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Blue Lives Matter NYC founder Joseph Imperatrice weighs in on the developing situation in Indianapolis after at least 8 people were shot, killed in FedEx facility.
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SEN. ED MARKEY: “The Republicans stole two seats on the Supreme Court and now it is up to us to repair that damage.”A group of liberal Democratic lawmakers on Thursday proposed expanding the U.S. Supreme Court by four justices - aiming to end its conservative majority, but the plan is drawing an unenthusiastic response from some top Democrats and has been denounced by Republicans. Senator Ed Markey along with House members like Jerrold Nadler and Hank Johnson is leading the effort, after former Republican President Donald Trump appointed three justices during his four years in office. SEN. ED MARKEY: “The way we repair it is straight-forward. We undue the damage that Republicans have done by restoring balance and we do it by adding 4 seats to the court to create a 13-member supreme court, these 4 new seats to be filled by President Biden will reconstitute the United States Supreme Court. The bench will rightfully reflect the values of the majority of the American people on who’s behalf they serve. Expanding the court is constitutional, Congress has done it before and Congress must do it again.” Democrats have accused Republicans of "stealing" a Supreme Court seat in 2016, when the then Republican-controlled Senate refused to consider Democratic President Barack Obama's election-year Supreme Court nominee to fill a vacancy left by the death of conservative Justice Antonin Scalia. A year later, Trump was able to fill the vacancy with a conservative jurist. Democrats accused Republicans of hypocrisy last year when the Senate quickly confirmed Trump's appointment of conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett a week before the presidential election after the death of liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. REP. JERROLD NADLER: “Some people say we are packing the Court. We are not packing the Court. We are unpacking it. McConnell and Republicans packed the Court.” But for now, the measure appears to lack the support of the party leaders. Democratic President Joe Biden last week established a bipartisan commission to study potential Supreme Court changes, including expansion or imposing term limits on the justices instead of the current lifetime appointments. And on Thursday, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi expressed reservations to the Democrats’ efforts and said she has no plans to bring the bill to the floor. “I don’t know if that’s a good idea or bad idea. I think it’s an idea that should be considered and I think the president is taking the right approach to have a commission to study such a thing, it’s a big step.” The number of Supreme Court justices has remained at nine since 1869. Congress has the power to change the number and has done so several times.
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A federal judge in Minnesota issued a temporary restraining order that prohibits law enforcement officers from arresting or using physical force against journalists covering the Daunte Wright protests. U.S. District Judge Wilhelmina Wright issued the order on Friday and it will remain in effect for the next two weeks, according to the Twin Cities Pioneer Press. The ruling prevents police from using physical force or chemical agents against the media. Law enforcement also cannot take away reporters’ press passes, the order says. The ruling is the result of a restraining order filed by an international labor union for news media workers and a freelance journalist against Minnesota Department of Public Safety commissioner John Harrington and Minnesota State Patrol Col. Matthew Langer. Journalists claimed in court that they were “directed by law enforcement to vacate the protest area, physically grabbed, struck by less-lethal projectiles and rubber bullets, and pepper sprayed.” While journalists were not subject to curfews, they had been required to vacate areas where dispersal orders were given. The new ruling exempts journalists from such orders. Though the state attorney general’s office argued that dispersal orders protect journalists from harm, the judge dismissed that argument. “This argument is unavailing, particularly when considering the allegations, supported by declarations, that members of the press have sustained severe injuries at the hands of law enforcement in recent days,” Wright said. “These severe injuries include bruising and at least one injury requiring surgery.” On Friday, local media reports detailed accounts of multiple journalists being stopped, detained and sometimes pepper-sprayed by law enforcement while covering the demonstrations sparked by the police shooting of Wright, a black man. An officer fatally shot the 20-year-old on Sunday during a traffic stop. The officer, who officials say intended to deploy a Taser when she shot Wright, has resigned and has been charged with second-degree manslaughter.
It was her loneliest journey – but she was not alone. In her darkest day on public duty, the Queen had her loyal lady-in-waiting Lady Susan Hussey by her side. The monarch and Lady Susan, carried in the State Bentley for the short journey from the Sovereign's Entrance of Windsor Castle to the Galilee Porch of St George's Chapel, travelled in companionable silence. In quiet contemplation, the two women faced the cameras and the watching world with dignified calm. The Queen had personally asked Lady Susan to join her for the journey as she prepared to say farewell to her husband of 73 years. One of a close inner circle of ladies-in-waiting, Lady Susan has been by the Queen's side since the birth of Prince Andrew, when she joined the royal household to help answer a flood of letters. Known affectionately as "Number One Head Girl" in an office once likened to the cheery atmosphere of a girls' school common room, she has been described as one of the key trusted figures helping the Queen in her later life.
Harrison Burton, son of former NASCAR Cup driver Jeff Burton, will achieve two early career milestones in the same weekend.