38 posts tagged ‘law crime’
Democracy Is Thriving: Nancy Mace Told Hunter Biden He Has ‘No Balls’ and He Reportedly ‘Smirked’
Jezebel,
On Wednesday, Hunter Biden made a surprise appearance in Congress to attend a contentious House Oversight Committee meeting that discussed whether he should be held in contempt of Congress for ignoring a subpoena. And Republicans remained professional, calm, and collected throughout. JK. It was all as predictably… Read more...
The Supreme Court Allows Idaho to Block Emergency Abortions
Late on Friday, the Supreme Court ruled that Idaho can enforce its total abortion ban even when it’s necessary to save a pregnant person’s life, lifting a lower court’s injunction from 2022 that blocked this part of the law. Now, the state can criminalize doctors for offering abortion care during medical emergencies,… Read more...
A Proposed Update to Florida’s Wrongful Death Law Could Screw Over Abortion Providers
The Florida legislature is kicking off 2024 by considering a bill that would amend the state’s wrongful death law so that people could sue over the loss of an “unborn child.” The bill, called Civil Liability for the Wrongful Death of an Unborn Child, was pre-filed for this legislative session at the end of 2o23 and… Read more...
Ghislane Maxwell Attempts Feminism in Response to Unsealed Epstein Docs
On Wednesday evening, 900 pages of largely unredacted documents detailing the international sex trafficking and pedophilia perpetrated by Jeffrey Epstein and several of his associates and friends—a lot of whom are very famous—were unsealed. The docs—which include several excerpts of depositions—originated from survivor… Read more...
Wyoming Abortion Clinic Arsonist Ordered to Pay $300K on Top of 5-Year Prison Sentence
A federal judge has ordered the 22-year-old Wyoming woman who pleaded guilty to setting fire to an abortion clinic in 2022 to pay nearly $300,000 in damages, on top of the five-year prison sentence she’s currently serving. On Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson determined that Lorna Green, who was… Read more...
Gypsy Rose Blanchard has been released from prison and hopes to meet Taylor Swift
AV Club,
In the immortal words of Taylor Swift, “Karma is my boyfriend, karma is a god, karma is the breeze in my hair on the weekend.” While the pop star was ostensibly writing about her emancipation from manager Scooter Braun, these lyrics could also easily be about today’s emancipation of tabloid star Gypsy Rose Blanchard… Read more...
Welcome Home, Gypsy Rose Blanchard
Gypsy Rose Blanchard is free. On Thursday, Gypsy was released from the Chillicothe Correctional Center at 3:30 in the morning local time after serving eight years of a ten-year sentence for her role in the murder of her abusive mother, Dee Dee. Now, the 32-year-old can begin to enjoy life on the outside. Read more...
Ohio Supreme Court Rejects State’s Plea to Enforce 6-Week Ban
Weeks after Ohio overwhelmingly voted to enshrine a right to abortion in the state Constitution, abortion rights have secured another important win: On Friday, the state Supreme Court dismissed a demand from the state to be able to enforce its six-week ban, which has been blocked by an injunction from a lower court in… Read more...