"Live from NPR News on Giles Snyder, former FBI director James Komey is askin...
to throw out the threats case against him as a vindictive prosecution."
NPR is carried on to reinforce Komey says he's being singled out because he criticizes President Trump. "Loyers for Komey say the Justice Department moved to indict him to make the president happy. Komey says his 86-47 Instagram post of C. Shells on the beach was not advocating violence against Trump. Rather, he says it was protected political speech. And new court papers
“Komey says the Secret Service surveilled him last year, even though agents doubted there”
was a legal basis to do so. He says DOJ relied on an unreliable source long estranged from Komey to build the criminal threat case against him. The prosecutor who moved ahead with the Komey indictment had little experience and took on the matter only after others left the case. Trump celebrated the charges and later posted an image of Komey in a prison jumpsuit. Kary Johnson and PR News.
"The Senate Judiciary Committee has delayed a vote on Todd Blanch's nomination for Attorney General. The vote had been scheduled for later this morning, but two key Republicans Texas Senator John Coran and Tom Tillett's of North Carolina say they will not support Blanch without written assurances from the Justice Department about the controversial Trump IRS settlement. Stocks fell Wednesday after the Federal Reserve decided to hold
interest rates steady at around 3.6 percent, all of the major U.S. stock indexes closed
“down more than one and a half per cent, speaking after the Fed's policy meeting chairman”
Kevin Worsh was optimistic about the economy." Kevin with recent shocks, the trends are positive and reveal solid growth. Job gains have kept pace with the workforce and the unemployment rate has changed little. Inflation remains elevated, relative to the committee's two percent goal. "We see Andrew's largest school district is hanging up posters of the 10 commandments
before the school year starts next week. A federal appeals court cleared the way earlier this year, but the Gulf states newsrooms, Aubrey Juhaz reports that some districts have boobs slowly." The fifth circuit allowed Louisiana's law requiring public schools to display the 10 commandments in every classroom to take effect in February, ruling a lawsuit filed by families and civil
rights groups was premature, because the posters hadn't been displayed yet. Some districts
“hung them right away, but others waited, including Jefferson Parish, a New Orleans suburb”
that enrolls more than 45,000 students. In July, the districts chief legal counsel told principals to install donated posters before teachers returned to campus. A spokesperson for the ACLU of Louisiana said they planned to ask the U.S. Supreme Court
to decide if the state's law and a similar one in Texas violate the first amendment.
For imperial news, I'm Aubrey Juhaz and New Orleans. "This is MP R news. The Senate committee led by Kentucky Republican Rand Paul has scheduled a contempt vote against Dr. Anthony Fauci. The panel is expected to vote next week after Fauci repeatedly invoked the fifth amendment in Wednesday's hearing about his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Fauci accused Senator Paul of what he called an unhinged campaign
to see him imprisoned. The 28-year-old man has been convicted of federal terrorism charges stemming from the stabbing of author Salman Rushdie nearly four years ago. The jury delivered its verdict Wednesday and Buffalo, New York, finding how to matar guilty of all the charges against him. Leaders in mental health care met with the Trump administration Wednesday to discuss reforms to the country's behavioral health system. They have been
emphasized the need to provide treatment for addiction and other mental health conditions here's impures will stone." Doctors from medical societies insurance executives and others signed a pledge as part of the administration's broader effort, the great American Recovery Initiative. The health leaders participated in a series of round tables with administration officials to discuss
many of the challenges facing mental health providers. Together, they signed a voluntary pledge emphasizing the need to follow evidence-based practices and to ensure that mental health treatment is given the same intention as other chronic diseases. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke briefly at the event as did other top officials from the administration, all highlighted the need to reduce barriers to treatment, though the agency responsible for
tackling substance use and addiction has faced disruption and cuts. Willstone and PR News. And I'm Jail Snyder, this is MPR News. We've just marked one year since Congress voted to eliminate federal funding for public media. NPR remains committed to informing the public, but a free press doesn't just happen in something we need to protect. Without federal funding, we are relying on your support now.
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