Slog AM: SCORE Jail Planning Continues, Biden Dissents Like a Loser, Video of Capitol Hill Station Stabbing Launched

Welcome to Tuesday. Immediately’s imagined to be largely sunny with a excessive of 69 levels. [Eds note: Nice.]

Mayor Bruce Harrell pushes ahead with SCORE jail talks: A number of folks have instructed me that the Harrell administration has begun holding conferences with the Seattle Municipal Courtroom (SMC), the King County Division of Public Protection, and different stakeholders to contract with South Correctional Entity (SCORE) in Des Moines for extra jail beds. As Publicola has reported, about six folks have died at SCORE within the final 12 months. Harrell seems to now not be simply toying with the thought, as I reported earlier this 12 months.

Footage of a struggle that led to Seattle space chef’s demise: KIRO 7 launched video footage of the moments main as much as the stabbing of Corey Bellett on the Capitol Hill Gentle Rail station earlier this 12 months. The video seems to indicate Bellett in an lively struggle with the person who prosecutors allege stabbed Bellett. 

“Say good issues about that BBL, or else.” A Seattle-area plastic surgeon should pay a $5 million superb for illegally doctoring on-line critiques of his enterprise in addition to for intimidating sufferers into taking down destructive critiques. The ruling comes after Lawyer Basic Bob Ferguson sued Dr. Javad Sajan, proprietor of Attract Esthetic, for forcing sufferers to signal NDAs and different unlawful practices, in accordance with the Seattle Instances.  

State worker makes use of state funds for a $900K procuring spree: A Washington State worker with the Workplace of Administrative Hearings misappropriated virtually $900,000 over about 4 years, in accordance with the Washington State Auditor’s Workplace. The Seattle Instances reported that the worker used a state bank card to pay companies for consulting companies, however the Auditor discovered that the worker had created the companies themselves. The worker additionally spent $17,000 on private bills.

Summer season meal program begins: Youngsters beneath 18 can present up at 70 websites the place the Metropolis plans to distribute breakfasts, lunches, and snacks, in accordance with the West Seattle Weblog. This system runs by way of August 23, and extra particulars on the areas the place children can choose up their meals might be discovered on the Seattle Parks and Recreation’s Summer season Meals Service web page.      

Mistrial declared in Karen Learn homicide prosecution: The decide within the case launched the deadlocked jury Monday. The trial concerned the demise of Learn’s boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe. Prosecutors alleged that Learn hit the officer along with her automobile after which left him to die in a snowstorm. Learn’s protection attorneys argued that police framed Learn to cowl up for considered one of their officers. The protection uncovered a number of the crack detective work on this case, together with the cops accumulating blood proof in pink Solo cups. In response to the Related Press, prosecutors intend to retry the case.   

Trump is admittedly milking the SCOTUS ruling: The previous president desires to attempt to delay his sentencing in his felony hush cash case based mostly on the current Supreme Courtroom ruling that granted presidents immunity from legal prosecution for official acts. Trump’s attorneys argued that the court docket ought to have excluded a number of the proof within the case, akin to social media posts about Michael Cohen, as a result of the posts occurred whereas Trump was in workplace. Looks as if a stretch, however, certain, no matter. The authorized system is a joke. 

really babe, you possibly can’t get mad at me. that was an official act

— Liz Charboneau (@lizchar) July 1, 2024

In the meantime, Trump’s shut buddy Rudy Giuliani has been disbarred: Apparently making an attempt to overthrow a Presidential election makes you slightly untrustworthy within the eyes of the regulation. Not for lengthy although, I think about.

NEW: Rudy Giuliani, former NYC mayor and US Lawyer for the Southern District of New York, has been disbarred.

— Emily Saul (@Emily_Saul_) July 2, 2024

Biden affords milquetoast response: In a particular televised response to the SCOTUS presidential immunity ruling, President Joe Biden went up on stage and talked about how presidents aren’t kings and stated that the American folks wanted to vote for him. A wealthy take from Biden, a person who’s planning to die earlier than he offers up energy. Then Biden stated he’d function inside the bounds of the regulation, at the same time as he stated the workplace of the president is now not constrained by the regulation. Unhappy. The Supreme Courtroom simply stated you do not have to try this, so do not! Begin doing a little loopy shit! Democrats are so embarrassingly frightened of energy.

biden ending his speech with “i dissent” is an ideal encapsulation of his strategy to the court docket—he sees himself as akin to a dissenting justice who solely has the facility to complain, slightly than a politician with the power to do—and even attempt to do—one thing concerning the court docket

— Jack Mirkinson (@jackmirkinson) July 1, 2024

Talking of our present Commander-in-Chief: The president plans to create federal protections for staff going through excessive temperatures at their jobs, in accordance with the Guardian. The protections embody a requirement for employers to supply staff shade and water. The brand new guidelines additionally demand employers present staff with a warmth acclimatization interval, step by step exposing them to increased and better temperatures. Apparently nearly all of staff who die from office warmth publicity die of their first week on the job.   

Trump’s anthem for the following 12 months: Nobody is coming to avoid wasting us.