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https://twitter.com/JoshuaPotash/status/1207465058835587072GOP Rep Mark Meadows approached group of Veterans saying "my people!" asking why they were in DC. He
https://twitter.com/funder/status/1206643089055588352GOP Rep Mark Meadows approached group of Veterans saying “my people!" asking why they were in DC. He didn't like their response: That Meadows should choose country over party and vote to have Trump impeached. Let’s make this viral.
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Voting Rights Advocates Vow to 'Organize Harder Than GOP Can Suppress' After Judge Orders 200,000 Vo
Pro-democracy advocates on Saturday vowed to ensure all Wisconsin voters are permitted to vote in the 2020 election after a state judge ordered more than 200,000 voters to be purged from the rolls.
The state had sent letters to 234,000 people who were believed to have moved, who were told they would be removed from voting lists if they did not respond within 30 days—but that the purge would not take place until 2021.
Conservative group Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty filed a lawsuit, saying the voters should be removed from the rolls before the next general election.
According to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, 55% of the voters who were sent letters were in districts which Hillary Clinton won in 2016, including many in the state's two largest cities and in college towns.
Former Attorney General Eric Holder said the right-wing effort to create confusion among likely-Democratic voters in a state where President Donald Trump won by less than 23,000 votes in 2016 was "expected unfairness" from the conservative group.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/12/15/voting-rights-advocates-vow-organize-harder-gop-can-suppress-after-judge-orders
ONE WEEK'S WORK: NEW JERSEY AND KENTUCKY RESTORE VOTING RIGHTS TO MORE THAN 200,000
https://theappeal.org/politicalreport/new-jersey-and-kentucky-restore-voting-rights/
New Jersey Governor Signs Bills Restoring Voting Rights To More Than 80,000 People
Gov. Phil Murphy on Wednesday signed a bill restoring voting rights to more than 80,000 people who are on probation or parole, making New Jersey one of several states to enact legislation granting former felons access to the ballot box.
Amid cheers at a public signing, Murphy said the law, which goes into effect in March 2020, ensures that a person can "once again walk into a voting booth and have a say in our democracy" upon their release from prison.
"These are residents who are living as full participants in their communities and yet have been needlessly prevented from having a voice in the future direction of their communities," Murphy added.
The governor also signed legislation that will allow residents with low-level drug and nonviolent offenses to have their records expunged if they do not commit another offense for 10 years. He said a task force will soon begin work on developing a free automatic system that will complete the expungements for individuals who meet the criteria.
"I am proud that we are giving New Jersey one of the most progressive expungement laws in the nation, allowing more people to fully participate in our society, in our economy," Murphy said.
https://www.npr.org/2019/12/18/789538148/new-jersey-governor-signs-bills-restoring-voting-rights-to-more-than-80-000-peop
Medical screenings are the latest U.S. tactic to discourage asylum seekers, advocates say
for three months, Claudia Quesada Rodriguez and her 12-year-old daughter Maria Jose lived in a migrant camp in this Mexican border city waiting for their day in U.S. immigration court.
Now it had finally arrived.
Mother and daughter woke early Wednesday and made their way to the border bridge, where they waited with dozens of other asylum seekers who also had hearings scheduled at a tent court on the other side.
But soon after the two entered the country, U.S. Customs and Border Protection staff noticed the girl looked ill and took her temperature and a nose swab.
Then they sent the pair back to Mexico and the judge postponed their hearing to March 12 — another three months of waiting after Quesada said she fled gang threats in El Salvador.
“It’s an injustice,” Quesada, 36, told her daughter after they walked back. “There are a lot of sick people here and when you’re living in a tent, what can you do?”
Migrant rights advocates say that medical screenings have become the latest tactic used by the U.S. government to discourage asylum seekers from pursuing their claims.
“It’s just one more example of the arbitrariness of the process,” said Denise Gilman, who directs the University of Texas Law School Immigration Clinic in Austin. “It’s not really an adjudicatory process — it’s more of an obstacle course.”
Indeed, at the Matamoros camp where Quesada and her daughter have been living, migrants said it’s common for those who fail medical screenings to return home.
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-12-10/migrants-returned-to-mexico-barred-from-u-s-courts
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Trump administration to impose new restrictions on who qualifies for asylum
Washington — The Trump administration on Wednesday proposed a new set of restrictions to the nation's asylum system, unveiling a proposal to significantly expand the crimes that render migrants ineligible for asylum in the U.S. to include convictions of using false documents and crossing the border illegally more than once.
The proposed rule by the Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department, which oversees the nation's immigration courts, would also disqualify foreign nationals who have been convicted of possession of a controlled substance or drug paraphernalia, driving under the influence, unlawful use of public benefits, a crime related to gang activity or any felony.
Convictions related to domestic violence would also make individuals ineligible for asylum. But those found "to have engaged in acts of battery or extreme cruelty in a domestic context" would also be disqualified even if they were not convicted, according to the proposal.
Under current policy, only those who have committed "particularly serious crimes," persecuted others, engaged in terrorist activity or pose a national security threat are barred from requesting asylum.
If enacted, the rule would erect even more regulatory barriers for migrants seeking asylum, a congressionally-authorized humanitarian protection that the administration has already dramatically limited access to.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/asylum-seekers-face-new-restrictions-under-proposed-trump-administration-rule/
Judge orders early prison release 4 convicted ex-WorldCom CEO Bernie Ebbers, citing his dire health
A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the early release from prison of former WorldCom CEO Bernie Ebbers — mastermind of one of the biggest accounting frauds in history — citing his increasingly dire medical condition.
Ebbers, 78, has so far served about 13 years of his 25-year prison sentence for orchestrating the $11 billion accounting fraud by the defunct telecommunications company WorldCom.
He had been scheduled to be freed in 2028 before Wednesday’s ruling by Judge Valerie Caproni at a hearing in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.
Ebbers, who has been held in a federal prison in Fort Worth, Texas, was not in the courtroom during the hearing.
But his family was, and they wept when Caproni said he would be set free and allowed to live with them in Mississippi.
Ebbers, who is legally blind, has suffered from dementia, dramatic weight loss and other ailments while in prison, his family and lawyers have said.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/18/ex-worldcom-ceo-bernie-ebbers-released-from-prison-early.html
Police officer forced homeless man to lick a urinal, laughed about other times he's done the same th
A police officer in Hawaii confessed Monday that he gave a homeless man the option of licking a urinal or going to jail. He also laughed about the cruel act and bragged it wasn’t the first time he’d done it, according to NBC News.
Office John Rabago and his partner Reginald Ramones were reportedly responding to a nuisance call in January when they found Samuel Ingall, 39, seeking shelter in a public bathroom that the man said an employee sometimes left unlocked for him.
Ingall’s family also claimed that Rabago, aided by Ramones, made the homeless man, who has struggled with drug problems, sit in urine while they held his head in toilet water to the point of where “he couldn’t breathe and that he was choking when they brought him up.”
Ragabo reportedly told his partner to shut the bathroom door so they wouldn’t be caught on video violating the victim’s civil rights. That’s when the bullying began.
After Ingall licked the urinal, he was allowed to leave the bathroom carrying whatever possessions he had. Ragabo reportedly followed him out laughing and boasting to other cops that what he had just done to Ingall “was just like what happened at Cartwright Field.”
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Ramones, who left the force in August, agreed to work with investigators. Ragabo could be removed from the police force and sentenced to 30 days in priso
Ingall, who has had several run-ins with law enforcement according to Hawaii News Now, did not report the incident when it happened. The FBI was alerted to the abuse when a fellow police officer reported it.
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ny-police-offficers-homeless-man-toilet-lick-urinal-20191217-haetcryvuffkncr5l64b5ypyny-story.htmln.
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