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Hearings
ready or not
Jan. 24, 2024
Could the Fugees Founding Member Actually Get a Retrial? During a three-day hearing earlier this month, a federal judge just wanted to know why Michel’s former lawyer was so bad.
By Michael Ames
The Fugees’ Pras Michel Headed Back to Court With Fancy New Lawyer Michel is gearing up for an evidentiary hearing that could force a retrial, or even an acquittal.
By Michael Ames
freeing britney
Nov. 11, 2021
Everything That Has Happened Since Britney Spears’s Pivotal Testimony Ahead of the hearing this Friday, here’s a refresher on how we got to this pivotal moment.
By Claudia Rosenbaum
#freebritney
Sept. 30, 2021
Britney Spears’s Father Jamie Suspended From Conservatorship After 13 Years In a new statement responding to his suspension, Jamie Spears says “the court was wrong.”
By Claudia Rosenbaum
explainers
Sept. 29, 2021
Britney Spears’s Conservatorship Hearing Today Could Change Everything Here’s everything on the table, including the decision to remove Jamie Spears or end the whole thing.
By Claudia Rosenbaum
Britney Spears Takes No Prisoners, Asks Court to Finally End Conservatorship In a brave, damning testimony the pop star made multiple allegations of abuse, including being forced to have an IUD.
By Claudia Rosenbaum
conservatism
July 29, 2020
The Big Tech Hearing Showed That Anti-Monopoly Is a Partisan Issue With token exceptions, Republicans don’t want Silicon Valley’s giants to be less powerful, only more conservative.
By Eric Levitz
FBI Agent Peter Strzok Scorches GOP in Testimony Fit for Aaron Sorkin Script The FBI agent explained that when he texted “we’ll stop” Trump in 2016, he was referring to American voters, not federal investigators.
By Eric Levitz
Terry Crews Details His Sexual Assault in Powerful Testimony to Senate “People don’t believe that a person like me could actually be victimized.”
By Lucia Graves
Senate to Hold Phony Graham-Cassidy Hearings So They Can Pretend to Deliberate John McCain is troubled by the Senate’s rushed consideration of health-care legislation. So the GOP is cooking up some bogus hearings for him.
By Ed Kilgore
Senate Intel Committee Will Grill Jared Kushner on Russia Meetings As part of a broader investigation into the Kremlin’s 2016 election meddling.
By Jen Kirby
Bailout Not So Popular on the Hill Senators from both parties responded with a range of emotions at the hearing today, from grudgingly cooperative to Paul Revere–style riding-and-yelling levels of alarm.
By Dan Amira