The Biden administration has changed its guidance to eliminate some student loans from eligibility for forgiveness, a major reversal as the Department of Education makes final preparations to launch debt relief applications. As of Thursday, borrowers with student loans through the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) program and Perkins Loans …
Read More »House Oversight Committee calls on Trump to certify he surrendered all documents
More than a month after the FBI seizure of records from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence the U.S. House Oversight Committee is urging the National Archives “to seek from former President Trump a written certification that he has surrendered all presidential records or classified materials.” “In light of …
Read More »Bill Barr calls judge’s special master ruling “deeply flawed” and urges Dept. of Justice to appeal
Washington – Former Attorney General William Barr denounced a Florida federal judge’s order authorizing the appointment of a special master to review the documents seized at former President Donald Trump’s Florida residence, calling the ruling “wrong” and “deeply flawed.” “The opinion, I think, was wrong, and I think the government …
Read More »Trump legal team responds to Justice Department filing in another request for special master
Washington — Former President Donald Trump’s legal team on Wednesday again urged a federal judge to appoint a third party —known as a special master — to review the documents seized from his Mar-a-Lago residence earlier this month. In a 19-page filing, Trump’s lawyers called the Aug. 8 execution of a …
Read More »Texas sues Biden administration over requirement that hospitals perform abortions in emergencies
Washington — Texas on Thursday filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration seeking to block its new mandate that hospitals provide abortions if the life of the mother is at risk, even in states with bans on the procedure that do not include exceptions. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton brought …
Read More »Garland announces next steps in Justice Dept’s Uvalde school shooting review
Attorney General Merrick Garland is detailing the next steps in the Justice Department’s critical incident review of the Uvalde school shooting that resulted in the deaths of 19 children and two adults. “There is nothing that we can do that can undo the pain borne both by the survivors’ families, …
Read More »Oklahoma governor signs ban on nonbinary gender markers on birth certificates
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a bill Tuesday explicitly prohibiting the use of nonbinary gender markers on state birth certificates, a ban experts say is the first of its kind in the nation. The bill followed a flap last year over the Oklahoma State Department of Health’s agreement in a …
Read More »Problems at Parchman prison in Mississippi “severe, systemic,” Justice department finds
Jackson, Mississippi — A Mississippi prison violated inmates’ constitutional rights by failing to protect them from violence, failing to meet their mental health needs, failing to take adequate steps for suicide prevention and by relying too much on prolonged solitary confinement, the Justice Department said Wednesday. The department released findings …
Read More »Political donor Ed Buck sentenced to 30 years in prison for fatally injecting 2 men with meth
Los Angeles — Even after two men were found dead in his California apartment, Ed Buck did not stop injecting gay men with walloping doses of methamphetamine. Federal prosecutors said Buck’s unrelenting fervor to satisfy a fetish by preying on vulnerable men, often young and Black, is reason enough to …
Read More »Senate moves to full vote on Jackson’s nomination as two more Republicans announce support
Washington — The Senate on Monday voted to bring Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson‘s Supreme Court nomination to the floor for a final vote, clearing a procedural hurdle after the Judiciary Committee deadlocked earlier in the day on advancing her nomination. Jackson, a judge on the federal appeals court in Washington, …
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