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Fulton County, Ga., Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee, who is presiding over the case involving former President Donald Trump in Georgia and will soon decide whether District Attorney Fani Willis should be disqualified from the case, donated to Willis' campaign before Gov. Brian Kemp (R-Ga.) appointed him last year. "McAfee, who was sworn in on Feb. 1, 2023, after being appointed by Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, made his donation in June 2020 while still working as an assistant U.S. Attorney for the Department of Justice (DOJ), according to financial disclosures," reports the Daily Caller. The New York Times revealed...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is seeking to persuade a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit challenging its repeated advisories against using ivermectin to treat COVID-19.The FDA in a sealed motion asked the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas to dismiss the suit, which was brought by three doctors who allege the FDA’s warnings were illegal.The late 2023 motion was sealed because exhibits the government cited “include confidential information” from a separate legal proceeding, according to a government brief.Government lawyers said they would file redacted versions of the motion for public perusal but still have...

The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) is stonewalling a judge’s subpoena of internal documents related to how the medical organization came up with its guidelines for gender confused minors. WPATH, a leading advocate for child sex changes, was subpoenaed in March by a federal judge in Alabama after the organization’s guidelines were repeatedly referenced to argue against the state’s restrictions on sex changes for minors during a lawsuit. WPATH has attempted to quash the subpoena, which a judge denied in March. The court case challenges Alabama’s law banning sex changes for individuals under 19. While WPATH argued it...

The recent ruling represents a significant shift in the insulated nature of actors.This week a hearing delivered a small surprise when it ruled on a case involving Hollywood star Kevin Spacey in a case brought against the actor by the production studio MRC. The arbitration found that Spacey will be responsible for tens of millions of dollars payable to the studio because of the manner that he impacted the production of the television show “House Of Cards”.It was in 2017 when Spacey was taken down for inappropriate sexual behavior, as the MeToo movement provoked a number of individuals to testify...

Cruise lines may have violated Florida's ban on vaccine passports as three cruise lines are currently under review. Cruise lines that operate from Florida are on a list released from the state’s Department of Health of businesses that may have broken the rules on requesting proof of vaccination for the so-called vaccine passport. Cruise Lines Could Be Fined Three cruise lines could be in some trouble related to Florida’s vaccine passport ban. The Orlando Sentinal reports that the Florida Department of Health released a list that features 120 cases of businesses in Florida that may have broken the vaccine passport...

It's a big day for the U.S. cruise industry as Florida's lawsuit against the CDC begins. It also has backing from Alaska and Texas. It’s Florida’s Governor Rick DeSantis and Attorney General Ashley Moody against the CDC in federal court today. The decision from the U.S. District Judge will be massive for the cruise industry, and not just for Florida, as both Alaska and Texas joined the lawsuit in recent weeks. Although there has been the usual legal-speak lately, the fact of the matter is that a favorable decision from the judge could mean we could see a far more...

Looking for comments and opinions:I was involved in a court case where a local Assistant District Attorney was a witness to the case. The ADA asked to make closing remarks to the defendant, became very emotional and verbally attacked and slandered the Defendants Attorney. A year later I filed a request for transcripts of this case on my own and received acknowledgment by the court that it was received this past July. Note that I stated specifically that I wanted the ADA’s closing statement and listed the exact words used. In addition, this was recorded the day it occurred in...

The Departments of Justice and Education have withdrawn their previous support of a federal lawsuit that seeks to block transgender athletes in Connecticut from competing in interscholastic sports with biological girls. The lawsuit in question was filed in June 2019 by three female athletes against the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC), which administers high school sports in the state. The girls, represented by conservative legal group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), argued that the CIAC’s policy of allowing transgender athletes to compete in girls’ sports had deprived them of track titles and scholarship opportunities. According to the ADF, the Biden administration...

Tobacco giant Philip Morris International (PMI) wants to challenge new EU rules on tobacco to see if it can get the stricter labeling requirements changed. The Marlboro manufacturer on Friday (27 June) said the EU’s new tobacco products directive “appears to ban truthful and non-misleading claims on the packaging of tobacco products”. “PMI intends to seek review of whether this ban respects the fundamental rights of consumers to information about the products they are choosing,” it added. The EU’s reformed directive says cigarette packages must have “Smoking Kills—Quit Now” and “Tobacco smoke contains over 70 substances known to cause cancer”...

Today, U.S. Congressman Blake Farenthold (TX-27) attended a House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). Attorney General Eric Holder was the sole witness. Today marked the seventh time General Holder has testified before the Judiciary Committee since his confirmation in 2009. Congressman Farenthold did not question Holder during the hearing because he felt that, since the Attorney General has been held in contempt of Congress, it was not appropriate for him to appear before Congress as if nothing was wrong. Instead, Congressman Farenthold made the following remarks during his designated questioning round in today’s hearing:...

PHOENIX (Reuters) - An Arizona judge on Monday set a September court date to try again to determine whether convicted murderer Jodi Arias will be put to death for killing her ex-boyfriend nearly six years ago, court officials said. Arias was convicted by a jury in May 2013 of murdering Travis Alexander, whose body was found slumped in the shower of his suburban Phoenix home in June 2008. He had been stabbed multiple times, shot in the face and had his throat slashed. But the jury deadlocked on whether the former California waitress should be executed or face life in...

LAS VEGAS - A last-minute federal court battle over caucus rules demonstrates just how important a tight three-way Democratic presidential contest in Nevada has become in the battle for momentum headed into Super Tuesday's votes. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards are in a statistical dead heat in polling here before Saturday's caucuses. And Nevada's sizable blocs of Hispanic, union and urban voters could provide an indicator of where the race is headed on Feb. 5, when hundreds of delegates will be awarded in states with significant minority populations. By contrast, Republican candidates have stayed away from the...

A Good Samaritan who called 911 to report a vicious beating of an innocent man is stunned two convicted killers are trying to blame her for their victim's death. The 24-year-old woman -- who asked the Free Press not to publish her name -- spoke out for the first time Friday. "I'm trying not to let it bother me but it's hard," she said. "It's definitely not a very nice thing for them to say." The two killers -- Dallas Pruden-Wilson and Terrence Sinclair -- brought their sentencing hearing to an abrupt halt last week by claiming they'd been wrongfully...

SADDAM Hussein appears headed for a showdown tomorrow with the court trying him, after the chief prosecutor said the former Iraqi leader will be forced to attend if he persists in boycotting proceedings. Saddam, whose trial for crimes against humanity resumes tomorrow following an 11-day break, did not turn up for the last two hearings after he and several of his seven co-accused staged a walkout on January 29. But chief prosecutor Ja'afar Moussawi signalled today the court had lost patience with Saddam and his co-defendants, who include his half-brother and former top aides. "Tomorrow they will attend the trial....

RICHARD Hatch, the much-vilified first winner of the hit US reality television show Survivor, will know in a day if he survived a challenge that could jail him for a lifetime. A jury is expected to decide tomorrow whether the winner of the $US1 million ($1.33 million) jackpot on Survivor on a South Pacific island in 2000 is guilty of tax evasion, bank fraud and other charges filed by the US Attorney's office in Providence, Rhode Island. Prosecutors accuse Hatch, a motivational speaker, of failing to report the $US1 million winnings in 2000 and about $US391,000 he earned from half...

A FORMER lover of ex-US president Bill Clinton has lost her effort to revive a defamation case against his wife, Senator Hillary Clinton, and two of the former president's top aides. Former cabaret singer Gennifer Flowers came to public attention during the 1992 presidential campaign when she described a 12-year affair with Clinton, who later acknowledged a relationship with her. Ms Flowers charged that during the 1992 campaign Hillary Clinton had helped co-ordinate campaign attacks against her. She also said James Carville and George Stephanopoulos made defamatory statements about her. She had said in the suit that Senator Clinton, Mr...

THE suspected founder of a radical Islamic prison gang pleaded not guilty today to US terrorism charges over an alleged plot to bomb military bases, an Israeli consulate and synagogues in California. Kevin James, accused of masterminding plans to kill up to 40 people at 10 military facilities and other sites around Los Angeles, is one of four people accused in the alleged conspiracy. The four observed military bases and recruiting offices with the aim of killing military personnel and also targeted the Israeli consulate, Israel's national airline El Al and Jewish places of worship, the government claimed. At a...

Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Thomas Barkdull, who originally issued the warrant used to seize Rush Limbaugh's medical records, ruled Friday that prosecutors will only receive records that "fall within the scope" of the original warrant, and that he will privately review them to make that determination. Limbaugh's medical records were seized in late 2003 by Palm Beach County prosecutors investigating suspicions the radio talk show host had engaged in "doctor shopping" – illegally receiving multiple prescriptions from four different doctors for pain killers. Limbaugh's attorney successfully had the records sealed while appealing the seizure, but arguments that they had...

The Colorado Supreme Court has overturned a convicted killer's death sentence because jurors brought Bibles into the jury room and wrote down and quoted passages from the Old Testament during deliberations. Robert Harlan will serve life in prison without parole after being convicted and sentenced to death in 1995 for the kidnapping, murder and rape of a 25-year-old woman and the attempted murder of a woman who came to her aid. Casino waitress Rhonda Maloney was driving home from work when Harlan forced her car off the road and raped her. The victim escaped and flagged down a passing motorist,...

Attorneys for Republican Dino Rossi yesterday released the names of more than 1,000 people who allegedly cast illegal votes in November's disputed gubernatorial election. The list of alleged felons, people who voted twice and dead people recorded as voting is at the heart of a lawsuit Republicans filed to overturn the November election of Democratic Gov. Christine Gregoire. Rossi spokeswoman Mary Lane said the list — given to Democratic attorneys late yesterday in response to a subpoena and released to the media — is based on extensive research. While she said Rossi and his attorneys are confident in the "overall...