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Trump appeals
again to Court
BOSTON (AP) -- The Trump administration is again asking the Supreme Court to let it move ahead with restrictions on mail ballots before the midterm elections in November even as legal wrangling over President Donald Trump’s executive order continues in lower courts.
The Thursday appeal comes after a federal judge in Boston blocked Trump’s executive order for now. The justices have previously allowed the president’s plan to move ahead, but haven’t decided whether it’s legal. The court fight is unfolding even as states are preparing to send out mail ballots.
Drama in Clancy
courtroom
PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) -- The deadlocked jury in the Lindsay Clancy trial has gone home again without a verdict. The dramatic sixth day of deliberations Thursday saw the jury’s foreperson send the judge a note saying a single juror won’t follow the court’s instructions about reasonable doubt.
Details of the jury room conflict weren’t revealed by the judge. But they raised the possibility that a single holdout was standing in the way of a verdict on whether the Massachusetts mother is criminally responsible for killing her three children. Clancy does not deny she did it, but argues that postpartum psychosis led to her actions.
Map blocked
in Missouri
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- The Missouri Supreme Court has blocked a new U.S. House map backed by President Donald Trump from being used in the November election. The court ruled Thursday that the map cannot be used until voters first get a chance in November to uphold or reject it.
Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins had turned down a citizens’ petition seeking to put the map to a vote. But the court reversed that decision and ordered a referendum to be held. Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway vowed to immediately appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Missouri’s new House districts were drawn to try to help the GOP win another seat.
Warning signs
in Minneapolis
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- The man who carried out Wednesday’s deadly shooting in a Minneapolis apartment building had threatened his neighbors, repeatedly showed off his pistol and warned he was planning to shoot people.
Carlton Johnson shot and killed two of his neighbors and left 5 others injured. The building’s owners had been trying to evict him. At least one person had asked for a restraining order to be placed on him. The police investigated him in June, but the county attorney’s office decided not to file any charges.
Interim Police Chief Bill Peterson defended the police response to Johnson’s record and said they only recently knew of many of the incidents.