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Kevin McCarthy says Trump indictment unfair because Hillary Clinton 'didn't get arrested'
March 21, 2023
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) rambled about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday to deflect from former President Donald Trump's legal problems.
At a House Republican retreat near Orlando, McCarthy was asked about the possibility that Trump would be indicted over hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels.
"You guys have raised a lot of concerns about the prosecutor, but what about the actual allegations here that the former president may have falsified business records to cover for hush money payments to cover up this alleged affair with an adult film actress?" CNN's Manu Raju told McCarthy, "Do you have any concerns about that?"
McCarthy quickly pivoted to Clinton.
"Remember when the DNC and Hillary Clinton paid the law firm a million dollars and said that it was for something else, and we found out later it wasn't," the Speaker said. "And so they went through, and they got investigated. A million dollars they spent, and you know what, at the end of the day, they didn't get arrested. They got fined."
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"So, I look at it from this perspective. We live in America, and it should be equal justice," he continued. "This was personal money. This wasn't trying to hide. This was seven years ago."
McCarthy insisted the reported knew in his "heart of hearts.. that you think this is just political."
"And I think that's what the rest of the country thinks, and we're kind of tired of that," he said.
Earlier this week, McCarthy opposed Trump's call for protests if an arrest occurs.
"I don't think people should protest this, no," he said. "I think President Trump, if you talked to him, he doesn't believe that either. I think the thing that you may misinterpret when President Trump talks, when someone says they can protest, he's probably referring to my tweet. Educate people about what's going on. He's not talking in a harmful way, and nobody should."
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'More legal trouble for Fox News': Details of explosive new revelations rock the network
March 21, 2023
A producer at Fox News has come out with explosive allegations against the network, including that she witnessed a parade of anti-Semitic and sexist behavior from network bigwigs behind the scenes — but perhaps most important, she has upended Fox's defense in the $1.6 billion lawsuit against them by Dominion Voting Systems for spreading election lies, claiming that network lawyers pushed her into giving false testimony in a deposition.
CNN's media reporter Oliver Darcy broke down the significance of the new development with anchor Kaitlan Collins on Tuesday.
"Abby Grossberg is accusing the network's legal team of intimidation while they prepared her for a deposition," said Collins. "What is she alleging? She is saying when she was talking to these attorneys before she went in for the deposition, that they — she alleges manipulated her into giving testimony that wasn't accurate."
"Essentially," said Darcy. "This is more legal trouble for Fox News. This producer is saying she was basically bullied and intimidated and coerced into giving misleading testimony ... it says Fox News attorneys 'acted as agents and the behest of Fox News to misleadingly coach, manipulate, and coerce Ms. Grossberg to deliver shaded and/or incomplete answers during her sworn deposition testimony, which answers were clearly to her reputational detriment but greatly benefitted Fox News."
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This new legal action against Fox, noted Darcy, "comes at a critical time in the case."
"Fox News is set to duke it out in court with Dominion in a key hearing later today," said Darcy. s"S news she potentially was, you know, coerced into giving misleading testimony during a sworn deposition is, obviously, a pretty explosive allegation."
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Louisiana spent $7.7 million on death penalty defense — but hasn’t executed anyone in 13 years
March 21, 2023
Louisiana spent $7.7 million providing legal defense to people facing the death penalty in 2022, according to the Louisiana Public Defender’s Office, even though the state hasn’t executed anyone in 13 years.
The most recently Louisiana has put someone to death was Gerald Bordelon in January 2010, after he waived his right to legal appeals and fast-tracked his own killing. Prior to his death, Louisiana hadn’t executed anyone since 2002.
State officials told a federal judge last spring they haven’t been able to obtain the drugs needed to carry out a lethal injection in years and stopped scheduling executions as a result. Gov. John Bel Edwards also doesn’t appear to be enthusiastic about capital punishment. He has refused to share his personal views on the death penalty.
Regardless of whether executions are moving forward, Louisiana must provide a vigorous defense for people who face death sentences. Federal law requires robust legal services and extra scrutiny for capital crimes.
The Louisiana Public Defender Board outsources most of the state’s capital defense to five nonprofit organizations with attorneys who specialize in death penalty defense. Four of them – Louisiana Crisis Assistance Center, Capital Post-Conviction Project of Louisiana, Baton Rouge Capital Conflict, Inc. and the Capital Appeals Project – were among the top 10 most expensive legal contracts in all of state government in the last budget cycle, according to a state report on government contracts.
The $7.7 million spent last year covered initial trials, appeals and post-conviction legal challenges. It also includes approximately $195,000 for expert witnesses and extra funding to the public defender’s office in Jefferson Parish, which handles some of its own capital cases.
In 2022, there were only 18 open capital cases and two appeals across the state, but State Public Defender Rémy Voisin Starns said his office is also responsible for the representation of approximately two-thirds of the 62 people who are on death row. The outside attorneys also work on cases where the death penalty is initially a possibility but doesn’t end up on the table.
Starns said the state would do better to eliminate capital punishment and spend that money on other public defender needs.
On Monday, he asked legislators for an additional $5 million for more public defender offices around the state. He also wants to hire six social workers to help with juvenile defendants, who often have a difficult time communicating with their assigned attorneys.
Caddo, Lafayette and East Baton Rouge parishes also need more local staff attorneys, and the state should start offering all the lawyers who worked as public defenders health insurance and retirement benefits, Starns said. Some local governments cover the cost of health insurance and retirement for their public defenders, but those benefits aren’t offered in every part of the state, he said.
In the last budget cycle, the state spent $50.5 million on public defense, though one of its main sources of funding has fallen off a financial cliff. There’s been a drastic drop in the collection of traffic court fees across the state, which are used to pay for public defense. The number of traffic court filings went from 1.26 million in 2009 to just 475,335 in 2021, according to the state public defender’s most recent annual report. That means public defense is losing hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue each year.
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