Filing bankruptcy will not save Alex Jones from his $1.4 billion Sandy Hook settlement. The article makes clear that some of the parents who’ve sued him won’t see everything they’ve been awarded — the complexities of bankruptcy law — and I’m sure he’ll do all he can to weasel out of as much as possible — but that’s still a big win for justice.
The Justice Department is getting tough with right-to-life violent protesters.
Planned Parenthood sued one anti-abortion activist and won $2 million over his efforts to videotape them committing crimes. The Supreme Court rejected his appeal.
In their continuing lust for a banana-republic dictatorship, NC Republicans now have control of the election boards. Our dem governor is suing over it.
Texas’ anti-drag law has been struck down.
The judge in Trump’s New York case has hit TFG with a $5,000 fine for violating his gag order. Chump change to Trump but he’s such a chiseler I’m sure it will gnaw at him. Now, will the judge follow through on his threat to lock Trump up if he does it again …?
Now to the usual assortment of less cheery links:
Health-care fraudster Philip Esformes got 20 years for his crimes, then Trump commuted his sentence. Now the Justice Department is trying him again. There’s much discussion at the link as to whether this violates double jeopardy but I also notice it’s very much a sign of our two-tier justice system: if he’d been poor and had the same moral awakening (that he claims to have had, anyway), it’s unlikely anyone with as much clout as his connections would have been pulling for clemency.
A man Betsy DeVos claimed had been victimized by the #metoo movement later killed his girlfriend.
Groomers. Never mind how much right-wingers insist all the grooming is by gays. Speaking of which, the architect of Florida’s Don’t Say Gay bills got four months for covid-funding fraud.
More Christian grooming. And more.
Fox News’ Jeanine Piro decides we need to stop all immigration until this country is better.
Republicans are pushing harder to keep kids off social media. While I know social media has its drawbacks, I suspects it’s primarily the desire to keep conservative parents’ kids carefully inside the “evangelical bubble” where they won’t learn the Wrong Things.
Right wing North Dakota Republican Brandon Prichard claims he went to U of Minnesota Law School. When the school revealed he didn’t he accused them of anti-Christian bias and threatened to sue.
The Texas Senate passed a ban on vaccine mandates at hospitals and clinics.
A student’s dance at a private party cost her her scholarship. My sympathy’s with her.
Ron DeSantis made a big thing out of helping Americans evacuate when war broke out in Israel (“Where the federal government drags its feet, we are delivering results.”). It seems they ended up stranded in Cyprus.
Death threats over refusal to vote for “Gym” Jordan as speaker? According to Fox News, big whoop.
Cap property insurance rate increases? Not in Florida!
