Intro 1297, which had more than 41 co-sponsors and passed on Nov. 25 with 48 votes in the affirmative, will clarify that survivors may bring claims under City's Gender-Motivated Violence Act (GMVA) not only against individual abusers but also against institutions that enabled sexual violence, even when the abuse occurred decades ago. If signed by outgoing Mayor Eric Adams before the end of this year,
Yesterday, Judge Cameron McGowan Currie tossed the Trump administration's slapdash effort to criminally prosecute former FBI Director James Comey, noting that the purported U.S. Attorney behind the prosecution had all the legal authority of three raccoons in a trench coat. Alas, the role of "Kinda Sorta Interim-ish U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia," is not so much "real," with the statutory authority provided to the actual interim U.S. Attorney having expired months ago.
"Consequently, I conclude that the Attorney General's attempt to install Ms. Halligan as Interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia was invalid and that Ms. Halligan has been unlawfully serving in that role since September 22, 2025," Currie wrote. "I conclude that all actions flowing from Ms. Halligan's defective appointment, including securing and signing Mr. Comey's indictment, constitute unlawful exercises of executive power and must be set aside."
When I was a child, I was sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein. I could not come forward before. I wasn't ready. Awareness and courage take time. Now I am.
A Georgia man was arrested and charged with raping five women in Southeast Queens during the 1990s after DNA from a discarded cup matched decades-old crime scene evidence, authorities said. Michael Benjamin, 57, of Conyers, Georgia, was arraigned Thursday on 17 charges, including five counts of first-degree rape, following his extradition from Georgia on Wednesday, according to the Queens district attorney's office. Officials described the attacks as "heinous" and said Benjamin forced his way into victims' homes.
Earlier this year, SCOTUSblog co-founder and veteran Supreme Court litigator Tom Goldstein was arrested on a 22-count indictment alleging tax crimes and making false statements to lenders. According to the government, Goldstein participated in high-stakes poker games and failed to disclose his winnings (in tax filings) and losings (in loan applications). Over the course of several years, the indictment says that Goldstein racked up big winnings and bigger losses in high-stakes underground poker matches, both domestically and abroad.
A lawyer loyal to President Donald Trump was sworn in as the top federal prosecutor in eastern Virginia on Monday, as the president becomes increasingly impatient for the indictments of two people he despises: former FBI Director James B. Comey and Attorney General Letitia James of New York. The lawyer, Lindsey Halligan, a White House adviser and former Trump defense attorney with no prosecutorial experience, was tapped as the interim U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia,
