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Main story is paywall free: www.startribune.com/brooklyn-par...
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The hearing restarts after Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene "revises" her remarks that Florida Rep. Maxwell Frost "was a member of Antifa" to note that he was arrested at a protest.
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Lawyers for Chicago have begun to have a "dialogue" with the Department of Justice about its probe into whether Johnson improperly hired city employees because they are Black, Corporation Counsel Mary Richarson Lowry says.
Johnson says the probe is "fraudulent."
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Johnson says the parade planned for Saturday in Washington, D.C. will be a "grotesque spectacle."
"I didn't know you could look worse than George Wallace," Johnson says.
In 1963, the Alabama governor proclaimed "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever."
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Trump has been a "miserable failure" as president, Johnson says.
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Chicago does not need any help policing large protests, Johnson says, pointing to how the city handled protests around the Democratic National Convention.
"This president is determined to insert chaos," Johnson says, adding that the city will provide "calm and structure."
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Those who set fires during protests benefit "authoritarians like Donald Trump," Johnson says, quoting the Rev. Martin Luther King on the need for nonviolence.
"We have a tyrant in the White House," Johnson says.
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Johnson: Thousands of Chicagoans took to the streets last night to express their First Amendment rights in a safe and peaceful way.
"A small minority took advantage of a protest" to cause problems, Johnson says.
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Are you seriously asking whether a governor can call “dibs” on the national guard and override a clearly enumerated federal power? In public?
Thats a choice.
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The president has the authority to nationalize state National Guards over the objections of governors. It is explicitly within his power. Newsom has no
authority to resist or prevent it from happening, nor does any other governor. A good explainer: talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/break...
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Pritzker briefed nearly every day during COVID, Lightfoot less often but still regularly, for what it is worth
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The city's lawyers never presented a recommendation to settle this case to the City Council
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No, city ordinance does not prevent federal agents from enforcing federal immigration law anywhere in the city Here's what it does do:
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Yes, typically. But in this case, the city went to trial and lost -- the jury awarded the girl's family $79.85M. The city appealed and settlement negotiations restarted, resulting in an agreement to pay $62.5M, which didn't require City Council approval because of the jury verdict.
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Sorry! Caught a typo and deleted and reposted bsky.app/profile/heat...
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High Fidelity is non-fiction, example infinity