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The Rev. Al Sharpton's 28-year-old daughter, Dominique Sharpton, is suing New York City for $5 million over a sprained ankle she suffered while walking through a crosswalk, the New York Post reports. The October 2 fall left her "severely injured, bruised and wounded," according to court documents, and she "still suffers and will continue to suffer for some time physical pain and bodily injuries."

Sharpton suffered "internal and external injuries to the whole body, lower and upper limbs, the full extent of which are unknown, permanent pain and mental anguish," her court filing continues, and she is seeking damages for "loss of quality of life, future pain and suffering, future medical bills, [and] future diminution of income."

The Post notes that, though Sharpton was seen walking in a boot for several weeks after the accident, she can also be seen at about the same time in pictures on social media wearing high heals and climbing a ladder to put an angel on top of a Christmas tree.

She also attended a National Action Network Justice for All march in Washington, D.C., and for a New Years Eve trip to Miami Beach around the same time.

Sharpton isn't alone in her claim against the city for uneven roadways and sidewalks. New York City received 774 "defective roadway" claims in fiscal 2014, the Post reported. A photo accompanying the Post's story showed an unevenly patched crosswalk at the corner of Broome Street and Broadway, where Sharpton says her injury occurred.

The city also has had to pay $60 million in 885 claims of "defective sidewalks" over a 22-month period.

In an Instagram post just after her accident, Sharpton wrote, "I sprained my ankle real bad lol."

Sharpton works for her father's National Action Network, where she serves as membership director.

Al Sharpton was asked about the case, responding, "Shes 29 years old. Why would she have to talk to me about that? I just know that she was hurt and that she got a lawyer and shes a grown woman. [Where] she goes from there, I have no idea."

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Attorney General Eric Holder recently revealed that the Justice Department is expanding its guidelines for convicted felons seeking clemency (often called a pardon or commutation of sentence). But there are still too many people in federal prison who were sentenced under the old regime -- and who, as a result, will have to spend far more time in prison than they would if sentenced today for exactly the same crime.

Holders announcement was a messaging disaster. He fed the common misconception that clemency is only for people who want to get out of prison. Headlines read, Thousands of prisoners could qualify for clemency, and Obama seeks wider authority to release drug offenders.

Release the prisoners messaging does not bode well with most Americans. Rather than focus on current inmates and blame the old regime, Holder should have spoken about the administrations desire to pardon millions of Americans who never served a day in prison yet live as convicted felons for a crime they committed many years ago. These people blame nobody but themselves for their crimes and they have become contributing members of society.

Andrew McCarthy (who commented to Fox News Megyn Kelly about the initiative) wrote, This exercise is another transparent usurpation of legislative power by the president. The pardon power is just the camouflage for it. The pardon power exists so that the president can act in individual cases to correct excesses and injustices. It is not supposed to be a vehicle by which presidents rewrite congressional statutes that they disagree with philosophically

McCarthy is wrong: The pardon power is executive; it is not legislative. The pardon power is not a congressional statute. It is enumerated (written in the Constitution of the United States of America, as well as each states constitution) that is the sole power of the president (for federal crimes) and each states governor (for state crimes).

The true essence of the pardon power is about forgiveness, not about releasing the guilty and dangerous -- like murderers and child molesters -- back onto the streets. Organizations like the American Civil Liberties Union and The Innocence Project focus much of their work on inmates, many of whom are not sympathetic to the average American.

The majority of Americans who seek a pardon have never been to prison, but rather pleaded guilty to a crime and were sentenced to probation. Whether one is sentenced to 5 years in prison or 5 years on probation, both remain convicted felons for life. Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Rodgers, for example, was recently pardoned by Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman for felony larceny he committed in 1970. He never went to prison, but received two years probation.

In 2004, Eric Pizer, an Iraq war veteran who served two tours of duty, was arrested in Madison, Wis., and charged with felony battery after he tried to break up a fight just two days after he returned from war. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two years probation. He never went to prison.

For the past 10 years, Pizer has been a devoted husband and father. He received a Criminal Justice degree. But employers only see his permanent Felon Scarlett Letter. He can only get low-paying jobs and currently works as a piano mover.

Wisconsins Constitution states, The governor shall have power to grant reprieves, commutations and pardons, after conviction, for all offenses, except treason and cases of impeachment, upon such conditions and with such restrictions and limitations as he may think proper Gov. Walker has ignored this executive power: he has yet to grant a single pardon even though his five predecessors granted more than 800 certificates of forgiveness.

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. When James Comers phone buzzed Monday night, he had just finished tangling with the three Republicans angling to crush him in next weeks Kentucky GOP gubernatorial primary. The campaign had hit its ugly zenith a week earlier, when Comers ex-girlfriend accused him of hitting her decades earlier when they were in college together.

The message on his phone, though, was an uplifting one: Hang in there. And it came from an unlikely source: Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.).

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Basically, he tells me to keep my head up, Comer told POLITICO after a local Republican Party function here on Thursday night. Comer began to explain that Paul himself had been a victim of similar controversies before an aide ended the interview.

Pauls communication, during one of the nastiest Republican-on-Republican brawls in recent memory, was remarkable because the first-term senator, who announced a bid for president last month, has remained neutral in the four-way primary, despite close ties to Comer in the past. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, also from Kentucky, has declined to intervene in the race as well.

Their silence has been noticeable in a contest that has otherwise tested and frayed Republican allegiances in the close-knit state, featured a hail of super PAC spending and a host of personal attacks. Both senators also have a political stake in the outcome.

Paul needs the states next governor to help drive legal changes that will allow him to run for his Senate seat next year while he seeks the White House. And McConnell is standing by as the man who tried to unseat him last year conservative businessman Matt Bevin inches closer to the nomination.

Bevin, Comer and Louisville businessman Hal Heiner are locked in a three-way tie just days from next Tuesdays primary, according to recent polls. All three candidates shrug off the significance of endorsements. Ive pretty much been on my own in the race, but Im proud of what Ive done, said Comer, the states agriculture commissioner.

But in a race this close, the smallest shift of the needle could affect the outcome.

The winner will take on the all-but-certain Democratic nominee, Attorney General Jack Conway. Democrats have held Kentuckys governorship for 36 of the last 40 years, a startling reality in a state that votes reliably Republican in federal elections.

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George Stephanopoulos.(Photo: Heidi Gutman, ABC)

Fact-driven, fair, aggressive journalism animates American politics. As an investigative journalist, I am accustomed to asking tough questions. When I publish, I expect tough questions in turn,

That's not what ABC News This Week host and chief anchor George Stephanopoulos delivered when he interviewed me about my new book on the Clinton Foundation last month. There's a reason. Though Stephanopoulos belatedly disclosed$75,000 in donations to the foundation, he has yet to disclose his much deeper relationship with the Clinton Foundation.

When Stephanopoulos invited me on his Sunday program, I knew that he had worked as a top adviser and campaign manager to President Bill Clinton in the 1990s, but I didn't know about his donations or his other ties to the foundation founded and overseen by the former president and his wife, potential future president Hillary Clinton.

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I agreed to be interviewed, expecting a robust examination of my new book, Clinton Cash, and my reporting on the Clintons' accumulation of massive personal wealth, cronyism and the lack of transparency surrounding the Clintons' foundation.

I expected probing questions, similar to the ones I've received from Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC, Chris Wallace on Fox News and Frank Sesno on CNN.

What I did not expect what no one expected was the sort of "hidden hand journalism" that has contributed to America's news media's crisis of credibility in particular, and Americans' distrust of the news media more broadly.

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Feb. 19, 2012 -- Trayvon Martin, 17, and Tracy, his father, travel from Miami Gardens to Sanford, Fla., to visit the elder Martin's fiancee in her townhome at The Retreat at Twin Lakes. Photo courtesy of globalgrind.com

Feb. 26, 2012 -- Trayvon Martin is walking to the home of his father's fiancee after purchasing items from a 7-Eleven store in Sanford. George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer, spots Martin at approximately 7 p.m. and calls police. "We've had some break-ins in my neighborhood, and there's a real suspicious guy," Zimmerman tells police.

Feb. 26, 2012 -- Roughly seven minutes after Zimmerman's call to police, authorities receive a 911 call from an individual reporting a fight. During the call, the dispatcher hears a gunshot in the background and sends police units to the location. Responding officers discover that Martin has been shot in the chest. The teen is unresponsive and pronounced dead at the scene. Police find no identification on Martin and label him a John Doe.

Feb. 26, 2012 -- Questioned by police, Zimmerman informs them that Martin attacked him and he fired his gun in self-defense. Authorities confiscate Zimmerman's 9 mm semi-automatic pistol and take him to the Sanford Police Department for further questioning.

Feb. 27, 2012 -- Following a lengthy interview, George Zimmerman is released from the police station at approximately 1 a.m. Hours later, Tracy Martin contacts police to report his son missing. Investigators soon connect the dots and inform the elder Martin of his son's death. After receiving treatment from a family doctor, Zimmerman meets with investigators and reenacts the events of the shooting at the crime scene.

March 8, 2012 -- Tracy Martin holds a press conference, during which he criticizes the investigation into his son's slaying. "We feel justice hasn't been served," Martin tells reporters.

March 9, 2012 -- Martin family attorney Benjamin Crump tells the Miami Herald he is filing a lawsuit for the release of public records in the case.

March 10, 2012 -- Members of the New Black Panther Party, contending there has been a "miscarriage of justice," rally outside the Sanford Police Department.

March 12, 2012 -- Sanford Police Chief Bill Lee holds a press conference, at which he claims that investigators were unable to arrest Zimmerman because he was protected by Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law, which allows residents to shoot someone if they reasonably believe they are being threatened. "There is no evidence to dispute Zimmerman's assertion that he shot Martin out of self-defense," Lee says. In response, Martin's parents, Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton, post a petition on the Change.org website calling for State Attorney Angela Corey to prosecute Zimmerman. The petition quickly garners support from multiple celebrities and receives nearly 900,000 signatures the first week.

March 13, 2012 -- In a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, the NAACP expresses doubt in the Sanford Police Department's ability to appropriately handle the investigation, asking the Department of Justice to review the case. "The NAACP has no confidence that, absent federal oversight, the Sanford Police Department will devote the necessary degree of care to its investigation," the letter says. Sanford police announce the completion of their investigation and turn the case over to the State Attorney's Office for Brevard and Seminole Counties. "Trayvon Martin and his family, interested persons, and the public-at-large are entitled to no less than a thorough, deliberate and just review of the information provided, along with any other evidence that may or may not be developed in the course of the review process," State Attorney Norm Wolfinger's office says in a statement.

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