Your Friday night briefing from the staff of Courthouse News
Top CNS stories for today including word that the FBI’s raid of embattled Trump attorney Michael Cohen might have scooped up files involving women who say New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman “sexually victimized” them; AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson tells employees in a companywide memo that “AT&T hiring Michael Cohen as a political consultant was a big mistake”; the Kansas Supreme Court comes down hard in favor of allowing immediate press and public review of new court records; California Governor Jerry Brown urges lawmakers not to be lulled by better-than-expected tax collections, preaching fiscal prudence; a trial accusing Eli Manning and the New York Giants of a years-long memorabilia scam kicks off Monday; Garry Kasparov, the former World Chess Champion, says people must discard their “mythological” fear that artificially intelligent killer robots to advance scientific discovery, and more.
Sign up for CNS Nightly Brief, a roundup of the day's top stories delivered directly to your email Monday through Friday.
National
1.) The FBI’s raid of embattled Trump attorney Michael Cohen might have scooped up files involving women who say New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman “sexually victimized” them, an attorney said Friday.
2.) An attorney for Paul Manafort asked a federal judge Friday to keep several documents under seal while he considered whether to toss criminal charges against the former Trump campaign chairman.
Regional