New York is investigating a major crime: Enforcing the law.
In a juxtaposition of how the law works in the woke world, Oregon has decided child murder is not a big deal if the murderer is the right race.
And the Supreme Court has made a ruling on a major culture war topic.
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a Tennessee law prohibiting transgender drugs and surgeries for children, a major win for conservative activists and parent groups.
The court ruled 6-3 in United States v. Skrmetti that Tennessee’s law does not violate the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause. Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti defended the law before the High Court in December, saying it was a matter of “protecting kids from the consequences of decisions that they cannot fully understand.”
Tennessee lawmakers were inspired to introduce and pass the law following Daily Wire host Matt Walsh’s explosive investigation into Vanderbilt University’s gender clinic.
Tennessee’s law blocks all transgender medical treatments on children, including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries. Doctors who offer these treatments risk losing their medical licenses and paying a $25,000 fine. The law also gives children and their families the right to sue if they were harmed by these treatments.
The plaintiffs in the Tennessee case, which include trans-identifying teens and their families, claimed the state’s ban violates the 14th Amendment, which requires that everyone is treated equally under the law, by preventing them from accessing medical treatments that are available to others. They also claimed the ban violates parental rights to make health care decisions for their children.
The law was immediately challenged when it took effect in July, 2023. A Nashville federal district judge blocked the law that same month, but a week later, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals combined the Tennessee case with a similar case out of Kentucky and ruled in favor of both bans.
The Biden administration joined the lawsuit against Tennessee and urged the Supreme Court to take up the case, saying the court’s opinion was “urgently needed” since the confusion among federal courts had resulted in “profound uncertainty.”
Federal appeals courts have been divided in recent years on whether state bans on these transgender medical interventions for children are unconstitutional.
This is only the second time the Supreme Court has weighed in on this white-hot culture war issue, having previously avoided many opportunities to get involved.
Prosecuting the Law
According to the New York Post:
State Attorney General Letitia James is conducting a misconduct probe of a New York local law enforcement agency helping the Trump administration crack down on illegal immigration, The Post has learned.
The AG’s office asked Oswego County Sheriff Don Hilton for documents outlining any cooperation between local law enforcement officials and federal agencies, including Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Protection and Homeland Security.
A letter from the office asked Oswego County Sheriff Don Hilton to turn over any agreements between the office and any federal agency “concerning the enforcement of federal immigration law” – and it also asks for documentation about cops receiving training on enforcing federal immigration.
The letter cited a section of state law on official misconduct — and asked for any training on immigration enforcement and a list of all traffic stops involving the office.
“Attorney General is conducting an investigation pursuant to New York Executive Law § 75(3) and has reasonable cause to believe that the Oswego County Sheriff’s Office has information relevant to that investigation,” Lillian Marquez, deputy bureau chief of the AG’s Law Enforcement Misconduct Investigative Office, wrote in the June 11 letter obtained by The Post.
The AG demands that the sheriff turn over any documents or information about ICE detainer requests and the detection, apprehension, or detention of people who have “allegedly violated immigration law.”
All communications between or among any member of the sheriff’s office and any member of Homeland Security or its sub agencies — including CBP, and ICE at traffic stops is also requested.
A spokesperson for the AG’s office said The Post’s initial article on the letter “missed important facts,” including the focus its document request.
The Juxtaposition is Incredible
According to the Statesman Journal:
The Oregon Court of Appeals has overturned the 2018 murder conviction of a Portland man after finding that prosecutors dismissed two men from the jury pool because they were Black.
The jury, which had no Black members, found Darian L. McWoods, a Black man, guilty of murder by abuse in the death of his 15-month-old daughter, Kamaya Flores, in Multnomah County Circuit Court, The Oregonian/OregonLive reported.
In the ruling released Wednesday, Presiding Judge Josephine Mooney found that Multnomah County Senior Deputy District Attorney Amanda Nadell offered race-neutral reasons to strike both prospective jurors, but those arguments were only a “pretext.”
Mooney wrote that the state did not seek to strike similarly situated jurors who were not Black.
“Racial discrimination in the selection of jurors is harmful,” Mooney wrote.
McWoods’ defense attorney Josephine Townsend challenged both dismissals under the “Batson” rule, referring to a 1986 U.S. Supreme Court decision prohibiting the exclusion of prospective jurors based on their race.
In a statement, Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office spokesperson Elisabeth Shepard said the Court of Appeals opinion would be used “to further educate and inform our role in the administration of justice.”
“We are committed to the ongoing pursuit of a safer, more equitable system,” she said.
Unless the Oregon Department of Justice appeals the overturned conviction to the state Supreme Court, the case will return to Circuit Court, where it could be retried or dismissed.
McWood, who maintained his innocence throughout the trial, is serving a life sentence with the possibility of parole after 25 years. Prosecutors accused him of killing his daughter by a methadone overdose, saying he was a drug user who sometimes mixed his drugs into kid-friendly drinks such as Capri Sun.
This little girl was found to have a lacerated liver, suffered from some asphyxiation, had broken ribs, had bruises all over her face and body, as well as having meth in her system.
Townsend suggested the drugs could have been left in a shared bedroom by another family member.
“I know that my client is really looking forward to a retrial, and I’m really hoping that we get the right results,” she said.
He remains in custody at the Eastern Oregon Correctional Institute in Pendleton.
This story gets worse. There will not be a retrial. He made a plea deal with the prosecution and McWoods will be out of prison in two years.
His Career is Over
The lack of self-awareness on Smith’s part is amazing. Everything that people don’t like about him is in this video.
- He is portrayed as a tiny man in the video with the women towering over him. In real life, he is a cuckhold. He is a small man in his own marriage. Jada Pinkett Smith walked all over him.
- Ironically, one shot has him sitting on the sole of a woman’s shoe. You can’t get more symbolic than that.
- The video is woke. He’s got fat chicks and skinny chicks. I’m not buying that he would ever date a fat chick.
- The music is like his music in the eighties. Even the clothing is the same. He’s not seventeen anymore.