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Federal Inquiry of Ferguson Police Will Include Apparent Racial Profiling
By MATT APUZZOSEPT. 4, 2014
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department’s civil rights investigation into the police department in Ferguson, Mo., will focus on whether officers there made discriminatory traffic stops, mistreated prisoners or used excessive force in the years before last month’s fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white officer, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said on Thursday.
Mr. Holder said the decision to open the inquiry was influenced by his trip to Ferguson after the shooting of the teenager, Michael Brown, 18, led to protests and confrontations with heavily armed police officers. Residents complained that the police had abused their authority for years and disproportionately targeted African-Americans for stops and searches.
“These anecdotal accounts underscored the history of mistrust of law enforcement in Ferguson,” Mr. Holder said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/05/us/racial-profiling-by-ferguson-police-to-be-part-of-federal-inquiry.html
Letter from the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway by Zach Dorfman
Fascinating article about how the virulently racist Robert Moses, who effectively controlled all transportaion planning for many decades, turned the New York City metro area into the land of the car, fighting rail right of ways every place he could: Letter from the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway by Zach Dorfman
Moses even deliberately made the overpasses on Long Island too low to accommodate buses, to keep the low-lifes from being able to get to the beaches easily.
HERE:
http://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/letter-brooklyn-queens-expressway
Food fight! Ted Cruz calls Paul Ryan a liar.
Ted Cruz Dings Paul Ryan For Calling Shutdown “Suicide Mission” In His Book
Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz says Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan’s comments that the government shutdown in 2013 was a “suicide mission” by Republicans aren’t “beneficial.”
“I like Paul Ryan, he’s a good man,” Cruz in an interview with the Tea Party News Network. “I will say I don’t think it is beneficial when Republican leadership throws rocks at conservatives — at conservative activists across this country.”
Cruz calls it a “lie” that is “simply not true” that Republican shut down the government.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/ted-cruz-dings-paul-ryan-for-calling-shutdown-suicide-missio#1ufhses
Judge Rules BP Was ‘Grossly Negligent’ in Gulf Oil Spill
Source: Insurance Journal
BP acted with gross negligence in setting off the biggest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, a federal judge ruled, handing down a long-awaited decision that may force the energy company to pay billions of dollars more for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico disaster.
U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier held a trial without a jury over who was at fault for the environmental catastrophe, which killed 11 people and spewed oil for almost three months into waters that touch the shores of five states. The case also included Transocean Ltd., Halliburton Co., though the judge didn’t find them as responsible for the spill as BP.
“BP’s conduct was reckless,” Barbier wrote in a decision today in New Orleans federal court. “Transocean’s conduct was negligent. Halliburton’s conduct was negligent.”
Barbier apportioned fault at 67 percent for BP, 30 percent for Transocean and 3 percent for Halliburton. BP shares rose 1.9 pounds to 485.65 at 3 p.m. London time.
Read more: http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2014/09/04/339605.htm
Republican-21st Century Thinking
21st Century Thinking
Maine Governor LePage points to Great Wall of China as instructive example of effective border control.
— Josh Marshall
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/21st-century-thinking
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BREAKING: Federal Appeals Court Withdraws Decision Defunding Obamacare
Source: Think Progress
In July, two Republican judges on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit handed down a decision defunding much of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). This effort to implement Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) top policy priority from the bench was withdrawn on Thursday by the DC Circuit, and the case will be reheard by the full court — a panel that will most likely include 13 judges. In practical terms, this means that July’s judgment cutting off subsidies to consumers who buy insurance plans in federally-operated health exchanges is no more. It has ceased to be. It is, in fact, an ex-judgment.
The reason why this matters is because the plaintiffs in this lawsuit, known as Halbig v. Burwell, are hustling to try to convince the GOP-dominated Supreme Court to hear this case, where they no doubt believe that they have a greater chance of succeeding than in the DC Circuit, as a majority of the active judges in the DC Circuit are Democrats. The Supreme Court takes only a tiny fraction of the cases brought to their attention by parties who lost in a lower court — a study of the Court’s 2005 term, for example, found that the justices granted a full argument to only 78 of the 8,517 petitions seeking the high Court’s review that term. The justices, however, are particularly likely to hear cases where two federal appeals courts disagree about the same question of law.
Two hours after the divided DC Circuit panel released its opinion attempted to defund Obamacare, a unanimous panel of the Fourth Circuit upheld the health subsidies that are at issue in Halbig. Thus, so long as both decisions remained in effect, Supreme Court review was very likely. Now that the full DC Circuit has vacated the two Republican judges’ July judgement, Supreme Court review is much less likely.
Although it is possible that the full DC Circuit could agree with the two judges who voted to cut off health subsidies to millions of Americans, this outcome is unlikely. The plaintiffs’ arguments in this case are weak and are unlikely to move judges who do not have a partisan stake in undermining the Affordable Care Act.
Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/09/04/3477801/breaking-federal-appeals-court-withdraws-decision-defunding-obamacare/
The shameless media wants another war, I suggest they enlist first and lead by example.
About two thirds of the American public was in favor of the Iraq war.
Based on the result of that mess:
the American is the last group that should be asked what should be done about ISIS/ISIL.
They have no clue whatsoever. How about we fricking let our President do his job? He is the C-in-C. He is privy to all the intelligence etc. Plus, to go out on a limb, he is a tad bit smarter than the average FoxNews viewer.
http://www.balloon-juice.com/2014/09/04/isis-hell-is-where-they-will-reside/#comment-5104985
RIP MTP - It's over folks: NBC is bringing in Luke Russert, son of the late beloved
RIP MTP
by digby
It's over folks:
NBC is bringing in Luke Russert, son of the late beloved “Meet the Press” host Tim Russert, as a regular panelist on the Sunday morning show in a bid to turn around its catastrophic ratings slide, Page Six has exclusively learned.
Also joining new moderator Chuck Todd’s team will be former Republican congressman and “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough, who sources say “is taking on a larger role within NBC News as a senior political analyst and would be one of the regular Sunday panelists.”
We’re told the move is part of a plan to bring a right-leaning voice to the program to appeal to viewers turned off by the show’s famously left-leaning former hosts including the ousted David Gregory.
http://pagesix.com/2014/09/03/tim-russerts-son-luke-to-be-a-regular-face-on-meet-the-press/
Yes, the problem with David Gregory was that he was so left-leaning.
It's ok. Who watches that crap anyway besides junkies like me who have to?
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2014/09/rip-mtp.html
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