by dap | Apr 25, 2024 | The Guardian
Court ruled last month that Crystal Mason, initially sentenced to five years in prison, did not know she was ineligible to vote in 2016
A Texas prosecutor will appeal against a court ruling
for a woman who unintentionally tried to vote while ineligible in the 2016 election, an unexpected move that continues one of the most closely watched voting prosecutions in the US.
Last month, the second court of appeals, which is based in Fort Worth, threw out the 2018 conviction of Crystal Mason, a Black woman who submitted a provisional ballot in 2016 that ultimately went uncounted. Mason was on supervised release for a federal felony at the time she voted and has said she had no idea she was ineligible. The panel said prosecutors had failed to prove Mason actually knew she was ineligible.
by dap | Apr 25, 2024 | The Guardian
A judge approved the warrant in investigation to determine if church hierarchy illegally covered up systemic child molestation
Louisiana state police went into the office of the Roman Catholic archdiocese of New Orleans on Thursday to begin the process of collecting records from the organization spanning the history of its decades-old
, as troopers investigate whether the local church hierarchy illegally covered up systemic child molestation.
Troopers arrived at the archdiocese’s headquarters at about 9.45am local time three days after a state court judge signed a search
authorizing them to take the entirety of the documents in question.
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by dap | Apr 25, 2024 | The Guardian
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators are calling on universities to sell investments in companies they say are complicit in war in Gaza
As protests against Israel’s offensive in Gaza are spreading throughout American campuses, one demand made by students across schools keeps coming up: divestment from Israel.
Universities rely on endowments to fund things like research and scholarships, and those endowments are typically invested in companies and alternative asset classes, such as private equity and hedge funds.
by dap | Apr 25, 2024 | The Guardian
The former president has made the claim as part of a bid to blunt the special counsel’s case against him for allegedly trying to overturn the 2020 election
Good morning, US politics blog readers.
It’s another big day at the supreme court – perhaps the biggest of its term so far. Beginning at 10am ET, the nine justices
over whether Donald Trump is immune from prosecution for acts done while he was in office. The former president has made the claim as part of a bid to blunt special counsel Jack Smith’s case against him for allegedly trying to overturn the 2020 election, and while there’s no telling how the court will rule, it has already had one concrete effect: delaying his trial in Washington DC, potentially until after the November election, and therefore preventing a potential guilty verdict that could have damaged his campaign.
Joe Biden is heading to Syracuse, New York to tell the tale of how the 2022 Chips act and other policies are helping turn around the local economy, then heading to New York’s ritzy suburbs for a campaign event.
Arizona has indicted 18 former top Trump officials, including Mark Meadows, his ex-chief of staff, and attorney Rudy Giuliani for their attempts to overturn Biden’s victory in the state four years ago,
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And in Michigan, a state investigator said he considered Trump and Meadows as unindicted co-conspirators in a plot to interfere with Biden’s victory there in 2020,
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by dap | Apr 25, 2024 | The Guardian
- NFL to open academy for teenagers on Gold Coast
- Move is latest step in league’s global expansion efforts
The NFL will expand its international search for talent by opening an academy in rugby-mad Australia to develop promising teenagers in the Asia-Pacific region into college and pro prospects.
The NFL Academy will open in September for student athletes aged 12 to 18, following recruitment camps taking place this summer in Australia and New Zealand, the league announced on Thursday.
