Alabama woman’s case becomes test of federal anti-riot law
The Justice Department dispatched its top terror prosecutor to defend a statute the Trump administration turned to in its fight against violence at racial justice protests.
Tia Pugh s case has emerged as a test of a controversial half-century-old law that has become one of the key tools the Justice Department is using to pursue violence stemming from protests and civil unrest. | Jose Luis Magana/AP Photo
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MOBILE, Ala. The Justice Department dispatched one of its senior counterterrorism prosecutors for a court showdown Thursday over an event that rarely makes its way to federal court: a broken window.
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Rather than drop the bipartisanship theme, however, Biden and his aides have tried to redefine it, claiming that their proposals have support from both parties’ voters, even if not from elected officials.
That’s not quite true, either. But Biden, nonetheless, has managed at least one significant bipartisan achievement.
A different age
Biden grew up politically in an environment very different than today’s. The 1972 election, in which he first won a seat in the Senate, was by one measure the least partisan in recent American history:
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have welcomed new babies. This week we feature four new arrivals who all have a different story to tell. Imogen Faint was born on March 31 at Princess Anne Hospital on her due date. She was born “very fast” and is now at home with mum and dad in Southampton. Emersyn Rose Cythinia Spranklin was born on January 28. She was born to parents Rebecca Syms and Stefan Spranklin in Southampton and the couple had a “difficult back-to-back birth”. ASTA Frances Marvella Pedder was one of the first babies of 2021 born on January 1 to parents Sharon and Daniel Pedder. She was born at 27 weeks weighed just 2lbs 2oz and was very poorly.
We all know that we are living in revolutionary times. The origins, ascendence, values, laws, and future of the United States are all under assault by self-described, though accurately described, revolutionaries.
It is a Jacobin, Bolshevik, or Maoist moment. All aspects of life, well beyond politics, are now to be ideologically conditioned. Everything from kindergarten messaging, cartoons, workplace reeducation, and television commercials to college admissions, baseball games, and the airlines are to be “fundamentally transformed” along racial lines.
Long gone is Martin Luther King, Jr.’s dream of a colorblind society. Gone, at least at the state level, is confidence in the melting pot of assimilation, integration, and intermarriage (although mixed marriages and multiracial children are at an all-time high).