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Politico: PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP is scheduled to spend the night in Miami on Friday night the hometown of one BARBARA LAGOA, a candidate for the Supreme Court.>>10734722
https://www.floridasupremecourt.org/Justices/Former-Justices/Justice-Barbara-Lagoa
Justice Barbara Lagoa
Justice Barbara Lagoa was born in Miami, Florida. She received her Bachelor of Arts cum laude in 1989 from Florida International University where she majored in English and was a member of the Phi Kappa Phi honor society. Justice Lagoa received her Juris Doctor from Columbia University School of Law in 1992, where she served as an Associate Editor of the Columbia Law Review. She is fluent in English and Spanish.
On January 9, 2019, she became the first Latina and the first Cuban American woman appointed to serve on the Florida Supreme Court. Prior to her appointment by Governor Ron DeSantis to the Florida Supreme Court, Governor Jeb Bush appointed her in June of 2006 to serve on the Third District Court of Appeal. At that court, she became the first Hispanic woman and the first Cuban American woman appointed to serve on the Third District Court of Appeal. On January 1, 2019, she became the first Hispanic female Chief Judge of the Third District Court of Appeal.
Prior to joining the bench, Justice Lagoa practiced in both the civil and criminal arenas. Her civil practice at Greenberg Traurig focused on general and complex commercial litigation, particularly the areas of employment discrimination, business torts, securities litigation, construction litigation, and insurance coverage disputes. In 2003, she joined the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida as an Assistant United States Attorney, where she worked in the Civil, Major Crimes and Appellate Sections. As an Assistant United States Attorney, she tried numerous criminal jury trials, including drug conspiracies and Hobbs Act violations. She also handled a significant number of appeals.
While a practicing lawyer, Justice Lagoa was admitted to The Florida Bar, the United States District Courts for the Middle and Southern Districts of Florida, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. She was also a member of many local, state, and national professional groups including the Dade County Bar Association, and the Florida Association for Women Lawyers.
Justice Lagoa’s civic and community activities include service on the Board of Directors for the YWCA of Greater Miami and Dade County, the Film Society of Miami, Kristi House, and the FIU Alumni Association. She was also a member of the Federal Judicial Nominating Commission. She is currently a member of the Eugene P. Spellman and William Hoeveler Chapter of the American Inns of Court.
Justice Lagoa is married to Paul C. Huck, Jr., an attorney. They have three daughters. Justice Lagoa left the Florida Supreme Court on December 6, 2019, when she received her commission as a judge on the U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals based in Atlanta from President Donald Trump.
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2020/sep/21/barbara-lagoa-cuban-american-conservative-trump-supreme-court-shortlist
Barbara Lagoa. Photograph: Florida Supreme Court/AFP/Getty Images
Barbara Lagoa, a 52-year-old Cuban American conservative federal judge from Florida, sits with Amy Coney Barrett of Indiana near the top of Donald Trump’s list of possible picks to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the supreme court.
Lagoa is quite new to her position on the Atlanta-based 11th US circuit court of appeals, one step below the supreme court. She was appointed by Trump in December 2019, having received overwhelming Senate approval.
Lagoa was appointed to the Florida state supreme court the previous January, by Ron DeSantis, a close ally of Trump, as his first official act as governor. She was appointed to her previous state role by Governor Jeb Bush, in 2006.
Florida is a crucial swing state in the presidential election, the Hispanic vote a target constituency for Trump across the country. The president trails Democratic challenger Joe Biden among such voters but has been gaining ground.
Speaking to Fox News on Monday morning, Trump was asked if politics was part of his decision-making process.
“I try not to say so,” he said. “I think, automatically, it is.”
Lagoa recently joined a major ruling that struck a blow to voting rights in Florida, reversing a decision that struck down a law requiring people with serious criminal convictions to pay all fines and legal debts before regaining the right to vote. Such laws disproportionately disadvantage Black voters.
Lagoa is a member of Florida’s large, influential and largely conservative Cuban American community, her parents having fled Cuba after Fidel Castro’s communist revolution. She grew up near Miami, graduated from Florida International University and studied law at Columbia University, Ginsburg’s alma mater, in New York, NBC reported.
In 2000, Lagoa provided free legal services to US-based relatives of Elián González, a Cuban boy whose plight after his mother drowned while fleeing the island became an international story. Elián was eventually sent back to his father.
If confirmed, Lagoa would be the second Hispanic justice on the supreme court, following the New York liberal Sonia Sotomayor, who was nominated by Barack Obama.
>Good luck voting against a Hispanic woman, Collins & Murkowski, you traitorous bitches.
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A Trump pick of Barbara Lagoa for Supreme Court would be aimed at Cuban Americans in Florida
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/politics/os-ne-barbara-lagoa-supreme-court-20200921-dppnr63bmzgilgnf4enzizzthe-story.html
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TALLAHASSEE — Florida’s Republican political establishment is lining up to support federal appellate court Judge Barbara Lagoa to be President Donald Trump’s nominee to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court.
But experts questioned whether picking her would help Trump’s chances of winning Florida when Cuban Americans in South Florida, the group most likely to be energized by her selection, are overwhelmingly in his corner already.
Lagoa, 52, who sits on the Atlanta-based 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, was born in Miami to Cuban exiles. Florida Republicans that include U.S. Sens. Rick Scott and Marco Rubio and Gov. Ron DeSantis are touting her legal record and personal background in pressing her case to the White House.
One of the main points in her favor, supporters say, is her Hispanic heritage and the ability to shore up support among Cuban-Americans in South Florida ahead of the general election.
Eduardo Gamarra, a professor of politics and international relations at Florida International University in Miami, said Trump has successfully shored up the wavering support he had in 2016 with Cuban Americans in South Florida. One of his graduate students recently finished a dissertation showing that Cuban Americans have been most influential not under Reagan or Bush but under Trump, “which is a surprising conclusion.”
So the question of whether to solidify that community’s support instead of other groups Trump needs to win, Gamarra said, is a strategic one.
“[Trump] already is running at 55% to 60% support on Cuban Americans, which is about anywhere from 7 to 10 points higher than that he was in 2016,” Gamarra said. “So does he need to go higher than that? … Do they need to really get up to 70% support among Cuban Americans to be able to consolidate victory in Florida?”
Trump polled poorly with middle-class Cubans in 2016 compared with wealthier ones. Gamarra said that picking Lagoa, a former student of his, could be popular in that community.
“I mean, she’s a Hialeah girl,” he said, referring to the heart of the Cuban community in Miami-Dade County. “You can’t get more Cuban American than that.”
Trump has praised Lagoa and federal Judge Amy Coney Barrett, reported to be his other top pick for consideration.
“She’s an extraordinary person. I’ve heard incredible things about her. I don’t know her. She’s Hispanic and highly respected. Miami. Highly respected,” the president said of Lagoa on Saturday.
Trump has also said he would prefer a young nominee who could sit on the high court for decades, and Barret is 48, four years younger than Lagoa.
But Lagoa, who served for more than 10 years on the Florida 3rd District Court of Appeals before DeSantis named her to the Florida Supreme Court in 2019, had a smoother confirmation process after Trump tapped her for the federal appeals court in December.
Lagoa sailed through on an 80-15 vote, in which five Democratic Senators, including vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris, didn’t vote as they were campaigning for the presidential nomination at the time.
Barrett, a devout Catholic, was confirmed by a narrower 54-42 vote in 2017 to the Chicago-based 7th Circuit Court of Appeals after a tense exchange with Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California over the role her faith might play in her decisions.
“Judge Lagoa would bring some things to the U.S. Supreme Court that are not currently there,” said Jesse Panuccio, a member of the Judicial Nominating Commission who vetted her application ahead of her appointment to the Florida Supreme Court. “She’s unlike every sitting justice. The formative experiences of her legal career and life did not come from New York and DC.”
Nevertheless, a Lagoa nomination would be sure to spark vehement opposition from liberal groups. Lagoa refused to recuse herself from a lawsuit at the 11th Circuit regarding Florida’s Amendment 4 law requiring felons to pay all fines and fees before their right to vote can be restored. She had previously considered a similar suit against the law when she sat on the Florida Supreme Court.
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She eventually joined the 11th Circuit’s ruling upholding the law, to the dismay of prison reform and voting rights advocacy groups.
“Justice Lagoa was a leading voice in the recent 11th Circuit Court decision that fell squarely along partisan lines and silenced hundreds of thousands of voters in Florida, who months earlier had been legally able to vote,” Desmond Meade of Orlando and the executive director of the Florida Rights Coalition that advocated for Amendment 4, told Politico. “That decision demonstrated why we are fighting so hard for people’s lives to be placed over politics, and that should be the attitude of anyone who aspires to serve on the highest court in the land.”
Trump told Fox News on Monday he’ll likely make an announcement regarding his decision by the end of the week.
“Until the president makes a choice, there will be hour-by-hour rumors in DC about different candidates, potential candidates, (who’s) in the lead,” Panuccio said. “They will be chased down, they will change, and eventually the president will make a decision.
>>10734736, >>10734759, >>10734794, >>10734824, >>10734861, >>10734865 Barbara Lagoa for Supreme Court Mini-bun
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'State of Emergency' declared by LMPD as Breonna Taylor decision looms
https://www.wdrb.com/news/state-of-emergency-declared-by-lmpd-as-breonna-taylor-decision-looms/article_b44d3b0e-fc3f-11ea-8da4-472bd3eaedae.html
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) – The Louisville Metro Police Department has canceled all off days and vacation requests until further notice as the agency prepares for Attorney General Daniel Cameron's announcement in the Breonna Taylor case.
Sgt. Lamont Washington announced the decision in a Monday afternoon news release.
"The public may also see barriers being staged around downtown, which is another part of our preparations," Washington said in the statement.
In a memo, dated Sept. 21, Interim Chief of Police Robert Schroeder declares a state of emergency for LMPD, enacting the changes.
"To ensure we have the appropriate level of staffing to provide for public safety services and our policing functions, effective immediately the LMPD will operate under the emergency staffing and reporting guidelines as outlined in the Standard Operating Procedures, Emergency Response Plan, and collective bargaining agreements until further notice," the memo states.
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>>10735078, >>10735065, >>10735018, 'State of Emergency' declared by LMPD as Breonna Taylor decision looms
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BAG FOR STRIFE Council sparks panic by telling people to prepare ‘grab bag’ ready to ‘flee home immediately without time to pack’
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12723863/council-sparks-panic-prepare-grab-bag-flee-home-immediately/
A COUNCIL has sparked panic by telling people to prepare a “grab bag” ready to “flee your home” if you do not have time to pack.
The London authority was ridiculed for the alarming tweet - with one resident asking whether they should expect “zombies and aliens”.
The tweet from Wandsworth Council in South West London led to panic from Twitter users
The borough of Wandsworth in South West London also told residents to include “a first aid kit, batteries, a whistle and a torch”.
The campaign left Londoners already concerned about a possible second lockdown blaming the council for “setting anxiety sky-high”.
One user told the council to "read the room" with the country's top scientists set to issue a Doomsday Covid warning to the nation today.
Another resident called the timing of the message “shockingly bad taste” when people are “already anxious and stressed”.
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==Breaking: I am receiving reports that #Saudi @KingSalman
is in critical condition.==
The 85 year old despot was a life-long smoker, Parliament & red Marlboro cigarettes & consumer of P&G whisky among other things. He remains at his palace. I am waiting 4 more info as of his death