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Republican congresswoman Victoria Spartz charged with weapons violation at Dulles | Washington DC | The Guardian

Republican US congresswoman Victoria Spartz has been charged with a weapons violation after she brought a gun to the Dulles international airport in Virginia on Friday, according to local authorities.

Spartz, a Republican representing Indiana’s fifth congressional district, was traveling to Europe for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly when she was stopped and cited for carrying a pistol in her carry-on bag, Axios reported.

It is illegal for passengers to have guns in their carry-on luggage, though they can be transported if checked. A metropolitan Washington airports authority spokesperson told local affiliate WISH TV that Spartz was charged in connection with the gun found in her bag and received a summons to appear in a Virginia court.

Source: Republican congresswoman Victoria Spartz charged with weapons violation at Dulles | Washington DC | The Guardian

US white supremacists ordered to pay millions more for deadly 2017 rally | Virginia | The Guardian

Four years after deadly violence erupted during the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, a jury ordered white nationalist leaders and organizations to pay a total of more than $26m in damages to people with physical or emotional injuries from the event.

Most of that money, $24m, was for punitive damages, but a judge later slashed that amount to $350,000 – to be shared by eight plaintiffs. On Monday, a federal appeals court restored more than $2m in punitive damages, finding that each of the plaintiffs should receive $350,000, instead of the $43,750 each would have received under the lower court’s ruling.

A three-judge panel of the Richmond-based fourth US circuit court of appeals affirmed the jury’s award of $2m in compensatory damages, but it found that a state law that imposes the $350,000 cap on punitive damages should be applied per person instead of for all eight plaintiffs, as a lower court judge ruled.

Source: US white supremacists ordered to pay millions more for deadly 2017 rally | Virginia | The Guardian

Marii Freire – Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

” Às vezes, aquilo que dizem que nós mulheres aprendemos”, não passa de retórica, para encobrir uma verdade que exite sob os nossos olhos e que necessariamente, não corresponde a questões jurídicas, mas culturais. Numa sociedade masculina, a mulher só é vista e tem voz, quando esses requisitos são interessantes ao masculino. Negligenciar inclusive, essa discussão também é uma forma de mostrar a maneira em que somos tratadas perante as nossas ideias e importância.

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Source: Marii Freire – Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

The Worst Supreme Court Decision in Our Lifetime | Diane Ravitch’s blog

The Court laid the groundwork for authoritarianism. For fascism. It eroded a basic understanding of our democracy. The six reactionary justices obliterated the bedrock principle of our government that “no person is above the law.” Under this ruling, the President is above the law. He is a King. The Founders would be appalled by this decision. Under this ruling, Richard Nixon need not have resigned.

This court is a threat to democracy. The majority is not conservative. It overrules precedent without hesitation, as it did in Dobbs (the abortion decision) and as it does in this decision.

Read the decision and the dissents yourself.

Source: The Worst Supreme Court Decision in Our Lifetime | Diane Ravitch’s blog