On Wednesday the Department of Justice dropped a bombshell in the public corruption trial against Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and co-defendant Dr. Salomon Melgen, set to begin in a New Jersey federal courtroom on September 6.
Charlottesville City Manager Maurice Jones fired back at Mayor Mike Signer, whose August 23 confidential internal memo highly critical of Jones’ handling of the August 12 Emancipation Park rally was “leaked” to the Richmond Times-Dispatch to form the basis of a lead story on Saturday.
A nine-page internal memo written on Wednesday by Charlottesville Mayor Mike Signer on the city’s preparations for the August 12 Emancipation Park rally that erupted into violence was “leaked” to the Richmond Times-Dispatch, where it formed the basis of a lengthy story on Saturday.
On the same day President Trump blasted Senator Bob Corker (R-TN) for his recent “outrageous” criticisms, State Senator Mark Green (R-Clarksville) tells Breitbart News that he told Corker exactly what he thinks about those comments.
Clinton confidant Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe called Charlottesville Mayor Mike Signer on August 2 to plan the police response to the August 12 “Unite the Right” rally in the city’s Emancipation Park.
Charlottesville’s Mayor claimed Thursday that he and other members of the city council “were not given the security plan for August 12,” which was developed and closely held by the City Manager, the Police Chief, and the Fire Chief.
The federal judge presiding over the public corruption trial of Senator Robert Menendez and co-defendant Dr. Salomon Melgen ruled on Tuesday that the trial, scheduled to begin on September 6, will not be put on hold to allow Menendez to return to Washington, D.C. to cast his vote in the Senate.
Jury selection began on Tuesday in the public corruption trial of Senator Bob Menendez (D-New Jersey) and co-defendant Dr. Salomon Melgen in a Newark, New Jersey federal court room. The trial is currently scheduled to begin on September 6.
Vermont Attorney General T.J. Donovan says Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber submitted at least two false invoices in connection with a $400,000 contract he had with the state to provide economic consulting services.
Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe signed an executive order late Friday halting demonstrations at Lee Monument in Richmond for the next 90 days. That order violates the First Amendment.
Virginia Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security Brian Moran told Richmond talk radio host Jeff Katz on Monday that Governor Terry McAuliffe “made the decision . . . to shut things down” at Emancipation Park in Charlottesville on the morning of August 12.
The Charlottesville brawls escalated when police forcibly ended the court-approved “Unite the Right” rally in Emancipation Park by loudly declaring an “unlawful assembly.”
In a surprising move, the sentencing hearing for Dr. Salmon Melgen on 67 counts of Medicare fraud was postponed by a federal judge in Florida on Thursday until after his trial on public corruption charges, where he is a co-defendant with Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ).
Recent arrivals from Somalia and other countries in sub-Saharan Africa were among the refugees interviewed for possible jobs by 30 Starbucks managers at a hiring event in El Cajon, California on Tuesday as part of the company’s commitment to hire 10,000 refugees over the next five years.
The Thomas More Law Center is challenging a court order by a federal judge in New Jersey prohibiting criticism of Muslims or Islam at an upcoming public meeting.
U.S. District Judge William H. Walls delayed ruling on a motion to dismiss the public corruption charges against Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) until the trial of the senator and his co-defendant, Dr. Salomon Melgen, begins in a federal courtroom in New Jersey on September 6.
Starbucks held a hiring event exclusively for refugees in El Cajon, California on Tuesday, part of its recently announced commitment to hire more than 10,000 refugees over the next five years.
When Governor Jim Justice switched from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party at a Donald Trump rally in West Virginia last week, he became the 34th Republican governor in the country. Only fifteen states now have Democratic governors, and one (Alaska) has an independent governor.
The chairman of the House Financial Services Committee has asked the Office of Special Counsel to investigate Richard Cordray, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), for potential violation of the Hatch Act, which prohibits federal bureaucrats from engaging in political activity.
A majority of registered voters in America have a negative view of the Black Lives Matter movement, according to a new Harvard-Harris Poll.
Fox News reported on Tuesday that a Department of Defense (DOD) program that has recruited 10,000 foreign-born members of the U.S. Armed Forces since 2009 may have “potential security risks.”
Nancy Pelosi’s House Majority PAC just released a new poll of white working class voters that is sounding alarm bells for the Democratic House leadership.
Former Donald Trump campaign manager Cory Lewandowski said on NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday that new White House Chief of Staff John Kelly should ask President Trump to fire Richard Cordray, the Obama-appointed holdover who heads the controversial Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).
Reuters reported last week that the White House Domestic Policy Council “is taking the lead on a decision about how many refugees to admit to the United States next year.”
The Trump administration has changed the focus of a Department of Homeland Security immigrant citizenship training program managed by USCIS to “assimilation,” a significant shift from the Obama era focus on “integration.”
Very few refugees have been resettled in the United States in the week following the Supreme Court order that stayed a lower court’s reversal of President Trump’s 50,000 annual ceiling for refugee arrivals in FY 2017.
The German equivalent of the Centers for Disease Control says the number of active cases of tuberculosis (TB) diagnosed in Germany increased 30 percent in one year, jumping to 5,852 in 2015, up from 4,488 in 2014. That dramatic increase slowed significantly in 2016, when 5,915 cases were reported.
Reuters published a story on Thursday about a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll with this blazing headline: “One in eight people who voted for Trump having second thoughts.”
The Supreme Court gave the Trump administration a partial victory on Wednesday, permitting it to enforce the temporary refugee ban announced in Executive Order 13780.
In the five days since U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson ruled the Trump administration must include grandparents and other distant relatives as “bona fide relationships” when determining eligibility for visa applications and participation in the federal refugee resettlement program, new refugee arrivals have trickled to a virtual stop.
A poll by a conservative Super PAC shows broad support for President Trump’s policies, a counter point to recent polls that show low job approval ratings.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions went directly to the Supreme Court on Friday, asking for clarification of its June 26 travel ban decision and an immediate stay of U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson’s July 13 ruling that modified his original injunction that stopped Executive Order 13780, which placed a temporary ban on all refugees and a temporary travel ban on residents of six Middle Eastern countries.
U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson ruled late Thursday in favor of the state of Hawaii’s motion to overrule the Trump administration’s definition of “bona fide relationship.
The State Department has confirmed that as of Wednesday the number of refugees resettled in the United States in FY 2017 has reached the 50,000 annual limit established by President Trump in Executive Order 13780.
Fourteen states that voted for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Presidential election plus one state that Donald Trump won (Iowa) and the District of Columbia have filed a brief supporting Hawaii’s continued legal challenge to the temporary travel and refugee
Just hours after the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denied its most recent challenge to the Trump travel ban, the state of Hawaii filed yet another motion challenging it in federal court:
One day after U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson denied the state of Hawaii’s motion to broaden the definition of “bona fide relationship” for refugees and visa applicants affected by Executive Order 13780, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals followed suit.
U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson “denied an emergency motion filed by the State of Hawaii that would broaden the familial exceptions to President Trump’s travel ban” late Thursday, according to Hawaii News.
U.S. District Judge William Walls denied a motion from convicted felon Dr. Salomon Melgen on Wednesday to postpone the public corruption trial in a New Jersey federal court in which he is a co-defendant along with Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ).
The number of refugees who arrived in the United States in the first full week after the Supreme Court’s decision on June 26 on President Trump’s Executive Order 13780 declined to about half of the most recent weekly arrivals.
