The Justice Department is nearing a decision over whether to pursue the death penalty for the white man gunman who slaughtered 10 Black people at a Buffalo grocery store last year, a racist attack that could lead to the first new capital prosecution authorized by Attorney General Merrick Garland.
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Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) is requesting an ethics investigation into Judge Beryl Howell of the US District Court for the District of Columbia, over a recent speech in which the judge lamented a “downright troubling moment in this country.”