A Trump loyalist overseeing investigations into Donald Trump’s perceived political enemies has suddenly resigned. MS NOW Legal Analyst Melissa Murray joins The Weeknight as new details unfold.
The prosecutor brought in by President Trump to lead investigations into his perceived political enemies has resigned. MS NOW Justice and Intelligence Reporter Ken Dilanian and former DOJ pardon attorney Liz Oyer join Alicia Menendez to discuss more.
A CBS anchor's visible shock that the lone holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy triple murder mistrial was a Black man has drawn sharp criticism, and exposed the racial assumptions that pervade elite media. Gayle King was interviewing juror Paula Devlin on "CBS Mornings" Friday when Devlin revealed that the single juror who refused to […] The post Gayle King's on-air fixation on holdout juror's race raises uncomfortable questions about media priorities appeared first on American Almanac .
A CBS anchor's visible shock that the lone holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy triple murder mistrial was a Black man has drawn sharp criticism, and exposed the racial assumptions that pervade elite media. Gayle King was interviewing juror Paula Devlin on "CBS Mornings" Friday when Devlin revealed that the single juror who refused to join the other eleven had been the only Black person on the panel. King, 71, stopped the conversation cold. "A black man is the holdout juror?" she asked. Then: "Woah, I have to sit with that for just a second." The moment, captured on video and posted to the show's official X account, drew immediate backlash from conservative commentators who said King's reaction laid bare a set of assumptions about how a…Open
Of the cases cited, most were suicides. One of the cases being investigated as a homicide, and the person of interest in the case is black. Another case remains under investigation, but none of the cases have identified a non-Black suspect.
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has formally reprimanded Judge Shelley Joseph over her involvement in a case where an illegal immigrant evaded ICE custody, citing her actions as creating an appearance of impropriety.
PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court issued a public reprimand to Judge Shelley Joseph for her role in allowing illegal immigrant Jose Medina-Perez to evade Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody by exiting through a back door of the courthouse in 2018. The court cited her decision to instruct a clerk to turn off the courtroom’s audio recording system as creating an appearance of impropriety and violating judicial duties. DETAIL: Medina-Perez, a Dominican national, was in court for a fugitive-from-justice charge and two drug-related charges. Judge Joseph released him on personal recognizance after determining insufficient evidence tied him to the Pennsylvania warrant. During a sidebar…Open
Joe diGenova is no longer leading a DOJ investigation into whether former law enforcement and intelligence officials conspired against the Republican president.