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Judge finds January 6 defendant guilty of trespassing on Capitol grounds By Holmes Lybrand, Hannah Rabinowitz and Katelyn Polantz CNN March 22, 2022 (CNN)A federal judge on Tuesday found Couy Griffin, a founder of Cowboys for Trump and the second January 6 defendant to go on trial as part of the Justice Department’s massive prosecution, guilty of trespassing on US Capitol grounds while Vice President Mike Pence was there. Griffin, a conspiracy theorist who also serves as a county commissioner in New Mexico, was acquitted of a second misdemeanor charge of disorderly and disruptive conduct. Griffin argued that…
By Josh Gerstein, Kyle Cheney POLITICO March 22, 2022 The second trial stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol shaped up Monday to be a lot less of a slam dunk for the Justice Department than the first. The case of Couy Griffin, a New Mexico county commissioner and founder of Cowboys for Trump, looks to be among the most marginal of hundreds of prosecutions stemming from the unrest and violence that broke out as lawmakers were seeking to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election. For its decision to bring Griffin to trial on…
AP NEWS March 21, 2022 WASHINGTON (AP) — An elected official from New Mexico went to trial Monday with a judge — not a jury — set to decide if he is guilty of charges that he illegally entered the U.S. Capitol grounds on the day a pro-Trump mob disrupted the certification of Joe Biden’s presidential election victory. That’s not the only unusual feature of the case against Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin, whose trial in Washington, D.C., is the second among the hundreds of people charged with federal crimes related to the Jan. 6, 2021, siege. Griffin is…
Lynch: Greg Norman’s Saudi schedule may finally force shameless golfers from the shadows Golfweek March 21, 2022 Let’s assume it was out of respect Norman waited three days after Saudi Arabia executed 81 men for such crimes as “deviant beliefs” to unveil a schedule for LIV Golf Invitational, a tournament series financed by that same regime solely for the purpose of sportswashing things like summary mass executions at home and war crimes abroad. In multiple media interviews—many of which verged on ego-stroking panegyrics—Norman continued to reveal himself to be a craven apologist for abusers. “I’m not getting into…
By Eric Mack Newsmax March 21, 2022 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is praising Fox News’ coverage of its war on Ukraine, hailing it as ”trying to represent some alternative points of view” and denouncing ”information terrorism.” ”We understood long ago that there is no such thing as an independent Western media,” Lavrov told RT.com, which is Russian state media television Russia Today, in an in-studio interview Friday, citing U.S. media ”censorship” and the blocking of former President Donald Trump on social media. Continue Reading…..
Coach K’s legacy beyond Duke includes a coaching tree that is still growing By Paul Myerberg USA TODAY March 20, 2022 GREENVILLE, S.C. — The first to be promoted was Mike Dement, who in 1986 was named the head coach at Cornell. The latest was Nate James, who just completed his first year at Austin Peay. The next to follow is Jon Scheyer, who will assume full control of the Blue Devils’ program as soon as Sunday evening or as late as the day after the national championship game in early April. For decades, Mike Krzyzewski has crafted…
Why Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing is significant – CNN Video CNN March 20, 2022 Dean of Boston University School of Law, Angela Onwuachi-Willig explains what Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to justice on the Supreme Court of the United States means to not only Black women, but all Americans. Continue Reading…..
Marie Yovanovitch says Trump’s Helsinki press conference with Putin was so ‘disastrous’ that she couldn’t finish eating her french fries By Sonam Sheth Business Insider March 19, 2022 It was a “spectacle” that left people “pondering the depths to which Trump had sunk in his pandering to Putin.” “I watched the infamous Trump-Putin press conference at my Odesa hotel that evening while pecking at room-service french fries,” the book says. “I quickly lost my appetite as I saw our president toady up to Putin and take the Russian’s word over that of our own intelligence agencies, which assessed…
Justice Department charges Wisconsin man who said it was ‘satisfying’ to attack police on January 6 By Tara Subramaniam and Hannah Rabinowitz CNN March 18, 2022 (CNN)The Justice Department unsealed charges on Thursday against a 23-year-old Wisconsin man who allegedly told associates it was “satisfying” to assault US Capitol Police officers on January 6, 2021, and threatened to return to Washington, DC, with paintball guns that resembled an automatic rifle. Riley Kasper was arrested on Thursday and is facing six federal charges, including assaulting law enforcement using a deadly or dangerous weapon. He is scheduled to make his…