cosby had served more than two years in prison after he was convicted of three counts of aggravated indecent assault in 2018. he will never serve another day of the 3 to 10 year sentence he had initially been given at the court overturned that conviction today. they overturned it on the grounds that a previous pennsylvania prosecutor, who happens to be the bizarre, trump impeachment lawyer, bruce caster, bruce caster, when he was serving as a prosecutor in pennsylvania had apparently given bill crosby an unwritten, unofficial, though apparently binding assurance that he wouldn t be prosecuted. and on the basis of that, the supreme court today overturned his ultimate prosecution and deemed that he cannot be tried on those charges again. a bizarre turn in one of the highest profile prosecutions of the me too era today and bill cosby is tonight out of prison and at his home in suburban philadelphia. that arriving just in this
indictments will be undealed tomorrow afternoon. the post is reporting that mr. weisselberg is expected to surrender tomorrow morning at the manhattan district attorney s office and that he s expected to be arraigned later in the day before a state judge in a new york courtroom. the trump organization will also be arraigned. it s hard to arraign an entity, at least it s hard to imagine that. the way it works in person is that the entity will be represented in court by one of its attorneys. the indictments are expected to be unsealed at around 2:00 p.m. eastern time tomorrow. because the indictments are sealed until then, we don t know exactly what the charges will be. there s been lots of reporting that the charges are expected to focus on tax-related alleged felonies. the trump organization s lawyers have been working overtime for days. telling the media that the charges are small potatoes and politically motivated and they
minority voters, that would be good news for voting rights advocates looking for some help at the federal level at stopping voting restrictions that target minority voters. on the other hand, if the supreme court justices decide it doesn t matter that those laws disproportionately affect minority voters, that will be one more brutal blow against the voting rights act, which they gutted in a ruling in 2013. so if you want to keep tract at home, the brennan center is tracking all of the bills that the republican party across the country has been pushing this year to restrict voting rights, often in ways that target minority votes. their count is up to nearly 400 restrictive voting bills introduced this year across 40 different states. it couldn t be more consequential and timely. those questions will be answered tomorrow morning at 10:00 a.m. eastern by the supreme court. of course there is the perhaps even larger question on the mind of everybody in the whole legal
world that in some ways everybody on the mind of everybody who pays attention to the news in politics, which is the question of whether a supreme court justice might announce retirement tomorrow. justice steven breyer s name has been in the headlines because he has been facing calls to voluntarily retire, step down from his seat on the court. those calls coming from people who worry about a repeat of what happened in 2016 when republicans blocked president obama from filling a vacant seat. also people worried about what happened when ruth bader ginsburg died while still sitting on the court at a time when republicans controlled the united states senate. and that is how we got president trump s third supreme court justice nominee on the supreme court. in a worst-case scenario if justice breyer steps down, nobody believes that president biden will be allowed by the republicans to put his own nominee on the court.
whirlwind of news. don t forget that tomorrow is the last day of the term for the united states supreme court this year. and that means two very important things. first, there is two really big cases left to be decided. one about dark money, undisclosed money in politics. and another that, frankly, could put the final nail in the coffin of the already gutted voting rights act based on an arizona voting case. both of those decisions are expected from the supreme court tomorrow. election reform and voting rights advocates bracing for what s expected to not be great news on either of those fronts, but we shall see. the court has been full of surprises this year. the substance being the last day of the term matters. but tomorrow also matters because it is the last day of the term. and if justice steven briar or any of the other 80-something-year-old justices on the court are going to retire