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Last week, President Joe Biden announced his nomination for Damien Diggs to serve as United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas, which covers 43 of the state’s 254 counties including Cherokee County and runs from Plano to Beaumont. If confirmed, Diggs would become the first Black U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of […]
(Reuters) – St. Thomas University School of Law on Wednesday rebranded as the Benjamin L. Crump College of Law, making the Miami-area law school the only one in the United States named for a living Black lawyer. Among the 199 law schools accredited by the American Bar Association, only one other campus bears the name […]
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He has worked in the Northern District Texas since 2018. WASHINGTON, D.C., USA — President Biden has nominated an Assistant U.S. Attorney from North Texas who could become the first Black U.S. Attorney in Southeast Texas. Damien Diggs, who currently works for the U.S. Department of Justice’s Northern District of Texas, was nominated by Biden […]
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden picked career Dallas prosecutor Damien Diggs as U.S. attorney in East Texas. If confirmed, he would become the first Black lawyer to lead the office responsible for federal law enforcement from Plano to Beaumont, including Jasper, where a notorious racial murder took place. The nomination, announced Wednesday night by the […]
CINCINNATI — An attorney for former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder accused a federal judge of being biased, asked if he had “personal animosity,” toward his client, and questioned if he should recuse himself from the largest public corruption case in state history. Attorney Mark Marein raised these issues on Tuesday morning, once the trial […]
Jan 29 (Reuters) – The attorney representing the family of Tyre Nichols, the Black man who was fatally beaten by Memphis police officers, called on Sunday for the U.S. Congress to pass police reform legislation, and said Nichols’ mother hoped the tragedy could lead to a “greater good.”
Colinford Mattis arrives at federal court in Brooklyn on Thursday. (Mary Altaffer/AP) BROOKLYN — In a dramatic hearing on Thursday, a federal judge sentenced a corporate attorney who firebombed a police car during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests to a year in jail, arguing that his prestigious education — boarding school, Princeton, a law […]
Comment on this story Comment The District’s first-ever elected attorney general hurtled toward his last day in office with the relentlessness of a man whose work remains unfinished.
Attorney General Andrea Campbell, who was sworn in Wednesday as the first Black woman to hold that job or any statewide office in Massachusetts, said she wants to use her new role to build safer and healthier communities, stand up for reproductive rights and ensure the next generation is better off than the last. “I […]