- Parts of the hush-hush Senate
Intelligence Committee report on Bush-era “enhanced
interrogation tactics” are expected to be released this morning,
and officials are promising nasty new details about CIA obfuscation
and torture. - Stephen Colbert hosted some real talk with President
Obama on the Colbert Report Monday night, asking “Does
that happen to every president, where you get into the office and
you think ‘oh, you know what, I might be the only one I trust with
this much power so I’ll hold onto it?'” - More than 150 demonstrators
were arrested in Berkely, California, last night after storming
Interstate 80 freeway in order to protest police brutality. Several
journalists were injured by officers while covering the
protests. Major protests were also seen Monday in cities from
Brooklyn to Phoenix. - The Supreme Court will hear a case on
whether vanity licence plates are protected by the First
Amendment. - Four Christian colleges and a group of
Colorado nuns argued in the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals
Monday that being excepted from Obamacare’s birth control mandate
is not enough because of the “morally problematic” forms they have
to sign in order to opt out. - South Carolina Republicans yesterday
introduced seven bills to restrict abortion access. While
several of the bills contradict each other in terms of when exactly
they would ban abortion, state Sen. Lee Bright, who filed five of
them, told The Huffington Post he was waiting to “see
which [bill] gets the most traction.” - Michael Brown’s
federal autopsy report, conducted at the request of the
Department of Justice and released yesterday, reached similar
conclusions to autopsies performed by Ferguson officials and a
private examiner. Transcripts of interviews with possible witnesses
to Brown’s shooting were also released.
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