Tues 6/27 - KPMG and Lewis Brisbois Cuts, Rite Aid Also Cuts, SCOTUS Rejects Gerrymandering Appeal and Inventor Concerned about Judicial Competence
#KPMG cuts, #LA severs ties with #LewisBrisbois, Rite Aid cuts ties with connected firms, #SCOTUS rejects an appeal of a #Louisiana gerrymander map and an inventor concerned about judicial competence.
"Today, New Orleans will reach 113 degrees in the heat index. Houston will reach 111. Mobile, Ala., and Jackson, Miss., will also surpass 110. And those are only a few of the places that will experience dangerous heat this week.
Summer technically just began, and parts of the U.S. are already seeing the unusual heat that experts warned about and that is becoming more common as a result of climate change."
About 45 million people — or 14 percent of the U.S. population — live in areas that are expected to reach dangerous temperatures in the coming days.
"Today and tomorrow, the heat will be concentrated in Texas, Louisiana and parts of the South. By the end of the week, it is expected to spread in the South and to the West…."
The U.S. Supreme Court paves the way for Louisiana congressional districts to be redrawn so that Black voters would have a chance to elect their preferred representative in two of the state's six districts instead of one.
BREAKING: U.S. #SupremeCourt blocks #Louisiana's congressional map. Lower courts found that the map dilutes the voting power of Black voters. Louisiana will have to redraw its congressional map to add a second majority-Black district. #legalhttps://t.co/rHe3TWE8X3
"Louisiana deputies sat on the back of an autistic 16-year-old for nine minutes. He died. A coroner ruled he died of 'excited delirium,' the dubious determination that effectively clears police for in-custody deaths."
"In news that may or may not be related: The Louisiana legislature looks ready to pass a bill that would allow coroners to order bodies cremated after suspicions deaths — without first ordering an autopsy, and before the family of the deceased can order an independent autopsy."
"Medical horror stories from the first year since Roe v Wade has fallen:
• A #Louisiana patient had her water break at 16 weeks of pregnancy—too early for any #pregnancy to survive. She had to carry & deliver the dead #fetus painfully losing a liter of blood.
• A #Wisconsin woman bled for more than 10 days after hospital staff refused to remove fetal tissue from her incomplete #miscarriage.
• In #Ohio a women was sent home from the hospital after a miscarriage, still bleeding & without medical attention.
• Also in #Ohio a woman was blocked from getting an #abortion in the state even after tests revealed that her fetus had kidney failure & heart defects. Continuing the pregnancy put her life at risk, so the woman traveled to Michigan for an abortion.
• In #Nebraska police charged a 17-year-old & her mother with multiple felonies & misdemeanors after the pair allegedly conspired to abort Celeste’s pregnancy on their own.
• A 24-year-old woman fled her home state of #Wisconsin to get an #abortion in #Chicago, only to find out that, upon her return, the abortion may not have worked. Before Roe’s overturning, the doctor could have immediately helped her but now, with abortion banned in WI the woman had to wait, bleeding and at risk of going into deadly #sepsis.
• In #Louisiana, another woman was not able to get in-state abortions even though her #fetus was #nonviable. She had to travel about 1,400 miles to get an abortion in #NewYork.
• In #Ohio two children had recently fled to #Michigan & #Indiana for abortions after getting pregnant through #rape.
• Ohio, 2 women couldn’t get treatment for #cancer while pregnant.
Millions of Americans’ personal data exposed in global hack
Millions of people in Louisiana and Oregon had their data compromised in a sprawling cyberattack that also hit the US federal government and state agencies - including the Department of Energy. As well as corporations in Britain like the BBC and British Airways
"At midday, more than 35 million people in southern #Texas, #Louisiana and #Florida were under excessive #heat warnings, watches and advisories extending through the three-day Juneteenth weekend, the National Weather Service said.
The growing frequency and intensity of severe weather across the U.S. is symptomatic of human-driven #ClimateChange, climate scientists say."
Millions of people in #Louisiana and #Oregon have had their data compromised in the sprawling #cyberattack that has also hit the US federal government, state agencies said late Thursday.
The breach has affected 3.5 million Oregonians with driver’s licenses or state ID cards, and anyone with that documentation in Louisiana
“A #Russian#ransomware gang breached the Energy Department and other federal agencies… a global hack of a file-transfer program popular with corporations and governments.. #Louisiana officials said people with a driver’s license or vehicle registration likely had their personal information exposed, including name, address, SSN, and birthdate.. and #Oregon confirmed the attackers accessed personal information for about 3.5M people” https://apnews.com/article/hack-ransomware-extortion-moveit-cisa-0a642dd9b3544552d8802befec6de9af
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The state chapter of the NAACP has requested a Louisiana travel advisory, citing “a disconcerting trend of policies and actions taken by Republican legislators in the State of Louisiana that target and marginalize specific groups within the population, including African Americans, members of the LGBTQIA2S+ community, immigrants, and those who exercise their right to free speech.”
Supreme Court allows for Louisiana congressional map to be redrawn to add another majority-Black district | CNN Politics (www.cnn.com)
The Supreme Court on Monday allowed Louisiana congressional map to be redrawn to add another majority-Black district.