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Rudy Giuliani is in contempt of court in $148 million case defaming Black election workers

Rudy Giuliani was found in contempt of court Monday for failing to properly respond to requests for information as he turned over assets to satisfy a $148 million defamation judgment granted to two Georgia election workers. Judge Lewis J. Liman ruled after hearing Giuliani testify for a second day at a contempt hearing called after lawyers for the election workers said the former New York City mayor had failed to properly comply with requests for evidence over the last few months. Liman said […]

todayJanuary 7, 2025

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Civil rights group’s lawsuit using Ku Klux Klan Act is last hope of holding Trump accountability for Jan. 6

One of the nation’s leading civil rights groups is fighting to hold President-elect Donald Trump accountable for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.  “We have to decide, as a nation, do we want to allow that type of racialized political violence to be normalized and to go unaccounted for,” said Damon Hewitt, president and executive director of Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. The civil rights organization is leading the civil lawsuit, Smith […]

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Senator Deb Fischer’s husband refuses to shake Kamala Harris’s hand and sparks backlash (WATCH)

A resurfaced clip of Nebraska Republican Senator Deb Fischer’s husband refusing to shake Vice President Kamala Harris‘s hand has gone viral on social media. On Friday, Jan. 3, Harris performed her duty as vice president to swear in the new class of U.S. senators in the new 119th Congress — which includes both Democrats and Republicans. However, after Sen. Fischer was sworn in by Harris for her third term in office, her husband, Bruce Fischer, who held up the Bible […]

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Trump’s lawyers ask judge to halt Friday’s hush money case sentencing while they appeal to block it

NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump on Monday moved to indefinitely postpone this week’s sentencing in his hush money case as he appeals a ruling that upheld the verdict and put him on course to be the first president to take office convicted of crimes. Trump’s lawyers say the case should be halted automatically while they ask a New York appeals court to reverse Judge Juan M. Merchan’s decision last week, which set the case for sentencing on Friday — little more than a week […]

todayJanuary 6, 2025

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Vice President Kamala Harris certifies her own election loss on Jan. 6: ‘A sacred obligation’

Kamala Harris on Monday performed her constitutional role as vice president to preside over the Jan. 6 proceedings to certify her 2024 presidential election loss to President-elect Donald Trump. In a video posted on social media prior to the congressional proceeding, Vice President Harris called the peaceful transfer of power “one of the most fundamental principles of American democracy.” She added, “As much as any other principle, it is what distinguishes our system of government from monarchy or tyranny.”  Harris […]

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Hundreds of Capitol riot prosecutions are in limbo as a DC court awaits Trump’s White House return

WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s the largest prosecution in Justice Department history — with reams of evidence, harrowing videos and hundreds of convictions of the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Now Donald Trump’s return to power has thrown into question the future of the more than 1,500 federal cases brought over the last four years. Jan. 6 trials, guilty pleas and sentencings have continued chugging along in Washington’s federal court despite Trump’s promise to pardon rioters, whom he has called “political prisoners” and “hostages” […]

todayJanuary 6, 2025

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Biden awards Denzel Washington, Magic Johnson and Fannie Lou Hamer with Presidential Medal of Freedom

President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 recipients on Saturday afternoon, including Black American luminaries, actor Denzel Washington, former NBA star and business mogul Earvin “Magic” Johnson, and the late civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer.  Other recipients included former Secretary of State, U.S. Senator and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, musician Bono, actor Michael J. Fox, the late Robert F. Kennedy, Sr., fashion designer Ralph Lauren, and longtime Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour. The ceremony unfolded […]

todayJanuary 4, 2025

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Federal courts won’t refer Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to attorney general over ethics

WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal courts will not refer allegations that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas may have violated ethics laws to the Justice Department, the judiciary’s policymaking body said Thursday. Thomas has agreed to follow updated requirements on reporting trips and gifts, including clearer guidelines on hospitality from friends, the U.S. Judicial Conference wrote to Democratic senators who had called for an investigation into undisclosed acceptance of luxury trips. Thomas has previously said he wasn’t required to disclose the many trips he and his wife […]

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Trump, Republicans slammed for using New Orleans attack to scapegoat Black, brown and immigrant communities

After Donald Trump falsely claimed the deadly New Orleans terrorist attack on Bourbon Street was committed by an immigrant, critics are slamming the president-elect for scapegoating immigrant communities, particularly Black and brown people, as they also brace for his administration’s tough immigration policy proposals which include mass deportations. “In this moment of terrible pain, president-elect Donald J. Trump has chosen to baselessly blame immigrants for such a heinous attack and for the harm caused by others,” said U.S. Rep. Yvette […]

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