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By Katelyn Polantz CNN July 9, 2020 (CNN)The Justice Department supports longtime Trump friend Roger Stone going to prison on Tuesday, according to a new court filing. Stone has asked a federal appeals court for emergency help to delay his prison term until September, citing coronavirus. But the Justice Department, which has been criticized for going easy on Stone, said the report date of July 14 that was set by his trial judge is “a reasonable exercise of that court’s discretion based on the totality of the factual and legal circumstances.” Continue Reading…..
Michael Cohen, former Trump attorney, taken back into custody By Ronn Blitzer Fox News July 9, 2020 Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen was taken back into custody Thursday morning and is now at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn after the Federal Bureau of Prisons said Cohen violated “the conditions of his home confinement.” Cohen, the former attorney for President Trump who was imprisoned last year after pleading guilty to several charges, was released from a federal prison in upstate New York in May amid concerns over coronavirus. “Today, Michael Cohen refused the conditions of his home confinement…
(Washington, D.C., July 9, 2020). Larry Klayman, the founder of both Judicial Watch and now Freedom Watch and a former federal prosecutor of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, where he was a member of the trial team that broke up the AT&T monopoly, filed on behalf of Freedom Watch and his client Laura Loomer, a petition for rehearing before all the judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in a case styled Freedom Watch, Inc. and Laura Loomer v. Google et. al (Case No. 19-7030). The petition for rehearing asks the…
Unfair policing of African Americans a ‘widespread phenomenon,’ Attorney General Barr says By ABC News ABC News July 9, 2020 Attorney General Barr acknowledged that communities of color are often policed differently from white ones, calling the unfairness a “widespread phenomenon.” “I do think it is a widespread phenomenon that African American males, in particular, are treated with extra suspicion and maybe not given the benefit of the doubt,” Barr told ABC News Chief Justice Correspondent Pierre Thomas in an exclusive interview. “I think it is wrong if people are not respected appropriately and given their due,” he…
Washington Redskins name change: Team plans to scrap Native American imagery but keep color scheme, per report By Jordan Dajani CBSSports.com July 9, 2020 It’s pretty incredible what can happen in the span a week. We went from Dan Snyder and his Washington franchise conducting an internal review on its team name to companies pulling apparel off their shelves and powerful stakeholders raising their voices in hopes of change. It now appears more evident than ever that Washington will indeed change its team name, but what will that look like? Will Washington keep its burgundy and gold? On…
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Roger Stone banned from Facebook, Instagram after controversial post New York Post July 8, 2020 President Trump’s longtime adviser Roger Stone has been blocked on Facebook and Instagram just days after he publicly asked the commander-in-chief for clemency and petitioned a federal appeals court to put off his 40-month prison sentence, his supporters charged. “Facebook and Instagram have just disabled Roger Stone’s account in an outrageous display of censorship and because he dares to fight to prove his innocence. WE ARE ALL ROGER STONE NOW. @JackPosobiec @johncardillo @realDonaldTrump,” tweeted an account called “Age of Stone” that was tagged…
Roger Stone banned from Facebook, Instagram after controversial post New York Post July 8, 2020 President Trump’s longtime adviser Roger Stone has been blocked on Facebook and Instagram just days after he publicly asked the commander-in-chief for clemency and petitioned a federal appeals court to put off his 40-month prison sentence, his supporters charged. “Facebook and Instagram have just disabled Roger Stone’s account in an outrageous display of censorship and because he dares to fight to prove his innocence. WE ARE ALL ROGER STONE NOW. @JackPosobiec @johncardillo @realDonaldTrump,” tweeted an account called “Age of Stone” that was tagged…
Facebook removes Roger Stone from Instagram after linking him to fake accounts By Donie O’Sullivan, Marshall Cohen and Katelyn Polantz CNN July 8, 2020 (CNN)Facebook announced Wednesday it had shut down pages and accounts linked to Roger Stone and Proud Boys, a far-right group Facebook has banned under its hate policies. Stone’s own Instagram account was shut down as part of the takedown. The network of more than 100 Facebook pages, accounts and Instagram accounts spent more than $300,000 on Facebook and Instagram ads to promote their posts. Some of the pages and accounts included false personas, an…
By Marina Pitofsky TheHill July 8, 2020 A federal judge in New York has denied a motion to dismiss a defamation lawsuit filed against actor Sacha Baron Cohen by former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore. U.S. District Judge Andrew Carter, an Obama appointee, denied the motion in an order filed Monday in the 2018 lawsuit against Cohen, Showtime and CBS filed by Moore and his wife, Kayla, according to multiple reports. The lawsuit stems from a 2018 episode of Cohen’s show “Who is America?” Moore claims that he was defamed and tricked into appearing on the show, during which…