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Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder will campaign for Janet Protasiewicz in the final days of the closely watched Wisconsin Supreme Court race, a spokesperson for Holders group, the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, told NBC News.

Holder, whose group pushes for congressional and legislative maps that favor Democrats and tackles gerrymandered maps that favor Republicans, will travel to Wisconsin in the days leading up to the April 4 election to help get out the vote for Protasiewicz, Brooke Lillard, a spokesperson for the group, said.

The Protasiewicz campaign and Holder, who served as former President Barack Obama's attorney general for most of his eight years in office, are still finalizing specific venues and dates for the appearances, Lillard said. A spokesperson for the Protasiewicz campaign directed questions from NBC News to the National Democratic Redistricting Committee.

Holders visit will come during the final days of a contest that will determine ideological control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court and with it, the future of prominent issues like abortion rights and election laws.

Another top issue in the officially nonpartisan race has been how the two candidates would rule in cases involving the states Republican-drawn legislative maps.

The current map, which experts have said is one of the most gerrymandered in the country, was approved by the current state Supreme Court last year. As is the case in many states, in Wisconsin, if the governor and the Legislature cannot agree on legislative maps, the issue falls to the state Supreme Court.

Protasiewicz, the liberal candidate in the race, has throughout her campaign called the maps "rigged." Her conservative opponent Daniel Kelly has criticized her for telegraphing how shed rule on important cases.

The contest has already become the most expensive state Supreme Court race in U.S. history. Protasiewicz, along with outside groups supporting her, including the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, has massively outspent Kelly and outside groups supporting him.

Both candidates are running to replace Justice Patience Roggensack, a member of the courts 4-3 conservative majority. A win by Kelly, a former state Supreme Court justice who lost his seat in a 2020 election to liberal Jill Karofsky, would retain conservative control of the court, while a win by Protasiewicz, a Milwaukee County circuit judge, would result in a liberal majority for the first time in 15 years.

Adam Edelman is a political reporter for NBC News.

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A former cop has claimed that the murder of Crenshaw rapper Nipsey Husslein 2019 could have been orchestrated by the LAPD.

In a new interview withComedy Hypepodcast on March 15, Bernard Robins, an ex-officer of the Los Angeles Police Department, discussed the February sentencing of Nipseys killer, Eric Holder Jr., while giving insight into the LAPD's less-than-stellar track record.

Robins suggested they very well could have been behind the murder of the rap legend, who had previously been affiliated with the Rollin 60s, an LA-area gang that is connected to the Crips.

Despite his previous affiliation, Nipsey seemed to have distanced himself from the gang in recent years, instead focusing on community activism through a number of efforts in inner-city Los Angeles - though Robins noted that it didn't stop the LAPD as seeing him as just a "gang member".

Asked if he believed more people could have been involved in Nipsey's death, including police, Robins didn't hold back.

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I think that there could have been, he began. Ive never witnessed any law enforcement officers say that there was something going on or even eluded to it. But theres that possibility.

We know a lot of the positive things that he was doing in the community. So, theres definitely that possibility that they were that determined to stop what he had going, that they probably could have sent [Eric Holder Jr.] to go and do that.

Robins also pointed out allegations that Holder had also been a police informant, which certainly casts further uncertainty over the entire situation.

He continued: I think also that they said [Eric] was an informant for law enforcement. That was a part of the issue that he had with Nipsey Hussle allegedly so we dont know. We dont know what was going on behind those closed doors.

"It could have been a bad day for Holder and he was mad, or it could have been something deeper behind it that caused Nipsey to lose his life."

Holder was sentenced to 60 years behind bars in February 2023 for the shooting death of Nipsey on March 31, 2019, outside his Marathon Clothing store in South Central Los Angeles after the sentencing had been delayed following his conviction by a grand jury in July 2022.

During the proceedings, it was revealed that Holder had been angered over Nipsey labelling him as a "snitch".

Nipsey was like, Man, you know, they got some paperwork on you, you know. I havent read it, you know. Like you my bro, you know. Like maybe you need to take care of that, you know, a witness told the grand jury in 2019.

Holder then returned to the scene and shot the rapper 11 times.

Nipsey's death sparked an outpouring of grief among the hip-hop and his local community, with many reflecting on the legacy he left behind not just as an artist, but as a philanthropist who worked hard to better his own community and the people within it.

Among just some of his charitable acts included buying shoes for school students in Hyde Park, repaving basketball courts, renovating playgrounds, providing jobs for the homeless, and funding funerals for local families and victims of gun violence.

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Far-right broadcaster Pete Santilli called on members of the military to execute former President Barack Obama, former Attorney General Eric Holder, and former National Security Advisor Susan Rice if former President Donald Trump is arrested.

Trump in a lengthy rant on Truth Social over the weekend claimed he would be arrested in connection to the Manhattan district attorney's investigation into hush-money payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels in the final stretch of the 2016 presidential campaign.

Santilli responded on his show by calling for Trump's supporters in the military to rise up and round up Obama and his former administration officials and shoot them against a "concrete wall."

"Get the military, whatever few are left that are gonna side with the people. You military personnel and you people with guns and badges and law enforcement will succumb to the will of the people," Santilli said in a clip flagged by Right Wing Watch.

"And ultimately, we demand, we absolutely demand that the criminals, the criminals in this country, if you want them held accountable, the criminals are Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Susan Rice," he continued. "This entire criminal cabal that came about as a result of the murder of John F. Kennedy, the people that perpetrated the murder of John F. Kennedy, rise up to that."

"Military, join us and put all of them up against a concrete wall...and do what we must do to save not just our country, the entire world," he pleaded.

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AUSTIN, Texas The LBJ Foundation will honor Texas native Willie Nelson with a prestigious award this May.

According to the foundation, Nelson will receive the "LBJ Liberty and Justice for All Award." All proceeds during a gala tribute on May 12 will go towards the "Willie Nelson Endowment for Uplifting Rural Communities" at the University of Texas at Austin's LBJ School of Public Affairs.

The foundation stated that Nelson is a "lifelong advocate for farmers, alleviating food insecurity and support for rural communities" and that he embodies President Lyndon B. Johnson's commitment to public service, "particularly in the areas of farming and food security."

Willie Nelson is a national treasure who gained fame through his sheer musical talent and won hearts as someone who truly cares about the lives of his fellow Americans. A product of rural Texas, Willie has never forgotten where he comes from," said Larry Temple, chairman of the LBJ Foundation's Board of Trustees. "His longtime efforts to raise money and awareness for family farmers through Farm Aid and numerous other endeavors to help those in need throughout his career make him a true inspiration."

This Willie Nelson Endowment will help fund research and fellowships that focus on sustainable agriculture, eliminating hunger, resilient energy, sustainable water and natural disaster recovery for rural and farm communities.

Nelson will join former recipients of the LBJ Liberty and Justice for All Award, including President George H. W. Bush, President Jimmy Carter, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and many others.

The award will be presented at the gala tribute dinner at the LBJ Presidential Library on May 12.

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(Bloomberg) -- As Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg appears poised to indict former President Donald Trump, some of the prosecutors most prominent New York critics have gathered under one roof.

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Tali Farhadian Weinstein, who is the wife of Saba Capital co-founder Boaz Weinstein, poured more than $8 million into her 2021 bid to become district attorney but lost to Bragg after a hard-fought Democratic primary race. Since her defeat, shes taught law, entered private practice and positioned herself as a legal affairs commentator.

In January, she added to her resume board chair of Free and Fair Litigation Group. But thats not just any legal nonprofit the group was founded by Carey Dunne and Mark Pomerantz, the two prosecutors who once led the Trump investigation for the DAs office but quit last year over Braggs supposed reluctance to indict the former president. Pomerantz put out a book last month harshly critical of the DA.

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The team-up has raised some eyebrows in the New York legal scene.

She ran for DA once before, and Pomerantzs criticism of Bragg is well-documented, said Daniel Horwitz, a former prosecutor in the office. It does raise a question about whether there are multiple agendas at work here.

Birds of a Feather

Birds of a feather flock together, observed public defender Eliza Orlins, who ran against both Bragg and Farhadian Weinstein in the DA race.

Farhadian Weinstein, Pomerantz and Dunne didnt respond to requests for comment. A spokeswoman for Bragg declined to comment.

Free and Fair was announced as a nonprofit law firm designed to counter the new authoritarian threat to our democracy and individual rights, citing gun safety, voting rights and book bans among its core issues. But Dunne and Pomerantz also touted their democracy-defending credentials in the announcement by noting that they resigned their government posts when their grand jury presentation was shut down, a clear dig at Bragg.

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In his February book People v. Donald Trump, Pomerantz claims Bragg balked at an ambitious criminal fraud case he and Dunne had been building against Trump, possibly because the DA was afraid to risk losing at trial.

Pomerantz also wrote that a zombie prosecution of Trump over his alleged hush-money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels would be a very peculiar and unsatisfying end to the investigation because the charge might end up being only a misdemeanor.

Wall Streets Pick

Bragg, who called Pomerantzs criticisms appalling, began ramping up the investigation again earlier this year and now appears close to charging Trump over the hush-money payment.

During the DA primary, Farhadian Weinstein, a Rhodes Scholar and Yale Law School graduate, positioned herself somewhat to the right of Bragg, though both ran as ex-federal prosecutors who would balance social-justice concerns while still being tough on crime. Bragg more heavily emphasized decriminalizing certain offenses though, an approach Farhadian Weinstein attacked during the campaign.

She was undeniably Wall Streets pick for the office. David Einhorn, Bill Ackman and Jason Mudrick were among the donors who funded a primary campaign that raised more than all her opponents combined and even more than any mayoral candidate, according to public records. Farhadian Weinstein was also endorsed by a number of leading Democrats, including Hillary Clinton and former Attorney General Eric Holder.

Some think she still has her eyes on the prize.

Orlins, who ran for DA on explicitly defunding the prosecutors office, says its a given that Farhadian Weinsteins team-up with Pomerantz and Dunne is aimed at setting up a challenge to Bragg in a future Democratic primary, the only race that matters in deep-blue Manhattan.

Civil rights lawyer Janos Marton, another progressive DA candidate who fell out of the race early due to lack of funds, shares that view. Its always been clear to me that Tali is preparing to run again for this position, he said.

--With assistance from Greg Farrell.

(Updates with additional background.)

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