June 20, 2016

The transcript of a 911 call between the Orlando shooter and authorities during last week’s massacre was released on Monday by the Department of Justice, with significant details omitted. The record of the approximately 50-second exchange includes Omar Mateen admitting to the rampage, telling a dispatcher over the phone, “I did the shooting.” The portion of the conversation in which Mateen pledges allegiance to a foreign terrorist organization, however, was redacted by the Justice Department. Reacting to the release, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan…

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Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg excoriated colleagues on Monday, charging the court with undermining Constitutional safeguards against police abuses. Justices had that day ruled 5-3 to reverse a Utah Supreme Court decision to suppress evidence collected by a narcotics detective. Elena Kagan was the other Justice to dissent. The officer in the case had detained a suspect without reasonable suspicion, discovered the man had a warrant for a traffic violation, then placed him under arrest and discovered he was possessing methamphetamine.…

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