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Court Overturns Boston Marathon Bomber’s Death Sentence

(Headline USA) A federal appeals court Friday threw out Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's death sentence in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, saying the judge who oversaw the case did not adequately screen jurors for potential biases. A three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered a new penalty-phase trial...

Prosecutor Decides No Charges Warranted Against Officer Who Shot Michael Brown — for THIRD TIME

(Headline USA) St. Louis County’s prosecutor announced Thursday that he will not charge the former police officer who fatally shot Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, a dramatic decision that could reopen old wounds amid a renewed and intense national conversation about alleged racial injustice. Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell's decision marked the...

Newly Released Ghislaine Docs Put Bill Clinton at Epstein’s Orgy Island

(Headline USA) Newly unsealed court documents provide a fresh glimpse into a fierce civil court fight between Jeffrey Epstein's ex-girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, and one of the women who accused the couple of sexual abuse. The documents released Thursday were from a now-settled defamation lawsuit filed by one of Epstein's alleged victims,...

McCloskeys’ Lawyer Moves to Dismiss Case Due to ‘Impropriety’ By Soros Prosecutor

The attorney for a St. Louis couple who brandished firearms at protesters trespassing on their property filed a motion this week to dismiss the felony charges brought by Soros-funded St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner. Attorney Joel Schwartz, who is representing Mark and Patricia McCloskey, accused Gardner of using her...

US Gov’t Drops Effort to Silence Trump Ex-Lawyer Michael Cohen

(Associated Press) The U.S. government dropped its effort to silence President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer on Thursday, saying it will no longer demand that Michael Cohen not speak with the media in the weeks before his book critical of his former boss is released. An agreement between lawyers for the...

Activist Judge Uses COVID as Pretense to Block Trump Rule on Public Benefits

(Headline USA) A federal judge on Wednesday blocked a Trump administration rule that could deny green cards to immigrants over use of public benefits from being applied during the current coronavirus pandemic. The guidelines had gone into effect in February, after legal challenges by open-borders activists who claimed they would...

Epstein’s Ex-Girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell Tries to Seal Her Testimony

(Associated Press) A British socialite charged with recruiting three girls for Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse made a last-minute bid Wednesday to stop the public release of her 2016 testimony in a civil case. Ty Gee, a lawyer for Ghislaine Maxwell, told a Manhattan judge that the depositions by his client...

Building Owner Seeks SCOTUS Relief After NYC Vandals Awarded $6.75M for Graffiti

Should graffiti be protected from property owners? That’s a question many people would consider ludicrous, but a New York City court awarded graffiti “artists” $6.75 million in damages when a building owner whitewashed what he considered vandalism. Now, real estate developer G&M Realty is petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court for help. “We...

HAWLEY: I’ll Only for Justice Who Opposes ‘Wrongly Decided’ Roe v. Wade

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., said Sunday he will only vote to confirm Supreme Court justice picks who oppose Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that solidified abortion rights, and believe it was “wrongly decided.” “I will vote only for those Supreme Court nominees who have explicitly acknowledged that Roe...

Neighbor Who Attacked Sen. Rand Paul Gets Additional Time after Lenient 30-Day Sentence

(Associated Press) U.S. Sen. Rand Paul's former neighbor was resentenced Monday to an extra seven months behind bars and six months in home detention assaulting the Kentucky lawmaker. Rene Boucher originally was given a 30-day sentence after pleading guilty to assaulting a member of Congress. Federal prosecutors argued the sentence was...

Far-Left NY Atty Gen. OKs Rape Settlement Giving $15M to Harvey Weinstein

New York Attorney General Letitia James has made a name for herself attacking President Donald Trump. But for all her moral preening, New York’s top prosecutor has shamelessly double-crossed the “MeToo” victims of disgraced Hollywood film mogul Harvey Weinstein. Weinstein, a longtime Democrat mega-donor, is in the midst of serving a...

Chief Justice Roberts Sides w/ Liberals to Block Nevada Church’s Request for Relief

(Headline USA) A sharply divided U.S. Supreme Court denied a rural Nevada church's request late Friday to strike down as unconstitutional a 50-person cap on worship services as part of the state's ongoing response to the coronavirus. In a 5-4 decision, the high court refused to grant the request from...
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