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11.25.25 · Washington Post

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the reading of The Washington Post for Tuesday,
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November twenty fifth, twenty twenty five. As a reminder, Radio
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read printed material. You read it for to Day is
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Cindy Fraser. Today's front page headlines from The Washington Post
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are Ukraine US move closer on peace plan. Proposed changes
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please key, but could be less palatable to Moscow. Next,
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Komi James cases tossed judge prosecutor serving illegally. Big setback
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for Trump's efforts to jail his rivals. Next felon paid
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lobbyists nearly one million dollars in bid for pardon. Our
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next headline as Ice target cities, Empty school desks often follow.
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Next Israel facing a wave of emigration. Fear and discontent
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have pushed thousands to leave in new brain drain. The
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final headline on to Day's front page reads, Republicans split
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on a I move fast or add guard rails. Trump
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signs order to quicken development as allies aim to protect jobs.
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Also on to Day's front page is a photo with
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the title fur Ellipse. The caption reads first. Lady Malania
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Trump receives the official twenty twenty five White House Christmas Tree,
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which arrived via a horse drawn carriage at North Portico
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on Monday, while members of the United States Marine Band,
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also known as the President's Own, provided some holiday music.
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The fur was grown at a farm in Sydney Township, Michigan.
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Now let's turn to our first item from to day's
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front page, which is entitled Ukraine U s move closer
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on peace plan. Proposed changes please Kiev, but could be
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less palatable to Moscow. By Shavano Grady, Allan Francis and
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Robin Dixon from Kiev. The United States and Ukraine significantly
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changed a controversial twenty eight point plan to end the
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war following frenzied meetings in Geneva that brought the two
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sides closer to an agreement after the White House pushed
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Kiev to sign off on the plan by Thanksgiving. The changes,
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which two officials said were much more palatable to Ukraine,
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could very well be less acceptable to Russia. The paradox
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had as long resulted in an impasse over ending the war.
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The original draft presented to Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky in
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Kiev last week made concessions to Moscow that crossed major
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red lines for Ukraine, spurring outrage from Kiev and its allies,
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including Republicans in Congress. Zelensky and top officials have spent
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the past days in a diplomatic flurry to garner support
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for a better deal. A US delegation led by Secretary
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of State Markarubio and a Ukrainian team led by the
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head of the Presidential Office Andrey Yumach held talks in
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Geneva over the weekend to hammer through changes to the proposal.
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The meetings were tense and tough, but productive, said Alexander Bibbs,
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adviser of Yumach, who participated in the Geneva talks. He
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said the Thursday deadline now appears more flexible than it
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had before. It's not a code read. It's more important
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to finalize the text. Many of the controversial provisions were
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either softened or at least reshaped to get closer to
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a Ukrainian position or reduce demands on Ukraine, he said.
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By Monday, While not all the language in the draft
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was considered entirely acceptable to kiv Bev said the text
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was re to a point that it could at least
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be considered, where before it was an ultimatum. The US
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had threatened to cut all support if the deal wasn't
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accepted by Thanksgiving. According to previous Washington Post reporting, both
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sides agreed to remove points regarding US Russian engagement that
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did not involve Ukraine to protect Selensky from signing a
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document with provisions unrelated to his country. BEVs said. Kiev
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also argued for issues involving Europe to be resolved separately,
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and for Ukraine's NATO aspirations to be decided based on
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NATO's rules, which require consensus, essentially nixing the outright veto
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on membership from the earlier draft. Other issues were harder
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to resolve. Zelensky has not authorized anyone except himself to
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discuss territorial issues, meaning little progress was made on the
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initial proposal that included recognition of Russian control of parts
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of Ukraine and a retreat from Ukrainian troops from the
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Dunisk region. But the Ukrainian side made clear to US
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officials that they are willing to start discussions from their
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current military position and do not want to engage with
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Russian offers to swap territory. The Americans expressed understanding that
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territorial questions could stir social unrest or military protests in Ukraine.
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BEVs said, Zelensky and President Donald Trump are expected to
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further resolve some of these issues in a meeting or
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phone calls, which has not yet been scheduled. Russian presidential
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led Yury Yushakov meanwhile said there had been signals from
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the US to set up an official meeting to discuss
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the proposals. The document had been reduced from twenty eight
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points to nineteen by Monday set an official briefed on
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the discussions, who, like others, spoke on the condition of
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anonymity to discuss sensitive diplomacy. The final number had not
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yet been agreed upon, the official said, but the foundation
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continued to be based on the original American proposal, not
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a separate European draft of the US document but also
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circulated over the weekend. European suggestions were helpful, the official said,
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but the Americans remained focused on their initial document. A
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European official briefed on the talks said it seemed that
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provisions on European security were removed from the latest draft,
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which focused mostly on Ukraine. The initial terms caught European
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officials by surprise when at least last week, and stirred
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frustration that they were not consulted. The official said, this
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is not up to them, the official said, referring to
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the US and Russia in Geneva. Rubio offered assurances to
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Europeans on Sunday that conditions directly involving Europe and NATO
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would be part of a separate track because it involves
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input from them. Rubio also said the early plan received
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input from both sides and was changing every day. European
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officials Zelensky's main backers, who fear being sidelined from talks
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that could affect the continent's future, had crafted their own
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amendments to the initial twenty eight point US plan. They
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countered conditions to restrict Ukraine's military and preempt land concessions.
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According to the text seen by The Post, Rubio said
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he was unaware of a counterplan when asked by reporters
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about a European version on Sunday. One European diplomat said
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there was a sense of mystery around the current phase
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of negotiations between the US and Ukraine. We are not
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on board. We are trying to get on board, but
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it is being met for the moment, with some rejections
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from Americans. European officials had wanted a structured approach, with
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diplomats sitting together, huddling together, and creating something that sounds
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like diplomacy, rather than something written on chat GPT or
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the Russian version of it, the diplomat said. On Monday,
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European Council President Antonio Costa said the meetings in Geneva,
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where senior European officials were present, yielded progress. Some issues
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remained to be resolved, but the direction is positive, Costas said.
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He said the twenty seven nation European Union would keep
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supporting this process and that conditions directly concerning it, such
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as sanctions against Moscow, Russian frozen assets in Europe or
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Ukraine's effort to join the EU, require the full involvement
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and decision of the block. The Europeans opposed some conditions
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previously floated in the US proposal, which included Washington getting
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a cut of profits of investments made in Ukraine with
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one billion dollars in Russian sovereign assets. A modified European
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version of the plan said that Russia's frozen assets, largely
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held in Europe, would be used to rebuild Ukraine and
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remain frozen until Russia compensates damage to Ukraine. It also
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raised the KAPA on Ukraine's military from six hundred thousand
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troops to eight hundred thousand troops in peacetime, and it
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referred to a US security guarantee for Ukraine, similar to
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NATO's Article five, the clause stating that an attack on
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one is an attack on all. Trump posted Monday on
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truth social after US and Ukraine officials report a progress
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toward a deal. Is it really possible that big progress
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is being made in peace talks between Russia and Ukraine.
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Don't believe it until you see it, but something good
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just may be happening, The post said, God bless America.
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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday that Moscow had not
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received anything official on the updated and refined peace framework
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that was drafted at the Geneva meeting that included US
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PA Secial Envoy Steve Whitkoff, Trump's son in law Jared Kushner,
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and Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll. Peskov said Russia remained open
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to negotiations after President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that
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an earlier twenty eight point piece plan could serve as
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a basis for a final peace settlement. By contrast, Yushukov,
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the presidential aide, said that what he described as a
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European plan whose details were reported by media on Monday,
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was unconstructed. Francis reported from Brussels and Dixon from Riga, Latvia,
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Lizzie Johnson and Serhi Morgunov in Kiev. Adam Taylor in Washington,
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and Natalia Abakumova in Riga contributed to this report. Our
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next item from today's front page is entitled Komi James
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cases tossed Judge prosecutors serving illegally big setback for Trump's
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efforts to jail his rivals, by Jeremy Roebuck and Tealvador Rizo.
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A federal judge dismissed the criminal cases against former FBI
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Director James B. Comby and New York Attorney General Letitia
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James on Monday, delivering an emphatic blow to President Donald
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Trump's rushed efforts to engineer prosecutions of two of his
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prominent foes U S. District Judge Cameron mc gowan. Curry
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ruled that Lindsay Halligan, the prosecutor overseeing both cases, had
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been unlawfully appointed as interim u S Attorney for the
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Eastern District of Virginia, and therefore indictments she single handedly
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secured against Combe and James must be thrown out. Attorney
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General Pam Bondy vowed that the Department would pursue all
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available legal action, including an immediate appeal. White House Press
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Secretary Caroline Levitt dismissed Curry as another quote partisan judge
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who she said had taken quote unprecedented steps to try
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to intervene in accountability. The judge said the Justice Department
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could seek a new indictment against James under a lawfully
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appointed prosecutor in Kommee's case, though Curry suggested that the
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time for doing so has run out. Comy's lawyers had
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argued that he cannot be recharged now because the five
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year deadline to bring a case against him expire days
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after he was indicted in September. Curry appeared to endorse
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that view in her written opinion Monday. She cited rulings
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by other courts that have held that if an indictment
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is invalid at the time it is issued, it does
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not pause the clock on the Statute of limitations. All
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actions flowing from Miss Halligan's defective appointment, including securing and
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signing mister Kombe's indictment, constitute unlawful exercises of executive power
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and must be set aside. Curry wrote, there is simply
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no alternative course to cure the unconstitutional problem. Her decision
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delivered rebukes to the Justice Department on two fronts. By
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declaring Halligan's apartment invalid, Curry joined several other judges who
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have rejected the legal arguments that Trump administration has relied
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upon to install loyalists in top prosecutorial positions across the country.
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But in deciding to end the cases against Kmy and James,
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Curry went further than the other judges who have ruled
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on that issue and set back Trump's efforts to deploy
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the Justice Department as a tool of retribution. Comy and
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James hail Curry's decision, and their lawyers vowed to fight
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any effort to revive the cases against them. I know
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that Donald Trump will probably come after me again. Comey
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said in the video posted to social media, my attitude
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is going to be the same. I am innocent, I
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am not afraid, and I believe in an independent federal judiciary. James,
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in his statement, said that no matter what comes next,
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she remains fearless in the face of these baseless charges. Curry,
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an appointee of President Bill Clinton normally based in South Carolina,
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was specially assigned to rule on the validity of Halligan's appointment.
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She based her ruling on the unique history of the
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two cases. Trump has called for Comman's prosecution for years,
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following his decision to fire the then FBI director in
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twenty seventeen, and he has repeatedly excoriated James, a Democrat
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who ran for office in part with vows to hold
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Trump ac cannibal, after she secured a multi million dollar
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civil fraud judgment against Trump and his real estate empire
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last year. Since returning to the White House in January,
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Trump has repeatedly pushed the Justice Department to charge James
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and Coming with crimes, paying little mind to whether evidence
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existed to support charges. When Eric S. Sebert, the Trump
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appointed interim U S attorney overseeing both investigations, concluded that
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the evidence did not suffice. Trump forced him out of
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his job, and installed Halligan, an ex White House aid
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and one of the president's former personal lawyers, in his place.
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Within days, Hallagan, who had no previous prosecutorial experience, secured
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Indictmonds against Combi on charges that he lied to Congress
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about authorizing leaks to the news media, and James on
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allegations of mortgage fraud. She presented the evidence to Grand
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Juries alone after career prosecutors in her office expressed concerns
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over the strength of the cases. In defending Hallagan's appointment,
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the Justice Department advanced an expansive view of its authority
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to temporarily fill US attorney vacancies with the president's candidate
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of choice, despite efforts by Congress to limit the circumstances
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under which appointees can fill those roles without first receiving
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Senate approval. Typically, the Senate must confirm a president's US
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attorney picks, but the law empowers the Attorney General to
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temporarily fill vacancies by making an interim appointment for a
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period of one hundred twenty days if the Senate has
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still not confirmed the president's nominee by the end of
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that time. The law permits the federal judges in a
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given judicial district to name a temporary replacement. Justice Department
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lawyers maintained that the Attorney General has the authority to
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make successive interim picks, as she did with Halligan's appointment
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after secret was forced out, but Curry rejected that argument Monday,
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saying that if an administration were allowed to name new
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interim u S Attorneys every one hundred twenty days, there
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would be no reason for a president to ever put
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nominees before the Senate if the position remains vacant at
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the end of the one hundred twenty day period, Curry wrote,
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the exclusive authority to make further interim appointments under the
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statute shifts to the district court, where it remains until
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the president's nominee is confirmed by the Senate. After deeming
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Halligan's appointment invalid, Curry said she had no choice but
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to dismiss the Komy and James cases given the singular
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role Halligan had played in securing both indictments. Doing otherwise,
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Curry said, would mean the government could send any private
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citizen off the street attorney or not into the grand
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jury room to secure an indictment, so long as the
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Attorney General gives her approval after the fact. In addition
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to challenging the validity of Hallegan's appointment, Komy and James
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both had urged judges to end their prosecutions on grounds
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that they were improperly driven by Trump's vindictive animosity toward them. Separately,
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Komi had sought dismissal of his case over what his
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lawyers have described as irregularities in the grand jury process
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that resulted in his indictment. Curry's ruling on Halligan's legitimacy
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is the highest profile decision yet on an issue that
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appears bound for the Supreme Court. Judges have previously disqualified
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Trump's interim US attorney picks in New Jersey, Nevada, and
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Los Angeles decisions. The Justice Department continues to appeal. James meanwhile,
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is pursuing a separate challenge to Trump's acting US attorney
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in Albany, New York, who is investigating the work of
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her office in pursuing the civil fraud case against Trump.
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In other cases in which courts have ruled that Trump's
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interim US attorneys were unlawfully appointed. Judges have declined to
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dismiss indictments because career prosecutors whose authority was not in question,
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were also involved in bringing the prosecutions. The fact that
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Halligan had no other prosecutors with her made this case different,
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Curry wrote, and perhaps in recognition of appellate court battles
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to come, Curry peppered her opinion Monday with references to
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similar decisions by concerns servative legal minds. Those included U
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S District Judge Eileen M. Cannon's ruling last year dismissing
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the Classified Document's case against Trump over issues with special
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counsel Jacksmith's appointment, as well as a nineteen eighty six
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Justice Department legal menu that shared Curry's view of the
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U S Attorney appointment law its author, then Deputy Assistant
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Attorney General Samuel A. Alito Junior. Speaking to reporters in
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Memphis on Monday, Bondy vowed that the Justice Department would
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fight to keep Halligan in her job, as it has
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done with US attorneys in each of those other cases.
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Lindsay Halligan is an excellent U S attorney, she told reporters,
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shame on them for not wanting her in office. Shannon
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Jacobs contributed to this report. Next is an iteman titled
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felon paid lobbyist nearly one million dollars in bid for
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pardon by Michael Cranish and Aaron Shaeffer. In April, Alena Habba,
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the u S attorney for New Jersey, extolled her office's
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role in the sentencing of a former nursing home magnate
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to three years in prison for defrauding the government of
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thirty eight million dollars. The man, Joseph Schwartz, was alleged
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to have overseen a collapsed nursing home empire and wilfully
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failed to pay employment taxes. Habba's announcement set around that time,
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Schwartz paid nine hundred sixty thousand dollars to two lobbyists
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seeking a federal pardon, according to their lobbying filing. While
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many people have sought pardons from President Donald Trump, few
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could afford to spend such a sum to seek their freedom.
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The disclosure provides a rare look at how federal convicts
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are maneuvering to gain clemency during Trump's second term, and
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at some of the people offering to help them. The
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lobbyists right ring provocateurs Jack Berkman and Jacob Woll noted
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on the disclosure form that they had been convicted of
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telecommunications fraud in Ohio in connection with a robocall scheme
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designed to deter the turnout of minority voters. They also
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faced sentencing next month in Michigan on a similar robo
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call case, and have been subject to millions of dollars
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in fines in a related case brought by the Federal
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Communications Commission. According to state and federal authorities, for years,
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the pair have injected themselves into politics, such as alleging
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without evidence in twenty eighteen that there were sexual assault
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claims against Special Council Robert S. Mueller, the third. It
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is not clear what Berkman and Woll did for Swartz,
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but on November fourteenth, seven months after Habba celebrated Schortz's conviction,
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Trump granted Schwartz a full and unconditional pardon. Lizawyer, a
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former US pardon attorney who was fired by Trump and March,
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said the involvement of the lobbyists and the huge payment
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heightens concern that there is a special tier of justice
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for people who can afford to pay. She said. The
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Swartz case is notable because the pardon went against a
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March recommendation by Trump's Justice Department, which cited the seriousness
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of Swartze's crime in seeking a sentence of a year
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and a day. The judge rejected that recommendation and in
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April imposed a three year sentence. Schwartz had served three
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months when he was pardoned, according to his attorney. Berkman,
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whose company J. M. Berkman and Associates is listed as
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receiving the payment, declined to discuss his role in the case.
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In a brief telephone interview, he said, we are just
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so proud and delighted that the President pardoned him. Other
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than that, I can't talk about clients. I'm sure you understand.
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In a follow up email, he called Schwartz a wonderful
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human being and man of God who had been unfairly
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accused by the Biden. D O. J. Wull, who declined
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to answer specific questions, said via e mail, we are
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extremely grateful for President Trump's bold action to clear the
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name of Rabbi Schwartz. A White House official asked whether
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Trump or others in the White House or Justice Department
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had met with either of the lobbyists, responded in a statement,
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No one from White House Counsel nor White House Pardons
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are Alice Johnson met with the individuals named either way.
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The President is the final decision maker on all pardons,
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and anyone spending money to lobby for pardons is foolishly
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wasting funds. The Justice Department, which has an office that
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handles pardon requests, referred questions to the White House. The
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White House defended the rationale for the pardon in a
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separate statement. It said Schwartz relied on a third party
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for the payments at issue, Mister Schwartz failed to properly
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oversee that some funding was used for company operations instead
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of taxes, No funds were used for personal enrichment, and
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mister Schwartz immediately paid five million dollars in restitution. Prosecutors
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initially recommended probation, but the judge insisted on a sentence
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of three years, a sentence that is exceptionally harmful to
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a sixty five year old man already in deteriorating health.
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The statement did not address the fact that it was
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a prosecutor from Hobba's office, who had an April hearing,
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recommended a sentence of a year and a day, or
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at least something in a range of six to eighteen months,
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according to a court transcript. The White House also pointing
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to a comment from Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt, who said
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in a recent briefing that Trump was most interested in
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pardoning those who were quote abused and used by the
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Biden Department of Justice. Schwartz declined a request for comment.
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Kevin Marino, who was Schwartz's defense lawyer in the criminal
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case but said he was not directly involved in the
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pardon process, said Trump's action was justified because Schwartz was
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trying to save his business and not trying to enrich himself.
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He also noted that the judge imposed a sentence that
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was much longer than what the government recommended. He got
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upside down in this nursing home business. Marino said he
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had had a very successful insurance brokerage, and after selling that,
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he got involved in the nursing home business and was
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pretty much a perfect storm that the business failed massively.
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Schwartz and his company made national news in twenty nineteen
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when NBC News reported that Schwartze's company, Skyline Healthcare, was
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in serious trouble. It said more than a dozen of
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its nearly one hundred nursing homes had closed, throwing residents, vendors, employees,
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and state regulators into chaos. The report, which said the
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company was run from a small office above a New
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Jersey pizzeria, called it the story of how one man
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built an empire that quickly crumbled, with painful consequences for
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vulnerable people. A subsequent report by mcnight's Long Term Care
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News said the failure of the company affected seven thousand
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nursing home residents and fifteen thousand employees, and led some
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states to change the way such facilities are regulated. Schwartz
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has also faced charges in state court. He pleaded guilty
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this year to committee medicate fraud and attempted tax evasion
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in Arkansas, where he was ordered to pay one point
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eight million dollars in restitution. Schwartz was indicted in twenty
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twenty two during the Biden administration for allegedly using thirty
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eight million dollars in payroll taxes for his own personal
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gain and for other expenses of the staffing companies. According
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to a court filing, after Schwartz pleaded guilty in November
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twenty twenty four. The case was picked up during the
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Trump administration by the office run by Habba, who previously
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worked on Trump's personal legal team. Habba's office did not
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respond to a request for comment. During the April tenth
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sentencing hearing, Schwartz apologized to the court, to the government,
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my family, my community for all the hurt my actions
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have caused. I always tried to to live the right way,
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set the good example. I did not do that here.
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I'm very sorry for that. Marino, representing Schwartz in court,
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told the judge that his client had scraped together the
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required five million dollars to the government under a restitution agreement.
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U S. District Judge Susan D. Wingaton also fined Schwartz
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one hundred thousand dollars and imposed the three year sentence,
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citing sentence and guidelines, the seriousness of the offense, and
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a need for deterrence against similar crimes by others. Jam
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Berkman and associates disclosed a nine hundred sixty thousand dollars
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lobbying fee in a July eighteenth filing that covered the
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period between April first and June thirtieth. The filing was
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first reported by the Notice News website. Marino said that
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after learning about the pardon on November fourteenth, he drove
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two hours to a federal prison in Otisville, New York,
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picked up Schwartz, and brought him home to celebrate with
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family and friends. Oyer, the former US pardon attorney, called
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the decision to grant a pardon in the Schwartz case
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very unusual. She noted that Justice Department guidelines recommend that
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an individual not be considered for a pardon until they
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are five years out from having completed their prison sentence
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and have demonstrated exemplary rehabilitation after they return to their community.
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The guidelines, which are not binding on the president, also
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say that a waiver can be granted if a petitioner
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meets certain conditions, such as accepting responsibility and making restitution.
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To the extent, Oyer is suggesting the presidential pardon power
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is anything other than absolute. I quite disagree with her,
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Marino said. The lobbying disclosure form says Berkman and Wall
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contacted Congress, the White House, and the Justice Department on
28:53
Schwartz's behalf, but does not provide further details. The form
28:58
does require disclosure of effees federal or state convictions, and
29:02
the pair gave identical responses about being convicted of illegal
29:06
campaign robo calls telecommunications fraud in Ohio during the twenty
29:11
twenty election. In that case, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost
29:16
accused the pair of seeking to suppress voter turnout in
29:20
minority neighborhoods, calling it attempted voter intimidation. There were sentenced
29:25
to probation and five hundred hours of community service, according
29:30
to sentencing documents. In twenty twenty three, the FCC announced
29:34
that he had levied a five point one million dollar
29:37
fine against Berkman and Wool for robo calls that told
29:41
some potential voters that if they voted by mail, their
29:44
personal information would be available to debt collectors. The FCC, Workman,
29:50
and Woll did not respond to questions about whether the
29:52
fine had been paid. In twenty twenty four, New York
29:57
Attorney General Letitia James announced against Wollen Berkman, whom she
30:02
called two conspiracy theorists who launched a robo call campaign
30:06
designed to prevent black New Yorkers from voting by mail
30:10
ahead of the twenty twenty election. Separately, the pair pleaded
30:14
no contest in August to charges of suppressing black voters
30:18
in Detroit in twenty twenty. In that matter, Michigan Attorney
30:22
General Dana Nessel said in a press release that the
30:26
pair claimed to be founders of a civil rights organization
30:29
and urged predominantly black voters not to be finessed into
30:33
giving your private information to the man, stay safe, and
30:37
beware of vote by mail. Nessel called it an egregious
30:41
example of voter suppression, sentencing his schedule for December first.
30:47
Wohl and Berkman were also in the news in twenty
30:49
twenty for orchestrating a fake raid in which actors were
30:53
hired to impersonate FBI agents. After the raid was pitched
30:57
to The Washington Post as real, the new newspaper briefly
31:01
posted a story about the event before it was corrected
31:04
to say that the information was false. In a story
31:08
headlined a fake FBI raid orchestrated by right wing activists
31:13
duped the Washington Post, Berkman was quoted as saying, you
31:18
have to remember in journalism, you have to be careful.
31:21
I'm not saying you did this creating your own reality
31:24
and in staring yourself in those realities. Marino said that
31:29
he did not know about the lobbyists until contacted by
31:32
a reporter from the Post, and that he did not
31:35
speak to anyone in the Trump administration regarding the pardon.
31:39
As for Schwartz's decision to hire the lobbyists, he said
31:43
Rabbel Schwartz just wanted the world to know the real
31:46
Joe Schwartz. As for his own role, Marino said that
31:50
he and other lawyers helped provide information for an appeal
31:54
of Schwartz's sentence, which he said contained facts relevant to
31:58
the pardon process. Marino said it is still an open
32:02
question whether Schwartz will recover the five million dollars in
32:05
restitution and the one hundred thousand dollar fine. Berkman and
32:10
Wool are registered to lobby for a pardon. In another case.
32:14
In October, Berkman and Woll registered to lobby for Torrance Hatch,
32:18
a wrapper widely known as Boozy Badass, and wrote that
32:22
they planned a lobby on seeking a presidential pardon. The
32:26
filing was first reported by a Legistorum in August. Hatch
32:30
pleaded guilty to possessing a gun as a felon. He
32:33
is scheduled to be sentenced by a federal judge in January.
32:37
Hatch previously wrought an ax that I was targeted and
32:40
called for Trump to review his case. Hatch's lawyer, Megan Blanco,
32:45
declined to comment. Beth Reinhardt contributed to this report. Next
32:52
is an item entitled as Ice targets Cities, empty school desks,
32:57
often follow by Justine mc dadaniel and Maria Luisa Powell.
33:03
The effects of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown in Charlotte
33:07
tore through schools last week, disrupting learning as more than
33:11
twenty percent of students stayed home from class. At many schools,
33:15
children were either missing or rattled. One wore a tag
33:19
that read I'm a US citizen. Another carried an American
33:24
passport to elementary school. Two kindergarteners showed up to class
33:28
with whistles around their necks to blow if they saw
33:31
immigration agents. You can't get ready for this type of disruption,
33:36
said Amanda Thompson, president of the Charlotte Mecklenburg Teachers Union.
33:40
All of our students are being affected. Charlotte became the
33:44
latest example of how the Trump administration's sweeping campaign to
33:48
deport undocumented immigrants, including activity by immigration agents near schools
33:54
in some places, has traumatized kids, put new burdens on
33:58
teachers and administrators, and dramatically altered the school year in
34:02
the communities it is touched. The federal government does not
34:05
release comprehensive data showing where arrests or detentions are taking place,
34:11
but a Washington Post review of news reports found instances
34:15
of parents arrested near campuses in at least ten states
34:18
so far this year. In other instances, immigration agents' actions
34:24
near campuses, which include shooting a man, releasing teargas, and
34:29
engaging in a car chase, have prompted lockdowns and alarm,
34:34
and attendance often drops temporarily following immigration and customs enforcement
34:39
activity or rumors of it. School officials say the Department
34:44
of Homeland Security is not conducting enforcement operations at schools,
34:48
spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement to The Washington Post.
34:53
The agency has repeatedly said it is not rating schools
34:57
and no reports have surfaced of such, but in interviews
35:01
with twenty two teachers, administrators, and school staff members in
35:05
affected areas from California to Maine. The Post found that
35:09
federal officers are operating close enough to school campuses to
35:13
upset students and families, regardless of whether they are citizens.
35:18
Teachers tell stories of students who are anxious, depressed, and
35:22
scared that their parents might not come home each day.
35:25
Administrators have created protocols for what to do if federal
35:29
officers knock on school doors and poured resources into promoting attendance.
35:35
Parent volunteers keep watch around schools for ice officers patrolling
35:39
near by. This is not something that I ever thought
35:43
I would see in my lifetime, said Letitia Manzanares, who
35:47
runs a newcomer student program for the public school system
35:50
in Oakland, California, and has been in counseling for twenty
35:54
seven years. It just feels terrible. Schools were off limits
35:59
for emigration enforcement for years, but Trump resented that policy
36:03
in January. Federal agents will enter campuses if a suspected
36:08
criminal flees into a school, McLoughlin said, as happened in
36:12
two recent incidents, but they are not going to schools
36:15
to arrest children. In some cases of parents arrested near schools,
36:20
DHS alleged criminal activity or said those detained had undocumented status.
36:26
In at least two cases, the individuals did not and
36:29
were later released. McLaughlin did not address questions about the
36:34
impact on students of operations close to schools, or about
36:38
whether the agency would limit its activity near schools. DHS
36:42
touts its efforts as removing the worst of the worst criminals,
36:46
even as the administration has increasingly targeted unauthorized immigrants who
36:51
do not have criminal records, along with some who have
36:54
legal protections and some US citizens. Seventy five House members,
37:00
all Democrats, on Friday, called for Education Secretary Linda McMahon
37:05
to provide guidance to schools affected by DHS activity. Last month,
37:10
a group of Democratic senators asked her to urge DHS
37:14
to stop making arrests near school property. Teachers and administrators
37:19
said it's not just undocumented families on edge, but also
37:23
children who are citizens but have immigrant parents, and families
37:27
here legally who are concerned about racial or ethnic profiling.
37:32
Some students from non immigrant families are unnerved by the
37:35
presence of officers in their neighborhoods or worried for their
37:39
friends at school, Thompson said. In the United States, one
37:44
in four children fifteen point nine million kids, most of
37:48
them citizens, have an immigrant parent. According to a May
37:52
analysis of twenty twenty two through twenty twenty three census
37:56
data by the Urban Institute, about two point five five
38:00
million children are emigrants themselves, said the report, which did
38:04
not include data on emigration status. In Charlotte, federal agents
38:09
arrested more than two hundred fifty undocumented immigrants from November
38:13
fifteenth to November nineteenth in a highly publicized operation. A
38:18
day after the initial weekend of arrest, thirty thousand students
38:22
were absent in the Charlotte Mecklenburg School District, an attendance
38:26
rate of seventy nine percent compared with an average rate
38:29
of ninety three percent. According to the district, people know
38:34
that schools are not safe just because their schools, said
38:37
Justin Parmenter, a seventh grade English teacher. Last Monday, he
38:42
and his colleagues held up handmade welcome signs as students
38:45
got off the bus at South Academy of International Languages,
38:49
a public magnet school, hoping to make them feel more comfortable.
38:53
You belong here, Parmenters read in English and Spanish with
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here double underlined. Some Charlotte students returned to school Tuesday,
39:03
but more than twenty five thousand, six hundred of the
39:06
district's one hundred forty one thousand, seven hundred students remained absent.
39:12
That number went up to about twenty seven thousand, two
39:15
hundred on Wednesday, the district said Friday, citing the latest
39:19
available data. By Friday, twenty A, Parimenter's twenty two home
39:23
room students were in attendance, up from nine earlier in
39:28
the week. Across school, children seemed happy to be back,
39:32
but Parimenter worried about the potential lasting effects. Trauma doesn't
39:37
just go away on its own, he said. Even though
39:40
in some ways we will get back to normal, I
39:44
think a lot of the uncertainty and fear will persist.
39:48
The Trump administration described the absences in Charlotte as evidence
39:52
that the public education system was quote supporting illegals. It
39:57
is required, however, for public schools in the United States
40:01
to serve all children, regardless of immigration status, under a
40:06
nineteen eighty two Supreme Court decision. For that reason and
40:11
citing the duty to care for children, some local school
40:14
districts have mounted significant efforts to support immigrant families and
40:19
in some cases work against ice. In Oakland, the district
40:23
runs a hotline for reporting suspected sightings of federal agents.
40:27
In DC, neighbors created a caravan to walk children of
40:31
immigrants to school. In southern New Mexico, staff make home
40:36
visits to families whose children have been absent. Broadly, efforts
40:40
by district leaders around the country to keep up attendants
40:43
appear to be working, said most educators who spoke to
40:46
the Post. In Los Angeles, where ice activity dissuaded some
40:51
families from attending graduations this past spring, the district implemented
40:55
a twenty four hour family help hotline, distributed preparedness powers,
41:00
and created a safe passage effort with new bus routes.
41:04
So far, it is seen a ninety four percent average
41:07
attendance rate this fall, but each brush with ice presents
41:11
a challenge for schools. In Chicago, agents deployed tear gas
41:16
across the street from an elementary school in October to
41:19
disperse ice protesters, sending the chemicals wafting towards the school
41:23
while children were on the playground. A few weeks later,
41:27
a high school in Los Angeles went on lockdown after
41:31
immigration agents a block away shot a man who allegedly
41:35
hit a DHS car while trying to flee rest. The
41:39
fact that had happened in front of the school is
41:41
beyond concerning, said Maria Miranda, elementary vice president of United
41:46
Teachers Los Angeles, the city's main teachers union. What if
41:50
a student had been walking nearby? What if a bullet
41:54
had ricocheted into the school. Increasingly nearby ice activity is pushed,
42:00
wishing some schools to preemptively lock their doors and keep
42:03
children inside, as schools in Portland, Oregon, Oakland, and suburbs
42:08
of Chicago and Detroit have done this month. At a
42:12
high school in Gurney, Illinois, a border patrol chase of
42:16
two undocumented immigrants spilled onto a high school campus on
42:20
October thirtieth, when the men fled into the school parking lot.
42:24
One ran into a special education classroom, where officers handcuffed
42:28
him in front of students and staff. Superintendent Daniel Wolseman said,
42:34
as officers put the man in a car, a handful
42:37
of staff members and passerby gathered. This is a school,
42:41
someone shouted repeatedly. An agent pointed pepper spray at the crowd.
42:46
According to the superintendent, parents had divided opinions about the
42:51
agent's actions. The two men, who had extensive criminal allegations
42:55
against them, allegedly evaded a traffic stop and hit other
42:59
cars as I led dh S on a chase. McLoughlin said, still,
43:04
many families in the suburban district saw what happened as
43:07
another hurdle to feeling safe at school. Wolfsmann said even
43:12
law enforcement activity off campus, if near by, can cause
43:16
profound impacts to children's mental health, particularly for students worried
43:21
about their family's immigration status, said pediatrician SCHIRRL Shaw, chair
43:26
of the American Academy of Pediatrics counsel on Immigrant Child
43:30
and Family Health. Not only does it cost stress in
43:33
the short term nightmares, headaches, crying, but it also over
43:38
the long run, can have long term effects on children's health.
43:42
She said. It can affect their cardiovascular health, their behavioral
43:46
and mental health as well, regardless of the suspect's legal status.
43:51
Some educators say law enforcements should not carry out arrest
43:55
near schools where children are more likely to witness or
43:58
hear about them. After a parent whom DHS accused of
44:02
social security fraud was detained while waiting to pick up
44:06
his child from a San Diego elementary school. In August,
44:09
district officials called on dhs to stop operating near campuses.
44:14
There may be a lot of debates about immigration reform,
44:17
but there should be no debate that this kind of
44:20
tactic is inhumane, Fabiola Bagula, superintendent of the San Diego
44:25
School System, told reporters. In another apparent example of the
44:29
impact of Trump's policies, which have largely halted arrivals from
44:33
south of the border, enrollment of new immigrant students has
44:37
plummeted in cities such as Miami and Oakland. In Texas,
44:41
a middle school for newcomers closed because it no longer
44:45
had enough students. The White House celebrated the enrollment drop
44:49
as good news in a Wednesday round up of proof
44:52
the Trump agenda is delivering. In Houston, high school, teacher
44:57
Augustine Laredo normally teaches three sections of a course for
45:00
newcomer students. This year, he said there are only enough
45:04
children enrolled for one section. Laredo said he worries at
45:08
his school is one bad ice bust away from getting emptier.
45:13
When a soccer team travels to matches, some players ask coach,
45:17
what if immigration is there. He said. He tries to
45:21
reassure them, but he is sometimes troubled by how much
45:24
security he can give. How do I tell the kids
45:28
not to worry? Laredo said, I don't know if it's
45:31
going to be okay. Next is an iteman titled Israel
45:37
facing a wave of emigration. Fear and discontent have pushed
45:41
thousands to leave. In new Brain Drain by Shiro Reubin
45:46
from Tel Aviv, Araham Benefeld had grown so dismayed with
45:50
Israeli politics that he was preparing to move abroad when
45:54
Hamas's brutal attack on southern Israel in October twenty twenty
45:58
three up ended the country and his plans. Instead, Binnenfeld
46:04
said he immediately mobilized for army reserve duty, spending sleepless
46:09
nights worried about his two brothers in combat units, and
46:13
freezing his plans to emigrate. But now, weeks after Israel
46:17
and Hamas reached a ceasefire in the Gaza War, Binenfeld
46:21
is packing up to move. Being only a few hours
46:25
from a siren, a terror attack, a regional war, a
46:28
missile from Iran. Are brothers in Gaza and in Lebanon.
46:32
It's also much, he said. He added that he could
46:36
deal with it all if he believed the government, contrary
46:39
to its current course, was steering Israel in the right direction.
46:44
I need to know that all that suffering is for
46:46
a good cause. Tens of thousands of Israelis have left
46:51
the country over the past two years, with numbers spiking
46:54
during the summer of twenty twenty three amid tumultuous protests
46:58
against the policies of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right wing government,
47:03
and even before the Hamas attack and subsequent Israeli offensive
47:07
in Gaza. According to Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics, more
47:12
than eighty thousand of the country's ten million citizens newly
47:15
moved abroad in twenty twenty four, and similar numbers are
47:19
expected this year. Two years ago, Biddenfeld recalled he had
47:24
been active in the mass street demonstrations, hoisting his Israeli
47:27
flag as he joined other protesters in warning that net
47:31
Nyahu and his government were sacrificing Israel's security and its
47:35
democratic institutions and identity. Next year, Biddenfeld said he will
47:41
move with his boyfriend to Switzerland to begin pursuing a
47:44
postdoctoral degree. In astrophysics in Lausan. Like so many others
47:49
who have moved abroad, he doesn't know how long he
47:51
will stay. Israeli sociologists and demographers say that most of
47:56
those in this growing cadre of immigrants are well educated,
48:00
high earning, secular, left leaning, and deeply critical of the
48:04
direction leaders have been taking the country. Many are employees
48:08
of start up companies, doctors and students pursuing advanced degrees.
48:13
Young couples and young families are highly represented. These departures
48:18
could have momentous economic, social, and political effects for decades
48:23
to come. Israel experts say there are other brain drains
48:27
in the world, but there is a uniqueness in light
48:29
of the Israeli demographics that Itai a teraire, an economics
48:34
professor at Tel Aviv University. He said, for instance, that
48:38
workers in Israel's cutting edge technology sector, who constitute only
48:42
eleven percent of the labor force but pay a third
48:45
of the country's taxes, are strongly represented among the emigres.
48:50
Dafna Petchi Preluk, founder of subtled Thought In, an agency
48:55
that helps Israelis relocate, said that she has been fielding
48:59
an unprecedented volume of requests often with more urgency than
49:03
in the past. Before the Gods of War, most Israelis
49:07
moved abroad for career opportunity, she said, but more recently
49:12
her clients have been seeking a break from Israel's grinding
49:15
wars and political upheaval. She said that calls surged after
49:19
the Twelve Day war with Iran in June, when Tel
49:22
Aviv was pummeled by Iranian missiles. Many of her clients
49:26
have told her that their return dates are contingent on
49:29
the outcome of national elections next year. They say, we'll
49:33
take a break, see the election results and make a
49:36
decision in another two years, said Petitchi Priuluc, who herself
49:41
moved to Boston last year. In the meantime, their money
49:45
can buy them good education, calm, routine and functioning urban systems.
49:50
Abroad uncertainty and stigma, and estimated two hundred thousand Israelis
49:56
now live in Europe. For years, Israelis have secured its
50:00
second passports from European Union countries, including Germany and Poland,
50:04
which offered citizenship to descendants of Holocaust survivors, and Spain
50:09
and Portugal, which in twenty fifteen opened up citizenship for
50:13
Jews whose ancestors were kicked out of those countries in
50:16
the fifteenth century. In Lisbon and Berlin, Israeli newcomers find
50:21
vibrant Israeli expact communities where Parlament leases have long been
50:26
swapped and job tips shared in Facebook groups like Israelis
50:30
and Portugal with more than fifty thousand members or Israeli's
50:34
in Berlin with thirty eight thousand members. In deciding to leave,
50:38
some Israeli say they were gripped with uncertainty over how
50:41
long they intended to stay away, and if forever, whether
50:46
it was the right choice for them and their families.
50:50
They have also faced a cultural stigma. Immigrants to Israel
50:54
are known in Hebrew as alim, or those who as send.
50:58
Those leaving, my contrast, are called your dim, or those
51:02
who descend. The departures of these largely left leading Israelis
51:06
may also affect the country's tightly contested elections, because most
51:11
expats do not have the right to cast a vote
51:14
from abroad. Israelis have long worried about a brain drain,
51:18
but the context changed after the October seventh assault by Hamas,
51:23
when many Israelis in this tightened country were directly affected
51:27
by the attack, the bloodiest in Israel's history, Visceral fear
51:32
coursed through households across Israel. In the days and weeks
51:36
after the attack. Neighborhood and family social media groups exploded
51:40
with questions and debates over how to handle wholly new
51:44
parenting dilemmas, children hunting knives under their pillows, kids with smartphones,
51:49
seeing Hamas footage of hostages begging for their lives. Staying
51:55
was not an option. T Kelshalev, from Kibbutzviiri near the
52:00
Gaza border, said she immediately knew that remaining in Israel
52:04
would not be an option. For fifteen hours, Chalev hid
52:08
with her three young children as hundreds of Hamas led
52:11
militants rampaged through her community, killing more than one hundred
52:16
of her neighbors and dragging thirty two back to Gaza
52:19
as hostages. Afterwards, she said she terminated her pregnancy, feeling
52:25
she'd be unable to protect four children instead of three
52:29
if there were another attack. A month later, Chalev, her husband,
52:34
and their three children boarded a flight to Colorado, where
52:37
they had been trying to rebuild their lives. Ever since.
52:41
At least their space. There's quite I could look at
52:44
my children and know their safe, said Schelev, who works
52:47
as a kindergarten teacher in a suburb of Denver. She
52:50
said that many other Israelis have relocated to the town
52:53
over the past two years. She said she has been
52:58
anguished to be far from family and kabutz as they
53:01
have welcomed living hostages home and buried those whose remains
53:05
were held inside Gaza. Raised with a strong Zionist ethos,
53:09
she is trying to get used to her new identity
53:11
as an emigree. Her children constantly ask when they'll be
53:15
going home, but her residence was destroyed. The body of
53:19
her bearing neighbor drawer Or, who was killed on October seventh,
53:24
is still being held in Gaza, and the pall afear
53:27
is too much for her. The war is not over
53:30
for us, she said, and we have nowhere to return
53:33
to an elusive sense of home. Michael Barrour, an artist
53:39
and teacher, moved from Tel Aviv to Hamburg five months ago,
53:43
motivated mostly by her opposition to the devastating war in Gaza.
53:47
She said. Barrour and her three year old son have
53:50
a German passport. Her partner, who works for an Israeli
53:54
tech company that has allowed him to work remotely, has
53:57
a Polish passport. She said the war had changed the
54:01
atmosphere in her once liberal bubble in southern Tel Aviv.
54:05
Parents at the playground questioned whether an Arab teacher posed
54:08
a security threat. An army reservist dropped off his children
54:12
in the morning in uniform with weapons slung around his shoulders.
54:16
Barros said she felt ill equipped and uncomfortable when her
54:20
students requested help making an art project using photographs taken
54:24
by their partners or brothers who served in Gaza, or
54:27
with souvenirs that one student's brother had brought her from
54:31
the battlefield, prayer beads, identity cards, and personal items looted
54:35
from gazen homes, she said. Barras says she feels cold
54:40
and alone in Germany, that her son struggles in his
54:43
German preschool, and that her family remains uncertain about whether
54:47
to stay in Hamburg or perhaps continue onward to Berlin,
54:51
or to Portugal, or perhaps returned to Israel. Of course,
54:55
the most important thing for me is to raise my
54:58
child in a place where I feel at home, she said.
55:01
But nowhere does all the time, I feel less and
55:04
less at home. Thersroka contributed to this report. The final
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item from today's from page is entitled Republicans split on AI,
55:16
Move fast or add guard rails. Trump signs ordered a
55:20
quicken development as allies aim to protect jobs. By Emily
55:24
Davies and kat Zacharreski, a thing tank with deep ties
55:29
to the White House, on Monday announced a ten million
55:32
dollar initiative to develop artificial intelligence policies aimed at supporting
55:37
workers as President Donald Trump signed in executive order to
55:41
accelerate AI research and development. The plan signals an effort
55:45
to equip the Republican Party with MAGA friendly messaging and
55:49
policy on the emerging technology. Amid growing worries that artificial
55:53
intelligence could automate jobs, increase unemployment, and drive up energy
55:59
costs for conscers. The President's focused to date on swiftly
56:03
developing AI to remain competitive with China has aligned the
56:07
administration with tech industry leaders and alienated some of his
56:11
prominent supporters. Monday's executive order creates the Genesis Mission, which
56:17
will marshal federal computing resources and data sets to accelerate
56:21
AI research to address technology challenges of National Importance. Administration
56:27
officials portrayed the program as the most significant effort to
56:30
a mass Federal Science Resources sends the Apollo eleven mission
56:34
to land a man on the Moon, but they did
56:36
not announce any new funding for the effort. The administration
56:40
is looking to expand the government's use of AI as
56:43
The America First Policy Institute AFPI, a powerful conservative think
56:48
tank that served as a holding house for top Trump
56:51
officials in the years between his administrations, is developing a
56:55
plan focused on workers whose jobs might be affected by
56:59
the technology. During Trump's time out of office, the a
57:03
f PI developed immigration, trade, and taxation policies that the
57:07
administration quickly implemented when Trump returned to power. Half a
57:12
dozen Trump Cabinet secretaries have ties to the organization, which
57:16
was co founded by Brooke Rawlins, now Agriculture Secretary. As
57:21
described by a f PI staffers, the strategy will focus
57:24
on creating high paying manufacturing jobs, protecting children from the
57:28
dangers of AI, and preventing foreign adversaries from deploying the
57:32
technology against the American people. Chris Stewart, a Republican former
57:37
congressman who chairs the initiative, described the plan as the
57:41
first comprehensive effort to prioritize American workers in the race
57:46
to develop AI. He acknowledged tensions inside the GOP, as
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some factions in the party lobby for deregulation, while others
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urge the White House to focus on people whose jobs
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may be replaced by the technology. If we ignore the
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economic implications, that will be at our peril, and I
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think the President knows that as well. Stewart said, We're
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just barely beginning to put out really good ideas and
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put forth policies that will help us. Due to the
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constraints of time, we will be unable to complete this item.
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This concludes the readings of The Washington Post for to Day, Tuesday,
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November twenty fifth, twenty twenty five. Your reader for to
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