Photo credit: Stephanie Sundier

William Todd Wilson, regional leader of the Oath Keepers, Wednesday pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy and obstructing Congress in connection with the Capitol insurrection on January 6, 2021. Wilson, 44 of Newton Grove, North Carolina, joined the Oath Keepers in 2016 and led an Oath Keepers chapter in Sampson County, North Carolina. A court filing [...]

READ MORE
1778011 / Pixabay

Brian Ulrich, a member of the far-right Oath Keepers, Friday pled guilty to seditious conspiracy and obstructing Congress in connection with the Capitol insurrection on January 6, 2021. Ulrich, 44, of Guyton, Georgia, is the second Oath Keepers member after Jon Ryan Schaffer to plead guilty to sedition charges in the federal investigation into the [...]

READ MORE

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Monday granted a stay of execution for Melissa Lucio, who was scheduled to be executed on April 27 for the 2007 capital murder of her two-year-old daughter. The trial court will review new evidence to determine if she is innocent. Lucio maintains that she was wrongfully convicted. Lucio’s daughter, [...]

READ MORE
© WikiMedia (VOA)

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Wednesday filed a notice of appeal of a judge’s decision to end the mask mandate on public transportation and airplane after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said the measure was still needed. A US district judge vacated the government’s traveler mask mandate on April 13 because [...]

READ MORE
Kim Shiflett, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Tesla shareholders Friday requested that a US district court block Elon Musk from his “public campaign to present a contradictory and false narrative” regarding Musk’s 2018 tweets about taking the company private. This request comes as part of an ongoing lawsuit the shareholders filed against Tesla and Musk. On April 1, US District Court Judge [...]

READ MORE

A Virginia state court has disbarred Jonathon Moseley, an attorney who has represented January 6 Capitol riot defendants, finding that Mosely violated six of the Virginia State Bar Rules of Professional Conduct. The Circuit Court of Prince William County found that Moseley violated “professional rules that govern safekeeping property; meritorious claims and contentions; candor toward [...]

READ MORE

President Joe Biden Sunday released a statement calling for stricter gun laws in response to the mass shooting in Sacramento that occurred earlier on Sunday, which resulted in six deaths and at least a dozen injuries. In the statement, Biden discussed his Administration’s executive action to implement his gun crime reduction strategy. This strategy includes [...]

READ MORE
1778011 / Pixabay

The Homicide Victims’ Families Rights Act, a bipartisan bill that gives families of homicide victims in federal cases more rights, passed the U.S. House of Representatives Tuesday with a vote of 406-20 and is now headed to the Senate for consideration. Under the bill, immediate family members of a homicide victim in a federal case [...]

READ MORE