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...In another New York courtroom another judge will hold a hearing over the $175mn bond Trump posted as he appeals against a $454mn fraud judgment, after the state’s attorney-general Letitia James asked for...
...If the measure passes, it would nullify the state’s ban on abortion at 15 weeks of gestation. Here’s what it could mean for the vote in Florida. 4....
...More on the war: Hamas said an Israeli air strike yesterday killed three sons of Ismail Haniyeh, its political leader, on the Muslim holiday of Eid al Fitr. 2....
...That same year, she married fellow law student John Jay O’Connor, and went on to raise three sons before becoming an assistant attorney-general in Arizona in 1965....
...“I have the best attorney in the fricking world, and they said this is like walking through a field of shit. In the end, you’re going to get shit on you....
...The decision has led to the legalised bribery that afflicts US politics. Now see the many state attorneys-general (acolytes, no doubt of Alito et. al.) who want to sanction corporations that adopt ESG....
...Latest news Nato’s Stoltenberg accuses Putin of ‘dangerous and reckless nuclear rhetoric’ Steep mortgage rates fuel August decline in US existing home sales New York attorney-general files fraud suit...
...(Now, as attorney-general, Garland will be the one who decides whether to prosecute Trump over January 6.)...
...They look at Facebook’s past five years and its attempts — frequently belated, often ambiguous — to deal with the way that state actors (Russia et al), hoodlums (such as the Proud Boys), politicians (a list...
...His own attorney-general, William Barr, has said there was no evidence of election fraud that affected the outcome of the vote....
...In 2000, Al Gore decided to concede after the Supreme Court halted the re-count in Florida. I can't predict whether this race will go further....
...Bill Barr, the US attorney-general, helped Republican legislatures certify results that contradicted their Democratic governors....
...That would be a particularly lethal moment as Trump would still be president for another 10 weeks with its awesome range of powers. William Barr would also still be US attorney-general....
...William Barr, the attorney-general, attempted to tamp down speculation about Epstein’s fate....
...(FT) In the news Google targeted by attorneys-general Attorneys-general from 50 US states and territories have launched an investigation into Google’s search and advertising businesses, in the latest move...
...Supreme Court ruled to end the separation of students by race in the landmark Brown v Board of Education case in 1954....
...(FT, Bloomberg, NYT) In the news Johnson & Johnson’s opioid costs Johnson & Johnson has been ordered to pay $572m, far less than the $17bn sought by the state attorney-general, after an Oklahoma judge...
...After that, she was became the first black woman to serve as California’s attorney-general, a position she held from 2011 to 2017....
...Instead, as Mujtaba Rahman of Eurasia Group says, the cover for the retreat by some Eurosceptics will be new legal advice from Geoffrey Cox, the attorney-general....
...In 2015 comedian Jimmy Morales was elected president of Guatemala with 67.4 per cent of the vote. In 2010 “Tiririca” — a clown — was the most-voted-for congressman in the Brazilian general elections....
...He also recently fired Jeff Sessions as US attorney-general....
...Here’s the full FT story. Ho was the secretary-general of a non-governmental organisation, known as CEFC NGO, based in Hong Kong and the US state of Virginia....
...Eric Holder, a former attorney-general for Barack Obama, criticised Mr Kemp — who oversees Georgia elections as its secretary of state — on Twitter: “4.5 hour waits in African American districts in Georgia...
...Martin Sandbu’s Free Lunch today examines the economic implications of the midterms. Meanwhile, top Democrats have called for the acting US attorney-general to recuse himself from the Mueller inquiry....
...But, like all such giant projects, it has strong political winds at its back: the benefit of Nasa contracts spreads across many cities and states, with Alabama, home state to attorney-general Jeff Sessions...
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