Tag: Kelly Cohen

Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., on Friday took down a controversial painting from the wall of the U.S. Capitol that depicted police officers as pigs. (Screenshot)

Rep. Duncan Hunter removes ‘Cops As Pigs’ painting from Capitol wall

Kelly Cohen · January 6, 2017 5:52 pm

Rev. Al Sharpton and other civil rights leaders on Friday said Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., is "unfit" to be the next attorney general. (Dale Gerhard/The Press of Atlantic City via AP)

Sharpton: Sessions a ‘nightmare’ attorney general candidate

Kelly Cohen · January 6, 2017 3:25 pm

Dylann Roof, 22, was convicted of all 33 federal counts against him in federal court. (Grace Beahm/The Post and Courier via AP, Pool)

Dylann Roof’s state trial indefinitely delayed

Kelly Cohen · January 5, 2017 8:39 pm

Chicago cops file hate crime charges in kidnapping, attack

Kelly Cohen · January 5, 2017 5:04 pm

The history of racism in the United States continues to lead to disparity between blacks and whites in the U.S. judicial system, President Obama argued. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama blames criminal justice flaws on ‘legacy of racism’

Kelly Cohen · January 5, 2017 11:00 am

Charleston shooter Dylann Roof tells jurors: ‘There’s nothing wrong with me psychologically’

Kelly Cohen · January 4, 2017 5:59 pm

Deval Patrick once opposed Sen. Jeff Sessions in an Alabama voting rights case. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Ex-Massachusetts governor urges senators to reject Sessions as attorney general

Kelly Cohen · January 4, 2017 5:37 pm

Through his clemency initiative, which he launched in 2014, President Obama has commuted the sentences of 1,176 individuals. He has also granted an additional 148 pardons. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Obama rushes to grant clemency before Trump takes office

Kelly Cohen · January 4, 2017 5:01 am

The FDA maintains the 2015 shipment of 1,000 vials of sodium thiopental from India is illegal to import. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

Texas sues feds over blockage of execution drugs

Kelly Cohen · January 4, 2017 12:02 am

Over 1,000 law professors have signed a letter expressing concern that Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., will not "fairly enforce" laws as attorney general. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

More than 1,000 law professors oppose Sessions for AG

Kelly Cohen · January 3, 2017 10:52 pm

This isn't the first time McAuliffe has tried to move an aggressive criminal justice reform plan. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Va. governor proposes new wave of criminal justice reforms

Kelly Cohen · January 3, 2017 8:56 pm

At the end of 2015, there were an estimated 6,741,000 persons supervised by adult correctional systems in the U.S. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Report: US incarcerated population at lowest level since 2002

Kelly Cohen · December 29, 2016 4:04 pm