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NEW: An Inmate Says He Sought Medical Care For Coughing And Chest Pains. Video Shows A Sheriff's Deputy Choking Him. buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
The inmate said he'd repeatedly asked for medical care for possible COVID-19 symptoms, and was choked and restrained after pressing the issue. The warden says this happened after the inmate made an escape attempt and was resisting being moved buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
The man was tested for COVID-19 but hasn't gotten the results yet, according to his lawyers; they said he was in quarantine but has been moved, and is feeling better. The sheriff's office wouldn't comment on his health status buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
“That man in handcuffs, they doing that to that man,” a person is heard saying in the background of the video. Later, someone in the background says, “That man can’t breathe, look.”
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Michael Flynn Admitted Lying To The FBI. The Justice Department Now Says That Doesn’t Matter.

A deep dive on how we went from Flynn pleading guilty in December 2017 to today's news that DOJ is seeking to drop the prosecution:
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To be guilty of the federal crime of making false statements, it's not enough to lie to the FBI — that lie has to be "material" to an investigation. Today DOJ said that regardless of whether Flynn lied, new evidence undercut the materiality prong buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
Interim DC US Attorney Timothy Shea, who signed today's filing, wrote that the government also was no longer persuaded that they could prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Flynn did lie. Up until now, prosecutors had defended the case at every turn buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
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In an unanimous decision, SCOTUS reversed the covictions of two people charged in the Bridgegate scandal (Remember "Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee"?), finding they couldn't have violated federal-program fraud or wire fraud laws supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf…
Kagan for the court: "But not every corrupt act by state or local officials is a federal crime. Because the scheme here did not aim to obtain money or property, Baroni and Kelly could not have violated the federal-program fraud or wire fraud laws."
tldr: Government officials can have a little corruption, as a treat
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DC Circuit nominee Justin Walker, born in 1982, is on track to be one of the youngest federal appellate judges. Between that and his conservative bona fides (Kavanaugh + McConnell + Fed Soc ties), he's the archetype of judges Trump has tapped to date buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
Walker was pressed today about his criticism of SCOTUS upholding Obamacare, a focus of his nomination fight given the pandemic. Walker said he hoped every American got the care they needed, but judges shouldn't base decisions on policy preferences buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
Nominees tend to be loathe to opine on issues that might come before them in the future, but Walker seemed a bit more comfortable answering those Qs — asked about nationwide injunctions, he made a point of stressing that he'd recently issued a "narrow" one buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
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