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 […]
Continue ReadingA 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 […]
Continue Readingst. 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 […]
Continue Readingst. 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 […]
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