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Republican repeatedly crossed center line before DUI arrest: North Dakota Highway Patrol
April 19, 2021
New details are emerging on the arrest of a Republican legislative leader in North Dakota.
"The Highway Patrol trooper who arrested North Dakota House Assistant Majority Leader Scott Louser for drunken driving last week observed Louser's vehicle cross the center line "several times" on Expressway between Mandan and Bismarck before pulling him over, the agency said Monday," The Bismark Tribune reported Monday. "The trooper also smelled alcohol on Louser after stopping him shortly before 1 a.m. Friday, according to the summary the patrol provided the Tribune."
There are conflicting details in the case.
"The trooper determined Louser was under the influence of alcohol and took him to the Burleigh Morton Detention Center. A sergeant there on Saturday said Louser was not taken to the jail, so no booking photo was taken. Patrol spokesman Sgt. Wade Kadrmas on Monday said Louser was taken to the jail for testing," the newspaper explained. "It wasn't clear where Louser was coming from the morning he was arrested or who might have been with him."
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Chauvin lawyer whines about ‘prosecutorial misconduct’ after he says he was 'belittled' in court
April 19, 2021
Derek Chauvin's lawyer, Eric Nelson, had a litany of complaints that he lodged at the prosecutors in the case and even attacked the judge for not isolating the jury while more police attacked more people of color, including an unarmed man in Brooklyn Center who was pulled over for expired license plate registrations.
"I know the defense was in the process, I think, of making a -- expressing a concern or an objection to counsel's argument belittling the defense?" Judge Peter A. Cahill is that what I correctly -- I correctly perceived that objection? I think we dealt with it sufficiently during the objections during the rebuttal. So, there will be no additional instruction in that regard."
"Your honor, I do believe that it constitutes prosecutorial misconduct and is potentially basis for a grounds for a mistrial," said Nelson.
"That, I think, the use of the word 'nonsense' is what you're talking about originally?" asked Judge Cahill.
"Originally, your honor, but then in rebuttal, there were repeated comments about how we were -- and implications that we were -- that we were shading, was one example, that we were creating Halloween stories was another example. That these were stories and that was a repeated comment, stated that we misrepresented facts and put words into Dr. Baker's mouth. That we made several statements that they put forth as stories after the court instructed him to use the -- stop using the word 'stories,' he clarified that it's just fabricated facts, and so there were multiple references to that, that we were shading the truth. And again, so, multiple objections."
The judge dismissed the objections because the defense objected during the losing statements and Judge Cahill sustained the objection and asked the jury to disregard the characterizations.
Nelson went on to complain that the jury was never sequestered and were exposed to more examples of police shooting unarmed people of color, including the shooting of Daunte Wright less than ten miles from the courtroom. One juror, Nelson said, lives in Brooklyn Center, and was likely exposed to the news about what was going on, despite requests by the judge not to watch the news.
The judge dismissed it as well, saying that for the last several days of the trial he'd asked jurors not to watch the news.
Nelson then went on to attack Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) as another reason that the trial should be retried.
See the moment in the video below:
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Ron Johnson confesses he didn't think Wisconsin voters deserved pandemic survival checks
April 19, 2021
In an interview with WCLO Radio Monday, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) appeared to confess that he doesn't deserve to be reelected next year.
According to Johnson, "I get criticized brutally for wanting to stand in the way of getting checks to everybody."
He complained about "deficit spending and the debt load," which he ignored during former President Donald Trump's administration when he supported the massive tax cut to the rich and to corporations and the massive COVID-19 package that went largely to large companies and not small businesses.
According to Johnson, the stimulus checks were "given to people who didn't need them," which is an outright lie. No one making over $75,000 a year got their $1400 check. Johnson complained that Americans already had "three rounds of them." At the November election, the unemployment rate edged down to 6.7 percent, which is 10.7 million Americans out of work. The idea that an American family could survive on what was given is absurd.
Still, Johnson bragged that he didn't think his own state deserved the stimulus money.
Listen to a portion of the interview below and the full interview here:
Ron Johnson On Survival Checks 04/19/21 www.youtube.com
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