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Here’s to hopium toast.. clink
Texas death row inmate seeks pastor's touch at execution.
A Texas death row inmate set to be executed Wednesday for killing a convenience store worker more than 17 years ago in a robbery that garnered $1.25 is asking that his pastor be allowed to lay hands on him as he dies by lethal injection.
The request by John Henry Ramirez, 37, is the latest clash between death row inmates and prison officials in Texas and other states over the presence of spiritual advisers in the death chamber.
Ramirez was condemned for the 2004 killing of 46-year-old Pablo Castro as he took out the trash from a Corpus Christi convenience store. Prosecutors say Ramirez stabbed Castro 29 times during a series of robberies in which the inmate and two women sought money following a three-day drug binge. Ramirez fled to Mexico but was arrested 3½ years later. He is set to be executed Wednesday evening at the state penitentiary in Huntsville.
Ramirez’s request to have his spiritual adviser touch him and vocalize prayers when he is executed has been turned down by Texas prison officials, who have argued that direct contact poses a security risk and the vocal prayer could be disruptive.
A federal judge in Houston and the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals have denied Ramirez’s request to stay his execution over the issue. An appeal is pending before the U.S. Supreme Court.
In April, the Texas prison system reversed a two-year ban on allowing spiritual advisers in the death chamber. The ban came after the U.S. Supreme Court in 2019 halted the execution of another Texas inmate who had argued his religious freedom was being violated because his Buddhist spiritual adviser wasn’t allowed to accompany him.
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Texas-death-row-inmate-seeks-pastor-s-touch-at-16441979.php
An infant girl and her older sister were in the Pentagon day care center on 9/11. Today they're in the U.S. militaryAbout 140 infants and toddlers were playing in the Defense Department's Child Development Center, located approximately 200 yards from the Pentagon, when American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.
Two sisters who were in the day care center that day were inspired by the heroism around them, and today, they're both in the U.S. military, committed to serving their country.
Second Lieutenant Hanna Born, just three years old at the time of the attacks, graduated from the Air Force Academy in 2019; her younger sister Heather is a midshipman in the Naval Academy's class of 2023.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/911-pentagon-daycare-center-sisters/
Capitol rioter from Idaho pleads guilty to assaulting policeAn Idaho man pleaded guilty Tuesday to assaulting police in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
Duke Edward Wilson pleaded guilty Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to one count of assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers or employees; and one count of obstruction of an official proceeding, The Idaho Statesman reported.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/capitol-rioter-idaho-pleads-guilty-assaulting-police-79881666
COURT CASE TRACKER
Colorado Union of Taxpayers, Inc. v. Jena Griswold, Colorado Secretary of State and Judd Choate, Director of Elections, Colorado Department of State
Case Background
The Brennan Center for Justice, working with pro bono counsel at Reed Smith LLP, filed an amicus brief in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado to defend the constitutionality of Colorado campaign disclosure requirements for ballot committees. Plaintiff-Appellant Colorado Union of Taxpayers sued Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold and Director of Elections Judd Choate in their official capacities, contending that the law’s donor disclosure requirements for advocacy supporting or opposing state ballot propositions chills free speech.
The Brennan Center’s brief highlights ways in which campaign transparency advances the core goals of the First Amendment. It also discusses the large body of social science research and judicial findings supporting the value of electoral transparency measures like Colorado’s law.
To read the Brennan Center's briefs in this case, as well as other materials, see below.
District Court:
Amicus Brief of the Brennan Center et al. in Support of Defendants (August 13, 2021)
Defendant's Motion for Summary Judgement (July 23, 2021)
Plaintiff's Motion for Summary Judgement (July 23, 2021)
Plaintiff's Second Amended Complaint (May 24, 2021)
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/court-cases/colorado-union-taxpayers-inc-v-jena-griswold-colorado-secretary-state-and-judd
Dats beautiful
Campaign Transparency Is More Important Than Ever
Campaign transparency has become especially critical over the last decade, during which “dark money” spending by groups that hide their true agendas behind innocuous-sounding names and do not disclose their donors has become far more common. In recent years, this trend has coincided with increased efforts by foreign governments and corporations to manipulate the U.S. electorate, including in ballot races.
A. Dark Money from Undisclosed Sources is a Growing Problem in U.S. Elections
The Court should evaluate the challenged laws here against the wave of secret
election spending that has occurred over the last decade—a wave that reached new
4
heightsinthe2020electioncycle. Whileitreaffirmedtheconstitutionalityofdisclosure,
Citizens United and its progeny allowed a range of new outside actors, including super PACs, to raise unlimited funds to spend on elections. These entities have spent billions
4 See Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, Dark Money in the 2020 Election, Brennan Ctr. for Justice (Nov. 20, 2020),
Page 9 of 17 of filing
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/dark-money- 2020-election.
Eating lots of popcorn waiting for it to be confirmed, ty anon for pointing out it isunconfirmed*again
Movie In anons head of gitmo
Cell mates throwing each other under the bus “I wouldn’t be here if” statements in the cells while waiting for their treasonous hanging (or whichever way they go)
Extra butter, no make that kettle corn.
The left has tried to erase so many historical things. Anon just wants fraudchi’s voice memory holed from muh mind.
Annoying rat sounds
Butler County woman testifies controversial drug helped husband in COVID fight
Update on patient that judge mandated right to try ivermectin.
A Fairfield Twp. woman testified on Thursday that her = husband’s condition has improved with treatment of COVID-19 with the drug Ivermectin== as attorneys for UC Health West Chester Hospital, where he is in intensive care, questioned her and the doctor who wrote the prescription about the validity of the drug that has drawn warnings from national organizations.
Julie Smith, whose 51-year-old husband, Jeffrey Smith, was breathing only with aid of a ventilator earlier this month, won a ruling from Butler County Common Pleas Judge J. Gregory Howard earlier this month that UC West Chester must honor a doctor’s prescription and treat Jeffrey Smith with Ivermectin.
That ruling came after an emergency hearing and is in effect for only 14 days. On Thursday, Judge Michael Oster Jr. held a hearing for a preliminary injunction that would lead to a ruling that could cover the entire length of the prescription and possibly beyond.
New York-based attorney Ralph Lorigo, who represents Smith, saidJeffrey Smith had been on a ventilator for 33 days. He said there has been a “remarkable improvement” in the past three days after the use of Ivermectin, as his level of dependency on the ventilator has dropped from 100 percent to 50 percent.
Julie Smith said that when her husband continued to get worse and struggle on a ventilator, she sought more possible treatment options. When she found Dr. Fred Waghsul of Centerville, a pulmonologist who has a practice with Lung Center of America and wrote an Ivermectin prescription for Jeffrey Smith, she said“it gave me hope that I didn’t have to just watch him die.”
https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/butler-county-woman-testifies-that-controversial-drug-helped-her-husband-in-covid-19-fight/74C7YZOFL5GGTJTPF2KCL2EQTQ/
Anon didn’t know that day 2 sedation wore off and he ripped his vent out and broke feeding tub. Damn
>>14538764. 14538598 this is a lawsuit against the Colorado Secretary of State regarding voting.
If you still don’t find this notable then okay, but kind of thought this is why we fight.
Good night baker god speed