Новости за 08.04.2023

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) violated state law in New York with his threats to conduct a congressional investigation of Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg over the indictment of Donald Trump, legal analyst Glenn Kirschner said Saturday on his “Justice Matters” podcast.

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers in 11 states have either passed or introduced laws to roll back child labor laws — a push that’s come from industry trade organizations and mostly conservative legislators as businesses scramble for low-wage workers.

Former President Donald Trump remains relentless in his search for a lawyer who can emulate the “scorched earth” viciousness of the legendary Roy Cohn, the New York Times reported today.

This past Tuesday Donald Trump made history by becoming the first former president to be hauled into court and be indicted on felony charges and, for Republicans, the rest of the week went downhill from that point.

U.S.-based advocates of Christian Zionism have begun to attack liberal Jews over their resistance to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, reports Religion Dispatches, a non-profit online magazine covering religion, politics and culture.

Appearing on MSNBC on Saturday afternoon, Omarosa Manigault Newman claimed repeatedly that former National Enquirer CEO David Pecker maintained a safe where he stored stories and pictures that could be damaging to Donald Trump's reputation.

Appearing on MSNBC on Saturday afternoon, the Washington Post's Carol Leonnig claimed reports that the Secret Service asked for a delay before handing Donald Trump over to the Manhattan court system was something cooked up by the former president's lawyers.

According to Jessica Levinson of Loyola Law School, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has a path littered with obstacles as he seeks to get guilty verdicts on 34 felony counts he has filed against Donald Trump, but they are surmountable and his case is legally solid.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's sniping at his hand-picked leadership team could be the trigger that sees him ousted from the speakership he so desperately fought for back in January that took 15 ballots before he finally won.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' attempt to brush aside concerns that he has been influenced for decades by a billionaire who has lavished gifts and expensive getaways on himself and his wife didn't pass the smell test of the Washington Post's fact checker.

The decision by Republican lawmakers to expel two Black Democratic House members this week should come as no surprise according to a reporter who has worked the government beat in the state for years.

Appearing on MSNBC's "The Katie Phang Show" on Saturday morning, former Donald Trump lawyer Michael Cohen claimed the look on his former boss's face as a door slammed on him in a Manhattan courtroom was a clue into how he is taking his criminal indictment.

In the days since Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg unveiled his office’s 34-count indictment of Donald J. Trump, arguments over about the likelihood of conviction have erupted on every cable news program, as the former president spews fusillades of lies and threats.

Now that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has charged Donald Trump on 34 felony counts related to hush money payments to an adult film star and Playboy model before the 2016 election, all eyes are focused on Fulton County, Georgia, where the next shoe is poised to drop that could force the former president to make another court appearance.

In a further attempt to rein in increasing numbers of women defying the compulsory dress code, Iranian authorities are installing cameras in public places and thoroughfares to identify and penalize unveiled women, the police announced on Saturday.

A Ja. 6 Capitol rioter who was convicted in September 2022 on nine charges, including multiple counts of assaulting police and obstruction of Congress’ Jan. 6 proceedings, could be serving 16 years in prison if federal prosecutors get their way.

Reacting to a late afternoon ruling by Donald Trump-appointed Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk that would ban the use of mifepristone for nonsurgical abortions, attorney Shan Wu appeared on CNN to call the legal reasoning behind the controversial ban "very weak" and held out the hope that President Joe Biden could issue an executive order that would overrule it.

U.S. radio broadcaster NPR upheld a freeze of activity on Twitter Friday as a report said Elon Musk was revisiting his decision to label the highly respected broadcaster as "state affiliated."

ProPublica reported Thursday that US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been palling around with a Republican billionaire for years without reporting lavish trips, superyacht tours and private jet rides. US law requires federal officials to disclose such gifts. From the story:

A core part of the ruling by Trump-appointed Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk on Friday halting longstanding Food and Drug Administration of mifepristone for nonsurgical abortions is his claim that the FDA had never properly considered the harms of abortion procedures on the women having them.

Donald Trump called the investigation into his alleged $130,000 hush-money payment to adult film actor Stormy Daniels a “witch hunt.” At a recent rally, the former president insulted her looks and implied that Daniels wasn’t good looking enough to have an affair with — a line of attack he’s used before on women who have accused him of sexual misconduct.

A large study in South Korea exploring the relationship between age and well-being revealed that whether well-being improves in advanced age or not depends on the personality traits of agreeableness and neuroticism. Notably, well-being did not increase in advanced age in people with low agreeableness and high neuroticism. The study was published in Applied Psychology: Health and Well-being. Researchers studying how happiness and well-being change with age in the past decades reported an interesting relationship. Читать дальше...

A Texas federal judge with a history of anti-abortion beliefs has thrown into jeopardy the most common form of abortion since Roe v. Wade fell last summer. U.S. District Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk released his decision on the cusp of Easter weekend to pause the Food and Drug Administration’s 2000 approval of the abortion drug mifepristone while a lawsuit against the agency proceeds.

In a rare public statement, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas responded Friday to a ProPublica report that revealed that Thomas has, for decades, accepted luxury travel from billionaire Republican megadonor Harlan Crow and failed to disclose it.

Under fire after reporting offered a detailed look at his decades of billionaire-funded luxury vacations, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas claimed Friday that he was "advised" by colleagues not to report personal hospitality gifts from friends, a story that drew immediate derision from lawmakers and legal analysts.