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Mar 04 2024
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AG Garland claims civil rights STILL under attack in ‘Bloody Sunday’ service, black vote under threat
Invoking “white supremacists” and Reconstruction, Attorney General Merrick Garland went full race-baiter over election integrity measures while marking a civil rights anniversary. President Joe Biden’s administration was out in full force Sunday as officials attended ceremonies in Selma, Alabama to mark the 59th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. While Vice President Kamala Harris used the march
Bizpac ReviewFeb 07 2024
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City of Akron settles civil rights lawsuit with Jayland Walker protesters
SUMMIT COUNTY, Ohio (WOIO) - The City of Akron has reached a settlement in a civil rights lawsuit with Jayland Walker protesters. According to a news release, the city agreed to pay $747,000 to the plaintiffs. Jayland Walker, 25, of Akron, was shot and killed by Akron police on June 27, 2022 after an attempted traffic stop. There were multiple protests throughout the city after the shooting. “
WOIO 19Jan 31 2024
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Lawmakers kill a bill removing gender identity as a civil right
Rep. Jeff Shipley, R-Birmingham, speaks in support of a bill removing gender identity protections from civil rights law on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024, at the Iowa State Capitol in Des Moines. Michelle Gutierrez/The Register Courtney Reyes, executive director for One Iowa, looks over the crowd of protestors on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024, at the Iowa State Capitol in Des Moines. Michelle Gutierrez/
Des Moines RegisterFeb 22 2024
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Trump seeks 30-day delay in enforcement of damages in New York civil fraud case
An attorney for Donald Trump has asked New York Judge Arthur Engoron for a 30-day delay in enforcing the ruling Friday in the civil fraud case, which fined the former president and his company more than $350 million and temporarily barred him from doing business in the state. "Given that the court-appointed monitor continues to be in place, there is no prejudice to the Attorney General in
NBC News (Online)Feb 17 2024
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Trump’s businesses slammed in civil fraud suit, but he avoids ‘corporate death penalty’
NEW YORK — Donald Trump won’t face the corporate death penalty after all. A New York judge on Friday spared the ex-president that worst case punishment as he ruled in a civil case alleging Trump fraudulently misrepresented financial figures to get cheaper loans and other benefits. Still, Trump got slammed hard, facing big cash penalties, outside supervision of his companies and restrictions on
The OregonianFeb 17 2024
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Trump’s historic civil fraud trial ruling could spur an NY business exodus
The men and women who run Gotham’s big banks and financial firms have had a long and somewhat tortured history with the former president dating back from his days as a real estate mogul. Yet they see what’s happening to Donald Trump in the byzantine Letitia James bank-fraud prosecution and the over-the-top penalties issued by a state judge that could bankrupt Trump over relatively little. They
New York Post (News)Dec 30 2023
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Disunion, Slavery, and the Causes of the Civil War
Nikki Haley recently downplayed the role of slavery in the actual starting of the Civil War. Technically, she is absolutely right. President Abraham Lincoln in his First Inaugural Address said that he would fight to keep the Union together, and that he would ban slavery in the western territories, but he pledged to forever protect slavery in the southern States that had it, and Lincoln even
ReasonFeb 16 2024
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New York judge penalizes Trump up to $355 million in civil fraud lawsuit
ALBANY, NY (Erie News Now)--A NEW YORK STATE JUDGE Friday RULED MORE THAN $350 MILLION IN penalties AGAINST FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP AND HIS COMPANIES IN A CIVIL FRAUD LAWSUIT BROUGHT FROM New York STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL LETITIA JAMES. THE JUDGE ALSO BARRED TRUMP FROM DOING BUSINESS IN THE STATE FOR A PERIOD OF THREE YEARS. SOME EXPERTS SAid WHILE TRUMP AND HIS LAWYERS WILL LIKELY APPEAL
Erie News Now WICU/WSEEFeb 16 2024
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Trump ordered to pay $364 million for inflating his assets in civil fraud trial
On Friday afternoon, New York County Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron ordered Donald Trump, his companies, and some executives to pay $364 million. The former president is also barred from serving as an officer or director of any New York business for three years. Trump's lawyers indicated even before the judgment came down that they planned to appeal. The judgment, part of New York
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