1. According to Chief Acevedo, the internal investigation concerning the shooting of naked, unarmed teen, David Joseph. It's significant because of the brevity of the investigation. According to the police chief, most cases like this take a year to a year and a half to process while this one only took a month. The three options the police have as a reaction to this evidence is to either schedule a disciplinary hearing for the officer, request further investigation, or exonerate him of any policy violations. In order to make the findings of the investigation public, the officer in question must be suspended for at least one day as a consequence of the shooting.
2. Hortensia Villegas and her family are rushing to become citizens so that they can vote in the election and against Trump. This is part of a larger trend of Latino immigrants naturalizing in order to prevent a Trump presidency. President Obama has made it easier for legal residents to naturalize by making the fee to naturalize able to be paid by credit card, offering the civics test online, and making applications more readily available. This is what I think Donald Trump would say (read in Trump's voice).
"What these Hispanics are doing will have no impact whatsoever! I'm telling you now! No impact! It's stupid, I mean. Really, really stupid. They can't stop us! They can't stop The Donald!!!!"-Donald J. Trump
3. The Texas Railroad Commission is struggling because they do not have enough money due to the slump in oil prices (they get 75% of their budget from drilling activities). Without adequate funding, commission leaders warn conservatives that the federal government will be forced to take over.
4. Former First Lady Nancy Reagan died last Sunday at the age of 94. This is why President Obama ordered all the flags on federal buildings to be raised half-staff. First Lady Michelle Obama will be attending her funeral on Friday. Because President Obama remarked on how much Nancy Reagan meant to her husband and to her country, it is appropriate that the current First Lady, Michelle Obama, will be attending her funeral. Nancy Reagan will be remembered for her work as a first lady and also as a board member of the Reagan Presidential Library, which she had dedicated her time to for the past 15 years.
5. Erin Andrews will awarded $55 million dollars in her lawsuit against a stalker that recorded a nude video of her and posted it online. Andrews' parents testified that they had felt terror and fear for their daughter when they had learned of the video's existence. The people found guilty were the stalker as well as the two companies that run the hotel that the video was shot at. The stalker will pay 51% of the money and the two companies will pay the rest. The companies protested that the only guilty party was the stalker and that they should not be included in the verdict. It is my personal opinion that they should be included in the verdict but should only be responsible for, like, 25% of it.
6. The Supreme Court, citing the "faith and good credit" clause of The Constitution, ruled that states must honor adoptions made by same-sex parents that have moved across state lines. This came about from a case in which a Georgia woman was denied the right to visit her children that she had adopted with her former partner by the Alabama Supreme Court. The vote was unanimous and arguments for the case were not heard because it seemed as if the judges had already made up their minds.
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