NEW: A judge reluctantly erased the Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy case against the Proud Boys tonight, concluding he had no power to get in DOJ's way.
But Judge Kelly, a Trump appointee, made clear he disagreed — and underscored the gravity of the attack.
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JUST IN: It's over. Judge Kelly has granted DOJ's motion to dismiss the J6 seditious conspiracy case against Proud Boys leaders.
He takes a couple parting shots, suggesting Trump's view of the case is based on "fiction" and notes the prosecution started under Trump's presidency.
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Plaintiff Pamela Lockridge says, above all, the verdict she was awarded "sends a message that children are precious" and "deserve protection".
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This is the latest fallout from the long ongoing abuse scandal involving Catholic institutions in New Orleans. It also comes after the elimination of filing deadlines for such lawsuits was upheld as constitutional in 2024.
The Guardian understands New Orleans' Jesuit High School has agreed to pay seven figures to settle a lawsuit alleging child molestation by janitors at the institution in the 1970s. | https://t.co/LPghFdD6o8
Statements from the women Roman Catholic priest Anthony Odiong was convicted of committing criminal clergy sexual assault against in Texas were read in court today. One called what he did 'soul murder.'
The other said what Odiong 'did cannot be buried, softened or reframed...
Victims of Anthony Odiong, the Roman Catholic priest sentenced to life imprisonment yesterday for criminal clergy sexual abuse in Texas, criticized his old church in Luling, Louisiana, for publishing a prayer intention for him in its most recent bulletin.
There was not one …
The first woman to publicly accuse a Roman Catholic priest who was convicted by a Texas jury on Friday of criminal clergy sexual abuse hopes he can no longer 'use faith as ... his snare' | https://t.co/OatWYZmB0u
With @cscudder - A Texas jury has convicted a Catholic priest of clergy sexual assault of two adult female parishioners after @guardian reporting | https://t.co/04F28e62oQ
With @cscudder - A Texas jury has started deliberating the fate of Anthony Odiong, the ex-Catholic pastor of St Anthony of Padua in Luling, Louisiana, who is charged with illegally exploiting his clergy status for sexual conduct with female congregants | https://t.co/04F28e62oQ
A Roman Catholic priest on trial in Texas for allegedly sexually assaulting female congregants by exploiting his clerical status has been established as the father of a baby of a New Orleans-area parishioner | https://t.co/2Ht0GcP5pG
The sexual assault trial of Roman Catholic priest Anthony Odiong -- the former pastor of St Anthony of Padua in the New Orleans suburb of Luling -- begins with jury selection in Waco, Texas.
Odiong ministered there before arriving to St Anthony.
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The records reveal, among many other things, that the priest’s history was more blemished than previously known. And how the archbishop at the time thought the priest’s exposure was “BS”.
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