Random Friday Morning Thoughts

The time I posted a gif of a cat attack and followed it up with a pic of The Family Cat watching the gif.

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• Update on the shooting which involved a bunch of 17 year olds at a Burleson park in a "drug deal gone bad."
  
  
  
• Victim's photo. 
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• This is on the heels of the state taking over Fort Worth ISD a few weeks back. 
  
  
  
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• "A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Va., declined on Thursday to indict Letitia James, the New York attorney general, the second time in a week that jurors had rejected the effort." And these were two different grand juries in two different cities.  That's hard to do. 
  
  
• Trump told Indiana Republicans to redraw their congressional maps to eliminate all Democratic districts. Their legislature, unlike the Texas legislature, said no yesterday.
  
  
  
• AI headlines: 
• So much for state's rights.  And isn't this supposed to be something Congress decides?
  
  
  
  
• Gift link.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Things are about to get weirder. 
  
  
  
  
• Random Trump stuff. 
• He's thinks he can pardon a convicted, crooked, and elecction-denying politician of state charges.
  
  
  
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• He says the strangest things. Video.
  
  
  
• Ominous Trump stuff from the same speech last night: “We’re going to have a great three years, four years, 10 years, we’re going to make it great. Our country’s going to be strong, safe, rich, it’s going to be great. We’re going to make America great again!” (Video)
  
  
  
• Legal nerdy stuff: Wichita Falls had a high profile capital murder case over the last couple of years where their local paper describes it this way:  "James Staley, the 43-year-old scion of a prominent Wichita Falls oil family, was found guilty by a Fort Worth jury in connection with the Oct. 11, 2018, smothering death of Wilder, his then girlfriend’s son, at his Wichita Falls home in the Country Club neighborhood" But then, earlier this year, the conviction was reversed by the Fort Worth Court of Appeals based upon an illegal cell phone search.  Yesterday, we had another development. (PDR is here.)
  
  
  
• Legal nerdy stuff. There is no way the judge's comment was an accurate statement of the meaning of "beyond a reasonable doubt." Oral argument video is here (cued up).  Briefs are here. 
  
  
  
• Lauren Whitener Clock: 6 years and 162 days.