7. Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody is investigating Florida State University’s playoff snub, declaring that, “I’m a lifelong Gator, but I’m also the Florida attorney general, and I know injustice when I see it.” The insinuations by the AG are pretty clear when she says the issues are numerous and include, “possible contracts, combinations or conspiracies in restraint of trade, or monopolization, attempted monopolization or commerce, relating to anticompetitive effects of the College Football playoffs on the Group of Five Conferences and Power Five Conferences.”
6. The media’s months-long attempt to get the execution of a vicious murderer, Kenneth Eugene Smith, delayed because of the manner of execution he chose is now entering a more ridiculous phase. A death row minister is complaining about the fact that he may die during the execution.
5. The scandal at Harvard is continuing to grow beyond the tacit acceptance of antisemitism, mob violence, and intimation and plagiarism. Now it has been learned that Harvard hired “the top defamation law firm” in the country to threaten NY Post journalists who raised the plagiarism issue. Harvard President Claudine Gay will probably be pushed out soon.
4. The family of Stephen Perkins, the man killed by Decatur police after he allegedly brandished a gun at a tow truck driver and then later at police, have filed a lawsuit against the city of Decatur, the officers involved (naming them for the first time), the financiers of Perkins’ truck, the tow truck company and two employees alleging the officers and the tow truck company employees entered into a scheme to repossess the truck and that the city of Decatur incentivized the use of force in interactions with public.
3. Fast food companies are using prisoners on work release and the prisoners, and their supporters, are alleging this is akin to slave labor in a lawsuit against Gov. Kay Ivey, Attorney General Steve Marshall, the fast food companies, a beer distributor, and several government entities that used this labor. The argument being made by State Rep. Christopher England (D-Tuscaloosa), in response, is that if these prisoners can work 10-hour days with no supervision, they should be released.
2. The U.S. House formal impeachment inquiry is moving forward with a vote scheduled for today. Republicans can only lose three total Republicans if every Democrat shows up to vote and U.S. Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) says he is a definite NO vote but he also believes he is the only one, so all Alabama Republicans are expected to vote YES.
1. President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky met to promote the attempt to provide more funding for the war in Ukraine arguing that “freedom is on the line” but the impasse remains, the border issues that Democrats and Republicans can not find agreement on. Alabama U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) dismissed the notion that Russia is on the march, saying, “Well everybody keeps saying they’re going to continue across Europe, I mean, they can’t beat Ukraine on the Eastern side, how are they going to continue to go through the rest of Europe? I’ve never believed that scenario, I think it is a good selling point to send more money.”
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