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Chicago Prosecutors Drop Charges Against Cop Said to Be Caught on Video Beating Man Undergoing Psych Eval
Attorneys for a man whose vicious beating, allegedly by a Chicago cop, was captured on surveillance video are calling out Chicago’s Cook County prosecutor’s office for deciding to drop all charges against the cop. “I think anyone could look at that video and make a determination that it’s excessive force,” Andrew M. Stroth, a lawyer…
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Money Moves: Elizabeth Warren Touts Plan to Increase Pay for Black and Brown Women
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth “I have a plan for that” Warren pledged Friday to help close the pay gap suffered by women of color, especially by women who are black or brown. On the heels of a planned appearance at the Essence Festival, one of the largest gatherings of black women in the country,…
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Donald Trump Flys Off the Handle in July Fourth Speech, Talmbout Airports During Revolutionary War
Donald Trump’s decision to insert himself in Independence Day celebrations in the nation’s capital resulted in a tale of two Fourths — and an erroneous, anachronistic reference to airports being present during the time of the Revolutionary War. During what he hyped as an extravagant “Salute to America” July Fourth celebration, complete with military tanks…
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Kellyanne Conway Trade Barbs Over Conditions at Southern Border
After what by all accounts was a harrowing visit to immigrant detention facilities, the last thing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) probably had time for was commentary from the peanut gallery, aka someone who wasn’t there: in this case, one Kellyanne Conway. On Tuesday, one day after Ocasio-Cortez and a group of other Democrats witnessed what…
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Trump Cries Uncle on Citizenship Question for Census 2020
Looks like Donald Trump blinked. The Justice Department announced Tuesday that there will be no citizenship question on the 2020 census, a week after the U.S. Supreme Court blocked the addition of the question by raising concerns about the reasoning the Trump administration gave for wanting the change. According to the New York Times, the…
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‘Call Me Tish’: After Trump Goes After Her in Twitter Rant, NY Attorney General Letitia James Says He Better Say Her Name
If you’re going to come for New York State’s top law enforcement officer, Attorney General Letitia James, know that she is no one’s “tool” and that you had better say her name: “Tish.” That was the message James sent on Twitter Monday after Donald Trump took to his favorite medium to slam New York Gov.…
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Top Conservative Calls for Chief Justice’s Head Over High Court’s Ruling on the Census Citizenship Question
Because (obvi) any Supreme Court justice handpicked for the job by GOP conservatives owes strict allegiance to the Constitution conservatives everywhere, the head of the nation’s oldest conservative advocacy group is calling for Chief Justice John Roberts’ impeachment. Matt Schlapp, chair of the American Conservative Union, was apparently livid upon learning that Roberts had sided…
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Convo Over ‘Snitching’ Said to Have Sparked Shooting That Left Nipsey Hussle Dead
Just before he was gunned down, Nipsey Hussle had a brief discussion with his alleged killer about whether the man had been “snitching,” prosecutors told the grand jury in the case. That’s according to a transcript of prosecutors’ remarks to a Los Angeles County grand jury in May that the Los Angeles Times had asked…
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Summer Heat: Robert Mueller Agrees to Testify Before Congress About His Findings in the Trump Russia Probe
Special counsel Robert Mueller, who conducted a years-long investigation into whether Donald Trump and/or his team colluded with the Russians to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, has agreed to share what he knows in a session before Congress next month. Mueller agreed to testify July 17 in response to a subpoena issued by the…
