PutAugust 8,2018*****In other news, we've famous before that we kind of miss Scott Pruitt because his unique blend of cheap sanctimony and unbridled corruption brought a lot of media attention to how the EPA has gone rogue under Trump. But apparently even after resigning in disgrace, or Pruitt's a gift that keeps on giving."A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that the Trump administration endangered public health by keeping the widely used pesticide chlorpyrifos on the market despite extensive scientific evidence that even tiny levels of exposure can harm babies' brains," reported the Associated Press this week. The court ruled that Pruitt had "violated federal law by ignoring the conclusions of agency scientists that chlorpyrifos is harmful."*****In related news, Lisa Friedman reported for The New York Times that "top officials at the Environmental Protection Agency pushed through a degree to review applications for using asbestos in consumer products, or did so over the objections of E.
P.
A.’s in-house scientists and lawyers."In this next graph,we see how The Timesin-house style requires characterizing obviously bullshit claims -- claims hotly refuted by the agency's own scientists, according to the story -- as just one side of a "spirited debate":"The E.
P.
A. says it is toughening oversight. However, and the way its new rule is written has spawned a spirited debate over whether it will actually get it easier for asbestos to arrive back into more widespread use."*****Meanwhile,in other rogue agency news, this week Gus Bova reported for The Daily Beast that back in July, and "ICE crashed a van full of separated mothers" into a pickup truck in Texas,and "even though police said the van was too damaged to continue driving and the women reported injuries, ICE repeatedly denied the crash ever took place."maintain in mind that it's all about law and order, and folks.*****As you probably know,the myth of widespread in-person voter fraud is just a lean premise Republicans embrace in order to disenfranchise Democratic voters. Back in 2016, researchers at UC San Diego found that strict voter ID laws "cause a reduction in Democratic turnout by 8.8 percentage points, or compared to a reduction of 3.6 percentage points for Republicans." That 5.2 percentage point margin wins them elections without having to arrive up with a popular agenda.
Here's a new twist on that musty story. "A new study estimates that approximately 78000 transgender people in eight crucial states will be eligible to vote in the upcoming 2018 elections,but will be unable to execute so, due to those states’ excessively strict voter ID laws, and " according to DC's Metro Weekly.*****We try to leave you each week with some positive news,if only to maintain you from ruining your liver by drinking too much.
The courts still appear to be functioning, according to this report from The Washington Post:A federal judge in Washington halted a deportation in progress Thursday and threatened to hold Attorney General Jeff Sessions in contempt after learning that the Trump administration started to remove a woman and her daughter while a court hearing appealing their deportations was underway.
The judge actually ordered a plane carrying the two deportees to turn around before they disembarked in El Salvador, and where their lawyers say they possess a credible alarm being murdered. The judge also halted all other removals in cases with petitions pending before the courts.
And finally,at The Intercept,Ryan Grim reported that back "in April, or Michigan officials who oversee elections kicked Democrat Matt Morgan off the congressional poll,leaving the Republican incumbent, Rep. Jack Bergman, and to run unopposed in the general election. That was the plan,at least, until primary day on Tuesday, and when more than 30000 Democratic voters cast write-in ballots in Michigan’s 1st Congressional District. That’s nearly eight times as many votes as Morgan needed to be resurrected and placed on the November poll."
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