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SDNY and NYSS courts reporter, New York Daily News. Irishwoman. https://mollycranenewman.com/About
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Some shocking details in this indictment of 10 correction officers for the death of Messiah Nantwi in an upstate NY prison. Here’s our story. This’ll be updated throughout the day. www.nydailynews.com/2025/04/16/n...

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

In a new filing, DOJ prosecutors argue it’s OK for them to seek the death penalty against Luigi Mangione before he’s been indicted, but he can’t challenge it until he’s been indicted

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Jumping between Harvey Weinstein and Sarah Palin’s trials today. What year is it? Who’s president?

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

New: Bo Dietl, a private security contractor and ex-cop who's close with Mayor Adams, was interviewed by the feds as part of a corruption probe scrutinizing Tim Pearson, a former top adviser to the mayor. w/ @mollycranenewman.bsky.social & Graham Rayman www.nydailynews.com/2025/04/14/b...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Per his attorneys, Mahmoud Khalil asked to address the court at his immigration hearing today, where a judge gave the green light to the Trump admin to deport him. “This is exactly why the Trump administration has sent me to this court, 1,000 miles away from my family.”

submitted 5 days ago • 12 comments

NEW: SCOTUS affirms that the Trump admin must take steps to try to arrange Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return from the Salvadoran prison. There are no noted dissents, though the three liberals write separately to say that SCOTUS should never have intervened. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 6 days ago • 26 comments

Judge Hellerstein today said he would temporarily block the Trump administration from deporting Venezuelan nationals detained in jail facilities in the SDNY without affording them reasonable notice and a hearing www.nydailynews.com/2025/04/09/n...

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Petabytes of critical government research that is marked for possible deletion cannot be archived because of technical and legal restrictions, meaning it is very likely to be lost forever: www.404media.co/nih-archives...

submitted 12 days ago • 195 comments

Today’s story on the death of the case against Eric Adams, updated with more from Judge Ho’s scathing opinion and a hard no comment from Emil Bove w/ @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social + @josiestratman.bsky.social www.nydailynews.com/2025/04/02/f...

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

BREAKING: Judge Dale Ho has DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE the public corruption case against Mayor Adams

submitted 14 days ago • 9 comments

New Jersey Judge Michael Farbiarz has DENIED the government’s motion to dismiss Mahmoud Khalil’s habeas corpus case and ruled that he has jurisdiction over it. It’s not going to Louisiana.

submitted 15 days ago • 9 comments

Pam Bondi has directed DoJ prosecutors to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione. (FYI, he has not yet been federally indicted.) www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attor...

submitted 15 days ago • 8 comments

While Mayor Adams is unlikely to face justice for allegedly taking bribes regarding fire safety inspections, one of the FDNY chiefs indicted weeks before him, Brian Cordasco, was just sentenced to 20 months for accepting thousands of dollars to bump up paying businesses to the top of the queue

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

New filing in Mayor Adams’ case this morning: Alex Spiro has written to Judge Ho urging him to hurry up and issue a decision on the motions to dismiss the indictment “as soon as practicable,” with the petition-filing deadline in the mayoral race just days away

submitted 16 days ago • 9 comments

Yikes www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/u...

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

BREAKING: The Supreme Court holds that ATF's restrictions on the sale of ghost guns does NOT violate federal law, reversing the 5th Circuit. It is 7–2, with Gorsuch (!) writing the majority opinion. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

submitted 21 days ago • 91 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/u...

submitted 22 days ago • 7 comments

Newly-appointed interim US attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba's behavior during Trump's defamation trial last year was so far outside the bounds that Judge Kaplan threatened to imprison her

submitted 23 days ago • 18 comments

NEW: #SCOTUS won't hear Trump ally Steve Wynn's bid to overturn landmark NYT v. Sullivan precedent in a libel suit he brought against the Associated Press. Unlike some past attempts, no justice feels compelled to record a dissent or even opine.

submitted 23 days ago • 4 comments

Inbox: "MAYOR ADAMS APPOINTS RANDY MASTRO AS FIRST DEPUTY MAYOR "

submitted 27 days ago • 5 comments