Court filings shed more light on former officer Thomas Lane’s trainingCourt filings made public on Wednesday shed more light on former officer Thomas Lane’s training with the Minneapolis Police Department ….. Read More.KSTP-TV – St. Paul, MN – General News | U.S. & National NewsThu, July 9, 20206 hours ago
Trump Says The Supreme Court Rulings On His Tax Records Are ‘Not Fair’President Trump complained the Supreme Court rulings that prevent him from blocking access to his tax returns were “not fair” — even though they are unlikely to be released before Election Day. ….. Read More.NPR – Politics | Politics & GovernmentThu, July 9, 202011 hours ago
Wisconsin Supreme Court upholds most lame-duck laws, throws out provisions on government d…The state Supreme Court upheld Thursday most of the 2018 lame-duck laws that limited the power of the governor and attorney general. ….. Read More.Journal Sentinel – Politics | Politics & GovernmentThu, July 9, 202018 hours ago
CDL Medical Exam Doc Who Falsified Records Skates With Community Service, $100 FineAn FMCSA-Certified Medical Examiner has pled guilty to falsifying medical records and attempting to cover up his fraud. As part of his plea deal, he will serve probation, community service and pay a $100 fine, but will not serve even a single day in jail. According to the DOT Office of the Inspector General, Ronald E. Sherry was the subject of an investigation after an FMCSA review found that he was conducting CDL medical exams at ten times the average rate. A joint Department of Homeland Security, DOT-OIG, and FMCSA investigation was launched. Sherry was a physician’s assistant, licensed to practice medicine. According to court documents, Sherry would submit FMCSA medical exam forms certifying that a driver was physically fit to drive even when they were not. In some cases, he filed the forms without actually conducting an…
Do Protests Even Work?In a remarkable development in the midst of a pandemic, the United States is also witnessing one of the most broad, sustained waves of protest in decades. It’s been three weeks, and nearly one in five Americans says they have participated in a recent protest. Like many other academics studying protests and movements, I am often asked if protests work—an especially important question for the ongoing Black Lives Matter protests as they, like all crowded events, entail extra risk during a pandemic. Will all this accomplish something? The answer is, yes, of course protests work, but usually not in the way and timeframe that many people think. Protests sometimes look like failures in the short term, but much of the power of protests is in their long-term effects, on both the protesters themselves and the rest of society.In the short term, protests can work to the degree…
Bill Barr in the ShadowsHouse Democrats have already impeached President Donald Trump. Now they’re going after the man they call his new “fixer,” Attorney General Bill Barr.Barr, however, is proving to be a more slippery target than the president, both physically and politically.This morning, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the alleged “politicization” of the Justice Department featuring alarming whistleblower testimony. It was all about Barr—how the attorney general intervened to cut Roger Stone, the president’s longtime friend, “a break” in his sentencing for perjury and ordered the DOJ’s antitrust division to investigate marijuana companies because he didn’t like their industry.“I believe William Barr poses the greatest threat in my lifetime to our rule of law,” testified Donald Ayer, a former Justice Department official who preceded Barr as the deputy attorney general under President George H. W. Bush, a declaration that fairly well summed up the afternoon’s proceedings….