time, they had sex and also took photos of each other. At one point, Moon sent a picture of Read the full article…

Statement by the DKT Liberty Project on the Backpage.com Senate proceedings

The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations has been engaged in an unconstitutional and blatant attempt to crush Backpage.com, a website that carries classified ads, by pretending to seek information it doesn’t need when it is actually using the power of the federal government to be prosecutor, judge, and jury – all rolled into one. The Read the full article…