Legalectric

Ask and you shall receive, eh?  I’d not checked on this, was buried in other stuff this week, but LOOK!

MPCA – January 6 Notice of Comment Extension – p-ear2-119d

YES!  this is good because the MPCA did not release the primary documents until December 30, 2016, and there’s no excuse for denying the public time to review the Application, etc.

Once more with feeling, here are the Comments I’d filed on behalf of the Tyler Hills Neighbors on January 4, 2017, and Comments of Indian Affairs Council and Minnesota Department of Administration:

The Dept. of Justice’s report on its investigation of the Chicago Police Department practices is out, and the DoJ’s press release notes that its findings, linked below, include:

The Justice Department announced today that it has found reasonable cause to believe that the Chicago Police Department (CPD) engages in a pattern or practice of using force, including deadly force, in violation of the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution. The department found that CPD officers’ practices unnecessarily endanger themselves and result in unnecessary and avoidable uses of force. The pattern or practice results from systemic deficiencies in training and accountability, including the failure to train officers in de-escalation and the failure to conduct meaningful investigations of uses of force.

A consent decree is in the works.  We’ll see if that helps.

Primary documents:

• Chicago Police Department Findings
• Chicago Agreement in Principle
• Chicago Police Department Findings Fact Sheet
• Pattern or Practice Accomplishments Document

These are must reads for a cold winter day.

CALL TODAY — US Senate Committee on the Judiciary

Committee Page

Committee Members

Contact Info for Senators

If you heard Minnesota’s Senator Franken questioning A.G. nominee Jeff Sessions, you heard several instances of Session’s fabrication and/or exaggeration of his experience as a federal attorney, and how Sessions handled this was as disturbing as his misrepresentations.

Here’s another something to consider.  In 1986, when he was up for a judicial appointment, and was thoroughly vetted and then denied the judgeship, Coretta Scott King offered the following for consideration, particularly regarding Sessions’ role in criminal prosecutions regarding absentee voting:

Scott-King-1986-Letter-and-Testimony-Signed

In short:

This is not someone who should be the U.S. Attorney General!

… but now it seems some are taking it seriously.  At long last.

Remember  Drumpf’s comments in the July?

“I will tell you this, Russia: If you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing… I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.”

And the Twit’s tweet:

“If Russia or any other country or person has Hillary Clinton’s 33,000 illegally deleted emails, perhaps they should share them with the FBI!,”

From Jeremy Singer Vine’s cloud upload, 35 pages of allegations (published by buzzfeed here), a compilation of reports, and it’s pretty damning.  Is it real?  We shall see (full reports at link):

Trump Intelligence Allegations

Time for “the system” to dig in and work… there’s only 10 days left.  From CNN’s reports, the source has been vetted, and this is not new info, it was out there in August/summer, McCain had info, and now, here we are on the verge of inaugurating this yahoo?

Photo – Gage Skidmore

From CNN, the transcript from his hearing when Reagan had appointed him as federal judge, which thankfully ended in denial by the Senate, from CNN:

Transcripts give close look at old Sessions allegations

Now, today, Senate Judiciary Committee hearing is ongoing for confirmation of Jeff Sessions as U.S. Attorney General.  Contact the members of the Committee:

Senate Judiciary Committee page

Here’s contact info for your Senators and contact info for the members of the Judiciary Committee — call them.

https://www.senate.gov/senators/contact/