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It looks like Andrew Cuomo will not be criminally charged by the Manhattan District Attorney for providing misleading information to the public about the number of deaths from the pandemic in New York nursing homes. Cuomos lawyer says hes been so advised by the DAs office. Andy McCarthy argues that the DAs decision not to prosecute is probably the correct one. Theres no doubt that Cuomo deceived the public. State

Im not a fan of Chris Christie, but hes a world-class hatchet man. His current target is Donald Trump. Why? Maybe because Trump didnt elevate him while president (probably due to the fact that Christie successfully prosecuted Jared Kushners crooked father). Maybe so Christie can boost sales of his book. Maybe because Christie anticipates running against Trump in 2024. Maybe all of the above. Im less interested in Christies motive

Governor Kay Ivey signed legislation on Friday enabling the use of COVID-19 relief funds to build more penitentiaries in the state.

Families of residents who died from COVID-19 at the Menlo Park and Paramus veterans homes have begun to be interviewed by federal prosecutors.

By a vote of 51-48, the Senate confirmed Kristen Clarke for the position of Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. (Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana didnt vote.) The Senate confirmed Clarke for the nations top civil rights job despite her past history of anti-Semitism and Black supremacism, her very recent support for defunding the police, her current support for racial discrimination in hiring, and her dishonest testimony before the Senate

Democrats argued that the GOP’s objections to individual candidates since Bill Clinton’s presidency are a proxy for the party’s true mission — hobbling the core agenda of the Civil Rights Division.

In Indiana, a win for religious freedom The Trump Justice Department aggressively protected religious rights and liberties. In this post from December 2019, I described five cases in which the DOJ, under the leadership of Eric Dreiband, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, filed papers in defense of religious freedom. One of them was a case from Indianapolis, Indiana. In that case, the DOJ sided with the Archdiocese of Indianapolis which had been sued for firing a teacher in a Catholi...

First Published: 2:29 PM PDT, May 4, 2021 John Christopher Smith now in his 40s, had been working at J&J restaurant since he was 12, and started as a part-time dishwasher. Once Bobby Edwards took over in 2009 that was when the abuse started, according to the Court of Appeals, People reported.  A Black South Carolina with intellectual disabilities who was forced to work 100 hours a week without pay and was physically and mentally tortured over a five-year-period by his former boss has been awa...

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oxygen Insider Exclusive! Sign Up for Free to View A South Carolina restaurant manager who enslaved a Black employee with an intellectual disability for more than half a decade has been ordered to pay $546,000 in restitution.  Bobby Paul Edwards, 56, was originally ordered to pay John Christopher Smith $272,952.96 in restitution for thousands of hours of unpaid work he did during his employment as a dishwasher at J&J Cafeteria in Conway, South Carolina. On April 21, a South Carolina court rule...