Author name: The Civil Rights Lawyer

Looking at an original M1841 Mississippi Rifle made in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. I explain why it’s called the “Mississippi Rifle,” and why it’s awesome. Did you know that Congress ordered the US Military to sell these state of the art rifles to civilians headed West? source

In this video I explain what Qualified Immunity and why it fails at life. In case you actually care to understand what Qualified Immunity is. It is a defense to civil (I.e., not criminal) civil rights lawsuits against government officers (mostly police). It’s a work of legislation from the bench by the SCOTUS first issued

Today the West Virginia Supreme Court ruled on our petition for writ of mandamus challenging the West Virginia Governor’s COVID actions. In this video, I discuss that ruling and our next steps in this fight. source

Check out the blog post I put up today, https://thecivilrightslawyer.com/2020/07/29/delegating-our-freedom-to-a-left-wing-university/ on the fact that we literally have a Czar running our state and deciding the extent of our individual freedoms. source

LIVE AT NOON TODAY. I haven’t yet begun to fight, is the theme of the week. Many fights are ongoing, and many are waiting on deck. In this video, I give an end-of-the-week update to many of the civil rights cases we’re currently fighting, as well as some of the current real civil rights issues,

In Episode 1 of the Freedom is Scary Livecast, West Virginia Civil Rights Lawyer, John H. Bryan, goes live at 12:00 noon about the West Virginia Governor’s threatened Travel Ban. In this video, I will explain why doing so would be unconstitutional. Also, my friend and client, Delegate Marshall Wilson, is running for Governor. Podcast

Today, on “Freedom is Scary,” Episode No. 2, a live discussion with one of our patriot defenders of the Constitutions in our state legislature, Delegate Jim Butler. Discussing the West Virginia governor’s executive orders and the efforts at disposing of them. He is one of the plaintiffs in the writ of mandamus we filed with

Excessive force issues may never be the same after the George Floyd death. Many states have enacted legislation now prohibited so-called “chokeholds,” and Trump’s Executive Order directed states to do so. In this livecast I’ll discuss this, as well as the application of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu training with my buddy, Adam Martin, who is not only

Episode 4 of Freedom is Scary, the livestream, with the West Virginia Civil Rights Attorney, John Bryan. If you have questions, bring them. I’ll give an update on the status of the legal challenge to the West Virginia Governor’s COVID tyranny and recent developments. Possibly other things as well. I’ve had many people call in

In episode 5 of Freedom is Scary, an impromptu update on the late-night progress of our legal battle against Putnam County, West Virginia, in their attempts at overturning the Fourth Circuit decision in U.S. v. Black from 2013 protecting open carry rights in open carry legal states, such as West Virginia. Read more about the