Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs moves to dismiss federal charge, arguing statute’s ‘racist origins’
Lawyers for Sean "Diddy" Combs moved in February 2025 to dismiss one of the federal charges against him, arguing that the law behind it has racist origins and that prosecutors singled him out because he is Black.

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