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WASHINGTON Attorney General Merrick B. Garland promised on Thursday to protect the credibility of the Justice Department and Americans’ civil rights and civil liberties, delivering a short speech via video to the department’s roughly 115,000 employees about an hour after he was sworn in. “I am honored to work with you once again,” Mr. Garland said, speaking from the department’s Great Hall. “Together, we will show the American people that the.
The fallout from the Capitol attack and the shadow of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing are likely to take center stage at the confirmation hearings for President Biden’s pick for attorney general.
The Greater Nashville Technology Council has welcomed seven newly elected board members and one new ex-officio member.
According to Chris Bayham, COO at XSOLIS and Tech Council board chair, the new members include the following:
• Brice Brewer, Director of Software Engineering, Amazon
• Brice Perez, Specialist Customer Engineer of Data Analytics, Google Cloud
• Chase Williams, Vice President of Professional Services, 3-D Technology Group
• Eric Stephens, Chief Analytics Officer at Nashville General Hospital
• Jessica Burns, AVP of HCA Client Relations, CereCore
• Karen Brake, North America Chief Technology Officer, Nissan
• Tara Jones, interim Chief Information Officer, Brookdale
• Jeff Hite, Chief Economic Development Officer, Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce
Jan. 6, 2021.Credit.John Minchillo/Associated Press
To explain the attack on the Capitol, you canât just turn your focus to Donald Trump and his enablers. You must also look at the individuals and institutions that fanned fears of âvoter fraudâ to the point of hysteria among conservative voters, long before Trump. Put another way, the difference between a riot seeking to overturn an election and an effort to suppress opposing votes is one of legality, not intent. And it doesnât take many steps to get from one to the other.
Conservative belief in pervasive Democratic Party voter fraud goes back decades â and rests on racist and nativist tropes that date back to Reconstruction in the South and Tammany Hall in the North â but the modern obsession with fraud dates back to the 2000 election. That year, Republicans blamed Democratic fraud for narrow defeats in New Mexico, which George W. Bush lost by just a few hundred votes, and Missouri, where the incumben