A group of congressional Democrats introduced legislation Thursday to add four seats to the Supreme Court, a long-shot bid designed to counter the court s rightward tilt during the Trump administration and criticized by Republicans as a potential power grab that would reduce the public s trust in the judiciary.
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Former Officer Derek Chauvin chose not to take the stand as testimony at his murder trial ended Thursday, passing up the chance to explain to the jury and the public for the first time what he was thinking when he pressed his knee against George Floyd s neck.
One by one, the Republican leaders of Congress have made the trip to Mar-a-Lago to see Donald Trump. But missing from the appearances has been perhaps the most powerful Republican elected official in the country, Mitch McConnell, a onetime ally who ushered the former president s legislative and judicial agenda to fruition, but now claims to want nothing to do with Trump.
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The family of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was shot and killed by Cleveland police in 2014, asked the Justice Department on Friday to reopen the case into his death after it was closed in the waning weeks of the Trump administration.