Democratic members of Congress are criticizing Attorney General William Barr for holding a press conference before the release of the report.  They are also calling for the release of the full report.   Special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into possible obstruction of justice could not clear President Donald Trump, stating the President’s actions and intent […]

Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Monday he wants his testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee to be public. “He believes it is important for the American people to hear the truth directly from him,” said Justice Department spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores. Sessions is scheduled to testify Tuesday afternoon, less than a week after former FBI […]

The decision came amid major division, a contentious debate and a stream of controversy about racism surrounding the Alabama senator.   The Republican-controlled Senate confirmed Jeff Sessions as attorney general during a floor vote Wednesday after a stream of controversy over the former Alabama senator’s racist past, reports The Washington Post. From The Washington Post: The […]

One of Dana Boente’s first moves was to rescind Sally Yates’ order not to defend Trump’s Muslim travel ban in court.   President Donald Trump wasted no time finding an acting attorney general to defend his controversial immigration order. The New York Times reports that the President appointed Dana J. Boente Monday night after he […]

“We don’t need the fox guarding the hen-house,” Rev. William Barber said of Jeff Sessions’ AG nomination. Rev. William Barber has stood on the frontline of the Moral Monday movement in North Carolina to protest against discriminatory practices conducted by Republicans in his home state. He is now leading a Moral March on Monday in Washington, D.C. […]

Cornell Brooks says Trump should rescind the nomination for Ala. Sen. Jeff Sessions because of racist legal statements.   Police arrested six people, including the president of the NAACP, late Tuesday while they were holding a sit-in at the Mobile, Alabama office of U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions, CNN reports. The five men and one woman entered the […]

CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – 19 Action News has gotten reaction from the top to the Cleveland Police Union’s call for the chief to resign. Mayor Frank Jackson told Reporter Ed Gallek “I am not firing the chief, not firing the chief.” Gallek encountered Mayor Jackson at City Hall. The mayor told Gallek on Thursday that […]

CLEVELAND – Cleveland’s police chief denies conclusions in the Ohio attorney general’s report that found “systemic failures” within the police department contributed to a Nov. 29 chase turned fatal shooting. “Our two month investigation reveals that we are dealing with a systematic failure in the Cleveland Police Department. Command staff failed, communications failed, the system […]

CLEVELAND – Cleveland Police Chief Mike McGrath and Mayor Frank Jackson were unable to answer most of the questions reporters asked following the Ohio Attorney General’s Office investigation into the fatal night of Nov. 29. McGrath was asked why 59 of the 62 officers involved in the incident didn’t get supervisor permission to be part […]