The draft legislation to federally decriminalize weed is public. There are many notable provisions here, everything from states' rights to resentencing/ expungement to public health programs to taxation + sale. I'll break it down soon for @CourthouseNews. documentcloud.org/documents/2099…
Interesting tidbit here if the bill to federally decriminalize weed were passed as is: the Bureau of Alchohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives would be rebranded as the Bureau of Alchohol, Tobacco, Cannabis, Firearms and Explosives.
Schumer-Wyden-Booker get their press conference underway soon on the bill aiming to end federal prohibition of marijuana. Report up soon for @CourthouseNews.
Also, notable within the fed weed decriminalization bill, an Office for Cannabis Justice would be stood up by the DOJ if this passed.
Federal decriminalization of marijuana is on the table in the U.S. Senate following the proposal of new legislation to shake up regulations on cannabis from how its taxed and sold to restorative justice for nonviolent, weed-related convictions and arrests. courthousenews.com/senate-democra…
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.@RepRaskin and @RepMaloney want Cyber Ninjas, the company that participated in an "audit" of Maricopa County votes to cough up answers to Congress on why it "promotes baseless conspiracy theories" and seeks to "undermine U.S. elections."
They seek, by 7/28, among other things:
The list of requests from @RepRaskin & @RepMaloney to Cyber Ninjas re: concerns over their AZ audit
A thread.
- Docs that show all individuals or groups with direct or indirect ownership, interests or control in Cyber Ninjas, including board members, shareholders and officers
They want:
- Docs showing previous clients Cyber Ninjas has provided consulting services to specific to election audits or law (Raskin notes: Cyber Ninjas is a Fla.-based cybersecurity company *not* federally backed by US Election Assistance Commission to test voting systems)
Biden: Being human is being imperfect, driven by appetite and ambition as much as goodness and grace. But some things should be simple and straightforward, the most important and most fundamental of those things is the right to vote and the right to vote freely.
.@JoeBiden: "You don’t call facts fake and try to bring down the American experiment just because you’re unhappy. That’s not statesmanship, that’s selfishness, that’s not democracy, that’s a denial of the right to vote. Its suppresses. It subjugates."
Today, President @JoeBiden meets with AG Merrick Garland et al to talk about gun crimes in America. The conversation is expected to lean heavily into increasing state & local funding for police. I will have more later today for @CourthouseNews.
Joining Biden @ the WH today: DC Mayor @MurielBowser, Mayor of San Jose, CA @sliccardo + Memphis PD police chief CJ Davis; superintendent for Chicago PD David Brown, Wilmington, DE PD chief Robert Tracy, Newark NJ chief Anthony Lima & Aqueela Sherrills (cbpscollective.org/our-team/)
If people tell you the Biden administration is not dedicated to increasing funding for police, this is from the White House in June. Folks on either side of this issue need to be disabused of the notion that Democrats are against funding police. From the horse's mouth:
Now: Donald Trump at a rally at his golf club in New Jersey announces he is suing FB, Twitter and other social media companies for injunctive relief - he wants them to put his accounts back online. And he's hired "the tobacco lawyers" to represent him, he says. @CourthouseNews
#BREAKING: The 46-page lawsuit from Trump against YouTube, and Sundar Pichai, the Chief Executive Officer of Google, Inc. and Alphabet, Inc., where he's asking for his accounts to be reinstated but also that Section 230 be declared unconstitutional: documentcloud.org/documents/2098…
Trump is being represented by the firm Vargas, Gonzalez, Baldwin, Delombard.
Inbox: @SpeakerPelosi slams @GOPLeader McCarthy this morning, saying he "looks the other way and welcomes members who spread dangerous conspiracy theories and consort with insurrections, far right extremists and white supremacists"
Pelosi cites the following reports as evidence of McCarthy's white supremacy/domestic extremism apologetics: edition.cnn.com/2021/07/02/pol…