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Probing the Limits of Speech or Debate Clause Privilege for Perry and Pence

The January 6 invistigations have renewed interest in this somewhat obscure constitutional provision and the scope of its protections.

Reason

How a Supreme Court justice's paragraph put the Voting Rights Act in more danger

Justice Neil Gorsuch tacked on a handful of sentences to a 2021 Supreme Court ruling, planting the seeds of a legal fight that could further weaken Voting Rights Act protections for people of color.

WEKU

FDA's tobacco unit pledges reset after criticism

The Food and Drug Administration is pledging a reset in the agency’s tobacco program

The Independent UK

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Docs found at Mar-a-Lago after FBI raid

Special counsel Jack Smith's investigators suspect a "shell game with classified documents," CNN reports

Salon

Trump's FBI brag backfires with judge

Federal judge rules that ex-FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page can depose Trump and FBI Director Chris Wray

Salon

Victims' Families File Petition in the Fifth Circuit Seeking to Enforce Rights in the Boeing Case

The families argue that they should have been given an opportunity to confer with prosecutors under the Crime Victims' Rights Act before Boeing's deferred prosecution agreement was finalized.

Reason

Appeals court weighs protections for Congress members' cellphone contents

WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court in Washington grappled with what constitutional protections members of Congress might have for content on their cellphones, during oral arguments Thursday related to a criminal grand jury probe.

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Senators are calling on the Justice Department to look into Ticketmaster's practices

The leaders of the Senate subcommittee that held a hearing into Ticketmaster last month shared evidence with the Justice Department and asked it to "continue examining" the company's conduct.

WEKU

Justice Department asks judge to force Mike Pence to give evidence in Trump probe

Mr Pence is attempting to avoid being forced to testify against Mr Trump as the ex-vice president considers launching a presidential campaign of his own

The Independent UK

Appeals court weighs protections for lawmaker cellphone contents - Roll Call

A federal appeals court grappled Thursday with what constitutional protections members of Congress might have for content on cellphones.

Roll Call

Google Maps face renewed scrutiny by DOJ's antitrust lawyers

The U.S. Justice Department is investigating Google’s dominance in mapping, reviving a thread of its long-running antitrust investigation into the search giant, according to three people familiar with the probe.

Tribune News Service

Deaths in custody are a crisis, but data on them is a black hole, a new report says

A new report indicates that the federal government severely undercounts people who died while being transported, detained or arrested by law enforcement and those who died while incarcerated.

WEKU

Judge O'Connor Rules that the Boeing 737 MAX Crashes Victims' Families Cannot Enforce Their Right to Confer with Prosecutors

While expressing great sympathy for the victims' families, Judge O'Connor concludes that no remedy is available for the Justice Department's failure to enforce the families' right to confer under the Crime Victims' Rights Act.

Reason

Border, Bidens, COVID: House GOP casts wide net in probes

House Republicans are launching far-reaching investigations as part of their oversight agenda of the Biden administration

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New research could help nurses, police detect bruises on people with dark skin

New scientific research is making it easier to detect bruises on people with darker skin, which has big implications for assault and violence cases that go to court.

Los Angeles Times

Supreme Court for first time casts doubt on Section 230, the legal shield for Big Tech

WASHINGTON — Internet giants like Google, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter owe much of their success to a legal shield erected by Congress in 1996.

Tribune News Service

Linked to a 1988 massacre in El Salvador, a Texas man is stripped of his US citizenship

DALLAS — A Texas man has been stripped of his U.S. citizenship and deported after he was linked to human rights violations as a military officer during the civil war in El Salvador.

The Independent UK

Top Jan 6 committee investigator says former Trump aides could be charged

Committee recommended four charges for Donald Trump last year

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Pence’s DC office searched with no new secret documents found

The U.S. Justice Department completed a “thorough and unrestricted search” for several hours at the office of Mike Pence’s advocacy organization and found no new documents with classified markings, an adviser for the former vice president said Friday.

The Independent UK

DOJ search of Pence's office turns up no new classified docs

The Justice Department has searched the office of former Vice President Mike Pence’s Washington advocacy group as part of its investigation into the discovery of sensitive documents at the homes and offices of current and former top U.S. officials

Chicago Sun-Times

Boeing’s misconduct hasn’t stopped Illinois politicians from taking campaign cash from the company

Based in Chicago until last year, the aerospace giant has given $50,000 to legislative leaders and other politicians since it admitted in 2021 it deceived regulators about a new aircraft that crashed twice overseas.

Tribune News Service

Texas man pleads guilty to assaulting police in Jan. 6 US Capitol riot

FORT WORTH, Texas — A Hurst man has pleaded guilty to assaulting law enforcement, resulting in body injury during the January 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol, according to the Department of Justice.

The Independent UK

DOJ faults Alaska district for use of seclusion, restraints

Alaska’s largest school district repeatedly and inappropriately secluded and restrained students with disabilities

Reuters

U.S. says it will repatriate to Nigeria about $1 million embezzled by ex-official

The United States will repatriate to Nigeria nearly $1 million, which were embezzled by the former governor of an oil-producing state, the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday.

The Texas Tribune

D.C.-based DOJ investigators take over corruption probe into Attorney General Ken Paxton

Paxton’s lawyer had argued that federal prosecutors based out of San Antonio had an “obvious conflict” in the investigation.

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