After graduating from law school in 1960, he became a law clerk to Donald Hollowell, who had a busy one-man civil rights practice in Atlanta.…
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What Trump, San Francisco and the Deer in My Backyard Have in Common
Why not, it asked? More and more, Republican members of the House were being elected from gerrymandered districts drawn up by Republican state legislators from…
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Blue Lives Matter Is Over
Blue Lives Matter is officially dead. People may continue to chant and post the slogan, but it is dead. Senate Republicans killed it last week…
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They Stormed the Capitol. Their Apps Tracked Them.
In 2019, a source came to us with a digital file containing the precise locations of more than 12 million individual smartphones for several months…
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Did the Proud Boys Help Coordinate the Capitol Riot? Yes, U.S. Suggests
And yet, prosecutors say, in late December, Mr. Tarrio, apparently planning for a pro-Trump “Save America” rally in Washington on Jan. 6, posted a message…
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Eugenio Martínez, Last of the Watergate Burglars, Dies at 98
They were led by James W. McCord Jr., a security coordinator for the Nixon campaign whose confession to the judge just before his sentencing precipitated…
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People Died at the Capitol. Can Rioters be Charged?
States have wide variance in what their felony murder laws require. Some say that the death must have been foreseeable or committed “in furtherance of”…
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Eleanor Holmes Norton Calls for Sledding on Capitol Grounds to Be Allowed
WASHINGTON — As inches of snow pile up during Washington’s biggest winter storm in two years, there is one place that won’t be seeing any…
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Museum of the Bible Returns Artifacts to Egypt
The Museum of the Bible in Washington, which has been bedeviled since its inception in 2017 by claims that it acquired thousands of biblical artifacts…
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Body Camera Footage Shows Capitol Rioters Trampling Over Woman
As 34-year-old Rosanne Boyland lay dying on the steps of the Capitol on Jan. 6 after being crushed by a mob, fellow rioters were charging…
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