The Third Rule of Fsck (Episode 24)

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This week we unveil a new Rule of Fsck: there are no new stories, just new faces and jurisdictions. We also cover the Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense giving their opinions on the President, an Oklahoma police officer running a white nationalist record label, and Baltimore police caught planting evidence yet again. Then in our #Law140 segment we review the President’s pardon powers, and how they will impact Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

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Show Notes:

• Gorka is gone (CNN)
• The Apricot Authoritarian pardons Arpaio (CNN)
• In doing so, Trump tells the judiciary to f*ck off (NY Times)
• Tillerson: Trump doesn’t speak for America (Twitter)
• Mattis: “Hold the line” (Twitter)
• Dorito Duterte wants more MRAPs for local cops (USA Today)
• The Secret Service is broke (Twitter)
• Disturbing study on economic (non-)mobility of black men (Brookings Institution)
• Law review article on “The Crime of ‘Disrespect'” (Racism.org)
• Taser works hard to influence investigations (Reuters)
• ICE works hard to deport students (The Guardian)
• Sam Sinyangwe on the economics of incarceration (Twitter)
• DC judge orders website to disclose visitors (Washington Post)
• Circuit court denies qualified immunity claim (Ninth Circuit)
• ARIZONA: A thread on Sheriff Joe’s greatest hits (Twitter)
• ARIZONA: Phoenix police shoot a 29-year-old in the groin (ABC 15)
• CALIFORNIA: Judge Kreep is a creep (Twitter)
• FLORIDA: Lakeland PD officers clog in-car memory cards on purpose (NBC 8 WFLA)
• FLORIDA: 28yo veteran Kristen Ambury is executed by SWAT (ABC 10)
• GEORGIA: Gwinnett Judge Jim Hinkle has resigned (Splinter)
  • Our episode with Judge Hinkle’s commentary (Fsck #23)
• ILLINOIS: Court orders new trial, man still waiting 16+ yrs later (BuzzFeed News)
• LOUISIANA: 3 pedestrians were hit by a truck; they got the ticket (KATC 3)
• MARYLAND: Yet another bodycam video of police planting evidence (Baltimore Sun)
  • You’ve heard about this practice before (Fsck #20)
  • It’s a common theme with Baltimore PD (Fsck #17)
• MASSACHUSETTS: State legislature considers citations over arrests (Lowell Sun)
• MISSOURI: Gov. Greitens stays an execution over DNA evidence (CNN)
• NEVADA: Cliven Bundy’s co-conspirators found not guilty (Las Vegas Sun)
• NEW MEXICO: ATF in Albuquerque spend their time fabricating crime (NM In Depth)
• NEW YORK: Editorial on the crime of living in a poor neighborhood (NY Times)
• NEW YORK: Editorial on getting justice when you’re broke (USA Today)
• NEW YORK: NYPD officers bounced from flight for being drunk (NY Post)
• NEW YORK: 22yo Juwan Parker beaten unconscious (Facebook)
  • Here’s the official write-up (Daily Gazette)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Crooked DAs conspired before one was even elected (Greensboro News & Record)
  • Our earlier episode when they were charged (Fsck #12)
  • And when we first mentioned them (Fsck #7)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Attempted murder charges dropped against a Klansman (Triad City Beat)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Alamance commissioner thinks slaves are “workers” (The Times-News)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Onslow Sheriff has a reporter arrested; charge dismissed (News in Onslow)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Jail employee charged with selling drugs to inmates (WRAL)
• OHIO: Akron teenager magically shoots himself while handcuffed (ABC News5)
• OHIO: Supreme Court Justice Bill O’Neill is an imbecile (Deadspin)
• OKLAHOMA: Police chief builds a white nationalist record label (Raw Story)
  • Our episode with the Chicago officer running white nationalist websites himself (Fsck #16)
• TEXAS: Two exonerated after 21 years in jail (CBS News)
• TEXAS: CBP keeps its checkpoints running as people flee a hurricane (Texas Tribune)
• TEXAS: ICE strands a bus of women and children mid-hurricane (BuzzFeed News)
• TEXAS: Deputy Chase Welch shoots a 3rd person in a year (Houston Chronicle)
• VIRGINIA: ACLU releases video of police ignoring Nazi shooting (NY Times)
• Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution (National Archives)
• Federalist No. 69 (Avalon Project)
• Ex Parte Garland (Justia)
• Burdick v. US (Justia)
• FAQs on Executive Clemency (US DOJ)