Potential US Attorney Nominee Has Demonstrated Disregard for Constitutional Rights

The Revolving Door Project, a Prospects partner, scrutinizes the executive branch and presidential power. Follow them at therevolvingdoorproject.org. This week, NOLA.com reported that Keva Landrum has secured a nomination to be US attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana, after two years of trying. If this is true, Landrum’s nomination represents a vicious break with […]

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Gwyneth Paltrow’s expert witness endures scathing cross-examination by the plaintiff’s attorney

An expert witness in Gwyneth Paltrow’s ski collision trial claimed plaintiff Terry Sanderson’s health symptoms could be linked to dementia rather than the 2016 ski collision. Sanderson was suing Paltrow for $300,000, claiming he was severely injured when Paltrow rammed into him from behind during a day on the slopes at Utah’s Deer Valley Resort. […]

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Texas attorney shot by Cheney during 2006 hunting trip dies

Harry Whittington, the man who former Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot while they were hunting quail on a Texas ranch 17 years ago, has died. He was 95. Whittington died at his home Saturday in Austin, family friend Karl Rove said Monday. Before Whittington was thrust into the national spotlight after the accidental shooting, […]

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Texas attorney shot by Cheney during 2006 hunting trip dies | News, Sports, Jobs

FILE – Austin, Texas, attorney Harry Whittington steps out to talk with members of the media, Feb. 17, 2006, in front of Christus Spohn Corpus Christi Hospital-Memorial. Whittington, the man who then-Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot while they were hunting quail on a Texas ranch 17 years earlier, died Saturday, Feb. […]

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Attorneys, advocates seek stay of execution for Missouri man

An attorney for Raheem Taylor is urging the US Supreme Court to halt a “constitutionally intolerable event” — the potential execution of an innocent man Tuesday evening. Taylor, 58, is scheduled to die at the state prison Bonne Terre, Missouri, for the killings of his live-in girlfriend and her three young children nearly two decades […]

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