23 States and District of Columbia File Amicus Briefs in Favor of Joe Biden and Government Censorship and Regulation of Speech in America – via the MO v. Biden Case
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thegatewaypundit.com ^
| 3/14/2024 | jim hoft
Twenty-three Democrat run states and the District of Columbia, the home of our nation’s capital, filed amicus briefs in support of government censorship and banning of free speech in the United States. These 23 states and the District of Columbia filed amicus briefs in support of the Biden administration in the SCOTUS
case is Murthy, et al v. Missouri, et al, 23-411 (Missouri v. Biden) case. The states essentially argue that they have an interest in collaborating with tech companies to “encourage” the public to behave themselves and “discourage” the public from believing alleged “disinformation” or engaging in online predatory...
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D.C. Circuit Revives Viewpoint Discrimination Suit Against District of Columbia
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Reason ^
| 8/15/23 | JONATHAN H. ADLER
The District allowed "Black Lives Matter" protestors to violate the city's defacement ordiance, but enforced the law against groups with a different political message. Today
the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit revived a lawsuit agaisnt the District of Columbia for selective enforcement of the district's defacement ordinance in violation of the First Amendment. Judge Rao wrote for the court in Frederick Douglass Foundation v. District of Columbia, joined by Judge Childs, reversing the district court's dismissal of the Foundation's First Amendment claim, but affirming dismissal of an Equal Protection claim. Judge Wilkins concurred in the judgment. Judge...
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Surveillance for Violent Deaths — National Violent Death Reporting System, 48 States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, 2020
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Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) ^
| May 26,2023 | Liu GS, Nguyen BL, Lyons BH, et al.
...Results: For 2020, NVDRS collected information on 64,388 fatal incidents involving 66,017 deaths that occurred in 48 states (46 states collecting statewide data, 35 California counties, and four Texas counties), and the District of Columbia. In addition, information was collected for 729 fatal incidents involving 790 deaths in Puerto Rico. Data for
Puerto Rico were analyzed separately. Of the 66,017 deaths, the majority (58.4%) were suicides, followed by homicides (31.3%), deaths of undetermined intent (8.2%), legal intervention deaths (1.3%) (i.e., deaths caused by law enforcement and other persons with legal authority to use deadly force acting in the line of...
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IMPORTANT FROM WASHINGTON: The Bill for the Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia Passed by the Senate (4/4/1862)
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New York Times - Times Machine ^
| 4/4/1862
WASHINGTON, Thursday, April 3. SLAVERY IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. The indorsement by the Senate, yesterday, of President LINCOLN's emancipation proposition, was followed up to-day, in that body, by the passage of Senator WILSON's bill to abolish Slavery in the District of Columbia, creating considerable excitement in the city, but indicating nothing
in opposition to the measure. The announcement, some days since, by a New-York print, that the introduction of the bill had caused negroes to be insolent to pedestrians on the streets in this city, cannot be sustained by respectable witnesses. The bill named above will undoubtedly pass the...
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CNN: Biden to nominate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
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twitter / CNN ^
| Feb 25 | Jake Tapper
@jaketapper According to a source who has been notified about the decision, President Biden has decided to nominate to the Supreme Court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
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2021 Heller Second Amendment Lawsuit Against District of Columbia
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AmmoLand ^
| December 14, 2021 | Dean Weingarten
On September 8, 2021, Dick Anthony Heller, his associates and attorneys, filed a lawsuit against the District of Columbia for their infringements on Second Amendment rights by banning the individual manufacture of firearms. It
has a good chance of restoring some Second Amendment rights because the District of Columbia has been very hostile to the Second Amendment since it was given a large amount of self-rule in 1976. From the lawsuit: After gaining home rule from the United States Congress in 1976, the District of Columbia’s elected officials have adhered to a policy of self government for me, but no...
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The District of Columbia doesn't need Statehood, but it does need a Governor as well as a Mayor.
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March 28, 2021 | re_tail20
There's been a lot of debate over the decades about giving Statehood to the District of Columbia. After all, is it fair that the people who live there have no voting representation in the U.S. Congress, but still have to pay taxes - thus Taxation without Representation? But making the District another
State not only violates the Constitution, but also creates a problem - that of one state hosting, and having power over, the U.S. Capital. There's just no way around the tax thing and representation. The people who chose to live in the District just have to accept this...
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, “ham sandos”
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justice.gov ^
| 3-10-21 | staff
A Fantastic four: ETHAN NORDEAN, a 30-year-old resident Auburn, Washington. JOSEPH BIGGS, a 37-year-old resident of Pennsylvania. ZACHARY REHL a 35-year-old resident of Philadelphia CHARLES DONOHOE is a 33-year-old resident Kenersville, North Carolina
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1IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURTFOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA (Dominion sues Lindell/MyPillow for $1.3B)
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Court Listener ^
| 2/22/21 | Courtlistener
COMPLAINT AND DEMAND FOR JURY TRIAL 1.After hitting the jackpot with Donald Trump’s endorsement for MyPillow and after a million-dollar bet on Fox News ads had paid out handsome returns, Michael Lindell exploited another chance to boost sales: marketing MyPillow to people who would tune in and attend rallies to hear Lindell
tell the “Big Lie” that Dominion had stolen the 2020 electionPDF here of the docket (115 pages)
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Question: Who created Joint Task Force District of Columbia and ordered troops into DC?
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Military Times-which can’t be posted to FR per Gannett
Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy authorized up to 21,000 National Guard troops from around the country to assist law enforcement ......Can he do this unilaterally?....Does Sec Def Chris Miller have to sign off?...Has Military Times gone full libtard?.. What is the make up of the Joint Task Force District of Columbia and who
has the ultimate authority over this JTF? I am unable drill down on these answers to my satisfaction. Input, anyone?
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President Donald J. Trump Approves District of Columbia Emergency Declaration
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The White House ^
| 01/11/21
Today, President Donald J. Trump declared that an emergency exists in the District of Columbia and ordered Federal assistance to supplement the District’s response efforts due to the emergency conditions resulting from the 59th Presidential Inauguration from January 11 to January 24, 2021. The
President’s action authorizes the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), to coordinate all disaster relief efforts which have the purpose of alleviating the hardship and suffering caused by the emergency on the local population, and to provide appropriate assistance for required emergency measures, authorized under Title V of the Stafford Act, to save...
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Update on Protest-Related Arrests for Violence in the District of Columbia
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justice.gov ^
| November 24, 2020 | U.S. Attorney’s Office District of Columbia
WASHINGTON – Since May 2020, the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia has charged more than 156 individuals for protest-related violence, marking the highest number of people charged in any federal district in the United States. These cases include Brennan Sermon, who was charged with assaulting a police
officer who was responding to assist officers protecting Senator Rand Paul on August 28, 2020; six people who were charged for their role in inciting violence and destroying federal monuments in Lafayette Square on June 22, 2020; and 20 people who have been charged with assaults on civilians...
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House Democrats will vote to make Washington D.C. a state - and rename the District of Columbia the Douglass Commonwealth
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UK Daily Mail ^
| June 26, 2020 | Nikki Schwab
House Democrats are poised to approve Washington, D.C., becoming the nation's 51st state in a historic vote scheduled for Friday. Washington the 'District of Columbia' would be no longer, the bill's language says, as the new state would be referred to as 'Washington, Douglass Commonwealth' - swapping out Italian explorer Christopher Columbus
for Maryland-born abolitionist Frederick Douglass. 'And what an appropriate name: George Washington and Frederick Douglass, joined together in support of citizenship, what an appropriate name it seems to me for the capital of America,' remarked Rep. Steny Hoyer, the House's No. 2 Democrat who represents nearby Maryland. 'To...
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District of Columbia housed homeless in upscale apartments. It hasn't gone as planned.
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Washington Post (Democracy Dies In Darkness) via Chron ^
| 4/16/19 | Peter Jamison
WASHINGTON - The SWAT team, the overdose, the complaints of pot smoke in the air and feces in the stairwell - it would be hard to pinpoint a moment when things took a turn for the worse at Sedgwick Gardens, a stately apartment building in northwest Washington. But the Art Deco complex,
which overlooks Rock Creek Park and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is today the troubled locus of a debate on housing policy in a city struggling with the twin crises of homelessness and gentrification. **SNIP** But the situation at Sedgwick Gardens is different: Many...
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6 States And District Of Columbia Sue Over School Lunches
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AP via WBAY ^
| 04/03/19
<p>Six states and the District of Columbia sued the Department of Agriculture on Wednesday, saying it weakened nutritional standards in school breakfasts and lunches when it relaxed the requirements affecting salt and refined grains last year.</p> <p>The lawsuit in Manhattan federal court asked a judge to overturn the changes, saying they were
carried out in an arbitrary and capricious manner.</p>
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United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
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Georgetown Law Library ^
| September 24, 2018 | GLL staff
The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit is known informally as the D.C. Circuit, and is the federal appellate court for the U.S. District court for the District of Columbia. While it has the smallest geographic jurisdiction of any of the United States courts of appeals, the
D.C. Circuit, with eleven active judgeships, is arguably the most important inferior appellate court as the court is given the responsibility of directly reviewing the decisions of many federal independent agencies of the United States government. Given the broad areas over which federal agencies have power, this often...
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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ET AL. v. HELLER
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Sulpreme Court of the United States ^
| June 26, 2008 | Supreme Court of the United States
District of Columbia law bans handgun possession by making it a crime to carry an unregistered firearm and prohibiting the registration of handguns; provides separately that no person may carry an unlicensed handgun, but authorizes the police chief to issue 1-year licenses; and requires residents to keep lawfully owned firearms unloaded and
disassembled or bound by a trigger lock or similar device.
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Court Issues Mandate: District of Columbia now Shall Issue Gun Permits
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Ammoland ^
| 23 October, 2017 | Dean Weingarten
The District of Columbia, also known as Washington, D.C., has officially become a “shall issue” jurisdiction. The
outcome was certain when the government of the District decided not to appeal the decision in Wrenn v. D.C and Grace v. D.C. (the cases were combined) after the United States Court of Appeals refused to grant a review of the decision en banc. From dc.gov.com: Q: Since you aren’t asking the Supreme Court to review the D.C. Circuit decision, when does their ruling removing the District’s “good reason” requirement take effect? A: It will take effect when the D.C. Circuit issues...
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Wyoming and District of Columbia Results
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Politico ^
| 3/12/16
Currently with 17.4% reporting in Wyoming: Ted Cruz: 74.6% Rubio:
25.4% Trump: 0% This is however with 2 counties reporting and 118 votes Another link for results: http://www.theguardian.com Not sure how many delegates are at stake today.
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District Of Columbia Ends 2015 With A 54 Percent Spike In Homicides
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Townhall.com ^
| January 1, 2016 | Matt Vespa
The nation's capital ended the year with a massive spike in homicides. No,
D.C., nor any other major city, is seeing crime levels return to that of the 1990s. Nevertheless, it's a somber statistic for a city whose police force is at its lowest levels in ten years. In all, the city witnessed 162 homicides within its limits, a 54 percent increase (via FoxDC): On the final day of the year, we asked a community leader, a police officer and the mayor about what is causing all of this violence. Paul Trantham, an ANC commissioner in Ward 8, represents one of the...
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