Tag: Kelly Cohen

NAACP continues fight against Sessions

Kelly Cohen · January 11, 2017 3:54 pm

According to U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade, the at-large voting system in Eastpointe, Mich., violates the Voting Rights Act. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Justice Department suing Michigan city over voting rights violation claims

Kelly Cohen · January 11, 2017 3:50 pm

Jurors needed just three hours of deliberation on Tuesday to unanimously sentence convicted Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof to death. (Grace Beahm/The Post and Courier via AP, Pool)

Charleston church shooting: Dylann Roof becomes first to receive death penalty for federal hate crimes

Kelly Cohen · January 10, 2017 9:53 pm

Republican state officials, led by ex-Gov. Pat McCrory, asked the Supreme Court late last month to halt a Nov. 29 order that a special election be held for state legislative seats in 2017. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

Supreme Court halts order for North Carolina to hold special state legislative elections in 2017

Kelly Cohen · January 10, 2017 9:08 pm

Dylann Roof told the jurors who could sentence him to death on Tuesday that he "felt like I had to do it, and I still feel like I had to do it." (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File)

Dylann Roof’s closing argument: ‘I still feel like I had to do it’

Kelly Cohen · January 10, 2017 6:22 pm

Rep. William Lacy Clay, D-Mo., on Tuesday rehung a high school student's painting in the Capitol that depicts police as pigs. (Kelly Cohen/Washington Examiner)

‘Cops as Pigs’ painting becomes political skirmish

Kelly Cohen · January 10, 2017 3:55 pm

Murders, assaults and other violent crimes rose in the first half of 2016, according to a new report from the FBI. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

FBI: Murder, violent offenses climb in first half of 2016

Kelly Cohen · January 10, 2017 1:42 pm

Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., will testify against fellow Sen. Jeff Sessions. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Cory Booker to testify against fellow Senator Sessions

Kelly Cohen · January 10, 2017 3:00 am

Black lawmakers will hold a Tuesday event to rehang a painting that depicts police as pigs. (Screenshot)

Black Caucus to rehang controversial ‘cops as pigs’ painting

Kelly Cohen · January 10, 2017 2:01 am

Khizr Khan, the father of fallen Army Capt. Humayun Khan, says Jeff Sessions supports policies that are "not the American way." (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Khizr Khan urges Senate to reject Sessions

Kelly Cohen · January 9, 2017 9:37 pm

Rev. Al Sharpton will be attending the first day of confirmation hearings for Sen. Jeff Sessions. (Dale Gerhard/The Press of Atlantic City via AP)

Sharpton to attend Sessions confirmation hearing

Kelly Cohen · January 9, 2017 9:10 pm

The stocks of the two biggest for-profit private prison and detention center companies have jumped since President-elect Trump's victory in November. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Private prison industry sees boom times under Trump

Kelly Cohen · January 8, 2017 5:01 am