Dylan Scott Jennings, 37, of Bellevue, Washington, just did (read story here). Jennings, enraged by his estranged wife seeing another man, walked into the bar where she worked and shot her dead on July 5, 2021. There were aggravating factors: He showed no remorse, and used a stolen gun. Washington h[...]
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September 24th, 2024 - 5:39 pm § in Law and Courts
Does anyone actually get more time for using a gun in a crime?
Jury renders verdict in lawsuit against “Trump train” bullies
On Oct. 20, 2020, a Biden-Harris campaign bus traveling to a Texas campaign event was intercepted, boxed in, and aggressively harassed by vehicles flying Trump flags (shown in video below). A nearby police department refused to respond to the bus occupants’ desperate 911 calls; the city of San[...]
September 21st, 2024 - 11:54 am § in Law and Courts
Why do people shoot at cops?
For many reasons, so there’s no single answer. In today’s case study, the shooter was drunk, and acted spontaneously. It started when a neighbor of Joel Berck Young (photo, left), 63, of Maple Falls, Washington, burned trash and the smoke went into Young’s home. Enraged, Young conf[...]
September 20th, 2024 - 7:53 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
“If somebody breaks into my house, they’re getting shot!”
That’s what Kamala Harris said in her Oprah interview, but she later walked it back, calling it a joke. But it’s no joke. Harris lives at Number One Observatory Circle (details here, photo below), the vice president’s official residence, and if somebody breaks in, they’ll get[...]
Trump judge suggests National Labor Relations Board is unconstitutional
Federal judge Mark Pittman, a Trump appointee frequently in the news because of his partisan rulings, upon issuing a temporary injunction against the NLRB, said an employer accused of union-busting was “likely to prevail” in arguing the federal agency’s structure is unconstitutiona[...]
GOP sheriff asks public to report Harris supporters
An Ohio sheriff’s social media page is instructing residents “to keep a list of homes displaying campaign signs” supporting Kamala Harris, the Guardian reported on Tuesday, September 17, 2024 (read story here). In the post, Sheriff Bruce D Zuchowski (photo, left) referred to Harris[...]
September 11th, 2024 - 2:56 pm § in Law and Courts, Schools & Colleges
Ma’am, your son is a monster
The parents of Georgia school shooter Colt Gray, who killed 4 people and wounded 7 others, aren’t pillars of the community; but at least his mother, Marcee Gray, tried to warn the school about her son, and now she’s apologizing for what he did. “To the parents and families of those aff[...]
September 7th, 2024 - 11:32 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
Trump promises to prosecute election cheaters
Trump made a campaign promise on Saturday, September 7, 2024, to go after election cheaters. He posted it on Truth Social, his social media platform, and it goes like this: “The 2024 Election, where Votes have just started being cast, will be under the closest professional scrutiny and, WHEN I WI[...]
September 7th, 2024 - 1:33 am § in Law and Courts
Why is Justice Alito taking gifts from a German bigot?
Supreme Court justices can’t be fired. Congress can impeach and remove them for bad behavior, but that requires bipartisan cooperation. A few decades ago that was possible; but today’s Republican Party is so dysfunctional, and so invested in the blatantly partisan decisions of the worst [...]
September 7th, 2024 - 1:04 am § in Law and Courts
When the law is too lenient
It isn’t the judge’s fault; he has to operate within the sentencing guidelines enacted by the legislature. Adam Abelson (photo, left), 32, has had a rough life. He watched both his parents die from drug overdoses, according to his lawyer. But plenty of people suffer family tragedies, wit[...]