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A little over two years ago, a group of protesters shut down traffic on one side of the Golden Gate Bridge. This was connected to the pro-Palestinian protests which were then taking over campuses around the country.The bridge was shut down for more than four hours, largely because the police took three hours to start making arrests. Then the vehicles had to be towed. It was a giant mess that impacted thousands of people and 26 protesters were arrested.Something surprising happened next. San Francisco DA Brooke Jenkins actually charged all 26 of the protesters with crimes. That almost never happens in liberal enclaves after protesters are arrested....But over the past year, charges against 19 of them have been dropped in favor of some kind of diversion program....However, the remaining seven continued to face felony charges. Here they are.embedded pictureThat trial has been underway since last month. The defense argument is that they were taking necessary action to stop a greater evil.
The defense argument is that they were taking necessary action to stop a greater evil.
The repeat offender who stabbed Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska to death aboard a Charlotte, N.C., commuter train last year is incompetent to stand trial, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday.Presiding Federal Judge Kenneth Bell found that Decarlos Dejuan Brown Jr did not understand the proceedings and would be unable to assist in his defense. Brown is up on federal charges of terrorist attacks and other violence against mass transportation systems, in large part because state and local courts kept releasing him, despite a long history of violence and mental illness. He's also up on state charges of first-degree murder....However...The federal judge also ruled — unlike so many previous North Carolina judges — that Brown will not be released. Instead, "he will receive medication and treatment for up to four months in an effort to restore his competency."After four months, the court could decide again whether Brown is fit to stand trial. If not, Queen City reported, "he could remain in custody under possible civil commitment."
On Monday, PJ Media's Catherine Salgado wrote about the report of the House Oversight Committee on the Minnesota fraud scandal and how Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) sent a letter to the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, asking Vice President J.D. Vance, chairman of the task force, to refer Minnesota governor and former Democratic Party nominee for vice president, Tim Walz, and the state's attorney general, Keith Ellison, to the Justice Department for criminal charges.The idea of holding sitting politicians accountable for fraud is extremely rare in American history. Under federal law, simply being a poor manager or failing to spot a scam does not usually result in criminal charges. However, a politician can face indictment if their "ignoring" of fraud crosses into willful blindness (the "ostrich instruction"), where an official consciously avoids learning the truth because they want to maintain plausible deniability. Given the facts that the Oversight Committee uncovered, it would appear that the government has an indictable case against both Walz and Ellison.It's called "honest services fraud," which occurs when an official is notified of an ongoing fraudulent scheme within their administration and deliberately allows it to continue because it benefits them politically or financially. Prosecutors can argue they joined the conspiracy by their deliberate inaction.It's very hard to prove in court because it goes to a defendant's "state of mind." ...
