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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 Catholic school due to the teacher’s same sex marriage. I wrote: I don’t like to see anyone fired over ...
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 awarded $546,000 in restitution, double than what he was initially entitled to, the United States Cour...
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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 ruled Edwards must now pay double what he initially owed. The United States District Court of Appeals fo...