A look at the Gaza war protests that have emerged on US college campuses Student protests over the Israel-Hamas war have popped up on an increasing number of U.S. college campuses following last week’s arrest of more than 100 demonstrators at Columbia University. By ... 04/25/2024 - 7:23 am | View Link
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Trump immunity case highlights: Ex-president's lawyers and DOJ argue before Supreme Court Latest news and live updates on former President Donald Trump's arguments at the Supreme Court on presidential immunity from election interference charges. 04/25/2024 - 6:09 am | View Link
Yousaf’s future in Alex Salmond’s hands as Greens to vote no confidence in FM Humza Yousaf’s coalition with the Scottish Greens has collapsed after he decided to scrap their power-sharing agreement, it is understood. The First Minister is believed to have ended the SNP’s ... 04/25/2024 - 6:07 am | View Link
Antisemitism on campus surges as agitators take over Police are removing anti-Israel protesters from Yale’s campus early Monday after a week of demonstrations calling for the university to divest from military weapon manufacturers. Students at Columbia ... 04/24/2024 - 2:14 pm | View Link
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.