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August 26, 2021

President Biden signs PAWS Act, allowing VA to fund the training of service dogs for veterans

This makes me smile. It is nice having a POTUS who cares about people
https://twitter.com/TheDemCoalition/status/1430723004099616768

President Biden signed the PAWS Act into law Wednesday.

The PAWS ACT, or 'Puppies Assisting Wounded Service members for Veterans Therapy Act,' authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to create a pilot program on dog training therapy that will provide dog-training skills and service dogs to veterans with mental illnesses.

"This has been a five-year battle to try and convince the federal government that what we do every day is valuable and helps veterans," Rory Diamond, CEO of K9s for Warriors said to First Coast News. "They're finally agreeing and we're getting a big breakthrough here."

The U.S. Senate unanimously passed the bill earlier this month after it was passed by the House in March.
August 26, 2021

Texas Racist GOP members do not want to be called Racists during voter suppression debate

Boo Hoo. The racist assholes pushing the racist GOP voter suppression law do not want to be called racist

https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1430929534983966721

August 26, 2021

DHS failed to take 'hard look' at enviro impacts of Trump's border wall - judge

TFG cut corners on building the moronic wall
https://twitter.com/ReutersLegal/status/1430681398520676353

A federal judge in Tucson, Arizona has ruled that the Department of Homeland Security arbitrarily failed to take a "hard look" at the environmental impacts involved in the construction of former President Donald Trump's signature wall on a 50-mile wide corridor at the border with Mexico.

Senior U.S. District Judge Cindy Jorgenson ruled on Monday that DHS and its agency Customs and Border Protection violated the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) in a partial victory for the Center for Biological Diversity and U.S. Representative Raul Grijalva, an Arizona Democrat, who had sued. The judge, however, declined the plaintiffs' request for an order to produce a more comprehensive environmental analysis now, reasoning that the activities had not produced "demonstrated adverse environmental impacts."

The ruling of the lawsuit that was filed under President Donald Trump comes after his successor put an end to his signature border wall project.
August 25, 2021

Historic and Profound Abuse': In Blistering Opinion, Judge Sanctions Kraken Lawyers Over Election La

This makes me smile
https://twitter.com/RDEliason/status/1430654780058357763

A federal judge has ordered the attorneys behind a Michigan lawsuit seeking to overturn the 2020 election results to face sanctions, including referrals for potential disbarment.

U.S. District Judge Linda Parker issued the orders in response to motions for sanctions filed by lawyers for the city of Detroit and the state of Michigan over the quickly rejected election challenge. Her order affects lawyers Sidney Powell, Lin Wood, Howard Kleinhendler, Greg Rohl, Julia Haller, Scott Hagerstrom and Emily Newman. These are the first sanctions issued against Powell and her team of attorneys.

Parker ordered plaintiffs’ counsel in the case to pay attorneys’ fees for lawyers for the city of Detroit and Michigan state officials and to be referred to disciplinary authorities in Michigan as well as the attorneys’ home districts for investigation “and possible suspension or disbarment.” She also ordered the lawyers to take 12 hours of continuing legal education courses on pleading standards and election law.

“This lawsuit represents a historic and profound abuse of the judicial process,” Parker wrote in opening her opinion. “It is one thing to take on the charge of vindicating rights associated with an allegedly fraudulent election. It is another to take on the charge of deceiving a federal court and the American people into believing that rights were infringed, without regard to whether any laws or rights were in fact violated. This is what happened here.”

The federal judge said that, while others may be able to “disseminate allegations of fraud unsupported by law or fact in the public sphere,” attorneys cannot “exploit their privilege and access to the judicial process to do the same.”
August 25, 2021

Historic and Profound Abuse': In Blistering Opinion, Judge Sanctions Kraken Lawyers Over Election La

Source: National Law Journal

A federal judge has ordered the attorneys behind a Michigan lawsuit seeking to overturn the 2020 election results to face sanctions, including referrals for potential disbarment.

U.S. District Judge Linda Parker issued the orders in response to motions for sanctions filed by lawyers for the city of Detroit and the state of Michigan over the quickly rejected election challenge. Her order affects lawyers Sidney Powell, Lin Wood, Howard Kleinhendler, Greg Rohl, Julia Haller, Scott Hagerstrom and Emily Newman. These are the first sanctions issued against Powell and her team of attorneys.

Parker ordered plaintiffs’ counsel in the case to pay attorneys’ fees for lawyers for the city of Detroit and Michigan state officials and to be referred to disciplinary authorities in Michigan as well as the attorneys’ home districts for investigation “and possible suspension or disbarment.” She also ordered the lawyers to take 12 hours of continuing legal education courses on pleading standards and election law.

“This lawsuit represents a historic and profound abuse of the judicial process,” Parker wrote in opening her opinion. “It is one thing to take on the charge of vindicating rights associated with an allegedly fraudulent election. It is another to take on the charge of deceiving a federal court and the American people into believing that rights were infringed, without regard to whether any laws or rights were in fact violated. This is what happened here.”

The federal judge said that, while others may be able to “disseminate allegations of fraud unsupported by law or fact in the public sphere,” attorneys cannot “exploit their privilege and access to the judicial process to do the same.”

Read more: https://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/2021/08/25/historic-and-profound-abuse-in-blistering-opinion-judge-sanctions-kraken-lawyers-over-election-lawsuit/?kw=%27Historic%20and%20Profound%20Abuse%27:%20In%20Blistering%20Opinion%2C%20Judge%20Sanctions%20Kraken%20Lawyers%20Over%20Election%20Lawsuit&utm_source=email&utm_medium=enl&utm_campaign=breakingnews&utm_content=20210825&utm_term=nlj&slreturn=20210725182304

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