Attorney General Merrick Garland told a Senate panel on Wednesday that the threats to the safety of federal judges are a "dangerous problem" and a "serious threat" amid a rise in domestic extremism, while calling for more funding for judicial security.
Louisiana senator cosigned a letter calling for justices to disclose a decade of travel records Sen. John Kennedy (R., La.) / Getty Images Kevin Daley • June 9, 2021 2:20 pm
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Sen. John Kennedy (R., La.) signed on to Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse’s (D., R.I.) request for Supreme Court justices travel records, giving bipartisan credentials to Whitehouse’s latest attempt to attack the Court’s conservatives.
Whitehouse and Kennedy sent the letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and the director of the U.S. Marshals Service, which requests all agency documents related to trips on which Marshals Service personnel accompanied the justices over a 10-year period. The justices are supposed to disclose reimbursed travel, but their reporting has been spotty at times.
North Brunswick Love is Light race to honor legacy of judge s slain son
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NORTH BRUNSWICK – Next month will mark the one-year anniversary of the day 20-year-old Daniel Anderl, the son of a federal judge, was fatally shot inside his family s home by a man disgruntled with his mother.
Shot in the heart, he died protecting his father, defense attorney Mark Anderl, who suffered multiple gunshot wounds in the July 19, 2020, attack by a man posing as a delivery person, and his mother, U.S. District Court Judge Esther Salas, who was in another part of the house.
The judge and her husband want to see their only child s legacy live on.
A New Jersey federal judge largely allowed Hertz Corp. to move forward Thursday with a lawsuit aimed at clawing back $56 million from its ex-CEO and former general counsel over their alleged breaches of company business standards in the runup to an accounting scandal.
A judge whose son was shot dead on the family doorstep is leading calls for a law to bring in more protection after a fourfold rise in violent threats in five years.Daniel, the 20-year-old son of