California has a requirement that tax-exempt charities disclose the identity of their top financial donors to the state. On Friday, January 8, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge to that requirement. (The Attorney General of California, Xavier Becerra, has been nominated to run the Department of... Read More »
Lisa Montgomery was the only woman on federal death row. She was originally supposed to be put to death on December 8, but the execution was delayed since two of her lawyers tested positive for the novel coronavirus after visiting her in a federal prison in Texas back in November.... Read More »
Donald Trump’s attorney Thomas McCarthy has requested a federal appeals court to halt a civil lawsuit accusing the president of targeting poor and working-class Americans in promoting a multi-tiered marketing scam. The charges against the Trumps say they exploited their famous name to secretly benefit from unsuspecting lower-income investors. The... Read More »
A photo-bombing suspect who posed with his feet up on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s desk during the Capitol Hill attack was found and arrested by federal prosecutors. Richard Barnett, 60, from Gravette Arkansas, faces several criminal charges, said US Attorney Kenneth Kohl. Barnett is faced with federal charges, including unlawful... Read More »
In December, Trump vetoed a $740.5 billion defense spending bill after it passed Congress. His objections did not relate to the disgorgement provisions included regarding the SEC’s work. On December 28, 2020, the House overrode Trump’s veto. On January 1, the Senate voted to override the president’s veto as well... Read More »
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser launched a new probe into the death of unarmed, 23-year old Elijah McClain in Colorado in 2019. The US Justice Department has also launched a civil rights probe into the death of the unarmed young man by police. With echoes of the infamous choking death... Read More »
There is growing support for a monument to be established in Central Park commemorating the five wrongly accused men in the "Central Park Jogger" case. The chairwoman of Community Board 10’s Park and Recreation Committee, Karen Horry, has shared her vision of the exhibit with various other boards explaining, “We... Read More »
Parler, the conservative-owned social media platform, is suing Amazon Web Services (AWS) for disabling its site. In the eighteen-page lawsuit, the company alleges hosting service Amazon violated antitrust law and breached their contractual agreement. Like dominoes, fellow giant social media platforms followed Amazon and banned Parler on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube,... Read More »
Capitol Police Officer Brian D. Sicknick, 42, was one of five individuals killed after riots turned deadly on January 6th. Following his passing, the Washington Metropolitan Police announced that they will be investigating his death as a homicide. The FBI is also assisting in the investigation. The insurrection that led... Read More »
On January 7, 2021, Pennsylvania attorney Jerome Marcus requested to withdraw from a suit he initiated on behalf of the Trump campaign in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The suit, filed against the Philadelphia County Board of Elections on November 4, 2020, alleges that “the... Read More »
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) and US federal courts announced on January 6 they were both hacked by a prior, similar government breach into SolarWinds, a network security management firm that worked inside the systems of multiple US government agencies. The breach also includes a suspected hacking into the... Read More »
“SoHo Karen,” the white woman who made headlines earlier this year after wrongly accusing a black teenager of stealing her phone at a New York City Hotel, has been identified and arrested in California this past week. 22-year-old Miya Ponsetto was taken into custody late last week by detectives from... Read More »
With less than two weeks before President-elect Biden takes office, a federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction against the Trump administration’s proposed asylum restrictions that would have overhauled the immigration system with restrictive new provisions. The new rule was to take effect on January 11. While the granting of... Read More »
Quick-to-rise social media app Parler touts itself as the alternative to Twitter in providing a platform for unrestricted “free speech.” Because of its lack of censorship of political views and fringe ideologies, the app has drawn users who have been kicked off of mainstream platforms such as Twitter and Facebook.... Read More »
The Boston Marathon Bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 26, is suing the Florence Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) for discriminatory treatment that has led to his mental and physical decline. In the handwritten lawsuit that was filed on December 22, 2020, Tsarnaev alleges that "the BOP has enabled the Unit Manager, A.... Read More »
