Directly following a new high-profile Rolls-Royce crash including the proprietor of the Kuber Gathering, lawful delegates have approached with an astonishing declaration: “Driving gradually is more hazardous.”
The mishap, which happened on August 2023, earned significant media consideration because of the inclusion of Mr. Raj Kuber, the wealthy owner of the Kuber Gathering, and his lavish Rolls-Royce Apparition. The episode unfolded in a calm private area in London, leaving the lofty vehicle seriously harmed and Mr. Kuber shaken however fortunately safe.
Be that as it may, what has separate this mishap from the typical titles is the unpredictable position taken by Mr. Kuber’s legitimate guidance, David Thompson, in the consequence of the occurrence. Thompson, an accomplished lawyer prestigious for his work in high-profile cases, offered a novel point of view on the mishap during a new public interview.
“In spite of the standard way of thinking, our examination of the conditions prompting this mishap proposes that driving gradually would be able, as a matter of fact, be more perilous than driving at sensible rates,” commented Thompson. He proceeded to clarify this perspective by making sense of that the accident was a consequence of another vehicle neglecting to perceive the Rolls-Royce’s mindful speed and thusly back finishing it.
Thompson’s contention depends on the possibility that more slow moving vehicles on a street may not be promptly seen by different drivers, especially on high velocity courses where quick traffic is the standard. “Drivers anticipate a specific progression of traffic on a street,” he said. “At the point when a vehicle is moving essentially more slow than the encompassing traffic, it can cause what is happening where others may not expect the decreased speed, prompting mishaps like the one including Mr. Kuber.”
This point of view difficulties the tried and true way of thinking that more slow velocities innately compare to expanded wellbeing out and about. Notwithstanding, it likewise starts a more extensive discussion about street security and the significance of keeping up with predictable rates with the progression of traffic.
Thompson’s assertions have mixed both help and doubt inside the legitimate and auto networks. A few specialists contend that speed limits are set for an explanation, as extreme speed stays a main source of mishaps around the world. Others fight that Thompson’s contention highlights the requirement for expanded driver mindfulness and mindfulness.
The Rolls-Royce crash, however lucky in that it brought about no wounds, fills in as a distinct sign of the perplexing elements impacting street wellbeing. As the examination concerning the occurrence unfurls, the job of speed and the assumptions for different drivers will without a doubt stay vital to the talk.
The Kuber Gathering still can’t seem to make an authority announcement with respect to the mishap or Thompson’s comments. By the by, this episode has reignited conversations about the elements of street security, testing the broadly held conviction that driving gradually is consistently the more secure choice.
Disclaimer: This article depends on data accessible at the hour of composing, and the examination concerning the Rolls-Royce crash is continuous. Any updates or improvements may not be reflected in this report.
Trump and his inner circle orchestrated a plan for GOP electors in seven states he lost to sign documents claiming to be legitimate presidential electors. Those false electors became a component in a desperate last-ditch bid by Trump to overturn the election on Jan. 6, 2021. Citing the certificates signed by the false electors, Trump and a cadre of fringe attorneys claimed there was a conflict that only Congress and then-Vice President Mike Pence could resolve on Jan. 6.
Ultimately, Pence refused to support the effort, claiming it was illegal and unconstitutional, and rejecting a pressure campaign to treat the false GOP electors as legitimate.
Dozens of false electors were subpoenaed by the Jan. 6 select committee as well as special counsel Jack Smith, who is mounting a similar criminal probe into Trump’s bid to subvert the election.
Not all of the false electors across the country were equally involved in Trump’s effort — and dozens have contended that they had no knowledge their signatures would be used as part of Trump’s Jan. 6 effort. Rather, they said they were advised that they were signing “contingent” certificates that would only be used if courts reversed Trump’s defeat. They argued that similar tactics were used in 1960, when Democrats signed contingent certificates amid a recount in Hawaii. (The recount ultimately reversed that state’s results and the contingent electors were counted.)
But some of the false electors were also state party chairs and key Trump allies who played larger roles in Trump’s bid to stay in power. Willis, who has previously indicated she considers all of the false electors “targets” of her investigation, has raised concerns that Debrow’s representation of 10 of the false electors could present a conflict if any of them testify against each other. Last month, Willis claimed that recent interviews with the false electors revealed incriminating evidence about one of them.
Debrow, in Friday’s filing, sharply rejected that contention and maintained that none of her clients believed they had done anything wrong. She is urging the judge presiding over the matter, Robert McBurney, to reject Willis’ attempt to disqualify her from the case.
Debrow accused Willis’ team of misleading the judge about the status of immunity discussions between the electors and the DA’s office and she indicated that the assistant DA leading the interviews had threatened to indict one of the electors after a tense exchange. Debrow said she recorded aspects of the exchange without the prosecutors’ knowledge.
McBurney previously rejected a bid by Willis to disqualify Debrow from representing numerous contingent electors but did require one of them, David Shafer, the chairman of the Georgia GOP, to separate from the larger group. Shafer appeared to be more exposed to potential criminal charges than the others, McBurney ruled at the time.
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Prayagraj: The Prayagraj police have recovered a pistol and some cartridges from the residence of slain gangster-politician Atiq Ahmed’s lawyer Khan Saulat Haneef.
The lawyer has been booked under the Arms Act for the offence.
The court had granted the police a 12-hour custody remand of Saulat Haneef in connection with the Umesh Pal murder case during which the lawyer was interrogated and his residence raided.
Heavy security arrangements were in place at Dhoomanganj police station, where the 61-year-old was interrogated. In the afternoon, he was taken to his house in the Pritam Nagar locality from where the police recovered three phones, a country-made 9 mm pistol and three cartridges.
One of the phones recovered was used to send photographs of Umesh Pal to Asad’s phone four days before Pal was killed outside his residence on February 24 this year, police said.
Asad, one of the sons of Atiq Ahmed, was killed in an exchange of fire with police last month.
The police had reportedly recovered evidence from Asad’s phone that suggested that Haneef had sent him at least 10 photographs of Pal on February 19.
Haneef was booked for Pal’s murder on the basis of this evidence.
A senior police official involved in the investigation, said, “Saulat Haneef’s interrogation provided vital clues to the police which will help the police in collecting concrete evidence against the accused involved in the Umesh Pal murder case.”
The lawyer was also reportedly asked about the various ‘benami’ properties of Atiq in Prayagraj, Lucknow, western UP and in other states. Khan was said to have disclosed the names of some of Atiq’s financiers and business partners.
On March 28, Saulat Haneef was awarded life imprisonment by a court in the Umesh Pal abduction case.
In an FIR lodged in 2007, Umesh Pal alleged that he was abducted and taken hostage at Atiq’s office in Prayagraj’s Chakia locality. Atiq and others allegedly tortured Pal and forced him to withdraw his statement given as a witness in the 2005 BSP MLA Raju Pal murder case.
“The filing of a notice of intent to use CCTV video should have caused Attorney Watkins to request that sentencing be postponed in order to obtain from the government all video evidence of Mr. Chansley from inside the Capitol,” Shipley wrote. “By not securing the video and determining whether it supported Mr. Chansley’s description of events, Attorney Watkins allowed the Government to take liberties in describing Mr. Chansley’s conduct while inside the Capitol, without fear of the unproduced videos contradicting the Government’s claims.”
Chansley pleaded guilty in September 2021 to obstruction of an official proceeding.
The new motion was prompted by video footage that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy shared exclusively with Tucker Carlson, then of Fox News, earlier this year. Some of the video Carlson aired showed police appearing to open a door for Chansley and to direct him through various hallways in the Capitol.
Prosecutors claimed in correspondence with Shipley that almost all the videos aired during Carlson’s program last month were made available to his then-attorney and others on a data-sharing platform in October 2021. However, Shipley asserts that prosecutors in another case said the videos were uploaded the prior month “and it is quite likely that both [claims] are false.”
In addition to claiming Chansley’s lawyer didn’t explore the video issue sufficiently, the motion argues that prosecutors violated Chansley’s rights by failing to isolate and highlight the videos Shipley contends are exculpatory. Prosecutors have argued that they fulfilled their obligations by turning over a massive trove of video evidence to all defendants and by alerting defendants to relevant videos that prosecutors were aware of.
The motion is likely to have little direct effect on the most significant element of Chansley’s sentence — his time spent behind bars — because he was released last month from a federal prison in Arizona and sent to a halfway house. A federal prisoner database shows he’s scheduled for release from custody in May. He served only about 27 months of his 41-month sentence due to various policies crediting prisoners with so-called “good time” and allowing for transition programs like halfway houses.
Shipley did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday night on what concrete benefit the motion can achieve for Chansley at this juncture, but the motion suggests that the video footage undermines prosecutors’ claims that Chansley intended violence when he entered the Capitol. U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth, who sentenced Chansley and will handle the new motion, applied an enhancement for use of violence that more or less doubled the recommended sentence for Chansley.
Lamberth, an appointee of President Ronald Reagan, also ruled early in Chansley’s case that a finial on an American flag he carried in the Capitol could have been used as a spear so it qualified as a weapon. The finding supported Lamberth’s decision to deny Chansley release on bond.
Whatever the actions of the police, prosecutors have contended that Chansley acted in a manner that was unambiguously threatening. After going onto the Senate floor, he went up on the dais, writing and leaving a note saying: “It’s only a matter of time. Justice is coming.” Chansley has contended he was “peaceful” on Jan. 6, never engaging in the violence some other protesters did.
Watkins and a spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington also did not respond to messages Thursday night seeking comment on the filing.
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Carroll, a magazine writer, testified for a second day in her civil lawsuit against the former president. She is suing him for battery and defamation. He has said the alleged incident “never happened.”
The questioning got off to a terse start as Tacopina wished Carroll “good morning” twice before she would reply to him. “There ya go,” he said when she finally responded.
Carroll has said that she believes the alleged attack at Bergdorf Goodman occurred in the evening on a day between the fall of 1995 and the spring of 1996, and under questioning from her own lawyer on Wednesday, she added that she believes it took place on a Thursday. A former Bergdorf employee testified that Thursdays were the only nights of the week the luxury department store stayed open late.
But Carroll has repeatedly said she can’t recall exactly what date it happened.
On Thursday, Tacopina questioned why Carroll said only now that it was a Thursday and why neither she nor two friends she says she told contemporaneously can recall the date.
“I wish to heaven we could give you a date,” Carroll said. “I wish we could give you a date.”
Carroll testified that she always had a hunch the alleged attack occurred on a Thursday, but didn’t identify the day of the week in a book she wrote or in interviews because she wasn’t absolutely sure and “I tried to stick to the facts.”
Tacopina also questioned Carroll about a 2017 email referencing Trump between her and her friend Carol Martin, in which Martin wrote: “As soon as we are both well enuf to scheme, we must do our patriotic duty again …” Carroll responded: “TOTALLY!!! I have something special for you when we meet.”
When Carroll testified, as she had also done Wednesday, that she couldn’t recall what the email meant, Tacopina asked how she could remember details from the alleged rape from at least 27 years ago but couldn’t recall anything about a six-year-old email.
“Those are facts that I could never forget,” Carroll said of the alleged attack. “This is an email among probably hundreds of emails between Carol and I that I have no recollection of.”
Tacopina also pressed Carroll on why she went public with her story when she did, in 2019. Though Tacopina suggested she was using the claim to try to attract a book publisher, Carroll disputed that, saying she was instead prompted by revelations about film producer Harvey Weinstein’s sexual predation in The New York Times in 2017.
“When that happened, across the country women began telling their stories, and I was flummoxed [and thought], wait a minute, can we actually speak up and not be pummeled?” Carroll testified. “I thought, well this may be a way to change the culture of sexual violence. The light dawned. I thought, we can actually change things if we all tell our stories. And I thought by god, this may be the time.”
She continued: “It caused me to realize that staying silent does not work. It doesn’t work. If women speak up, we have a chance of limiting the harm that happens.”
Tacopina challenged Carroll on specific details of her account of the alleged rape.
He pressed her on her recollection that she didn’t see anyone in the department store as she and Trump rode the escalators to the sixth floor. “I was not looking for other people,” she said. “I was in a very engaging conversation with Donald Trump.”
He questioned why, as she has testified, she would have suggested Trump, a relatively tall and heavyset man, try on a skimpy women’s lace bodysuit they found on a counter in the lingerie department. “It just struck me as very funny,” she said. “If a man tells me to put on some lingerie, my natural instinct is to tell him to go put on the lingerie.”
Tacopina asked how she could have fought back against Trump while wearing 4-inch-heels, as she has said. “I can dance backwards and forwards in 4-inch-heels,” she replied.
And, in perhaps the most heated moment of the day, Tacopina questioned why she wouldn’t have screamed if she were being sexually assaulted.
“I’m not a screamer. You can’t beat up on me for not screaming,” she replied, growing agitated. “I’m not beating up on you. I’m asking you questions,” Tacopina said.
“Women don’t come forward. One of the reasons they don’t come forward is because they’re always asked, why didn’t you scream?” Carroll told the courtroom. Women are told, she said, “You better have a good excuse if you didn’t scream.”
At that point, Carroll raised her voice. “I’m telling you: He raped me whether I screamed or not,” she exclaimed.
“Do you need a minute, Ms. Carroll?” Tacopina asked.
“No,” she replied. “Go right on. I don’t need an excuse for not screaming.”
The trial will not meet on Friday. Carroll is expected to continue her testimony on Monday.
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German band Trigger Cut should have been touring the UK this month, but they never reached the country. The musicians were turned away by border guards, apparently because they have day jobs. While it might be unthinkable to the Home Office, for many artists the notion of a second job is no surprise.
“I know very few musicians who only are musicians,” says Glaswegian guitarist Kevin Cahill. “Almost everyone has a second job and it’s mainly teaching. The ones who don’t are either really rich or really poor.” Cahill knew he wanted to be a musician when, as a teenager, he first heard the White Stripes’ album Elephant. Now, he’s a classically trained guitarist and one half of ambient duo Cahill//Costello, who have just recorded their second album.
This, live performance and working as a session musician are where his passion lies, but he’s also a music teacher. “I love teaching, but it pays for me to do all these other things,” he says. “It’s a balancing act.”
It’s a similar story for Kit Fan, who works as full-time governance manager at Hull York Medical School. He’s also a poet, novelist and recipient of two Northern writers’ awards for his first novel Diamond Hill and latest poetry collection The Ink Cloud Reader. “Most writers I know have a second job,” he says. “A lot of poets in particular have second jobs in academia.”
‘Get a trade, son’ … musician and teacher Kevin Cahill. Photograph: Ben Glasgow
Fan completed a poetry related PhD in York, but his writing career “wasn’t planned”. He says: “I was much more keen to have a full-time job, I feel I need economic stability. I was born in Hong Kong and brought up in what you would describe as a working-class family. The idea that I would just work as a writer didn’t occur to me.”
He now writes on weekends and evenings, rejecting “self-blame” if he can’t write as much as hoped: “The frustration of finding time to write is much more productive than the frustration of having too much time and not being able to write.”
Standup comedian Sikisa Bostwick-Barnes has appeared on Live at the Apollo and performs several times per week, but says: “It’s common for people to have a second job in comedy, especially when they’re starting out, unless you’re lucky enough financially to just enjoy your dreams.” She’s in high demand on the comedy circuit – but four days per week, she’s an immigration lawyer. Working in legal aid, the salary is “decent” but not high, and she also helps support family members. “There’s a backstory people don’t see,” she says.
Second jobs are “a very important aspect of creative work,” says Orian Brook, from the University of Edinburgh, co-author of Culture Is Bad for You – a book investigating inequality in creative industries – with Dave O’Brien and Mark Taylor. Now they, with researcher Giuliana Giuliani, are studying second jobs in the arts.
From 2015–21, people with a main creative job such as actors, musicians and artists were more than twice as likely to have a second job than people in other occupations. The numbers could even be higher, says Brook, as full-time freelancers weren’t counted.
Cahill, Fan and Bostwick-Barnes are all successful in their fields – why do they need second jobs? “The vast majority of writers don’t earn a lot of money,” says Fan. “I certainly cannot sustain any viable economic life from my writing alone. It’s a question of survival.” The ALCS reported last year that median earnings for authors have fallen to £7,000 per year. Only 19% of the authors said they write full-time.
‘It’s a question of survival’ … poet and author Kit Fan. Photograph: Hugh Haughton
Surveying around 100 people in the public arts sector, Artist Leaks found a median hourly wage of £2.60 – far below the £10.42 National Living Wage. Meanwhile, the Live Comedy Association found 60% of people working in the industry earn less than the median UK wage.
“Comedy, especially when you’re starting out, doesn’t pay,” says Bostwick-Barnes. Comedians fork out for travel, accommodation and publicity materials, plus fees for freelance work are often late. “I need a reliable, sustainable income to feel safe.”
The Culture Is Bad for You researchers discovered “an expectation that everybody works for low pay, and everybody has to do a bit of unpaid work,” says O’Brien, with people receiving low hourly pay or working many hours for small fixed sums. In performing arts and music, he says this appears to have worsened since the pandemic.
While wealthier creatives can take the hit, furthering their careers with loss-making Edinburgh shows, funding films and exhibitions or doing unpaid internships, their poorer contemporaries struggle.
This is something charity Arts Emergency, which helps young people from underrepresented backgrounds access arts careers through mentoring, contends with. “We constantly equivocate over the ethics of helping people into these industries because we know that although it’s societally important, individually it can be a massive struggle,” says Neil Griffiths, who co-founded the organisation with comedian Josie Long.
The charity’s network of creative professionals explains the reality of precarious work, long hours and low pay to mentees. “It’s unsustainable as a standalone career unless you have some other source of wealth,” says Griffiths. “We call it the ‘glass floor’. Some of the best people drop out because they can no longer justify it. It is absolutely a disadvantage if you can’t dedicate your full time and energy to your practice and must struggle to survive.”
The issue of pay has long been absent from conversations in the arts, Griffiths says: “We can’t complain that there are no artists of colour, journalism is super elite and everyone’s privately educated, then not talk about money.”
If we don’t look at who’s working second jobs, it can paint false pictures about talent, says O’Brien. If there are two actors, one with time to prepare for and attend auditions, and another who’s working, who’s more likely to land a role? “It’s not only about how good you are at the job, or if you work hard enough you’ll succeed,” Brook adds.
While studying at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Cahill felt part-time working – something he had to do – was discouraged. One route to success for classical musicians is competitions, but “most people who do these practise all day, every day and don’t have a job.”
The necessity for Bostwick-Barnes to work as a lawyer “put me back a couple of years”. She took her debut show to the Edinburgh festival fringe last year, after seven years doing standup: “I debuted later than I probably should have, because I didn’t have the time and energy to really trust my comedy.” While she thinks there’s now less stigma around second jobs, it can limit opportunities: “I remember being like, ‘I would love to do this TV job but I’ve run out of annual leave.’”
Turned away for having day jobs … German band Trigger Cut. Photograph: Trigger Cut/Facebook
Yet all three find positives in their day jobs. After experiencing a lack of support to pursue music when he was younger, Cahill is determined to show his students it’s a real prospect. “When I was wanting to do it, it was like, ‘Get a real job. Get a trade, son’,” he says. “Teaching kids how to play an instrument is such a humbling thing because you’re constantly reminding yourself why you love it. If you can show the importance of your art through teaching, that’s the way to change things.”
For Bostwick-Barnes, being an immigration lawyer is consuming, but important: “My day job is something I’m passionate about because it does help people. The work is full-on, I’m always worried about my clients.”
Fan feels his two careers are symbiotic. Writing makes him a better manager; managing offers “insight into other people’s lives”. He says: “There’s an economic reason, but also an artistic reason – I want to be in touch with the world.”
This is echoed by Griffiths. “Without romanticising it, if you don’t have much friction economically or socially, maybe your work is less relevant to people. If you’re living real life, your work has more vitality, it’s more socially and politically important. It’s not a reason to make people struggle, but it’s one of the advantages.”
Bostwick-Barnes has comedy ambitions that require more free time, but that will have a financial cost. “I sacrifice a lot to do something that makes me happy. I enjoy what I do, but I know I can’t sustain this. I wish there was two of me!”
Fan is happy with his current situation: “I’m part of the life of work, of people’s challenges, messiness, gossip, and all of these things help me write.”
Cahill decided during the pandemic to spend more time playing and recording, and hopes to do so for years to come, but says: “I think I would always teach. I’ve always seen being a musician as a lifelong work.”
Artists will continue needing second jobs until the culture of low-paid, unstable work is addressed. With the cost-of-living crisis, it’s more pressing than ever, Griffiths says: “If you want a world-leading creative sector, you’ve got to pay artists to survive – start making it somewhere people can thrive.”
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Prayagraj: Gangster-politician Atiq Ahmed’s lawyer Khan Shoulat Hanif has been booked for criminal conspiracy in the Umesh Pal murder case, an official said on Saturday.
Speaking to PTI, Deputy Commissioner of Police (City) Deepak Bhukar said Hanif’s name was added under Section 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code to the FIR registered at Dhoomanganj police station in the Umesh Pal murder case.
“We came to know that Hanif shared pictures of Umesh Pal with Ahmed’s son Asad days before he was attacked,” Bhukar told PTI.
Asad, the third of Ahmed’s five sons, was killed in a police encounter in Jhansi on April 13.
Sources said the police might soon file a remand application in court to interrogate Hanif, who is currently lodged in Naini Central Prison after being sentenced to life imprisonment in the Umesh Pal kidnapping case.
Umesh Pal, a key witness in the murder of BSP MLA Raju Pal, and his two security personnel were shot dead on February 24.
On February 25, the police registered a case against Ahmed, his brother Ashraf, wife Shaista Parveen, two sons, aides Guddu Muslim and Ghulam, and nine other accomplices at Dhoomanganj police station.
A special court here on March 28 convicted Ahmed, Hanif and Dinesh Pasi and sentenced them to life in prison in the 17-year-old kidnapping case.
Hanif and Pasi were detained in Naini Central Prison while Ahmed was sent to Sabarmati Central Jail in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad.
Ahmed, a former Samajwadi Party MP, and Ashraf were shot dead on April 15 by three assailants when they were being taken by the police for a medical examination. They were brought here in connection with the Umesh Pal murder case.
She’s turned to Michael Bromwich, senior counsel at the white shoe Steptoe law firm, for help.
“It is undeniable that the pandemic resulted in tragic and continuing consequences for children,” Bromwich wrote on the union’s behalf Wednesday to subcommittee chair Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) and ranking member Raul Ruiz (D-Calif.).
“We make no progress towards addressing those very real problems by engaging in the type of scapegoating built on false allegations that appear to be the basis for this Subcommittee’s ‘investigation,’” Bromwich wrote in his letter to lawmakers, which was obtained by POLITICO.
Bromwich is widely known in Washington for his work representing former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe during the Trump-Russia investigation and Christine Blasey Ford, the California professor who alleged she was sexually assaulted by Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
A former Justice Department inspector general, Bromwich has garnered a reputation as a pugnacious defender. His message to congressional Republicans on Wednesday suggests he will deploy a similar strategy.
Earlier this month, Wenstrup asked Weingarten to testify at an April 26 hearing on the consequences of Covid-19’s school closures.
That request followed a March 28 letter from Wenstrup to Weingarten, which informed the teachers’ union chief that the select committee was investigating “potential political interference” with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance on reopening schools issued in February 2021.
Wenstrup’s March 28 letter alleged the union was granted “uncommon” access to edit the guidance before its release, citing media reports at the time, which it said ultimately resulted in the CDC advising that schools should remain closed in much of the country.
Bromwich countered that the union shared its views on the planned guidance in late January 2021 during a conference call between Weingarten, senior union staff, CDC officials and President Joe Biden’s office.
AFT officials then followed up in February 2021 to suggest language related to accommodations for high-risk educators and staff, and also proposed that the CDC include language that said its guidance may need to be updated in light of new virus variants.
In addition, the union also proposed a “trigger” threshold that would determine when schools should be closed based on positive test cases. But the CDC rejected that suggestion, according to Bromwich.
“The claim that the AFT’s agenda was ‘keeping schools closed,’ and that it shifted CDC’s guidance to match that agenda, is utterly false,” Bromwich wrote to lawmakers on Wednesday.
“In fact, the AFT’s role was extremely limited,” he wrote. “It proposed changes that amounted to a few sentences in a 38-page document. The need to clarify these points was obvious and should have been uncontroversial.”
Wenstrup has asked Weingarten to supply documents, communications and a list of meetings between the AFT and the CDC, department of Health and Human Services and the Executive Office of the President regarding the guidance, among other items.
Wenstrup also issued similar requests to more than a dozen other organizations — including the National Education Association, AASA, The School Superintendents Association; the National Association of Secondary School Principals the National Association of Elementary School Principals and National School Boards Association.
Weingarten “welcomes the opportunity to testify and cooperate with the committee’s work,” an AFT spokesperson said on Wednesday.
A spokesperson for Wenstrup did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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New Delhi: A bench headed by Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud everyday usually hears around 100 cases on an average seeking urgent listing before the benches of the Supreme Court. The Chief Justice’s court is often packed with lawyers, who mention their matter seeking urgent hearing.
During the mentioning of the cases, the Chief Justice is very soft spoken while engaging with lawyers and has rarely lost his cool during the court proceedings. However, on Tuesday, he got irked and warned a lawyer: “Don’t mess around with my authority.”
The lawyer had mentioned a case and requested the court for an early hearing in the matter but after the bench told him that his matter will be listed on April 17, he asked the liberty to mention the matter before another bench. “I can mention before another bench, if permitted,” said the lawyer.
The bench, headed by the Chief Justice, and also comprising Justices P.S. Narasimha and J.B. Pardiwala, told the lawyer not to play tricks with him and said: “You can’t mention it here and then elsewhere for an earlier date.”
The lawyer understood that his submissions have irked the Chief Justice and expressed regret and said he should be excused for his submissions.
The Chief Justice told the lawyer, “Yes, you are excused. But do not mess around with my authority”, as he proceeded with the mentioning process.
Hyderabad: A member of the BJP legal legal cell Neelam Bhargava Ram threatened Warangal police commissioner A.V. Ranganath for arresting Telangana BJP chief Bandi Sanjay. The threat came after a court granted bail to Bandi Sanjay on Thursday, who had been arrested in connection with allegations of a class 10 Hindi second language question paper leaking. The police denied this, and said that the leak was not true.
Ram, who is the joint convener of the BJP Legal Cell in central Hyderabad, wrote on Twitter, “Commissioner(@cpwrl) try ur best to save your job, everything including your call logs will be probed, who insisted you to falsely implicate @bandisanjay_bjp Aanna in this Case will be brought to public domain, BC Commission waiting in Delhi, over to you @BjpAchary.”
After this tweet, Director of Digital Media for the Telangana government, Konatham Dileep, questioned the BJP member’s statement.
Dileep tweeted, “Openly threatening and abusing sincere and committed police officers is the new norm for BJP? The other day BJP MLA @RaghunandanraoM abused @TelanganaDGP now another BJP functionary is threatening @cpwrl Hope @IPS_Association is taking note!”
Telangana BJP chief gets bail
Bandi Sanjay was arrested from his in-laws’ house in Karimnagar earlier this week in the paper leak case for spreading false information. The arrest triggered protests by the BJP, who called it illegal. On Thursday, a court in Warangal district granted bail to Bandi Sanjay, subject to certain conditions.
The Warangal police named Bandi Sanjay as the main accused in the alleged leak of the Hindi question paper of the SSC exam from an exam center in Kamlapur, Warangal district, on Tuesday.
Bandi Sanjay and nine other accused were booked under IPC sections 120B (criminal conspiracy), 420 (cheating), 505 (circulating any report or statement with an intent to cause alarm to the public), and sections 4 (A), 6 of TS Public Examinations (Prevention of Malpractices) Act and 66-D of the Information Technology Act. Four have been arrested in the case so far.
Eatala Rajender received notice
The Warangal police have also issued notice to BJP MLA Eatala Rajender, asking him to appear before it on Friday for the investigation of the case. Rajender and his personal assistants Raju and Narendra were among the persons to whom accused number three had sent the leaked paper on April 4.
Rajender informed the police he would not be able to appear before it on Friday and communicated that he would appear on April 10.
