attorney at law

Attorney for billionaire at center of Clarence Thomas controversy offers to meet with Judiciary staff

27/10/2025despair

An attorney for GOP megadonor Harlan Crow offered to meet with Senate Judiciary Committee staff as Democrats push to investigate undisclosed, luxury trips that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas accepted from the real estate developer.

Crow’s attorney, Michael Bopp, has rebuffed the committee’s demands for information, but in a Monday letter, Bopp offered to meet with the committee staff to discuss their request.

“While the concerns we expressed in our Response about the Committee’s investigation remain, we respect the Senate Judiciary Committee’s important role in formulating legislation concerning our federal courts system, and would welcome a discussion with your staff,”

Ben Crump deletes viral tweet branding pregnant nurse racist after her lawyer steps in

16/09/2025despair

A prominent civil rights attorney deleted his viral tweet that attacked a female New York City hospital worker hours after her lawyer threatened defamation lawsuits in a Fox News segment against those who defamed her.

Ben Crump, who has been a lead attorney in several police brutality cases, tweeted a viral video with more than 4 million views of a verbal altercation between a pregnant New York City physician assistant and multiple young Black men before deleting it hours later after the segment aired and went viral on Twitter.

“This is unacceptable!” Crump captioned the tweet with the video. “A

Kim Gardner’s office, Missouri AG spar over ground rules, set trial date in removal suit

26/04/2025despair

st. LOUIS — The region’s attention was fixed Tuesday on a fourth-floor courtroom in the city’s civil courts building for the first glimpse of what’s shaping up to be a fierce legal battle between the state’s attorney general and the city’s top prosecutor.

There, in front of a packed court, a rotating cast of attorneys leveled their initial arguments in the fight over the future of St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly M. Gardner.

“Everyone is watching us today, not only in this community, but beyond,” said Bill Corrigan, who represented Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey. “It’s in everyone’s interest to

More funds head to Minn. attorney general, public defender

14/01/2025despair

st. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Millions of extra dollars are working their way through the Minnesota Legislature to both beef up the ability of Attorney General Keith Ellison’s office to prosecute violent crime and the state’s public defender system to relieve the staffing shortages that nearly led to a last strike year.

Ellison assembled the team that got former Minneapolis Officer Derek Chauvin convicted of murdering George Floyd in 2021, but the Democratic attorney general had been unable for four years to persuade a divided Legislature to give him more money to hire more prosecutors. Now that Democrats control both