The Justice Department has sued to block Texas’ new redistricting maps, claiming the GOP-drawn maps violates the Voting Rights Act since it refuses to “recognize the State’s growing minority electorate.”
Garland Says He ‘Does Not Know The Facts’ Regarding Federal Probe Of Cuomo’s Nursing Home Coverup
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) pressed Attorney General nominee Judge Merrick Garland during his Senate Judiciary Committee hearing whether a reported federal probe into New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo handling of nursing homes during the coronavirus pandemic would be compromised due to a personal family tie from one of his top aide, who happens to be the person that admitted to the revelation of the cover-up of the state’s nursing home COVID-19 death toll data.
Cuomo Blows Off Shocking Nursing Home Report: ‘Who cares!’
In his first public remarks since a scathing report found that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) administration undercounted nursing home deaths by 4,000, the governor on Friday said it didn’t matter how a COVID death was counted in a nursing home or hospital as he sort to continue the blame game on the Trump Administration for the entire investigation.
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Barr: ‘No Reason’ To Appoint Special Counsel To Investigate Hunter Biden
I think that it is being handled responsibly and professionally currently within the department, and to this point, I have not seen a reason to appoint a special counsel and I have no plan to do so before I leave,” Barr said.
Outgoing Attorney General William Barr said he saw no reason or has “no plan” to appoint a special counsel to oversee either investigation related to President-elect Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, or to look into President Trump’s claims of election fraud that occurred during the 2020 presidential election.
