For the first time in four years, the National Rifle Association is endorsing a Democrat. The NRA is endorsing Rep. Mary Peltola, D-Alaska, who is running for a second term in the state's at-large district. This is the first time the NRA has endorsed a Democrat since it endorsed Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minn., in 2020. On her website, Peltola claims to own 176 long guns and vows to protect Alaskans' Second Amendment rights. "Guns are an integral part of Alaska's culture and our subsistence lifestyles," Peltola said in a statement...

A New York judge barred Wayne LaPierre from returning to lead the National Rifle Association. State Supreme Court Judge Joel Cohen issued a 10-year ban following a jury’s verdict that found the NRA and its executives guilty in a civil corruption trial. However, he rejected New York Attorney General Letitia James’s proposal to appoint an independent monitor to oversee the organization’s finances and report to the court for three years. James was also looking to impose a permanent ban on LaPierre returning to lead the NRA or its affiliates rather...

A New York judge on Monday banned Wayne LaPierre, the former head of the National Rifle Association, from holding a paid position with the organization for a decade, but declined to appoint an independent monitor to oversee the gun rights group. The split decision from Judge Joel Cohen came on the final day of arguments in the second stage of a civil trial brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James. LaPierre, who sat in the front row as the judge read his ruling, did not respond to questions as...

NEW YORK -- A New York judge on Monday banned Wayne LaPierre, the former head of the National Rifle Association, from holding a paid position with the organization for a decade, but declined to appoint an independent monitor to oversee the gun rights group. The split decision from Judge Joel Cohen came on the final day of arguments in the second stage of a civil trial brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James. The first phase of the trial, decided in February by a Manhattan jury, found LaPierre and...

Wayne LaPierre, former head of the National Rifle Association, was banned Monday from holding a paid position with the gun-rights group or its affiliates for the next 10 years. State Supreme Court Judge Joel Cohen, however, did not appoint an independent monitor to oversee the group’s operations, saying it wouldn’t be worth the money and wouldn’t deliver the results New York State Attorney General Letitia James was looking for. He also expressed concern about the fine line between overseeing management practices that had been deemed corrupt, and potential “speech-chilling government...

A New York judge on Monday banned former National Rifle Association (NRA) leader Wayne LaPierre from serving in a paid position for the gun rights group for the next ten years while declining to appoint an independent monitor to oversee the organization. The ruling came as part of the second stage of a civil trial brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James (D), stemming from a lawsuit to remove LaPierre over allegations of tax fraud. Judge Joel Cohen, in court Monday, said the state’s request for a monitor was...

A New York federal court Monday temporarily blocked Wayne LaPierre from resuming his role as the head of the National Rifle Association (NRA), NBC News reported. A New York judge issued a ruling against LaPierre, the long-serving former CEO and executive vice president of the NRA, placing a ten-year ban on his leadership within the organization, according to NBC News. This decision came as part of the outcomes from a civil corruption trial that found LaPierre and other executives liable for financial mismanagement within the NRA. State Supreme Court Judge...

NEW YORK — A New York judge on Monday banned Wayne LaPierre, the former head of the National Rifle Association, from holding a paid position with the organization for a decade, but declined to appoint an independent monitor to oversee the gun rights group. The split decision from Judge Joel Cohen came on the final day of arguments in the second stage of a civil trial brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James. The first phase of the trial, decided in February by a Manhattan jury, found LaPierre and...

A New York judge on Monday decided not to assign an outside monitor to the National Rifle Association (NRA), but banned Wayne LaPierre, the former CEO of the gun rights group, from employment with the organization for ten years.

The split decision from Judge Joel Cohen came on the final day of arguments in the of the civil trial of the NRA brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James.

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