| No Images? Click here   Paul Manafort To Serve 7 And A Half Years In Prison In Mueller CasesA federal judge sentenced former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort to additional prison time on Wednesday, bringing his total prison sentence in the cases against him to about seven and a half years. His crimes include two conspiracy counts, including money-laundering, obstruction of justice and failure to disclose foreign lobbying work over the course of a decade.The former campaign chair had reached a plea deal with special counsel Robert Mueller’s team in September and pleaded guilty to two counts, one of conspiracy against the U.S. and another of conspiracy to obstruct justice. Manafort had agreed to cooperate with the government, but Mueller’s team later said Manafort lied to the special counsel team several times, and U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the District of Columbia agreed.Moments after Wednesday’s sentencing, state prosecutors in New York indicted Manafort on multiple counts, including mortgage fraud and conspiracy. The indictment, which had been expected since last month, is understood to be an effort to prevent President Donald Trump from potentially using his pardon power to save Manafort from jail time. While the president can issue pardons for federal crimes, state criminal cases are outside his reach.  WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING?Samuel L. Jackson sent a scathing message to people who aren’t speaking out against President Donald Trump. Naturally, profanity ensued.Trump's court pick Neomi Rao confirmed as Kavanaugh’s Appeals Court replacement. Rao wrote in 1994 that “a woman, like a man, decides when and how much to drink. And if she drinks to the point where she can no longer choose, well, getting to that point was part of her choice.” She said that a “good way to avoid a potential date rape is to stay reasonably sober.”California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Wednesday announced an indefinite moratorium on the state’s death penalty, suspending a practice he believes discriminates against marginalized communities while failing to make the state any safer.
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