Texas Appeals Court Throws Out Defamation Lawsuit Against ProPublica, Houston Chronicle Jeremy Schwartz ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. A Texas state appeals court on Thursday ... 04/25/2024 - 11:00 am | View Link
Prosecutor appeals ruling that overturned Texas woman's illegal voting conviction Tarrant County District Attorney Phil Sorrells has appealed a recent ruling that overturned the 2018 conviction of Crystal Mason, a Tarrant County woman whose voter fraud case has received national ... 04/25/2024 - 10:02 am | View Link
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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson raised concerns about granting the president absolute immunity, suggesting it could foster criminal activity in the Oval Office. She questioned Trump's lawyer, D. John Sauer, on why presidents should not be required to follow the law when acting in their official capacity.
CNN's Brynn Gingras describes former President Donald Trump's demeanor in court during former publisher of the National Enquirer David Pecker's testimony as part of his criminal hush money trial.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett pressed Trump lawyer D. John Sauer during Supreme Court arguments on the distinction between official and personal acts alleged in the charges. University of Texas law professor Steve Vladeck shares his takeaway.
Can a President order a political rival’s assassination and avoid criminal prosecution? What if he sold nuclear secrets to a foreign adversary or staged a coup?
These are some of the hypothetical questions posed during oral arguments at the Supreme Court on Thursday as the Justices wrestled with the practical implications of what could happen if they grant former President Donald Trump immunity from criminal prosecution in special counsel Jack Smith’s election interference case against him.
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“This case has huge implications for the presidency, for the future of the presidency, for the future of the country,” said Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
During nearly three hours of arguments in Trump v.
Former Edgewater police officer McKinzie Rees hopes to serve and protect again, but first she must get her name removed from a so-called “bad cops list” maintained by the Colorado Attorney General’s Office. It landed there, she said, as retaliation after she reported sexual assaults by a supervising sergeant.
That sergeant went on to work for another police department until this year, when he pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual contact and misconduct and was sentenced, more than four years after the assaults and retaliation against Rees.
She testified to the state’s House Judiciary Committee this week that, even after her attacker was exposed, her complaint about still being listed as a problem police officer “is falling on deaf ears every time.”
Rees’ testimony, echoed by other frontline police officers from Colorado Springs and Denver about retaliation they faced after reporting misconduct, is driving state lawmakers’ latest effort at police oversight.