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Can Congress buy in to digital dollar without legislation?

WASHINGTON — The White House’s exploration of a government-backed digital dollar is raising an implicit question that has received little attention: What role does Congress have in the decision?

Tribune News Service

Marijuana Legalization In Kansas, MMJ Patients In Florida, UK Hemp Company & Ontario Lawsuit

Kansas Prepares MMJ Bill A special committee is preparing a medical cannabis legalization bill for the 2023 session.

Benzinga

Dearie prods Trump: "Where's the beef?"

“I guess Donald’s Whoppers don’t count before Judge Dearie,” tweeted conservative attorney George Conway

Salon

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First Thing: Biden vows to codify Roe if Democrats win midterms

President casts election as a choice between Republicans who seek to impose a nationwide abortion ban and Democrats who aim to protect it. Plus, how to have a better funeral

The Guardian - UK

Online platforms radicalized the Buffalo mass shooting suspect, a new report says

The New York attorney general's office said it reviewed thousands of pages of documents and social media content to study how the suspect used online platforms to plan and publicize the mass shooting.

WEKU

Testimony: Oath Keepers ready to use 'any means necessary'

A member of the Oath Keepers says the extremist group was prepared on Jan_ 6, 2021, to stop the certification of President Joe Biden’s electoral victory by “any means necessary.”

The Independent UK

‘Where’s the beef?’: special master says Trump’s Mar-a-Lago records claims lack substance

Judge Raymond Dearie suggested assertions of privilege by the ex-president lack evidence for a ruling to be made in his favor

The Guardian - US

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Trump legal team accused of ‘judge shopping’ in taking extraordinary steps to land favourite judge

Low chance of landing specific judge has some crying foul

The Independent UK

Trump's lawyers lack detail in their claims about some records, special master says

The special master reviewing documents seized from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate warned the former president’s lawyers that their initial efforts to claim certain records were personal and not presidential might be lacking enough detail.

Tribune News Service

French firm charged in US with Islamic State group payments

French cement company Lafarge has pleaded guilty to paying $17 million to the Islamic State group so that a plant in Syria could remain open, in a case the Justice Department describes as the first of its kind

The Independent UK

French construction giant Lafarge pleads guilty to funding Isis and is ordered to pay almost $800m

Lafarge Cement paid the terror group $17m to protect its plant in Syria, Justice Department says

The Independent UK

Can Congress buy in to digital dollar without legislation? - Roll Call

The Fed says it needs congressional support to issue a digital currency, but it's unclear whether it has to be in the form of legislation.

Roll Call

Jackie Calmes: The Jan. 6 committee did the country proud but it hasn't changed our calcified politics

Senate Minority Leader Mitch "Party over Country" McConnell was wrong, again.

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: Are Jan. 6 investigators hot on the trail of 'all the president's people'?

The Jan. 6 committee preceded its dramatic Trump subpoena vote last week with a montage of former administration insiders repeatedly invoking the 5th Amendment. It was characteristically clever storytelling, driving home the stark contrast between the holdouts and the many other witnesses — most of them also administration insiders —…

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The Independent UK

Former US Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti dies at 87

A U.S. attorney general during President Jimmy Carter’s administration, Benjamin R

Reason

Justice Department Inspector General Launches Investigation Into Inmate Death Following Judge's Contempt Order

Reason first reported last week on the scathing contempt order, which said the Bureau of Prisons should be "deeply ashamed" of its conduct.

Reason

Justice Department Takes Aim at Judge Cannon

In its latest filing, the Department of Justice seeks to put an end to Judge Cannon's interference with the federal government's investigation documents kept at Mar-a-Lago.

Tribune News Service

Justice Department requests prison sentence for Steve Bannon

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department recommended a sentence of six months in prison and a $200,000 fine for Steve Bannon on charges that he defied a subpoena from the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

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DOJ calls for six-month sentence for Trump ally Steve Bannon

The Justice Department said in a court filing it wants to see the former Trump adviser sentenced to six months in prison for not complying with the Jan. 6 committee's investigation.

The Independent UK

Government says Steve Bannon should get 6-month sentence

The Justice Department is arguing that Steve Bannon should serve six months in prison and pay a $200,000 fine for defying a congressional subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol

Salon

Experts predict Cannon's order is doomed

DOJ aims to end special master review after appeals court, Supreme Court rebuke Cannon's intervention

Roll Call

Justice Department requests prison sentence for Steve Bannon - Roll Call

The government seeks a sentence of six months in prison and a $200,000 fine for Steve Bannon on charges of defying a congressional subpoena.

Salon

Trump attorney speaks out against DOJ

The attorney complained that no other former president has been charged over the mishandling of government records

The Independent UK

Trump claims that National Archives ‘lost’ nuclear secrets but they ‘don’t care’

Amid worsening legal perils, former president posts 2012 story concerning ‘more than 1,500 boxes of classified documents’ going missing at records centre

The Independent UK

Biden turning to Trump-era rule to expel Venezuelan migrants

When Joe Biden was running for the White House, he denounced then-President Donald Trump's immigration policies

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