[TVP] Kaja Kallas, the Estonian prime minister, is in line to become the EU’s foreign policy chief, an appointment that, if approved, could propel one of Ukraine's most ardent supporters to one of the world’s leading diplomatic posts.
EU leaders met on Monday for an informal summit at which they are expected to assign the top posts at the European Commission.
Kallas could take over from the bloc’s current high representative for foreign and security policy, Josep Borrell, whose term in office is ending. She would be the first politician from the Baltic states to assume high office in the Commission, the EU’s executive.
Known for her resolute stance on Russian aggression and her advocacy for Ukraine, she has emerged as a leading candidate, supported by key figures such as Emmanuel Macron, the French president.
All the inside baseball from last week as we await the hearing this week — perhaps even today.
[Just the News] A conservative media outlet is facing contempt from a Tennessee state court judge over its publication of leaked excerpts from the journal of Covenant School killer, Audrey Hale.
Star News Digital Media, the owner of the Tennessee Star, published a series of articles containing several passages from the school shooter’s journal, which Nashville police had so far refused to turn over to the outlet.
According to the Star's reporting, Audrey Hale wrote about her "torture" as a girl who identified as a boy and how she would "kill" to get puberty blockers. The Daily Mail, paraphrasing the Star, said "Hale wrote about anger toward her parents, how she hated her conservative Christian upbringing, and how she had suffered because hormone blockers were not available when she was as a child."
The judge who is in charge of determining whether the journal should be released to the public, I’Ashea Myles, reportedly summoned the media outlet’s editor-in-chief Michael Patrick Leahy to appear in court to explain how the Star's reporting doesn't violate her court orders. The outlet could face contempt proceedings or sanctions, the Associated Press reported.
Leahy's attorney Daniel Horwitz filed an emergency motion on Wednesday, asking that the judge set aside her June 10 court order because it doesn't specify what was violated.
The motion alleged that the court order violates Tennessee’s “shield law,” which “protects reporters from being compelled to reveal any information – or the source of any information – procured for publication and broadcast.” The statute protects journalists' sources and information, gathered for publication or broadcast, whether obtained confidentially or not, and whether published or not.
On Thursday, the judge denied the motion and determined that it was "premature," according to an updated Tennessee Star story. Horwitz filed an emergency appeal with the Court of Appeals for Middle Tennessee, requesting the court provide a stay to the show cause hearing.
Myles said that Leahy and his attorneys had to be in court next week to help her “ascertain the status and veracity of any alleged leak” of the documents.
The Tennessee Star reported that Leahy was ordered to appear in court following local television reporter Stacey Cameron calling the judge and asking if the Star or anyone else should be held "in contempt” due to reporting on the notes from Hale's journal.
Leahy told Just the News on Thursday that Cameron made a false claim to the judge about the documents, which he says he obtained legally.
“She is compelling me to be present in court to explain why publication of certain documents does not constitute contempt of court," Leahy told Just the News. "But she doesn’t cite what we violated.”
Leahy is currently in a legal battle attempting to get Hale’s full journal from the Metro Nashville Police Department. The Star has written several articles about some of Hale's writings, which resulted in extensive backlash.
"The Show Cause Order does not specify or otherwise identify ‘the Orders of this Court’ that it implies may have been violated," the emergency filing reads. “The Show Cause Order does make clear, however, that it is concerned with the acts – specifically, ‘the publication of certain purported documents and information’ – that transpired outside the presence of the Court.”
In April, the FBI turned over writings from Hale to the court, including a manifesto, which are being read privately by the judge to determine whether there is reason to continue hiding them from the public. Three nine-year-old students and three adults were killed in the shooting spree.
Star News sued the FBI in May, claiming the bureau had violated the First Amendment by rejecting multiple Freedom of Information Act requests for the Covenant School shooter’s manifesto.
U.S. District Judge Aleta Trauger sided with the Tennessee Star in March in seeking the manifesto and other relevant written documents from Hale.
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"The motion alleged that the court order violates Tennessee’s “shield law,” which “protects reporters from being compelled to reveal any information – or the source of any information – procured for publication and broadcast.” The statute protects journalists' sources and information, gathered for publication or broadcast, whether obtained confidentially or not, and whether published or not."
Since when have Donk judges been concerned about the 'law' recently.
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...This has long, long since passed any reasonable level of ongoing-investigation-and-victim-privacy.
I can't help but think at this point, there's just two possibilities: either there is something even more disturbing that The Authorities are trying to conceal or said Authorities are furious beyond words at being defied, and they want to make examples of some people (not that it will work; as Super Hose has already pointed out this has been decided but in America today the process is often the punishment).
Of course, there's also the possibility that we should embrace the healing power of 'and'.
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The "judge" is polishing apples with the rainbow alphabet community. Fidelity to the law isn't a consideration at all here.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
06/17/2024 9:06 Comments ||
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Tennessee Star 06/08/2024 Transgender Who Killed 6 at Nashville School Bought Guns with Federal Grant Money
I smell lawsuit and exposure problems: $$
Posted by: Frank G ||
06/17/2024 9:26 Comments ||
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Until we start suing these judges, nothing will change. Begging the bigger question. How is it not a crime for a government turd to prevent our Constitutional rights?
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A squish free conservative majority could enact laws that explicitly require the release of this sort of stuff when it will not jeopardize a criminal case.
Yeh, I know...
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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How is it not a crime for a government turd to prevent our Constitutional rights?
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] A Democratic candidate for a local office position in Texas was arrested last week on charges stemming from a racist attack he allegedly staged against himself. "If I don't get outta town I'm gonna kill myself!"
Taral Patel, 30, has been running for Fort Bend County Commission Precinct 3 - a local position in the outer suburbs of Houston - since last year. "One false move and the Hindoo gets it!"
Last September, he wrote a long Facebook post that he paired with a collage of nearly a dozen disparaging posts that attack his race, ethnicity, religion, and political affiliations. "Go getcher own country, Messican!"
The collage featured comments that appeared to come from accounts that extolled conservative Christian virtues, and railed against immigrants colonists - the names attached to most of the comments are blurred or otherwise obscured in the image.
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Sadly this is the county I live in but it's quite large. He's not in my Precinct or I'd get the pleasure of voting against him.
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Supernatural faith is not something that I associate with the squad. God resides in all folks invite Him in, but you have to provide a suitable dwelling place. A heart full of Marxist hate is not going to work as God’s tabernacle.
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If a Republican said this the media would be unanimously smirking, pointing and saying "Look at the Christer crackpot!"
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
His video coach taught him well!
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