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Senators Jon Ossoff (D-GA), John Kennedy (R-LA), Representative John Rutherford (R-FL), and other U.S. Representatives have introduced the bipartisan Family Notification of Death, Injury, or Illness in Custody Act. When inmates and those in custody suffer a serious change in their health status (illness, injury, death), family members would be notified in a "timely and […]
Former New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez (D) has been sentenced to 11 years in prison following his bribery and corruption conviction. Menendez, who served as New Jersey’s Senator from 2006 to 2024, accepted nearly $500,000 in cash, a luxury vehicle, home furnishings, and gold bars from the Egyptian government. Former Senator Menendez was also subjected […]
Trump Issues Broad Pardon of January 6 Protestors; Commutes Sentences of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers
President Donald Trump issued a sweeping pardon forgiving all Americans charged and convicted for their involvement in the January 6, 2021 capitol attacks. The pardon also commuted the sentences of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers leadership convicted for a series of crimes associated with the January 6 riots. Trump has referred to many of those […]