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jgo's JournalMan charged in Idaho student murders to waive Pennsylvania court appearance
Source: The Guardian
Suspect, 28, accused of killing four students will waive his extradition hearing and will be brought to Idaho to face charges.
Bryan Kohberger, the 28-year-old criminology graduate student charged first-degree murder in the macabre killings of four University of Idaho students, plans to waive an appearance in court in Pennsylvania on Tuesday where Idaho prosecutors will request his extradition, his lawyer indicated on Saturday.
Pennsylvania’s Monroe county chief public defender, Jason LaBar, said on Saturday that he plans to tell a judge there on Tuesday that Kohberger will waive his extradition hearing there so that he can be quickly brought to Idaho to face the charges and is eager to be exonerated.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/31/idaho-student-murders-suspect-arrested-pennsylvania-court
Arizona appeals court cannot prosecute doctors under 19th century abortion ban
Source: The Hill
The Arizona Court of Appeals ruled on Friday that doctors who perform abortions in line with the state’s 15-week abortion ban cannot be prosecuted under a 19th century law that banned nearly all abortions.
For nearly 50 years, the state of Arizona was blocked by the courts from enforcing a near-total abortion ban that dates back to 1864. Amid this reality, the Arizona legislature passed a 15-week abortion ban that was signed into law by Gov. Doug Ducey (R) in March.
However, after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June, Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich (R) asked the court to set aside its injunction that prohibited enforcement under the older Arizona law.
The appeals court ruled on Friday that finding physicians criminally liable for providing abortions restricted under the old law would “eliminate the elective abortions the legislature merely intended to regulate” under its 15-week ban.
Read more: https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/3793906-arizona-appeals-court-cannot-prosecute-doctors-under-19th-century-abortion-ban/
Person Of Interest in Idaho Murders Arrested in Pennsylvania Near Pocono Mountains
Source: NBC Bay Area
A 25-year-old male has been taken into custody near the Pocono Mountains in connection with the murders of four University of Idaho students.
Four law enforcement sources confirm to NBC10's Deanna Durante and NBC News that the person of interest is in custody in Monroe County, Pa.
Further circumstances regarding the nature of the arrest and the suspect's capture are not immediately known. The suspect appeared in front of a Monroe County judge around 8:30 a.m. Friday, sources tell NBC10.
Read more: https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/national-international/person-of-interest-in-idaho-murders-arrested-in-pennsylvania-near-pocono-mountains/3116842/
Hershey sued in US over metal in dark chocolate claim
Source: BBC News
Chocolate manufacturer Hershey has been sued in the US over claims the firm is selling products containing harmful levels of metal.
The lawsuit refers to recent findings by US magazine Consumer Reports (CR), which tested 28 dark chocolate bars for lead and cadmium.
The magazine alleged that 23 of them, including chocolate from Hershey, Godiva and Lindt, contained "comparatively higher levels" of the metals.
"For 23 of the bars, eating just an ounce (28g) a day would put an adult over a level that public health authorities and CR's experts say may be harmful for at least one of those heavy metals," it claimed.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64123157
Georgia official believed Trump was threatening him with violence during call demanding he 'find'
Source: Independent
11,780 votes.
A Georgia election official told the January 6 House committee that he believed Donald Trump was threatening him physical violence if he could not find enough votes to overturn Joe Biden’s lead in the 2020 presidential election.
The startling revelation was contained in a new trove of witness transcripts released by the select committee on Tuesday from its investigation into the violent insurrection at the US Capitol.
In sworn testimony, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger told the panel that he had feared for his safety during an infamous phone call where Mr Trump implored state officials to “find the 11,780 votes”.
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-jan-6-georgia-phone-call-b2252569.html
Kari Lake appeals judge's dismissal of Arizona election challenge
Source: The Hill
Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake (R) is appealing a Maricopa County judge’s decision to dismiss her lawsuit challenging her midterm defeat.
Lake filed a notice of appeal Tuesday in Arizona Superior Court to contest the dismissal of two counts that went to court for a two-day trial as well as other counts that never made it to trial.
The short trial found that she didn’t have enough evidence to back up her claims that local election officials committed intentional misconduct that impacted the race between Lake and Gov.-elect Katie Hobbs (D), which Lake lost by some 17,000 votes.
“My Election Case provided the world with evidence that proves our elections are run outside of the law. This Judge did not rule in our favor. However, for the sake of restoring faith and honesty in our elections, I will appeal his ruling,” Lake said just before Christmas.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3790121-kari-lake-appeals-judges-dismissal-of-arizona-election-challenge/
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Arizona Judge Refuses to Sanction Kari Lake, Finding That Her Election Lawsuit Was 'Not Successful'
Source: Law and Crime
An Arizona judge declined to issue sanctions against defeated gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, finding that the election challenge that she filed was “not successful” but also “not groundless.”
Thompson did find, however, that certain costs for witness fees were warranted under the law, both in Hobbs’s capacity as Arizona’s current Secretary of State and in her separate capacity as its future governor.
“Defendant, Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, has presented her request for $5,900.00 in expert witness fees for Mr. Ryan Macias who was retained as an expert and testified at the hearing,” the judge wrote. “A separate request for expert witness fees in the amount of $22,451.00 was submitted by Defendant, Katie Hobbs sued in capacity as Governor-Elect.”
Thompson found those fees “appropriate.”
Read more: https://lawandcrime.com/2022-midterms/arizona-judge-refuses-to-sanction-kari-lake-finding-that-her-election-lawsuit-was-not-successful-but-not-groundless/
'A sea change': Biden reverses decades of Chinese trade policy
Forget tariffs. Biden’s actions to crack down on Beijing’s tech development will do more to hinder the Chinese economy — and divide the two nations — than Trump ever did.
After decades of U.S. efforts to engage China with the prospect of greater development through trade, the era of cooperation is coming to a screeching halt.
The White House and Congress are quietly reshaping the American economic relationship with the world’s second-largest economic power, enacting a strategy to limit China’s technological development that breaks with decades of federal policy and represents the most aggressive American action yet to curtail Beijing’s economic and military rise.
The new federal rules, executive orders and pending legislation aimed at China’s high-tech sectors, which began this fall and will continue in 2023, are the culmination of years of debate spanning three administrations. Taken together, they represent an escalation of former President Donald Trump’s tariffs and trade disputes against Beijing that could ultimately do more to slow Chinese technological and economic development — and divide the two economies — than anything the 45th president did while in office.
Read more:
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/26/china-trade-tech-00072232
'Enough really is enough': Kari Lake's attorneys hit with sanctions filing day after Christmas
Source: Raw Story
Prior to Judge Peter Thompson's ruling against Lake's effort to overturn the 2022 election for governor, Maricopa County Attorney Tom Liddy informed the court that the defendants would be asking to sanction opposing counsel.
Thompson ordered defendants to file sanctions documents with the court by 8 a.m. on Dec. 26. The Maricopa County Superior Court website confirmed on Monday that the motion for sanctions had been filed.
Attorneys for Lake have until 5 p.m. on Monday to respond to the request for sanctions. The defendants have also asked Lake to pay attorney fees.
Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/kari-lake-sanctions/
Shifting gears: why US cities are falling out of love with the parking lot
Cities are loosening rules on building parking spots with new buildings: ‘It’s about the climate, it’s about walkability’
Mon 26 Dec 2022 05.00 EST
They are grey, rectangular and if you lumped their population of up to 2bn together they would cover roughly the same area as Connecticut, about 5,500 sq miles. Car parking spaces have a monotonous ubiquity in US life, but a growing band of cities and states are now refusing to force more upon people, arguing they harm communities and inflame the climate crisis.
Read more:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/26/us-cities-parking-lots-climate-walkability
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