White House Orders Federal Funding Probe Focused Almost Entirely on Dem States
“I have zero doubt that they intend to withhold funds” for political reasons, one Democratic lawmaker said.
“I have zero doubt that they intend to withhold funds” for political reasons, one Democratic lawmaker said.
The George Floyd uprising laid foundations for the politicized networks of care that are organizing against ICE now.
The Justice Department said Thursday that it had arrested three people in Minnesota who interrupted a church service in St. Paul to protest a pastor’s role as a local ICE official. The activists involved in the protest now face charges under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, a law written to protect abortion clinics. One of the arrestees, civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong, had her appearance digitally altered in a photo posted online by the White House to make it look like she was crying while handcuffed. Her attorney, Jordan Kushner, tells Democracy Now! that Justice Department officials refused to let Levy Armstrong turn herself in, instead demanding an arrest at the hotel where she was staying. “This was their trophy,” says Kushner, who adds that the government “used more manipulative tactics to keep her in jail” even though “no one is detained in a case like this.”
The interim leader has shaken up the military, long the basis of power for Venezuela’s ruling Socialist party, and replaced at least half a dozen top officials.