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Dec 16 2021
News
Can Ghislaine Maxwell’s Defense Succeed in Painting Her as the Victim?
On Friday, the prosecution in the Ghislaine Maxwell trial called to the stand a fourth, and final, accuser. Annie Farmer described, among other disquieting incidents, a supremely creepy 1996 weekend she spent visiting Jeffrey Epstein’s ranch in New Mexico. After being lured there under the guise of some sort of vague student enrichment workshop (to be led, apparently, by Epstein), the then 16
SlateJan 23 2020
News
Senators Dig In as Democrats Outline Trump Impeachment Case
WASHINGTON—As House Democrats prepared for a second day of opening arguments in the impeachment trial of President Trump, some senators were readying for the long haul.
“We’ve still got a long way to go,” said Sen. Doug Jones (D., Ala.), who is up for re-election this year in a state Mr. Trump won by almost 30 percentage points. “I don’t want anybody to think that this is over because
Wall Street Journal (News)Jan 07 2020
News
Major drugstore chains sue doctors in sprawling federal opioid case
Major drugstore chains — which face an October trial in the mammoth federal opioid litigation — have sued doctors across northeast Ohio, claiming that physicians are the real culprits in the nation’s deadly drug epidemic.
CVS, Walgreen Co., Walmart, Rite Aid and other major pharmacy chains said opioid prescribers bear responsibility for the prescription narcotic crisis, but unlike the
Washington PostDec 19 2021
News
Indian Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Are Ready To Bring Covid Antivirals To The World
Covid-19 cases were already beginning to surge around the world before scientists in South Africa identified the omicron variant. Two Covid antiviral treatments developed by Merck and Pfizer are seen by some public health officials as key to controlling renewed outbreaks, especially for areas that lack access to vaccines or face large numbers of people who refuse to take them. Several Indian
ForbesDec 29 2019
News
Biden Lays Out His Objections to Impeachment Subpoena Demand
IOWA CITY, Iowa—Former Vice President Joe Biden pushed back against suggestions he should testify before President Trump’s impeachment trial in the Senate, saying the process “is about Trump’s conduct, not mine.”
Mr. Biden, in a series of tweets on Saturday, explained why he planned to refuse to comply with a subpoena if Republicans in the Senate seek his testimony during the upcoming
Wall Street Journal (News)Dec 19 2019
News
Nancy Pelosi won't commit to sending articles of impeachment to Senate
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would not commit on Wednesday to sending the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the Republican-held Senate, a surprise move that injects new uncertainty into Congress' timeline of the President's trial in the chamber.
"That would have been our intention, but we'll see what happens over there," Pelosi said at a post-impeachment vote news
CNN DigitalMay 11 2020
News
A Growing Number of State Courts Are Confronting Unconscious Racism In Jury Selection
When lawyers in Cedric Hobbs Jr.’s 2014 death penalty trial in Cumberland County, North Carolina, began picking a jury, the pool was 50 percent black. By the time the trial began, there were only two black people on the jury. When the defense accused prosecutors of racial discrimination in the selection process, they acted indignant. “Somehow we’re just racists in this county,” one told the
The Marshall ProjectJan 14 2021
News
Trump Impeached
“Donald Trump on Wednesday became the first president in U.S. history to be impeached twice, as 10 of his fellow Republicans joined Democrats in the House of Representatives to charge him with inciting an insurrection in last week’s violent rampage in the Capitol.” (Reuters)
Legal experts are divided as to whether the Constitution permits an impeachment trial after a president has left
The Flip SideDec 23 2019
Opinion
As Trump's impeachment heads to the Senate, Democrats should push for witnesses (including Hunter Biden)
Witnesses or no witnesses? That is the question dogging senators of both parties, as they gear up for a Senate trial on the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump.
On the one hand, you have Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., saying that a fair trial must include hearing from the president’s acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, former national security adviser John Bolton and
NBC News DigitalDec 07 2021
News
California Rep. Devin Nunes Will Leave Congress To Join Trump Tech Startup
Rep. Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, is retiring at the end of the year to helm former President Donald Trump’s new tech startup.
Nunes, a 10-term congressman from California, will be the CEO of Trump Media & Technology Group, which has plans to launch a new social media platform and video streaming service.
“The time has come to reopen
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