Fordham piece called Warren Harvard Law's 'first woman of color'

By MAGGIE HABERMAN 05/15/2012 02:33 PM EDT

Elizabeth Warren has pushed back hard on questions about a Harvard Crimson piece in 1996 that described her as Native American, saying she had no idea the school where she taught law was billing her that way and saying it never came up during her hiring a year earlier, which others have backed up.

But a 1997 Fordham Law Review piece described her as Harvard Law School's "first woman of color," based, according to the notes at the bottom of the story, on a "telephone interview with Michael Chmura, News Director, Harvard Law (Aug. 6, 1996)."

https://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/05/fordham-piece-called-warren-harvard-laws-first-woman-of-color-123526

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Fifteen Democratic House members and Republican Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska called on the Justice Department to investigate Acosta’s role in the lenient plea deal and whether there was any misconduct.

But federal law bars the Justice Department inspector general’s office from investigating allegations of misconduct against DOJ attorneys. In a letter to Democrats on Tuesday, Horowitz said Epstein’s case raised “important questions,” but his hands were tied.

“Over the past 30 years, my three predecessors as DOJ Inspector General and I have objected to this limitation on the OIG’s jurisdiction because it shields prosecutorial misconduct from review by a statutorily independent OIG,” Horowitz wrote.

Earlier this month, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 202, “The Inspector General Access Act of 2019,” which repeals the provision that bars the Justice Department inspector general’s office from investigating misconduct claims against DOJ attorneys.

Horowitz said he hopes the Senate will pass companion legislation so his office “can exercise jurisdiction over allegations of attorney misconduct.”

https://www.floridaphoenix.com/blog/fla-democrat-disappointed-ig-wont-investigate-acosta/

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/labor-secretarys-role-in-abuse-deal-could-get-doj-scrutiny-2

https://twitter.com/Techno_Fog/status/1093265544189366272

Hundreds Of Libyan Ex-Slaves Begin Arriving In Canada

More than a year after the United Nations asked countries to take in refugees living in slavery in Libya, Canada has begun resettling hundreds of them, the UN and the federal government said Wednesday.

https://www.baytoday.ca/national-news/hundreds-of-ex-slaves-in-libya-coming-to-canada-one-year-after-un-request-1231129

2 Million Syringes Still Missing In San Francisco

In an effort to reduce infections and disease transmission among injection drug users, San Francisco handed out a record 5.8 million free syringes last year - about 500,000 more than in 2017.

There's just one problem - well, more than one - despite spending an extra $1.8 million last year in an effort to retrieve needles, the San Francisco Chronicle reports that the department handed out about 2 million more syringes than it got back… many of which are now washing around the streets of one of the richest cities in America (along with the feces of their users).

San Francisco — where drug addicts outnumber high school students

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/philmatier/article/San-Francisco-where-street-addicts-outnumber-13571702.php