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"Texas City, the Tuskegee Syphilis study, Ruby Ridge, Waco, Fast and Furious, the VA hospital scandal - time after time, government employees kill Americans by negligence, stupidity, or agency corruption, and time after time they escape all legal accountability," attorney and author David T. Hardy told me about his latest book prior to its release. Now that "I'm From the Government, and I'm Here to Kill You: The Human Cost of Official Negligence" has been published , Hardy accepted my invitation for an exclusive Q&A that will give readers further insights into how and why such travesties occur.
Texas plans to execute on Wednesday a man convicted of raping and murdering five children and young women, using a tourniquet to torture and strangle his victims.
Sen. Bob Menendez's corruption trial will go forward after a federal judge on Monday refused to toss out any charges against the New Jersey Democrat and his top donor, Salomon Melgen. U.S. District Judge William H. Walls said a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision did not invalidate the "stream of benefits" theory at the center of the Justice Department's case against Menendez.
The New Jersey Democrat's son testified about his father's longtime friendship with co-defendant Salomon Melgen . Melgen's wife also testified that the men were close and that Menendez attended their daughter's wedding in the Dominican Republic.
"MARSHALL" - 3 stars - Chadwick Boseman, Josh Gad, Kate Hudson, Sterling K. Brown, James Cromwell; PG-13 ; in general release "Marshall" combines some decent courtroom drama with some compelling historical context to create a film that feels like more than the sum of its parts. Named for the first African-American justice to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, "Marshall" isn't a biopic so much as a snapshot of a key moment in Thurgood Marshall's evolution.
It's been 26 years since Anita Hill, soft-spoken and deliberate in her bright blue suit, sat before a Senate panel and detailed the lurid sexual harassment charges that would transfix a nation. Clarence Thomas went on to the Supreme Court, but Hill's testimony was a watershed moment that raised awareness in incalculable ways.
Consider the case of Jack Phillips, a well-known cake artist and founder of Masterpiece Cake Shop in Lakewood. Phillips declined to design a cake celebrating a same-sex couple's planned wedding, and the courts told him he had no right.
Houston State District Court Judge Steven Kirkland has announced his candidacy for a seat on the all-Republican Texas Supreme Court, making him the first openly gay candidate to run for the state's highest civil court. Kirkland, a Democrat, is seeking Place 2 on the court, which is currently held by Justice Don Willett.
Acting as his own attorney, former New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin filed a new motion this week asking a federal judge to overturn his conviction on 20 counts related to allegations that he traded his political influence for bribes from city contractors. Nagin's motion, typed at a federal prison camp in Texarkana, Texas, where he is serving a 10-year sentence, cites the same U.S. Supreme Court precedent that led a Virginia judge last week to vacate most of the charges that landed another disgraced New Orleans politician - former U.S. Rep. William Jefferson - in the federal pen.
A Texas inmate convicted of the death of a prison guard has been executed after the US Supreme Court rejected his lawyer's attempts to halt the punishment. A Texas inmate convicted of the death of a prison guard has been executed after the US Supreme Court rejected his lawyer's attempts to halt the punishment.
North Carolina's redrawn legislative districts were debated Thursday before a panel of three federal judges who had struck down previous district maps for racial bias. The judges must decide whether to force another redrawing of the boundaries approved by Republicans over the summer or allow them to be used in the 2018 elections.
The government rested its bribery case against U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez and a wealthy friend on Wednesday, leaving it up to a judge to decide whether a 2016 Supreme Court ruling that already has helped reverse several politicians' corruption convictions is enough to dismiss the charges here. The New Jersey Democrat is charged with accepting free flights on a private jet and other gifts from Florida eye doctor Salomon Melgen, a longtime friend, in exchange for pressuring government officials to take actions favorable to Melgen's business interests.
A Mississippi law enabling sweeping anti-LGBT discrimination in the name of "religious freedom" took effect Tuesday as a result of a federal appeals court decision throwing out a legal challenge to the statute. The law, House Bill 1523, was signed by Gov. Phil Bryant last year in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in favor of same-sex marriage nationwide.
The off-duty Somerville police officer involved in a New Hampshire crash with an 18-year-old who police said was racing on I-95 Sunday has died of his injuries, officials... If you liked last week's New Hampshire Union Leader High School Football Power Poll, you'll love this week's.
A home was evacuated after a propane tanker truck rolled on its side during a multi-car crash Monday and sprung a small leak, New Hampshire State Police said.
A home was evacuated after a propane tanker truck rolled on its side during a multi-car crash Monday and sprung a small leak, New Hampshire State Police said.
New Hampshire is forecast to see a net gain of nearly 250 manufacturing jobs over the two years ending in late 2018, but manufacturing remains down nearly 10,000 jobs in that sector since before the... If you liked last week's New Hampshire Union Leader High School Football Power Poll, you'll love this week's.
Today, new campaign finance disclosure rules go into effect in the state of New Mexico. The new rules are an important step forward for the people of the state, providing much-needed transparency around the money being used to support and oppose state political candidates.
Tuesday is the last day to register to vote in Pennsylvania's Nov. 7 general election. The biggest statewide contest for voters is between Supreme Court Justice Sallie Mundy and challenger Dwayne Woodruff, an Allegheny County judge who formerly played for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
At the start of this "momentous" Supreme Court term - as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg called it - most people are focused on partisan gerrymandering. But it's not clear that there are five votes for inserting courts into every redistricting decision, thereby creating an election-lawyer full-employment act.