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Did Andrew Cuomo violate federal criminal law? Melissa DeRosa, an aide to Governor Andrew Cuomo, has admitted that, in an attempt to cover up evidence that might put Cuomo’s administration in trouble with the Department of Justice, the administration withheld the true New York toll of nursing home deaths due to the Wuhan coronavirus. She reportedly told New York Democrats that “we froze” out of fear that the true numbers would “be used against us” by federal prosecutors. This sounds like an admission to one or more federal crimes. Whoever corruptly, or by threats or force, or by a...

In this post, I reported that, thanks to the Trump Justice Department, Amtrak will no longer discriminate against the disabled. That's because the Trump DOJ filed suit against the Amtrak. As a result, the company reached an agreement with the Justice Department to make its train stations accessible, as well as to provide training to staff on ADA requirements. The successful action against Amtrak is an example of how, under

Justice Department drops lawsuit alleging Yale discriminated against white and Asian applicants  | Print this article The Justice Department dropped a case against Yale University that accused the Ivy League school of discriminating against white and Asian applicants in its admissions process. The Biden administration decision was announced in a filing in federal district court in Connecticut. "The United States accordingly notices voluntary dismissal of this action, without prejudice," said the filing submitted by Gregory Friel, the deputy assistant attorney general for DOJ’s...

DOJ to drop racial discrimination suit against Yale According to the lawsuit, the Ivy League illegally discriminated against Asian American and white students in admissions. Yale University Law School is shown on the day the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee was holding hearings for testimony from Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Dr. Christine Blasey Ford on September 27, 2018 in New Haven, Connecticut. Blasey Ford, a professor at Palo Alto University and a research psychologist at the Stanford University School of Medicine, has accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her durin...

(AP Photo/Beth J. Harpaz, File) The Department of Justice made a shocking reversal on Wednesday when it notified a federal judge that it is dropping a discrimination lawsuit against Yale University that was brought by the Trump administration last October. The lawsuit alleged that Yale “discriminates based on race and national origin in its undergraduate admissions process, and that race is the determinative factor in hundreds of admissions decisions each year.” This determination came following a two-year investigation that found that Asian-American and white students have “only one-te...