And another day of televised trials, J-6 sentences, TX banning gender-affirming care, porn age verification law in TX, AL AG says he has right to prosecute abortion travel arrangements, kicking judges off state supreme courts, and executed for tweeting comes to a close:
“Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.” — Robert A. Heinlein
Trump trial in Fulton County will be televised and live streamed, Georgia judge says. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee said he will allow a YouTube stream of all related hearings and trials stemming from the investigation into an alleged scheme to overturn the state's 2020 presidential election results. The live stream will be operated by the court. There will also be pool coverage for television, radio and still photography allowed, he said.
Two ex-Proud Boys leaders get some of longest sentences in Jan. 6 Capitol attack. The 17-year prison term for organizer Joseph Biggs and 15-year sentence for leader Zachary Rehl were the second and third longest sentences handed down yet in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack.
Texas high court allows law banning gender-affirming care for trans minors to take effect. The Texas Supreme Court allowed a new state law banning gender-affirming care for minors to take effect on Friday, setting up Texas to be the most populous state with such restrictions on transgender children...The Texas law would prevent transgender minors from accessing hormone therapies, puberty blockers and transition surgeries, even though medical experts say such surgical procedures are rarely performed on children. Children who already started the medications being banned are required to be weaned off in a “medically appropriate” manner, the law said. -- The cruelty is the point. Never trust a Republican. Almost all of them are fascists.
Federal judge bars Texas from enforcing book rating law. A federal judge said Thursday he will stop a new Texas law aimed at keeping sexually explicit materials off of school library shelves on the eve of the law going into effect, according to state attorneys and lawyers for a group who sued over the proposal.
Porn age verification law [in TX] is unconstitutional, says judge. “People will be particularly concerned about accessing controversial speech when the state government can log and track that access. By verifying information through government identification, the law will allow the government to peer into the most intimate and personal aspects of people’s lives. It runs the risk that the state can monitor when an adult views sexually explicit materials and what kind of websites they visit. In effect, the law risks forcing individuals to divulge specific details of their sexuality to the state government to gain access to certain speech.” As Ezra notes, Texas still hasn’t repealed a law against sodomy, making it particularly fraught to hand over identification for something like a gay porn site. “Given Texas’s ongoing criminalization of homosexual intercourse, it is apparent that people who wish to view homosexual material will be profoundly chilled from doing so if they must first affirmatively identify themselves to the state,” the ruling says.
Judge blocks Arkansas law requiring parental OK for minors to create social media accounts. A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked Arkansas from enforcing a new law that would have required parental consent for minors to create new social media accounts, preventing the state from becoming the first to impose such a restriction.
Alabama attorney general says he has right to prosecute people who facilitate travel for out-of-state abortions. Alabama’s Republican attorney general said in a court filing that he has the right to prosecute people who make travel arrangements for pregnant women to have out-of-state abortions. In a court filing Monday, attorneys for Attorney General Steve Marshall wrote that providing transportation for women in Alabama to leave the state to get an abortion could amount to a “criminal conspiracy.” -- So much for the GOP mantra of keeping the government out of our private lives.
Wisconsin's new liberal Supreme Court justice hasn't heard a case but Republicans may impeach. Even before the newly elected justice who gave liberals a one-seat majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court has heard a case, Republican lawmakers are talking about taking the unprecedented step of impeaching and removing her from office. And they have the votes to do it. -- All Republicans are a danger to American democracy.
Why Do Conservatives Want To Kick The Only Black Woman Off North Carolina Supreme Court? We'll Give You One Guess. Do you know who Anita Earls is? No? Well, let me educate you. She’s a North Carolina Supreme Court Justice who is the only Black woman in the state’s high court and only one of two Democrats. On Tuesday, it was revealed that many of her Republican colleagues on the NC Supreme Court are attempting to have her ousted. Why do you ask? She told the media the truth, citing that racial bias exists in her courtroom.
Saudi man sentenced to death for tweets in harshest verdict yet for online critics. A retired teacher in Saudi Arabia was recently sentenced to death for his tweets criticizing the country's leadership to his handful of followers, according to rights advocates and his family. The sentencing of Mohammad Alghamdi, who is in his mid-50s, is the latest in an escalating crackdown on social media users in Saudi Arabia. While others are serving prison terms ranging from 20 to 45 years for their tweets and online criticism of the government, Alghamdi appears to be the first person to be sentenced to death based solely on his posts on X, formerly called Twitter, and YouTube activity.
Can at-home COVID tests detect new variants Eris and Pirola? Here’s what experts say. If you have symptoms of COVID-19 and your home test is positive, “the likelihood of you having COVID-19 is extraordinarily high,” Russo says. “But if you have symptoms and the test is negative, you shouldn’t be saying, ‘Woo, yes! I don’t have COVID,’” he says. That’s especially true if you were recently exposed to someone with the virus, including a member of your household, Russo says. Test results can also be less accurate if you don’t have symptoms — if you are, in fact, infected but get a negative test result, it may simply be that levels of the virus weren’t high enough in your nose yet to be detected, Russo says.
US regulators might change how they classify marijuana. Here’s what that would mean. It’s unlikely that the medical marijuana programs now licensed in 38 states — to say nothing of the legal recreational pot markets in 23 states — would meet the production, record-keeping, prescribing and other requirements for Schedule III drugs. But rescheduling in itself would have some impact, particularly on research and on pot business taxes.
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