All posts tagged "Propublica"

Investigative journalists with ProPublica published a disturbing video essay showing ICE officers smashing car windows to get to frightened undocumented migrants locked inside.

"We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office," reads the introduction to the piece. "ICE claims its officers use a 'minimum amount of force.' You can judge for yourself."

The essay guides viewers through an initial six videos of ICE agents, some wearing masks and wielding various instruments to break into the vehicles....

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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito believes news organizations — specifically calling out the investigative news organization ProPublica — is out to get him because "they don’t like our decisions."

That's according to a new recording from liberal documentary maker Lauren Windsor that were obtained Tuesday by Rolling Stone.

In the audio, recorded June 3 at an event hosted by the Supreme Court Historical Society, the questioner asks the justice why he feels the nation's highest court has been "attacked" and "targeted by the media" in recent years....

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WASHINGTON — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who has found himself under scrutiny over his judicial decisions and accepting lavish gifts from a billionaire Republican, is dismissing the criticism as "nastiness" and "lies," according to U.S. media.

"There's certainly been a lot of negativity in our lives, my wife and I, over the last few years, but we choose not to focus on it," the New York Times quoted Thomas as saying Friday at a judicial conference in the southern U.S. state of Alabama.

Staunch conservative Thomas, the longest-serving justice on the court, has been embroiled in controversy since it emerged last year that he had gone on a trip paid for by Republican donor and real estate tycoon Harlan Crow....