There needs to be people held accountable for deaths, maiming and broken lives that have beset the people of Flint because of wayward leadership during the Snyder administration. There is neglect everywhere, including a storage area (click here) where bottled water never found the people.
The neglect started with Snyder and the new administration should see the end to it. I have a feeling the Snyder administration tied the criminal cases up in knots. The people's that have seen their cases dismissed will receive the jobs back. I think the reason the Whitmer administration dismissed the charges was to prevent double jeopardy when the Michigan Attorney General finally hands down indictments.
The Snyder administration was highly corrupt. The state government saw a management style that consolidated power to one person that wasn't even elected to office. I believe it was David DeVries (click here) that moved offices and personnel around like old furniture. I am sure the remnants of the Snyder administration has resulted in problems for Governor Whitmer, but, it is time to hold people responsible and it needs to happen soon.
I share the sentiment of "The Flint Journal" in their recent editorial. When are the people going to find justice?
The Flint Water Crisis (click here) has no pending criminal cases today. They’ve all been dismissed.
A year ago, there were cases against at least eight state and local officials.
There have been no significant convictions. No real consequences.
It’s a travesty that there’s no justice, no one held to blame for the poisoning of an entire American city.
It’s our society’s moral imperative to hold people accountable for disasters like this. It’s not enough for officials to say, “We all failed,” and move on.
The water crisis was a preventable, manmade catastrophe, the product of budget-slashers trying to save a few bucks.
It’s been 5 years. Flint still doesn’t trust the water
The leaders in charge at the time – Gov. Rick Snyder, his cabinet heads and the emergency managers appointed to run the city – failed the people of Flint.
And yet no one has been held responsible....
...The message is that it’s OK to do it again. The criminal justice system exists not just to punish, but to deter people from committing similar crimes. Government officials across the country – perhaps the world – can now look at Flint and feel emboldened that they will not face any real consequences for committing grave mistakes at the expense of public health.
It sends a message that when government fails, there will be no repercussions.
Michigan Solicitor General Fadwa Hammoud has promised to refile criminal charges, but it’s been more than 200 days and we’ve not seen anything.
Attorney General Dana Nessel has still promised to deliver justice. We’re hopeful but have grown skeptical....
...The biggest winners in this catastrophe of public health and justice are the attorneys who have reaped, at our last count, more than $30 million of taxpayer money...
...The officials in charge at the time of the water crisis have seemingly moved on. But the people of Flint still don’t trust their water, much less their government anymore.
Something really bad happened to the people of Flint.
Surely someone is to blame.
Attorney general shouldn’t promise justice for Flint if she can’t deliver.
Friday, January 17, 2020
Willie Nash was not properly processed when arrested. He was allowed to have the phone during processing.
If the correctional facility did not remove the cell phone when Mr. Nash was "processed in," then the fault lies with the officers that never did a proper search of his person. In leaving the cell phone in the possession of Mr. Nash it opened him up for more law violations. It is entrapment. Is this a private incarceration facility?
By Minyvonne Burke
A Mississippi man (click here) being held at a county jail on a misdemeanor charge asked a guard to charge his cellphone. The phone was confiscated, and the man was slapped with a 12-year prison sentence for possessing a phone in a correctional facility.
The case has drawn strong reactions on social media, with many people urging Gov. Tate Reeves to get involved.
Willie Nash, 39, was booked into the Newton County Jail in 2018. According to court documents, the married father of three handed a guard his phone and asked if it could be charged. The guard took the phone and gave it to a sheriff’s deputy.
When asked about the mobile device, Nash initially denied it belonged to him but eventually gave the deputy the password to unlock it. A court document states that Nash was using the phone to text his wife that he was in jail.
Mississipppi law prohibits inmates in correctional facilities from possessing a cellphone. It is a felony offense with a sentence of 3 to 15 years, according to the court document....
The jail appears to be owned by the county. Someone had their hand in the till.
September 27, 2019
Jackson - State Auditor Shad White (click here) announced Thursday special agents from his office have arrested Newton County Supervisor Glenn Hollingsworth after he was indicted for fraudulently obtaining public funds.
The jail appears to be owned by the county. Someone had their hand in the till.
September 27, 2019
Jackson - State Auditor Shad White (click here) announced Thursday special agents from his office have arrested Newton County Supervisor Glenn Hollingsworth after he was indicted for fraudulently obtaining public funds.
A demand letter worth $7,984.02 was issued to Hollingsworth at the time of his arrest. The total demand amount includes accrued interest and the cost of the investigation.
Hollingsworth is accused of fraudulently obtaining $25,000 by using his position to sell his personally-owned tractor to his beat in the county. He purportedly attempted to conceal the purchase by using family members to complete the transaction.
Since Newton County still uses the beat system, the auditor says Hollingsworth was able to closely manage expenditures like the purchase of the tractor, and his actions were reported when someone noticed purchasing inconsistencies in his beat....
FBI arrests suspected violent white supremacists ahead of rally on firearms charges. (click here for article - thank you)
...People (click here) who identify with the alt right regard mainstream or traditional conservatives as weak and impotent, largely because they do not sufficiently support racism and anti-Semitism....
Sound like Trump's arm of the Republican Party?
Sound like Trump's arm of the Republican Party?
This issue is a populous political focus and is another example of overreach by Trump. Will women ever be out from under attack for being a woman.
"Views on abortion, 1995-2019" (click here)
As of 2019, public support for legal abortion remains as high as it has been in two decades of polling. Currently, 61% say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, while 38% say it should be illegal in all or most cases....
January 17, 2020
...At issue are Trump administration regulations (click here) allowing employers to claim such exemptions to the contraceptive insurance coverage mandate in the Affordable Care Act, which requires most employer-provided plans to include birth control coverage without a copay. Churches and other religious organizations already can opt out of the requirement, but the Trump administration has sought to expand that exemption to include a wider array of businesses and organizations.
Pennsylvania and New Jersey challenged the Trump administration regulation and won a nationwide injunction temporarily blocking the rules.
Brigitte Amiri, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union's Reproductive Freedom Project, called the Trump administration rules "an attempt to rob people of their contraception coverage." The ACLU filed an amicus brief in the case opposing the Trump rule....
The Electoral College is poison to the USA democracy.
How is this even a question? It will take an amendment to the Constitution to end it. There needs to be collations built in each state to ratify an amendment when it passes Congress.
January 17, 2020
By Pete Williams
Washington - The Supreme Court agreed Friday (click here) to take up an issue that could change a key element of the system America uses to elect its president, with a decision likely in the spring just as the campaign heats up.
The answer to the question could be a decisive one: Are the electors who cast the actual Electoral College ballots for president and vice president required to follow the results of the popular vote in their states? Or are they free to vote as they wish?
A decision that they are free agents could give a single elector, or a small group of them, the power to decide the outcome of a presidential election if the popular vote results in an apparent Electoral College tie or is close....
January 17, 2020
By Pete Williams
Washington - The Supreme Court agreed Friday (click here) to take up an issue that could change a key element of the system America uses to elect its president, with a decision likely in the spring just as the campaign heats up.
The answer to the question could be a decisive one: Are the electors who cast the actual Electoral College ballots for president and vice president required to follow the results of the popular vote in their states? Or are they free to vote as they wish?
A decision that they are free agents could give a single elector, or a small group of them, the power to decide the outcome of a presidential election if the popular vote results in an apparent Electoral College tie or is close....
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