At least 100 Texas Republican lawmakers and party leaders are urging the state’s highest criminal court to revisit a decision that dealt a major blow to the state’s ability to prosecute election fraud and jeopardized election integrity laws.
Tenessee Republican state Rep. Bruce Griffey has introduced a bill in honor of Kyle Rittenhouse that would compensate defendants found not guilty for self-defense.
While touting the conviction of sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell as a “victory for survivors,” the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) has launched a petition for the Department of Justice (DOJ) to prosecute the many suspected clients and co-conspirators who participated in Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein’s notorious pedophile ring.
Attorneys for recently convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell have asked the court for a new trial following comments to the media from two members of the jury acknowledging they shared their own experiences of sexual abuse during deliberations.
Arrests made: More than 725 defendants have been arrested in nearly all 50 states and the District of Columbia. (This includes those charged in both District and Superior Court).
U.S. federal prosecutors have dropped charges against the two guards who admitted to falsifying prison records on the night that sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein died in his New York prison cell.