Tag: Attorney

Judge Gilbert Merritt, fixture of Tennessee judiciary for decades, dies

Gilbert Stroud Merritt Jr., a native Nashvillian who rose to become a towering figure in the city’s legal community over the past six decades and the longest-serving member of the current 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, has died.  He was 86. His daughter, Louise Clark Merritt, confirmed to The Tennessean he died of metastatic prostate cancer.… Continue reading Judge Gilbert Merritt, fixture of Tennessee judiciary for decades, dies

Lawsuit: Google, Facebook CEOs colluded in online ad sales

Home > Article VOL. 46 | NO. 2 | Friday, January 14, 2022 By The Associated Press Updated 3:46PM Newly unredacted documents from a state-led antitrust lawsuit against Google accuse the search giant of colluding with rival Facebook to manipulate online advertising sales. The CEOs of both companies were aware of the deal and signed… Continue reading Lawsuit: Google, Facebook CEOs colluded in online ad sales

Giles County ends for-profit probation, waives debts

Home > Article VOL. 46 | NO. 2 | Friday, January 14, 2022 NASHVILLE (AP) — A Middle Tennessee county can no longer require misdemeanor probationers to pay the cost of their supervision under a consent decree signed by a federal judge on Thursday. In addition to ending so-called “user-funded probation,” Giles County agreed to… Continue reading Giles County ends for-profit probation, waives debts

Jan. 6 committee subpoenas Trump aide, 2 GOP strategists

Home > Article VOL. 46 | NO. 1 | Friday, January 7, 2022 WASHINGTON (AP) — The House panel investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection is demanding records and testimony from a former White House aide they say helped draft former President Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 speech, along with two others it says were in communication… Continue reading Jan. 6 committee subpoenas Trump aide, 2 GOP strategists

Nashville couple exonerated, one posthumously, after push to overturn 1980s murder, child rape conviction

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‘I trusted the President’: Jan. 6 rioters in their own words

VOL. 46 | NO. 1 | Friday, January 7, 2022 WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing prison time, many Jan. 6 rioters admit they were wrong to enter the U.S. Capitol and disavow political violence, despite what former President Donald Trump claims in spreading lies about the attack. Some directly blame Trump for misleading them and warn… Continue reading ‘I trusted the President’: Jan. 6 rioters in their own words

Trump maintains grip on GOP despite violent insurrection

VOL. 46 | NO. 1 | Friday, January 7, 2022 WASHINGTON (AP) — As a raging band of his supporters scaled walls, smashed windows, used flagpoles to beat police and breached the U.S. Capitol in a bid to overturn a free and fair election, Donald Trump’s excommunication from the Republican Party seemed a near certainty,… Continue reading Trump maintains grip on GOP despite violent insurrection

AP FACT CHECK: Trump sticks to election falsehoods on Jan. 6

Home > Article VOL. 46 | NO. 1 | Friday, January 7, 2022 WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump on Thursday clung to his false claims that the 2020 election was stolen as the nation marked the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection. Reacting to President Joe Biden, who blamed him for… Continue reading AP FACT CHECK: Trump sticks to election falsehoods on Jan. 6