In relief, Dershowitz is seeking $50,000,000 in compensatory damages and $250,000,000 in punitive damages for a total of $300,000,000. Dershowitz told Law&Crime in March that he was thinking of suing CNN because CNN “doctored the truth.”
The defamation lawsuit against CNN comes at a time when Dershowitz is locked in a defamation lawsuit with Virginia Roberts Giuffre , who claims Dershowitz’s former client Jeffrey Epstein forced her to have sex with Dershowitz when she was a minor. Dershowitz has denied the allegations, saying Giuffre is a liar and that they have never even met.
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Trump doesn’t just ignore west coast disasters.
He’s also adept at ignoring southeastern disasters, particularly floods and hurricanes.
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Yeah and if it hits his neck of Florida he’ll have FEMA money in his pocket so fast scientists will use it to study how fast light can travel through bullshit.
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As Fires Rage Across the West, Trump Bails Out Big Oil & Picks Climate Denier for Top Role at NOAA
New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States
According to new data from the Rhodium Group analyzed by ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, warming temperatures and changing rainfall will drive agriculture and temperate climates northward, while sea level rise will consume coastlines and dangerous levels of humidity will swamp the Mississippi River valley.
Taken with other recent research showing that the most habitable climate in North America will shift northward and the incidence of large fires will increase across the country, this suggests that the climate crisis will profoundly interrupt the way we live and farm in the United States. See how the North American places where humans have lived for thousands of years will shift and what changes are in store for your county.
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Ok…showtime. Mary Trump will be suing the Trump family.
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Trump renews, or rather continues, his antisemitic “dual loyalty” and “loyal only to themselves” attacks against Jews:
Trump said Jews are ‘only in it for themselves’ and ‘stick together,’ according to a new report
- President Donald Trump reportedly said Jews “are only in it for themselves” and “stick together” after a call with Jewish lawmakers.
- The president privately made the comments to senior officials in his administration, according to a report from The Washington Post.
President Donald Trump reportedly suggested that Jews have a loyalty to their religion above other interests, repeating an accusation that has long been used to stoke anti-Semitism.
Jews “are only in it for themselves” and “stick together,” Trump said in front of officials in his administration, according to a new report from The Washington Post on Wednesday.
More than two dozen current and former Trump administration officials spoke with The Post about the president’s views on race and described racist remarks they said he has made while in office.
The president’s characterizations of Jews occurred after he got off the phone with Jewish lawmakers, the officials said.
Trump has made similar statements about Jewish people, including during a conference call last week with American Jews when he said “we love your country,” referring to Israel.
He also told an audience of Jewish Americans that Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu is “your prime minister” and called Jews who are Democrats “disloyal.”
The idea that Jews hold a greater allegiance to their religion than their own country, otherwise known as “dual loyalty,” is widely believed to be anti-Semitic.
Many American Jews have condemned Trump’s insinuations and pointed to the history of violence and persecution that Jews have faced as evidence of what such rhetoric can lead to.
The Washington Post also reported clashes between Trump and some of his senior officials over his comments following the infamous Unite the Right rally that took place in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017. Hundreds of neo-Nazis and white supremacists stormed the college town and were soon met by counterprotesters, leading to violence that left many injured and one person dead.
Trump later said that there were “fine people on both sides.” Gary Cohn, the White House economic adviser at the time, had an intense exchange with Trump following the statement, The Post reported.
“Not only did you say it, you continued to double down on it,” Cohn said, according to The Post. “And if you want, I’ll get the transcripts.”
John Kelly, then the White House chief of staff, also criticized Trump at the time, according to The Post.
“You have to fix this,” he said. “You were supporting white supremacists. You have to go back out and correct this.”
Trump has long used this sort of attack on Jews and other groups. I have three threads about that:
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Mary going after T and her Aunt MaryAnne for fraud with a civil lawsuit submitted today. What a dig into the family…and lays bare their finances and actions. And how would Trump like to handle it, more than likely, pay her to make it go away.
But Mary has a much greater purpose. Expose him for who he is…a fraud.
On Thursday, more than two months after the book was published and a little more than one month before the election, Ms. Trump told her story again — this time in a lawsuit.
The suit, filed in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, accused Mr. Trump, his sister Maryanne Trump Barry and their brother Robert Trump, who died in August, of fraud and civil conspiracy. It seeks to recover the millions of dollars Ms. Trump claims to have lost.
In its first sentence, the lawsuit says that, for the Trumps, “fraud was not just the family business — it was a way of life.” Beginning in the 1980s, the suit contends, the president and his siblings took control of the New York City real estate empire their father, Fred Trump Sr., had built and “exploited it to enrich themselves” to the detriment of everyone around them.
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Whoa.
California Moves To Ban Sales Of Gas-Powered Cars By 2035
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Trump’s racism is poisoning America in more ways than we thought.
So much tear gas has been sprayed on Portland protesters that officials fear it’s polluted the water
Tear gas from the near-nightly sieges in Portland may be trickling into the Willamette River, officials fear
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One of my favourite singers has just died 
Her signature hit
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music is sorcery, nothing can convince me otherwise. there is such a huge hole whenever a beloved musician leaves us. i’m raising a glass to her return to the stars, and sending love your way.
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AMA is teeing up another case which would test the courts on their views from barring clinics to give abortions. This is another measure at preserving the right to get an abortion.
The American Medical Association (AMA), the nation’s largest doctors’ group, filed a petition to the Supreme Court Thursday asking it to strike down a rule from the Trump administration barring clinics funded by taxpayers from referring women for abortions.
The petition, which was also filed in conjunction with the ACLU, Planned Parenthood and the National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association, comes after two seemingly contradictory rulings from two federal appeals courts on the administration’s restriction.
The petition also tees up an abortion battle that could be heard by the Supreme Court, which is expected to have a more conservative 6-3 majority if the Senate, as expected, confirms Amy Coney Barrett to be a justice for the court. President Trump nominated Barrett to replace liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died in September.
The AMA in a statement called Title X, as the federal family planning program is commonly referred to, “a vital public health program.”
“The AMA strongly believes that our nation’s highest court must step in to remove government overreach and interference in the patient-physician relationship. Restricting the information that physicians can provide to their Title X patients blocks honest, informed conversations about all health care options — an unconscionable violation that is essentially a gag rule,” said AMA President Susan R. Bailey.
“As physicians and leaders in medicine, we are fighting against the government’s intrusion in the exam room while protecting open communication between patients and physicians, which is the foundation of high-quality medical care.”
The Trump administration in 2019 finalized a policy that mandates that taxpayer-funded clinics not refer pregnant women for abortions, leading thousands of clinics to leave the Title X program. The development impacted women, mostly women of color, who get birth control and receive routine health care from the clinics, and the AMA said the number of annual patients at the sites affected fell by 21 percent in 2019.
While the Department of Health and Human Services has said it would work to prevent any lapses in coverage, the AMA wrote in its petition that the policy “warps and decimates” Title X.
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British investigative reporter Carole Cadwalladr for The Guardian commenting on the net effect of Boris Johnson’s Covid diagnosis was viewed by citizens (more Patriotism) and the press and Parliament (less snarky.) Could be a similar outcome here. Hmmm
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