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...Menezes' family lashed out at police. "For three weeks, we have had to listen to lie after lie about Jean and how he was killed," Menezes' cousin Alessandro Pereira said at a press conference in London, during which he also demanded that Metropolitan Police Commissioner Ian Blair resign. "We never believed the English police," Menezes' 17-year-old cousin Leide told Time by phone from the small Brazilian town of Gonzaga. "We always knew he never ran. The British police say they are so efficient. But what kind of efficiency is this?" Amid claims from the family of a police...
...want to say that being Catholic does not necessarily make a person a right-wing religious fanatic or a pawn of the Pope's. Catholics are thinking individuals. I am not a Republican, but I would not mind seeing Roberts as a Justice. Any chance that Bush might resign and John Roberts become President...
...scandals that have struck the administration of Ohio Governor Bob Taft have reached a new milestone: speculation that he should resign. Today Taft pleaded no-contest in Franklin County Municipal Court, and a judge ordered him to pay a $4000 fine after being charged with four misdemeanors for failing to disclose, as state law requires, golf outings paid for by others...
...that gifts over $75 be reported on financial disclosure forms. He could have received up to six months in jail on each count. The ethics violations have even party loyalists for the first time hinting that the embattled governor should step down. "I'm pretty confident that he should resign," said Neil Clark, a top GOP lobbyist. "I don't know how else we can rebuild the confidence of the people...
...Taft said Wednesday he has no intention of giving into stepped up calls for him to resign. "This governor will finish his term, " said press spokesman Mark Rickel. The Ohio House of Representatives could vote for impeachment based on the misdemeanor charges, but the Republican-dominated legislature is unlikely...