A little more than three years ago, federal authorities raided the home of then-President Donald Trump's lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen in a move that led to protracted proceedings in the Southern District of New York scrutinizing issues of attorney-client privilege. The post ‘Cohen Redux’: Federal Prosecutors Request Special Master, Setting the Stage for Fight with Rudy Giuliani Over Attorney-Client Privilege first appeared on Law & Crime.
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Even after a mob takeover of the United States Capitol by Donald Trump supporter extremists, Rudy Giuliani is still trying to subvert the will of the people. While members of Congress remained barricaded in their offices or in undisclosed locations underneath the Capitol, Donald Trump’s lawyer was calling senators and begging them to slow down the electoral vote certification. One of the senators Giuliani was hoping to get in on the scheme was the newly sworn-in Republican Senator from Alabama, Tommy Tuberville. But there was a problem. Giuliani didn’t call Tuberville. He accidentally left a voicemail for another senator, a senator who is remaining anonymous but took it upon themselves to send the audio of the call to The Dispatch.
Editorâs Note: With the Food and Drug Administration issuing emergency use authorization for a vaccine to limit the spread of coronavirus, you might have questions about what this means for you. If you do, send them to The Conversation, and we will find a physician or researcher to answer them. Here, Dr. Jason McKnight, a primary care physician at Texas A&M University, answers five questions about the rollout and distribution underway.
I hear that I might still have to wear a mask even after I get vaccinated. Why?
It will likely be the continued recommendation that everyone wear a mask when in public even after receiving the vaccination for COVID-19. While these vaccines appear to be highly effective in preventing infection from the disease, even at 95% efficacy, that means approximately 5% of people receiving the vaccination may still become infected. Wearing a mask helps decrease the transmission of the virus in those situations in which the vaccine does not prevent the illn
4 U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani speaks during an appearance before the Michigan House Oversight Committee on December 2, 2020 in Lansing, Michigan.
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Voting systems manufacturer Smartmatic has sent legal letters to conservative news network Fox News, as well as its ultra-right cousins Newsmax and One America News Network, demanding they retractcoverage spinning baseless conspiracy theories about the company’s role in the 2020 elections or face legal action.
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Donald Trump, his campaign legal team including Rudy Giuliani, and political allies have rallied around a made-up theory that Smartmatic and another machine-assisted voting company, Dominion Voting Systems, rigged the vote in favor of Democrat Joe Biden. In interviews on the networks and a series of depraved press conferences, Giuliani and other campaign officials asserted election technology firms had coordinated an elaborate conspiracy to en