Gooooooooood morning. Anticipate some rain this a.m. and into the afternoon. Excessive of 65 levels. Typical Seattle summer season climate.
Presidential debate begins at 6 pm tonight: President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump plan to have somewhat chat tonight, with CNN’s Jake Tapper and Dana Bash moderating the dialog. Individuals can stream the talk without spending a dime from CNN’s website, and a number of networks plan to hold the talk. CNN has actually restricted how a lot can occur, with no studio viewers and a plan to mute candidates’ microphones aside from when it is their flip to talk. Needs to be pretttttttty boring, but it surely’ll be enjoyable to look at Biden topple off the stage as he swings proper on immigration.
Mayor publicizes plans to develop twin dispatch responders: Mayor Bruce Harrell introduced plans to develop the Metropolis’s Group Assisted Response and Engagement (CARE) crew from six responders to 24 and to develop their response areas from simply downtown to Capitol Hill and the Central District. The CARE crew represents Seattle’s try and create a policing different, an effort that the Seattle police union has repeatedly stymied, leaving the crew underutilized. Harrell plans to revisit the restrictions on this system in negotiations with the union, in accordance with the Seattle Occasions.
Decide catches jurors chatting about verdict in cop’s trial: The homicide trial of Auburn police officer Jeffrey Nelson had a little bit of a hiccup yesterday when King County Superior Courtroom Decide Nicole Gaines Phelps came upon that two jurors had talked concerning the case exterior of jury deliberations. Nelson is on trial for killing 26-year-old Jesse Sarey exterior an Auburn grocery retailer in 2019. Based on KUOW, one of many jurors instructed one other juror, “‘[We’re] not right here to be finest buddies. The 12 of us are right here as a result of one particular person was killed and one other particular person is on trial.'” Truthfully, that juror feels like no enjoyable. Why not depart a jury with 11 new finest buddies? What a loser.
Seattle Cops Accuse Professional-Palestine Protester of Hate Crime for Stickering a McDonald’s Signhttps://t.co/AkNSmb1nJM
— The Stranger 🗞 (@TheStranger) June 26, 2024
ICYMI: Republican Metropolis Lawyer Ann Davison’s workplace dismissed costs this week towards a protester who slapped a pro-Palestine sticker on a McDonald’s signal earlier this yr. The officers beneficial costs towards the protester below the identical property destruction legislation that different Seattle cops arrested two protestors for in 2019 after they wrote imply stuff concerning the cops exterior the East Precinct. A jury awarded these protesters $680,000, saying the officers violated their rights to free speech.
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As a part of the continuing coup try in #Bolivia, a tank hits one of many doorways of the Presidential palace in La Paz: pic.twitter.com/0aVrwa2QId
— Américo Mendoza Mori (@ameriqo) June 26, 2024
Bolivian Normal tried a coup and failed: Armored automobiles rammed into the doorways of Bolivia’s authorities palace Wednesday in what Bolivian President Luis Arce described as an tried coup, in accordance with the Related Press. A high basic led the ramming effort, and Arce appeared to lose management of his nation’s army for a couple of hours earlier than he named a brand new military commander, who instructed the troops to face down, which they did. Truthfully, I do not perceive the dynamics right here, however think about following orders to do a coup after which following orders to not do a coup. Like, when you’re couping a man, why are you listening to him let you know to not coup? [Eds note: The general said Arce directed him to do the coup in order to create a scene that might raise his dismal approval ratings given the economic crisis currently gripping the country, so that could be it, but Arce denies that.]
US Supreme Courtroom pauses rule to scale back interstate air pollution: SCOTUS has quickly halted an Environmental Safety Company (EPA) rule meant to assist curb the quantity of air air pollution that drifts over state traces. In a 5-4 ruling, the justices stated the rule can not go into impact whereas a decrease court docket problem performs out. In a ladies versus boys ruling, Amy Coney Barrett joined with the three liberal justices of their dissent.
Even when SCOTUS permits emergency abortion for now, that is nonetheless not a win. It leaves the door open for extra assaults on our rights.
Trump is pleased with his position in ending Roe—if he’s elected, emergency abortion care & remedy abortion may very well be subsequent.@mintimm on @DeadlineWH pic.twitter.com/tWW6wZUPqr
— Reproductive Freedom for All (@reproforall) June 27, 2024
Talking of SCOTUS: The court docket additionally dominated Thursday that it plans to permit Idaho’s ban on all abortions, besides in emergency instances, in accordance with the Related Press. An earlier model of the choice that the court docket by chance posted earlier than rapidly eradicating from its website allowed the state to stop abortions even in a medical emergency. Nonetheless, the ruling was largely procedural, and the court docket might quickly take up the problem of whether or not abortions might be banned with none exceptions, even in emergency instances.
And another SCOTUS choice: The court docket overturned an anti-corruption legislation that prevented public officers from accepting presents of greater than $5,000 from authorities contractors that beforehand received a contract from a neighborhood authorities. The choice by some means drew a line between straight-up bribery and rewarding a authorities official for a favor. I’m wondering why SCOTUS would wish to create a permissive atmosphere for large presents to authorities officers.
However why not another whereas we’re at it? In maybe the scariest choice of the day exterior of the abortion one, in a 6-3 vote the justices defanged the US Securities Alternate Fee, forcing the company to take monetary fraudsters to federal trial when searching for civil penalties towards them. Taking instances to court docket quite than simply utilizing division authority to manage fines requires cash and workers the company simply does not have and certain won’t get from Congress. Mark Joseph Stern over at Slate argues the choice would apply to the Division of Labor, the Nationwide Labor Relations Board, the Federal Commerce Fee, and the Federal Communications Fee, making it a lot tougher to implement penalties towards dangerous bosses, tech firms, and misleading companies.
Right now’s choice in Jarkesy might kneecap enforcement by the FCC, the FTC, the NLRB, the Division of Labor, and extra—it goes WAY past the SEC. It is a huge blow to the federal authorities’s skill to implement rules towards lawbreakers. https://t.co/72kkCBNyLV
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) June 27, 2024
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