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Alarm over DeSantis' election chief

DeSantis picked Cord Byrd, a Florida legislator who won't acknowledge Biden's 2020 win, to run Florida elections

Salon · Jul 11, 2022

Doyle McManus: Prosecute Trump? Merrick Garland is investigating aggressively but prosecuting cautiously

The House committee on the Jan. 6, 2021, insurgency, whose hearings resume this week, has produced impressive evidence that could allow prosecutors to argue that former President Donald Trump committed crimes as he tried to overturn the 2020 election.

Los Angeles Times · Jul 11, 2022

Bannon initiates talks with January 6 panel on testifying over Capitol attack

Cooperation of former Trump strategist could provide unique insight into inner-workings of Trump’s push to overturn election

The Guardian - US · Jul 10, 2022

Tasmania's state lawyers play a key role in child sexual abuse cases — do they have too much power?

Concerns have been raised at the commission of inquiry about the Tasmanian Office of the Solicitor-General being the sole source of legal advice to most government entities, the power it has in dealing with civil claims of child sexual abuse, and its approach to dealing with civil cases.

ABC News · Jul 8, 2022

Georgia on Trump’s mind: Why the former president has reason to be worried about an investigation into election interference

A criminal probe in Georgia may represent the “single greatest legal threat” to the former president

The Independent UK · Jul 8, 2022

Former DOJ official at centre of Trump’s election scheme seen in underwear on police video during home search

Jeffrey Clark pursued ex-president’s baseless election fraud narrative

The Independent UK · Jul 7, 2022

Jayland Walker's wrestling coach remembers 'one of the sweetest kids'

Youth wrestling coach Robert Hubbard remembers his former student, Jayland Walker, the Black motorist who was shot dozens of times and killed by Akron police on June 27.

WEKU · Jul 7, 2022

Did Trump IRS "target" Comey, McCabe?

Comey and McCabe suspiciously both faced audits targeting just 1 in 30,000 people each year

Salon · Jul 7, 2022

Carl P. Leubsdorf: Voter fraud claims not new to Republicans

The Republication preoccupation with voter fraud didn’t start with Donald Trump.

Tribune News Service · Jul 7, 2022

Virginia Giuffre’s lawyer on prosecuting powerful abusers: ‘There are many people involved in this beyond Maxwell and Epstein’

Virginia Giuffre’s attorney tells Bevan Hurley the rich and powerful implicated in the Epstein-Maxwell sex-trafficking ring deserve to be brought to justice

The Independent UK · Jul 6, 2022