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Michael Delaney represented the elite St. Paul’s school in a 2018 civil suit. He succeeded in pressing the court to unmask the identity of sexual assault victim Chessy Prout. ... When Chessy Prout sued the St. Paul’s School in New Hampshire for negligence after she was sexually assaulted in her freshman year, her attorneys made a simple request: that, as a minor facing death threats from fellow students and alumni, she remain anonymous during the course of the lawsuit. The attorney representing the $62,000-a-year boarding school, Michael Delaney, opposed that motion and overnight, the 15-year-old Prout became a public figure....

One of Biden’s judicial nominees is seeing his past actions come back to haunt him, as a sick incident from earlier in his career was brought up during his confirmation hearing. On Wednesday, Michael Delaney, who was nominated for a seat on the U.S. Court of the Appeals for the First Circuit, was grilled by Senate Republicans at his confirmation hearing. The senators probed for details regarding how a prestigious New Hampshire private school Delaney represented dealt with a sexual assault case in 2015. The case in question revolved around 15-year-old Chessy Prout, who was raped by a male student...

John Delaney has ended his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020, more than two-and-a-half years after he became the first to announce his candidacy. The former Maryland congressman and entrepreneur, 56, was a self-made multimillionaire before he entered politics. Despite a large staff presence in the early primary states of Iowa and New Hampshire, and sinking tens of millions of dollars from his personal fortune into his campaign, he never rose above the lowest tier of 2020 Democrats. "I encourage the party to sharpen its focus on the growing opportunity inequality that exists in both rural America and...

Former Rep. John Delaney (D-MD) told the Associated Press in Iowa on Wednesday that fellow Democratic presidential candidates were guilty of “cheering on a recession because they want to stick it to Trump.” Delaney, one of the more moderate candidates, has warned fellow candidates that policies such as “Medicare for All” and decriminalized illegal border crossings are bad for the country and sure to fail in a general election. In the first Democratic presidential primary debate in Miami, Florida, in June, Delaney said: “All of the big transformative things we have ever done in this country’s history have happened when...

WASHINGTON - Democrats running for president on promises to slow climate change are asking young people to do more than just vote for them. Many White House hopefuls are laying out plans to put teenagers and 20-somethings to work guarding the country against the worst effects of global warming. Core to a number of Democrats' climate plans is the creation of a "climate corps." Akin to the Peace Corps launched in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy as a soft-power check against Russia, a climate-focused national service program would tackle what many presidential candidates see as this generation's greatest challenge...

Former Rep. John Delaney (Md.) is denying a report that his campaign staff asked him to drop out of the Democratic presidential primary. A report in Axios on Friday morning said Delaney's senior team sat down with him on July 9 and told him to drop out of the race by mid-August. The outlet also reported that Delaney, who was the first Democratic candidate to announce a campaign, 721 days ago, has spent $19 million on the campaign trail.

On day 3 of the California Democratic Convention, things got interesting. Bernie Sanders seemed to take shots at Joe Biden and John Delaney (D-Maryland) basically got boo'ed right off the stage. Melissa Caen reports.

t was November 2016 and the only person I knew who believed Trump would win the US election was the owner of my gym. This was clearly a ridiculous prediction so, seeing the chance for some easy money, I offered to bet him $100 that Hillary would win. [snip] It was 9 November 2016 and my thinking about fitness changed almost overnight. In tune with the times, it became more Trump, less Obama. In the spirit of the Donald, I drank more bottles of Diet Coke and ate more McDonald’s. I dropped the gym – embracing Trump’s belief that we...

President Trump has his first Democratic challenger in the 2020 presidential election: Rep. John Delaney of Maryland, who announced his bid Friday. "The current administration is making us less prosperous and less secure," Delaney wrote in an op-ed in the Washington Post on Friday. "I'm running because I have an original approach to governing and economic policy that can put us on a different course

Members of a major left-wing dark money outfit are providing large chunks of cash for, and serving as top advisers and officers of, President Barack Obama’s personal advocacy group. Democracy Alliance donors have contributed at least $1.87 million to Organizing for Action (OFA), the 501(c)(4) organization that evolved out of Obama’s reelection campaign, according to data released by OFA. Democracy Alliance members also have official roles in running OFA. According to Democracy Alliance documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, OFA’s board of directors includes four Democracy Alliance “partners,” individuals who pay $30,000 in annual dues and contribute at least...

<p>All but two of Maryland's congressional districts have been called shortly before midnight with 89% of precincts reporting.</p> <p>District 6 is currently close with incumbent John Delaney fighting to keep his seat from opponent former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino. Bongino currently has a slim lead with 49% of the vote shortly before midnight.</p>

John Delaney, founder and CEO of Intrade, the prediction market, has died while trying to climb Mt. Everest. He was less than 50 meters from the top, according to the Daily Mail. Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/intrade-founder-john-delaney-dies-on-mt-everest-2011-5#ixzz1NWGn2RKK

<p>When Republican Party honchos gather this morning for a so-called unity breakfast, it's going to take more than singing a few verses of Kumbaya to mend the deep rifts left by the first round of the mayoral campaign.</p> <p>John Peyton stepped on a lot of people leading up to last Tuesday's vote and they aren't likely to come running back with enthusiasm to support Peyton now that he has squeaked into a runoff against Nat Glover.</p>