WJI's Daily Reads for Mar. 28, 2022

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development charges East Side landlord with discrimination.

The complaint alleged (the property manager) engaged in a number of harassing and/or unlawful acts prior to the tenant moving out, including:

• Regularly using racial and homophobic slurs
• Regularly making inappropriate sexual comments
• Harassing the client for receiving Social Security Disability Insurance
• Assaulting the tenant by punching him in the groin
• Threatening to kill the tenant multiple times
• Illegally sending the defendant several notices to vacate without filing the appropriate eviction paperwork with the court
• Threatening to throw the tenant's belongings on the street

NBC: U.S. Supreme Court's rejection of Wisconsin's maps signals trouble for Voting Rights Act.

(Experts) say Wednesday's Supreme Court order — unsigned and decided on an emergency request without oral arguments — was a shot across the bow for Section 2 of the voting rights law that prohibits voting practices or procedures that discriminate on the basis of race, color or membership in certain minority language groups.

“All of the signs point toward Section 2 being yet another death by a thousand cuts victim at the Supreme Court,” said Rick Hasen, an election law expert at the University of California, Irvine.
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Politico: U.S. Supreme Court sides with President Biden regarding consideration of Navy SEALs' unvaccinated status in assignments.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote that there was a “simple overarching reason” that he agreed with the court’s decision. The Constitution makes the president, “not any federal judge,” the commander in chief of the armed forces, he wrote, noting that courts have been traditionally “reluctant to intrude upon the authority of the Executive in military and national security affairs.”

Three conservative justices — Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch — noted that they disagreed with their colleagues’ decision and would have sided with the group of SEALs.

Alito wrote that his colleagues were “rubberstamping the Government’s request.” “These individuals appear to have been treated shabbily by the Navy, and the Court brushes all that aside,” Alito wrote.

The Philadelphia Inquirer: Opinion on the Supreme Court's legitimacy crisis and Ginni Thomas' texts.

Vera: Solitary confinement is torture, not COVID care.

People have reported being locked in freezing solitary confinement cells while infected with COVID-19, with little to no medical care. In Connecticut, incarcerated people who had COVID-19 were held in isolated cells in a maximum security prison and denied the opportunity to shower. Many incarcerated people have experienced extended periods of precautionary lockdown—being kept in small cells for nearly 24 hours a day with little meaningful activity or contact—with devastating consequences to their physical and mental health.​

Above the Law: Donald Trump sues Hillary Clinton in Florida.

Trump is also suing “JOHN DOES 1 THROUGH 10 (said names being fictious [sic] and unknown persons), and ABC CORPORATIONS 1 THROUGH 10 (said names being fictitious and unknown entities).” What fictitious (or “fictious”) characters and corporations will he be suing? Maybe it’s Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, because frankly a civil suit alleging a conspiracy of Oompa-Loompas would be more credible than this piece of drek.

WXYZ: Scooter rider sues Detroit for $10 million alleging injuries caused by pothole.