The Cedar Rapids City Council will hold a public hearing to consider plans for an estimated $4.665 million renovation of the former Colonial Center building into affordable housing units. Also, the deadline is approaching to apply to fill an Iowa City Council vacancy.
routinely violated the inmates constitutional right. they provided detailed evidence that officials at the prison continuously failed to provide prisoners with access to health treatment, and protection from violence and our systemic, that led to widespread death and die spare. we covered this back in 2020. joining me now, to discuss further these findings is katie benham, department of justice reporter at new york times and an msnbc contributor. this 59-page report underlines disturbing details hout inmates at mississippi state penitentiary were treated, one
around the same time i think it brought a lot of public pressure to bear on the situation. katie, before i let you go, i want your take briefly on another issue confronting the justice department. it seems every day we get additional details on what happened on january 6th. jim jordan and matt gaetz were reportedly deeply involved in the trump white house s efforts to overturn the election. you have written about the pressure of attorney general garland is under to aggressively pursue cases related to the insurrection. how far do you think the doj is willing to go in pursuing this matter? i think i look at it slightly differently. what we re seeing is on the congressional side a very fast-moving investigation that has to wrap up by the med term elections. that s their drop-dead deadline,