Alaska
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Authorities have arrested an Alaska man, Panos Anastasiou, 76, on charges that he threatened to assault, kidnap, and murder six U.S. Supreme Court justices and some of their family members. Prosecutors allege that Anastasiou sent over 465 threatening messages through the Supreme Court’s website, starting in March 2023, with the threats escalating in violence by…
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The U.S. judiciary’s top policymaking body referred former Alaska judge Joshua Kindred to Congress for potential impeachment, even after his resignation, due to the severity of his “reprehensible” sexual misconduct. This decision, revealed in public records on Friday, explained why the U.S. Judicial Conference made the rare referral last week, certifying that the U.S. House…
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A national judicial conduct committee has upheld a panel’s findings that a now-former federal judge in Alaska engaged in misconduct by having an inappropriate sexualized relationship with one of his law clerks and creating a hostile work environment for court employees. On Thursday, the Judicial Conference’s Committee on Judicial Conduct and Disability affirmed a decision…
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The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday referred a judicial misconduct investigation of a federal judge in Alaska to its internal watchdog. This investigation concerns conflicts prosecutors who appeared before the judge may have faced. The department revealed the referral after Alaska’s top federal public defender, Jamie McGrady, requested that the Justice Department’s inspector general…
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Federal prosecutors in Alaska have identified 23 criminal cases where attorneys appearing before a federal judge, who resigned last week amid sexual misconduct accusations, may have had undisclosed conflicts of interest. A top federal prosecutor sent the list in an email on Friday, which Reuters reviewed. This occurred four days after the 9th Circuit Judicial…
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A federal judge appointed by former President Donald Trump has resigned from his lifetime position in Alaska following a damning investigative report that uncovered serious misconduct. Judge Joshua Kindred, appointed in 2020, stepped down after a Judicial Council investigation revealed he had lied about engaging in “sexual contact” with a former law clerk and made…
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The state of Alaska has sued the federal government to recover revenues it lost after President Joe Biden’s administration canceled oil and gas drilling leases in the federal Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. On Tuesday, Alaska filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, claiming the lease cancellations issued during Republican former President Donald…
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Northern Dynasty Minerals (NDM.TO) announced on Wednesday that two Alaska native village corporations had sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over its veto against the Canadian miner’s proposed Pebble mine in the state’s southwest region. Iliamna Natives Limited and Alaska Peninsula Corporation, representing the communities closest to the copper and gold mining project, claimed in…
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In a bold move, eight young individuals are taking legal action against the Alaskan government, alleging that a massive new fossil fuel endeavor violates their constitutional rights. The lawsuit targets the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation’s proposed $38.7 billion gas export project, which, if realized, would significantly increase the state’s greenhouse gas emissions for decades. According…
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