TRENTON, N.J.—New Jersey corrections officials, challenged by a civil-rights group, announced Monday that a bestselling book on mass incarceration and racial discrimination that had been banned at two state prisons would now be available to inmates at all state correctional facilities.The state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union had sent a letter Monday asking why at least two prisons had banned The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander.The group called the ban “ironic, misguided, and harmful.” It said the ban amounted to unconstitutional censorship of speech on issues of public concern, which is entitled to special protection under the First Amendment. Read more: Opinion | U.S. prison brutality will not end with Guantanamo … [Read more...] about New Jersey prisons lift ban on book about race and mass incarceration
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There are more crazy allegations about Trump and women in Michael Wolff’s explosive book on his presidency
In a controversial new tell-all book about the Trump White House, author Michael Wolff alleges that President Donald Trump habitually attempted to have sex with his friends’ wives. Wolff wrote that Trump would manipulate his friends into disclosing details of their sex lives and encourage them to cheat on their wives. The story echoes a claim Trump made in the 2005 “Access Hollywood” tape, in which he recounted attempting to seduce a married woman. President Donald Trump habitually attempted to have sexual affairs with his friends’ wives, manipulating his male acquaintances into disclosing details about their sex lives and encouraging them to cheat on their spouses, according to a controversial new book, “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.”Author and journalist Michael Wolff wrote that the then-real estate mogul “liked to say that one of the things that made life … [Read more...] about There are more crazy allegations about Trump and women in Michael Wolff’s explosive book on his presidency
Trump bemoans ‘very weak’ U.S. libel laws as tell-all book questions his mental fitness
WASHINGTON—Plainly agitated by a new book portraying him as dysfunctional, U.S. President Donald Trump is bemoaning his country’s “very weak” libel laws and making the case that he’s “like, really smart” and, indeed, a “very stable genius.”Trump defence of his mental fitness in a series of tweets was a singular episode in a presidency rife with moments unlike any that have come before in that office.He was pushing back against Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, which paints him as a leader who doesn’t understand the weight of his office and whose competence is questioned by aides.“Actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart,” Trump tweeted from Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland, a few hours before a strategy session on the 2018 legislative agenda with Republican congressional leaders and Cabinet members.And when Trump … [Read more...] about Trump bemoans ‘very weak’ U.S. libel laws as tell-all book questions his mental fitness
Trump wishes for better libel laws after book slams him
WASHINGTON: Plainly agitated by a new book portraying him as dysfunctional, President Donald Trump is bemoaning his country’s “very weak” liberal laws and making the case that he’s “like, really smart” and, indeed, a “very stable genius”. Trump defence of his mental fitness in a series of tweets was a singular episode in a presidency rife with moments unlike any that have come before in that office.He was pushing back against Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, which paints him as a leader who doesn’t understand the weight of his office and whose competence is questioned by aides.“Actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart,” Trump tweeted from Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland, a few hours before a strategy session on the 2018 legislative agenda with Republican congressional leaders and Cabinet members.And when Trump addressed … [Read more...] about Trump wishes for better libel laws after book slams him
Trump unloads on Russia investigation, libel laws, and explosive new tell-all book during press conference
President Donald Trump railed against former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon and Michael Wolff, the author of an explosive new book about the inner workings of the White House. Trump said Wolff did not know him at all, and that “Sloppy Steve” gave him access to the White House. He also reiterated his past claim that there was “no collusion” with Russia and added that everything he did was “100% proper.” Trump then accused former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton of colluding with the Russians. President Donald Trump unloaded on the Russia investigation and Michael Wolff, the author of an explosive new tell-all book during a press conference with reporters at Camp David on Saturday. In the book, former White House chief strategist and head of Breitbart News, Steve Bannon, is quoted eviscerating Trump, his son Donald Trump Jr., his daughter Ivanka Trump, … [Read more...] about Trump unloads on Russia investigation, libel laws, and explosive new tell-all book during press conference