70 yrs after #SCOTUS delivered its landmark decision outlawing school segregation, #BrownVBoardOfEducation ranks as perhaps the court’s most venerated decision….
Most everything else related to the decision…is complex.
Nearly 7/10 Americans say more should be done to integrate schools…a figure that has steadily climbed from 30% in 1973….But a deeper look into the views of both Black & White people shows skepticism about the success of #Brown….
Because of #Brown, #school ofcls may no longer deliberately separate students by #race —but under more recent #SCOTUS orders, they aren’t allowed to deliberately mix them by race either. #Integration advocates today have stopped looking to the #federal courts for help & are pursuing #state lawsuits instead.…some #Black leaders have concluded that the answer is not integration…but more #money & #opportunity for high #poverty#schools….
#HouseRepublicans are seeking to unite their unruly majority around an evergreen #conservative cause, devising a strict response to the wave of pro-Palestinian protests….
#GOP ldrs this wk announced plans for new “oversight investigations” of #universities where — in the words of #House#Republican Whip #TomEmmer — “pro-terrorist anti-Semites [are] taking over.”& on Wed they prepared to pass a bill they said would empower the #federal govt to crack down on anti-Israel #protests on #campuses by codifying a definition of #antisemitism that encompasses not just threats against Jews, but also certain criticisms of #Israel itself. #HouseRepublicans#Gaza#Palestinians
Hundreds of #German#Police Risk Dismissal Over ‘ #Extremist ’ Views
Members of the German police force who are suspected of holding opinions deemed unacceptable by #Federal Interior #Minister Nancy #Faeser and her #political allies risk having their employment terminated under a new law.
Trump stands to gain billions… from the merger between TrumpMedia & Tech & the blank-check co [#SPAC] #DWAC, which took the parent company of #TruthSocial public.
The trust’s existence has previously been reported…. However, who controlled the acct, how the trust was connected to Paxum, & how the money had been funneled thru it to TrumpMedia was unknown.
Last month, #federal prosecutors charged #MichaelShvartsman, a close assoc of #Postolnikov, w/ #MoneyLaundering in a #SupersedingIndictment after previously charging him & 2 others in Jul w/ #InsiderTrading#DWAC shares…
At least part of the #evidence against Shvartsman came from a CI for DHS, court filings show: in one March 2023 meeting w/the informant & an associate, Shvartsman mentioned a friend who owned a bank in Dominica & made bridge loans to #Trump Media.
A #GrayWolf killed in a January #coyote hunt in #Michigan's southern Lower Peninsula; #DNR investigating how it got there.
The harvest was potentially the 1st time a gray wolf has been identified in the Lower Peninsula since the species was wiped out driven to [#extinction] from the state in the early 20th century, MI Dept of #NaturalResources said.
"It's possible it naturally got there, but it's also obviously possible it had some help getting there," said Brian Roell, a large carnivore specialist for the #DNR. "Those are things we want to understand better. We want to know when it was actually harvested, where it was harvested…."
The #Michigan#hunter who harvested the #wolf reported harvesting "a large animal," the #DNR said in a Tues press release. Genetic tests confirmed the animal was a #GrayWolf.
The hunter was participating in a legal #CoyoteHunt & was accompanied by a guide. He said he believed the animal to be a large #coyote. The wolf weighed 84 lbs [that’d be a huge coyote], while Eastern coyotes typically weigh 25-40 lbs, the DNR said.
The family of #BrianSicknick, the #PoliceOfficer who died during the #Jan6 attack, blasted Trump’s appearance at a wake Thurs for slain #NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller.
Charles & Kenneth Sicknick on Fri expressed condolences to Diller’s family, but said #Trump’s appearance, especially the #PressConference outside a funeral home, was nothing but an #inappropriate#PoliticalStunt.
#Trump was #indicted last year by a #federal#GrandJury for his alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, & has been blamed for #inciting the mob that stormed the Capitol on #Jan6.
He is currently under #indictment in #Manhattan for falsifying business records to hide #HushMoney payments to porn star Stormy Daniels. He is also facing #racketeering charges in #Georgia for an alleged effort to subvert that state’s election laws following his loss to Biden in the 2020 election.
#SouthCarolina to use #CongressionalMap deemed #unconstitutional #SCOTUS heard arguments on the redistricting case in Oct but has yet to rule🤬, essentially running out the clock for the #2024election. A #federal#court ruled Thurs that time had run out to draw a new congressional district in #SC & said the state could use its existing map even though it had earlier determined that map was unconstitutional.
#Melania Trump sponsored her mother to #immigrate to the #UnitedStates through a family-based process that #Trump aggressively sought to end, acc/to federal #immigration records released Mon.
The records detail for the first time the full path that the fmr first lady’s mother, Amalija Knavs, followed from Slovenia to the #US — & how the Trump admin’s policies would have made that far more difficult for others.
#Melania Trump used a #legal pathway that #Trump & his top advisers repeatedly disparaged as “chain migration,” the right of US #citizens to bring their parents to the #UnitedStates. #Federal#law since 1965 has said #US citizens may apply to bring minor children & parents to join them in the United States w/o having to wait a long time for a #visa. Citizens may sponsor siblings & adult children, but they typically wait longer for #visas.
Lawyers for #Trump asked a judge on Tues night to pause a group of #civil lawsuits seeking to hold him accountable for the #violence at the Capitol on #Jan6, 2021, until after his #federal#criminal trial connected to the same events was over.
The request…to pause the civil cases was the latest example of Trump trying to pit his multiple #legal matters against one another in an effort to #delay them.
A 3-judge panel of Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals said that it was dissolving its own earlier ruling, which had cleared the way for the law to be implemented once the #SupremeCourt acted.
The late-night reversal meant that an #injunction imposed by a #federal district court last month would again be in force, blocking the #law from being in effect.
The back-&-forth series of #legal orders — & the on-again-off-again reality of a sweeping new #state-level #immigration law— prompted uncertainty along the #border & defiance from #Mexico’s govt on Tues.
Even before the #FifthCircuit’s late order, it had been unclear when #Texas would begin making arrests under the law.
#Mexico will not accept #deportations made by #Texas “under any circumstances,” the country’s foreign ministry said on Tues in response to #SCOTUS’s decision to allow TX to arrest migrants who cross into the state w/o authorization.
Mexico’s top diplomat for North America rejected the #SupremeCourt’s ruling, saying that #immigration policy was something to be negotiated between #federal governments.
The #SupremeCourt on Tues cleared the way for Texas to immediately begin enforcing one of the nation’s harshest immigration laws, which opponents say would disrupt more than a century of #federal control over #international borders.
“The Court gives a green light to a #law that will upend the longstanding #federal - #state balance of #power & sow #chaos,” wrote Justice SoniaSotomayor, joined by Justice ##KetanjiBrownJackson. They noted that a lower court judge had concluded “that it is likely #unconstitutional.”
#Biden WH blasts #SCOTUS ruling letting Texas #SB4 immigration crackdown law take effect. 'We fundmentally disagree' with the high court's order per the WH PressSec.
#Hur, the special counsel, who is appearing …at the request of… #JimJordan, has arranged to resign from the #DOJ …one day before he is scheduled to appear….
The rule, which had been delayed for >1 yr as industry groups have threatened lawsuits, is less robust than #WallStreet#regulator’s original #climate disclosure plan, which would have forced public companies to account for not just their own #emissions, but also those throughout their #SupplyChains. But it still represents 1 of the most far-reaching measures by the #federal#government to push companies toward climate #accountability….