Chokeholds, tear gas, police reform top agenda for WA Legislature
Washington state lawmakers plan to pursue a broad range of police reforms the next time they meet, including possibly limiting police use of tear gas and chokeholds. The protests that erupted worldwide after George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, died under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer have created new momentum for police accountability measures at the state Capitol. Continue reading at Crosscut. (Matt M. McKnight)
Supreme Court says state can punish WA faithless electors
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that presidential electors can be penalized if they vote for someone other than the winner of their state’s popular vote, a decision that averts potential chaos in this fall’s election and may invigorate a movement to choose the nation’s leader by popular vote. Continue reading at The Everett Herald. (Elaine Thompson)
Check your patriotism
“What have I, or those that I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us? … What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all the other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim.” Continue reading at The Seattle Times. (Gabriel Campanario)
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Everett Herald (subscription required)
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Supreme Court says state can punish WA faithless electors
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Kitsap Sun (subscription required)
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News Tribune (subscription required)
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New York Times
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Olympia businesses vandalized after protest ‘tore through’ downtown Saturday night
Washington state reports 651 new COVID-19 cases, 5 deaths
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Pandemic forces people in recovery to make difficult choices
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KIRO7 TV (CBS)
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Chokeholds, tear gas, police reform top agenda for WA Legislature (Entenman, Goodman, Dhingra, Pedersen, Johnson)
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