A former law clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas has warned that the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Constitution “appears to be moving toward a sweepingly pro-president position.” In an essay for the NYU Law Democracy Project, originalist legal scholar and University of Virginia School of Law professor Caleb Nelson argued that the Constitution’s text and historical context give Congress wide …
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BRIGHTON PARK — Narendra Byrapuneni wasn’t afraid when he heard shots ring out Saturday morning while working behind the counter at a gas station in Brighton Park. “I’ve got the bulletproof glass here,” he said. “So when I hear shots, the first thing I do is go check the cameras. I stay inside, I don’t freak out. I live in …
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An Alabama man convicted of killing a woman during a 1997 gas station robbery was put to death Thursday after apologizing to his victim’s family and pleas from the woman’s son to spare his life. Geoffrey Todd West, 50, was executed at William C. Holman Correctional Facility by nitrogen gas, a method Alabama began using last year. It was one …
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Alabama has executed an inmate convicted of killing an Etowah County gas station clerk in 1997 and stealing about $250. Geoffrey Todd West was executed Thursday night at William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore by being forced to inhale pure nitrogen gas, a method first used in Alabama last year and now the sixth time the state has employed …
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Alabama is preparing to execute a man convicted of killing a woman during a 1997 gas station robbery in what will be the nation’s latest execution carried out with nitrogen gas. Geoffrey Todd West, 50, is scheduled to be executed Thursday night at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in south Alabama. West was convicted of capital murder for the …
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Alabama is preparing to execute a man convicted of killing a woman during a 1997 gas station robbery in what will be the nation’s latest execution carried out with nitrogen gas. Geoffrey Todd West, 50, is scheduled to be executed Thursday night at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in south Alabama. West was convicted of capital murder for the …
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Mesa Country clerk Tina Peters was sentenced to nine years behind bars for a data-breach scheme spawned from the rampant false claims about voting machine fraud in the 2020 presidential race. But President Donald Trump is calling her “a brave and innocent Patriot who has been tortured by Crooked Colorado politicians.” “Let Tina Peters out of jail, RIGHT NOW. She …
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Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for Votebeat Wisconsin’s free newsletter here. Members of the Wisconsin Elections Commission expressed alarm Thursday at how much time former Madison Clerk Maribeth Witzel-Behl spent on vacation while a crisis was erupting in her office: the discovery of 193 missing ballots from …
Read More »MADISON, Wis . (AP) — Wisconsin elections officials declared Thursday that the former clerk of the state’s capital city broke several laws related to not counting nearly 200 absentee ballots in the November presidential election, but they stopped short of recommending criminal charges be brought. The bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission voted 5-1 to accept a report finding that the former …
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