Some of the nation's leading defense lawyers have been trying to wrap their heads around what they consider abnormal behavior by the U.S. Department of Justice over the past year. ... "We created the Case Tracker because you cannot defend against an enemy you cannot see," said Steven Salky, a lawyer in the Washington, D.C., area who oversees the project. "The Tracker is intended to spotlight for the next several years the unusual cases being prosecuted by the Department of Justice." read more
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New Mexico lawmakers on Monday passed legislation to launch what they said was the first full investigation into what happened at Zorro Ranch, where the late U.S. sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is accused of trafficking and sexually assaulting girls and women. read more
The Canadian prime minister is spearheading discussions between the EU and a major Indo-Pacific trade bloc after calling on middle powers to join forces. read more
A new investigation examining emails sent between federal investigators and prosecutors has raised fresh doubts over the Department of Justice's claim that it has released the full cache of Jeffrey Epstein files, suggesting the material made public amounts to just 2% of the data gathered by federal agents. read more
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche has defended the administration's handling of the files, while acknowledging that most people would not be satisfied by the information contained inside the documents.
"There's a hunger or a thirst for information that I do not think will be satisfied by the review of these documents and ... there's nothing I can do about that," Blanche said last month.
"There's this built-in assumption that somehow there's this hidden tranche of information of men that we know about, that we're covering up, or that we're choosing not to prosecute," he continued at the time. "That is not the case."
"I don't know whether there are men out there that abuse these women. If we learn about information and evidence that allows us to prosecute them, you better believe we will," the deputy attorney general added. "But I don't think that the public or you all are going to uncover men within the Epstein files that abuse women, unfortunately."
GOP senator on Epstein files: Now I see what the big deal is'
From the article: "This is not a case about holding parents accountable for what their children do. That's not what this case is about," Barrow County District Attorney Brad Smith said in his opening statement Monday. "This case is about this defendant and his actions - his actions in allowing a child that he has custody over access to a firearm and ammunition after being warned that that child was going to harm others."
If the bold part is true he deserves jail time.