PoliticsThe National Capital Planning Commission meets online Thursday afternoon to vote on final plans for the arch at Memorial Circle, and its staff recommends approval. The government has told a federal judge that construction could start the same day once Interior signs off. Judge Tanya Chutkan has ordered notice within an hour of any decision. Veterans, D.C. and Virginia want her to block construction.
PoliticsU.S. District Judge David O. Carter on Wednesday denied the Justice Department's emergency request to make California and Los Angeles County set aside mail ballots from about 20,000 people federal agencies flagged as likely noncitizens. He called the list's methods unproven and said the order would 'wreak havoc' on an election already underway. DOJ filed a new appeal to the Ninth Circuit that night. The same day, a grand jury indicted three Los Angeles County residents on charges that they lied about past voter registrations on citizenship forms.
PoliticsAn eight-count federal indictment unsealed Thursday charges the Senate of Virginia's president pro tempore, two of her daughters, her grandson and three others. Prosecutors allege she led a marijuana enterprise and used her office to protect it and to steer cannabis licensing. Lucas says she "will not be intimidated." All seven defendants are presumed innocent.
