https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/aug/11/william-barr-sought-dismiss-michael-flynn-case-bas/

Attorney General William P. Barr moved to drop the criminal case against President Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn because of “undisclosed” information, a Justice Department lawyer said Tuesday.

Appearing before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District Columbia Circuit, Acting Solicitor General Jeffrey Wall said the decision to abandon the Flynn prosecution was prompted by a combination of public and secret evidence.

“The attorney general based that decision or that judgment on the basis of lots of information, some of it is public and fleshed out in the motion and some of it is not,” Mr. Wall told the court.

Mr. Wall said the non-public information has come from other investigations, but did not elaborate.

“It is the core of any judge’s job to assess cases using the best arguments that can be made on both sides,” said Judge Cornelia Pillard.

“And your position is that ‘no, he can’t both hear both sides of the law and he has to drop the case like a hot potato without adversary closing argument,’” Judge Pillard told Flynn’s attorney.

Mr. Wall, who argued on behalf of Flynn, said Judge Sullivan doesn’t have the authority to buck the Justice Department.

“Once the government decides to drop a prosecution, that’s it,” he said. “General Flynn can invoke a separation of powers to protect his liberty. This should go no further.”

Ms. Powell accused Judge Sullivan of “usurping” prosecutors and having the “now-glaring appearance of bias.”

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turn the other cheek anon

https://www.vox.com/2020/8/11/21362725/georgia-runoff-trump-congressional-qanon-caucus-marjorie-taylor-greene

Marjorie Taylor Greene, currently the leading candidate in the race for Georgia’s 14th Congressional District seat, has a campaign that marries two powerful political forces: conspiracy theories and racism. In doing so, Greene could give new energy to Trumpism in the next Congress.

Like President Donald Trump, Greene has played on racist tropes, anti-Semitism, and conspiracy theories to amass a reputation for repudiating political correctness in favor of “truth-telling.” She has, for instance, called Q, the purported leader of the QAnon conspiracy theory — which claims Trump will save the US from “deep state” pedophiles and other malcontents — a patriot. She’s called George Soros, a Jewish Democratic donor, a Nazi. And she boasts a long history of decrying Islam, denying racial inequality, and defending Confederate memorabilia.

Now Greene seems poised to win a seat in Congress. She leads the Republican field in Tuesday’s runoff election against John Cowan, a local neurosurgeon, for the US House of Representatives seat representing the 14th District in Georgia. The 14th stretches from the Atlanta suburbs to the state’s northwest corner. More than 85 percent of its constituents are white. It is a conservative, deep-red district that is rated Solid Republican by the Cook Political Report.

https://rewire.news/article/2020/08/11/how-teens-can-get-birth-control-without-their-parents-finding-out-even-in-a-pandemic/

Only around two dozen states explicitly allow all people under 18 to access birth control without first getting a parent’s consent. Texas, where I work with teens struggling to find reproductive health care, is not one of them.

As the program and operations coordinator at Jane’s Due Process, I’m familiar with the unnecessary barriers to accessing reproductive health services in Texas—like a 24-hour mandated waiting period between an ultrasound and an abortion appointment, or a parental consent requirement for minors getting an abortion. Attempting to access any of these services as a teen is tough, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.

At Jane’s Due Process, we help teens access abortion services without parental consent.