Maryland has some of the strictest gun control laws, but it seems that criminals are refusing to obey them.
Meanwhile, in Baltimore …
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I’m Not Making This Up, You Know
The Daily Mail reports a child sex abuse center at Johns Hopkins University has hired a trans professor, who was forced to resign from Virginia school for defending pedophiles as “minor attracted persons.” Allyn Walker will start work as a postdoctoral fellow for the school later this month at a center aimed at preventing child sexual abuse.
Forget it, Gentle Reader. It’s Baltimore.
A Possible Corrupt Politician in Baltimore?
Could be. Yesterday, a federal grand jury indicted the Baltimore City State’s Attorney on several fraud charges. The indictment alleges that Marilyn Mosby made a fraudulent Covid hardship withdrawal from her city retirement account, made a fraudulent mortgage application for a vacation home in Florida, and committed perjury in the process.
Mosby has previously attained national notoriety for her malicious prosecution of six police officers in the Freddie Gray case and for her asking the FCC to take action against Baltimore Fox TV affiliate WBFF because the station was reporting truthfully about the operation of the State’s Attorney’s Office.
Why is the DoJ going after a progressive, blue city prosecutor? Right now? Is it the Covid fraud angle?
Hmmmm.
Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
I think so, Brain … but returning from Baltimore is safest thing you can do if you find yourself there.
Common Sense Controls
While I don’t agree with the exact compromise Aaron proposes here, he’s thinking in the right direction.
BTW, we have universal background checks here in Maryland. They’ve been effective at inconveniencing private individuals engaging in otherwise lawful gun transactions, but Baltimore’s murder rate is up almost 50 % since the background checks became law.
Instant Karma’s Gonna Get You
The same day that Congresscritter Elijah Cummings claimed that President Trump was wrong to call Cummings’ district dangerous, Cummings’ house was robbed.
An Investment Opportunity
Donald Trump’s personal style is … well, it’s a bit rough around the edges for my personal tastes, but he’s been effective at framing the public dialog in was that no Republican political has for several decades. He’s got the Democrats defending their political leadership of cities like Baltimore. He’s got them defending Al Sharpton. It’s seems clear to me that he intends to stay one step ahead of the Democrats during the coming election cycle.
I’m buying more popcorn futures.
Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
I think so, Brain … but at least we’ve managed to avoid Baltimore.
Fun Fact of the Day
Nancy Pelosi’s father was the Democrat Mayor of Baltimore from 1947 to 1959.
First Amendment 1, Baltimore 0
Several years ago, a Baltimore resident called 911 to report a burglary and wound up being beaten, tased, and arrested by the police officers who responded to the call. Her claim against the Baltimore Police Department spent several years in the courts and was finally settled. Baltimore includes a “non-disparagement” clause in such settlement agreements, so when the women spoke to the press about her experience, the city reduced her settlement payment in accordance with the non-disparagement clause.
She sued in U.S. District Court, claiming that the clause violated her First Amendment right to speak freely about the government. She was joined in the suit by the Baltimore Brew. The Brew claimed that the city’s use of such agreements violated its free press right to investigate and report on matters of public interest such as police misconduct. That suit was thrown out by the District Court on summary judgment.
The Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has reversed the District Court’s granting summary judgment in Baltimore’s favor and sent the case back to the lower court.
The City has not identified a comparably compelling public good or other legitimate governmental aim that was, or could be, furthered by enforcement of the non- disparagement clause (other than a general interest in using settlements to resolve lawsuits). Consequently, the City is not entitled to summary judgment on Overbey’s First Amendment claim.
Also,
we conclude that the Brew has sufficiently pleaded an ongoing or imminent injury in fact that is both traceable to the City’s challenged conduct and redressable by the court. As discussed above, neither the parties’ arguments below nor the district court’s disposition went meaningfully beyond the pleadings in evaluating the Brew’s standing. We therefore decline to do so ourselves— even though the order under review is nominally a grant of summary judgment to the City. Instead, we remand to give the parties and the district court an opportunity to develop the evidentiary record relevant to the Brew’s claims.
It will be interesting to see how the case unfolds.
Homicide
The Baltimore Sun reports that May was the deadliest month in Baltimore in over 40 years.
This is all rather puzzling. Maryland has some of the most draconian gun control laws that were toughened under the recent O’Malley administration. They were passed to keep guns out of the hands of criminals, so how can all those shootings be happening? I mean, the politicians wouldn’t lie to us, would they?
UPDATE—Speaking of Baltimore and Martin O’Malley, Stacy McCain has an interesting post here.