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Has the GOP become the anti-family party? We talk about their planned elimination of the adoption tax credit and other questionable decisions. In criminal justice news, we cover several police officers under federal indictment as well as a truly crazy story out of Guantanamo Bay. Then in our #Law140 segment we review the law governing anonymous speech on Twitter and the Government trying to identify you.
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CORRECTION (11/06/17 @ 10:38am): For some reason we had the University of Hartford listed as New Hampshire; it’s in Connecticut! Apologies to our Connecticut listeners for the flub!
Show Notes:
- Your President is still an idiot (Japan Times)
- GOP wants to raise taxes on families who adopt… (Vox)
- While expanding abortion restrictions… (The Hill)
- And limiting birth control access… (NY Times)
- And cutting teen pregnancy prevention… (Washington Post)
- …as NC has more kids in foster care than ever (NC Health News)
- Fifth Circuit: Texas police kill girl’s father, arrest her, get qualified immunity (5th Circuit COA)
- Fifth Circuit: No immunity for Sheriff who detained innocent woman for 96 days (5th Circuit COA)
- Ninth Circuit: No immunity for cop who fired 18 rounds into suspect in fetal position on ground (9th Circuit COA)
- Ninth Circuit: No Comic-Con gag order (Ars Technica)
- More Americans feel safe in their neighborhoods than ever before (Gallup)
- 2/3 of blacks say police treat them unfairly; 1/3 less likely to call police (NPR)
- Ethnonationalists sharing bomb-making info online (ProPublica)
- New study shows prosecutors give white defendants better plea offers (Slate)
- Former police chief calls for college degrees, higher standards (USA Today)
- New study: millions of drivers lost their licenses over traffic tickets (Washington Post)
- Law professor looks into police practice of moonlighting (Illinois Law Review)
- Marine general jailed by Air Force colonel in Gitmo tribunal (The Daily Beast)
- DOJ drops the ball on appeal, whines about opposing lawyers (Slate)
- DOJ also removes 70% of data tables from the FBI crime database (FiveThirtyEight)
- Private prison company moves its annual meeting to a Trump golf course (The Hill)
- ALABAMA: Vestavia Hills officer kills himself (AL.com)
- CALIFORNIA: 3 Pomona officers indicted federally for beating unarmed teenager caught on video (LA Times)
- COLORADO: Immigration detains man at meeting to obtain his green card (Denver Post)
- COLORADO: Denver police keep forgetting about people they have in custody (ABC 7 Denver)
- CONNECTICUT: “Chocolate and blood all over” as off-duty NYPD cop Amanda Villafane goes on Godiva rampage (Stamford Advocate)
- CONNECTICUT: White teenager arrested for poisoning black roommate (Hartford Courant)
- FLORIDA: Boynton Beach deputy robs home of dead hurricane victim (The Sun-Sentinel)
- FLORIDA: Cop slugs drunk female in the face, gives her a black eye (The Sun-Sentinel)
- FLORIDA: Miami firefighters hang noose on black coworkers family pictures (Miami Herald)
- FLORIDA: Abusive officer acquitted of choking 5-year-old (Palm Beach Post)
- FLORIDA: Police detain wrong man for 6 days (Miami NewTimes)
- GEORGIA: 2-year-old denied kidneys because of parole now hospitalized (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
- We mentioned AJ’s situation here (Fsck #32)
- GEORGIA: 1983 murder of Timothy Coggins was for “socializing with a white woman” (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
- We mentioned this story in mid-October (Fsck #32)
- ILLINOIS: Skokie officer Mario Valenti helps 15yo at gym (ABC 7 Chicago)
- KENTUCKY: Judge confirms taxpayers must pay $225,000.00 to couples who sued clerk Kim Davis (NBC News)
- LOUISIANA: Hugo Holland, racist, most powerful DA in the state (Washington Post)
- LOUISIANA: White teenager burns down black church (Monroe News-Star)
- LOUISIANA: State Supreme Court says request for “lawyer, dawg” was really for a “lawyerdog” (Reason)
- LOUISIANA: Taxpayers will shell out $136,000.00+ for wrongful arrests of protestors in Baton Rouge (The Advocate)
- MICHIGAN: Legislature votes to end “driver responsibility fees” (Detroit Free Press)
- MISSISSIPPI: Deputy indicted federally for planting weapon on man he shot dead (Associated Press)
- MISSISSIPPI: Gulfport PD hold (black) medical professionals at gunpoint for robbing their own home (The Sun-Herald)
- MISSISSIPPI: 8 Olive Branch police officers resign following wide-ranging sex scandal (Fox 13 Memphis)
- NEVADA: Newspapers file FOIA lawsuit over Vegas shooting records (LA Times)
- NEVADA: UNR cop Antonio Gutierrez wears racist Halloween costume, chief apologizes (NY Daily News)
- NEW JERSEY: Police chief federally indicted for assaulting handcuffed black teen (NBC News)
- NEW MEXICO: Albuquerque PD is ignoring a federal consent decree… and getting away with it (HuffPost)
- NEW YORK: Officer shouts at domestic violence victim to speak English (The Times Union)
- NEW YORK: Officers indicted for raping 18-year-old girl in police van (NY Post)
- We first mentioned this story here (Fsck #31)
- And the follow-up here (Fsck #33)
- NEW YORK: NYPD sex crimes investigator Nicholas McAteer spent his career committing sex crimes (News 12 Westchester)
- NEW YORK: Suffolk DA indicted federally for covering up police beating of a suspect (NY Daily News)
- NORTH CAROLINA: GOP leader admits party will lose redistricting lawsuit, blames corruption (NC Policy Watch)
- NORTH CAROLINA: 66yo man given 27 years for opioid distribution (The Wilson Times)
- NORTH CAROLINA: Corrupt DA hit with felony indictments for stealing public money (Greensboro News & Record)
- We mentioned these clowns here (Fsck #24)
- Our earlier episode when they were charged (Fsck #12)
- And when we first mentioned them (Fsck #7)
- NORTH CAROLINA: Ashe County Sheriff suspended from office for corruption (WBTV 3 Charlotte)
- OKLAHOMA: Judges send addicts to work as slaves at chicken plant (Center for Investigative Reporting)
- OKLAHOMA: ICE deports man for applying for extension of work permit (KFOR 4)
- OKLAHOMA: Every Sheriff sued over extortion scheme (Tulsa World)
- OKLAHOMA: Killer cop Betty Shelby will have her execution of Terrence Crutcher removed from her record (NBC 4 Washington)
- Our episode on Shelby getting her badge back (Fsck #22)
- TEXAS: Legislators consider ending felony charges for breach-of-contract cases (Texas Tribune)
- TEXAS: Immigration stops 10-year-old en route to surgery, arrests her at hospital (NY Times)
- TEXAS: US Attorney sends Twitter a subpoena over smiley-face tweet (TechDirt)
- VIRGINIA: Fairfax police violently arrest, injure reporter for saying “Fuck” (CNN)
- WISCONSIN: Milwaukee taxpayers shell out $21,000,000.00+ for police brutality settlements since 2015 (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
- UNITED KINGDOM: 100% of police prosecutions since 1990 ended in acquittal (Quartz)
- Publius (Wikipedia)
- The First Amendment (LII)
- The Fourth Amendment (LII)
- McIntyre v Ohio Elections Comm’n (Oyez)
- In re Anonymous Online Speakers (9th Circuit COA)
- Doe v 2TheMart.com (Harvard)