21May/19

Behind the scenes: The Federalist figure helping remake the courts – The Mercury News

Behind the scenes: The Federalist figure helping remake the courts  The Mercury News

By Robert O’Harrow Jr. and Shawn Boburg | Washington Post Leonard Leo stepped onto the stage in a darkened Florida ballroom, looked out at a gathering of some of the nation’s most powerful conservative activists and told them they were on the cusp of fulfilling a long-sought dream. For two decades, Leo has been on a mission to turn back the clock to a time before the U.S. Supreme Court routinely expanded the government’s authority and endorsed new rights such as abortion and same-sex marriage. Now, as President Donald Trump’s unofficial judicial adviser, he told the audience at the closed-d…

21May/19

Private hospitals in Vizag under scanner over suspicions of illegal kidney racket – The News Minute

Private hospitals in Vizag under scanner over suspicions of illegal kidney racket  The News Minute

What started as an investigation into the illegal sale of a kidney in Andhra Pradesh’s Visakhapatnam has panned into a district wide search for evidence of a potential organ trafficking racket. Last Saturday, Visakhapatnam District Collector K Bhaskar ordered the District Medical and Health Officer (DMHO) to shut down Sraddha Hospital in the city, after a committee found several discrepancies in the records of kidney transplants conducted at the private hospital. A three-member-committee comprising of District Medical and Health Officer Dr S Tirupathi Rao, District Coordinator for Hospital …