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Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-NY) said Wednesday President Joe Biden “just sort of stared at me,” when Jones told Biden to be more involved in federalizing elections, where Democrats seek to cancel state voter ID laws and publicly fund political campaigns. Jones “told President Joe Biden their party needed him more involved in passing voting legislation on the Hill,” the Associated Press reported about an event last week in which the two met. “In response? Biden ‘just sort of stared at me,’ Jones said, describing an ‘awkward silence’ that passed between the two.”

An appeals court set aside a man's conviction for weapons possession after concluding that his arrest was premised on nothing more than the defendant looking in the direction of police as he walked in a "higher-crime" area of Buffalo. Under People v. De Bour, 40 NY2d 210 (1976) and People v. Hollman, 79 NY2d 181 (1992), courts have established that police must have some objective, credible reason for initially approaching a defendant and requesting information from them, the Appellate Division, Fourth Department, wrote. Yet the judges said in People v. Savage, 13-02055, that police lacked that "particularized reason" when they...