Rep. Tom Emmer states that Omar’s updated financial report does not exonerate her.

Rep. Tom Emmer states that Omar's updated financial report does not exonerate her.

Ilhan Omar’s Financial Report Faces Republican Scrutiny Recent financial disclosures from Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) aimed at clarifying her previous income have failed to convince Republicans. House Minority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) expressed that proposed amendments might raise even more suspicions. “Ilhan Omar seems even less aware than I realized if she believes this updated […]

Why is America so slow to exonerate the wrongly convicted?

As the old saying goes, the wheels of justice turn slowly but with great precision, but as the civil rights activist Rev. Benjamin Chavis told me nearly 50 years ago, “the wheels seldom turn in the opposite direction.” At the time, I was covering Chavis' post-conviction trial for The New York Times. Wilmington TenChavis's criminal […]