"Demand is so great that programs to mentor attorneys to file habeas cases are emerging...
“I’m on all these listservs where people are saying, who can help me in Arizona, who can help me in Mississippi, and people are stepping up and helping each other...”
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DOJ is looking to remove an entire cohort of lawyers--DOJ lawyers--from disciplinary requirements the public has long relied on. It offers no timelines under which a state could follow up if DOJ does not.
Again, the administration is looking to run out the clock to remain unaccountable.
Hundreds of threats have been left on the judges' voicemails. Listen to some of those messages. cbsn.ws/3OGw1ze
Focus needs to be directed to what was not done by prosecutors and law enforcement when Epstein was alive that allowed him to flourish while victimizing so many young girls and women. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/u...
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is set to face questions today from the House Oversight Committee over Jeffrey Epstein.
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Clintons set to testify in House Epstein probe www.msnbc.com/way-too-earl...
BREAKING: NPR and MS NOW report that files related to President Trump are missing from the Department of Justice's release of the Epstein documents.
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President Donald Trump’s personal attacks on Justices of the United States Supreme Court constitute a calculated and dangerous assault on the independence of the judiciary and on our constitutional system of separated powers. Read the City Bar's statement here: bit.ly/3OwhvKe
She had me at Donna Summer.
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Supreme Court's tariff decision is "massive blow" to Trump's agenda
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MS NOW Legal Affairs Reporter Fallon Gallagher, MS NOW Senior Legal Reporter Lisa Rubin and former Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Catherine Christian join Ana Cabrera to discuss the decision.
MS NOW International Reporter Ines de La Cuetara, MS NOW Senior Legal Reporter Lisa Rubin, U.S. Special Correspondent for BBC Studios Katty Kay and former Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Catherine Christian join Ana Cabrera to discuss.
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I spoke to a few lawyers about Luigi Mangione and double jeopardy after yesterday's tense hearing www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult... @rollingstone.com
![“It’s not double jeopardy,” says attorney Catherine Christian, of Mangione’s two cases. Christian worked as a prosecutor at the Manhattan District Attorney’s office and is now a criminal defense lawyer. “But I would argue it too, if I was them.”
Christian says if she were Mangione’s defense attorney and he was convicted in state court, she’d immediately try to get the federal indictment dismissed. “I’d say, this is ridiculous, to go a block down [to federal court] and have this whole trial over again — which essentially is true, it would be — but it’s completely different charges. The same witnesses, the same criminal transaction, basically the same trial, but the crimes he’s being charged with federally just have different elements.”
New York defense attorney Lance Clarke agrees with Christian’s assessment of Mangione’s federal and state cases not amounting to double jeopardy even though they seem similar.
“Both cases arise from the same underlying events, but they are not identical,” says Clarke. “If the action itself is being litigated in both forms, but for different crimes, unfortunately that’s ok.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:agtycuntps5hinjbix5gnpfr/bafkreiczhv5igpuimn7f5eufkwvslpp2mif4gf6gmcrncwb6gv5jfqe3hm)
“It’s not double jeopardy,” says attorney Catherine Christian, of Mangione’s two cases. Christian worked as a prosecutor at the Manhattan District Attorney’s office and is now a criminal defense lawyer. “But I would argue it too, if I was them.” Christian says if she were Mangione’s defense attorney and he was convicted in state court, she’d immediately try to get the federal indictment dismissed. “I’d say, this is ridiculous, to go a block down [to federal court] and have this whole trial over again — which essentially is true, it would be — but it’s completely different charges. The same witnesses, the same criminal transaction, basically the same trial, but the crimes he’s being charged with federally just have different elements.” New York defense attorney Lance Clarke agrees with Christian’s assessment of Mangione’s federal and state cases not amounting to double jeopardy even though they seem similar. “Both cases arise from the same underlying events, but they are not identical,” says Clarke. “If the action itself is being litigated in both forms, but for different crimes, unfortunately that’s ok.”
If the crimes are considered “substantially different” and are distinguishable from one another, even if they come from the same act, they can still both be prosecuted.
President Trump told NBC News' Tom Llamas ICE operations could use a "softer touch." This comes as Minnesota educators are suing to keep ICE agents off school property.
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MS NOW Reporter Nnamdi Egwuonwu has more details from Minneapolis. Staff Writer for The Atlantic Mark Leibovich and former Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Catherine Christian join Chris Jansing to discuss the administration's immigration crackdown.
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@ms.now Reporter Laura Haefeli has more details from Springfield, Ohio. Washington Post National Reporter María Luisa Paúl, former Ohio Governor John Kasich and former Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Catherine Christian join Chris Jansing to discuss.
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"(2) All redactions must be accompanied by a written justification published in the Federal Register and submitted to Congress."
"the Attorney General shall, ... make publicly available...Internal DOJ communications, including emails, memos, meeting notes, concerning decisions to charge, not charge, investigate, or decline to investigate Epstein or his associates...."
“Epstein Files Transparency Act”
"... a prosecutor may commence or recommend federal prosecution only if he/she believes that the person will more likely than not be found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt by an unbiased trier of fact and that the conviction will be upheld on appeal." www.justice.gov/jm/jm-9-2700...
BREAKING: Former CNN Anchor and Journalist Don Lemon arrested by federal authorities. @anacabrera.bsky.social has the latest.
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
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