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JJ’s grandmother ‘gave herself’ title

Lori Vallow doesn’t want the grandparents of JJ Vallow in the courtroom Vallow’s attorney said that JJ’s grandmother ‘gave herself’ title Vallow’s trial is scheduled to begin April 3(NewsNation) — “Doomsday mom” Lori Vallow doesn’t want the grandparents of JJ Vallow, one of her kids she is accused of killing, to be present in the courtroom during her trial. A judge will make a ruling on the matter next week. Vallow’s defense team told Judge Steven Boyce that she doesn’t want Larry and Kay Woodcock in the courtroom. Her reasoning is that legally, they aren’t grandparents. They told Boyce…Continue Reading

Marjorie Taylor Greene moves to impeach FBI director, US attorney for DC

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said on Tuesday that she will move to introduce articles of impeachment against FBI Director Christopher Wray and Matthew Graves, the US attorney for the District of Columbia. Greene alleged in a release that Wray has turned the FBI into President Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland’s “personal police force.” She said the FBI has “intimidated, harassed, and entrapped” US citizens who have been “deemed enemies of the Biden regime.”She cited several examples of FBI actions in the past several years during Wray’s tenure that she demonstrated demonstrations of overreach and improper conduct by…Continue Reading

Fiji’s former attorney general is taken into custody

SYDNEY, May 1 (Reuters) – Fiji’s former attorney general, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, who is also general secretary of the Pacific island nation’s main opposition party Fiji First, was taken into custody on Monday after being charged with abuse of office, police said . The charge relates to a complaint lodged by an election official in February, the Fiji police said in a statement. “Mr Sayed-Khaiyum remains in custody and will be produced in the Suva Magistrates Court tomorrow,” the statement said. The criminal charge was approved by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecution, it added. The Office of the…Continue Reading