Notices by Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)

#Canada PM Justin #Trudeau in his speech Saturday reached out to Americans & reminded them that these #TrumpTariffs will hurt them economically just as much as Canadians.

The tariffs will “put your #jobs at risk, potentially shutting down American #auto assembly plants & other manufacturing facilities. They will raise #costs for you, including #food at the #grocery stores & gas at the pump.” In emotional references to the nations’ shared history, he adds: “we have fought, & died, beside you.”

#Trudeau says Canadians are “perplexed why our closest friends & neighbors are choosing to target us instead of so many other challenging parts of the world.” He adds: “I don’t think there’s a lot of Americans who wake up in the morning, saying ‘Oh, damn, Canada. Oh, we should really go after Canada.’”

Trudeau calls on Canadians to choose Canadian goods, to forgo Florida orange juice, Kentucky bourbon, or holidays in the United States.

#economy #tariffs #Canada #geopolitics #law #USpol #Trump

Prime Minister Justin #Trudeau says #Canada will retaliate by placing 25% tariffs on $106B worth of American products.

Trudeau says Canada’s retaliatory #tariffs against the #UnitedStates will start with 25% tariffs on approximately $20B worth of US goods on Tues, with $85B more to follow within 3 weeks, to permit Canadian #SupplyChains to adjust.

#economy #prices #inflation #cost #geopolitics #law #USpol #Trump

#Trump to Be Sentenced in NY #Criminal Case

The proceedings are set to begin at 9:30AM in Manhattan. Though the president-elect is expected to avoid #jail time, his #sentencing on 34 counts will formalize his status as a #felon & make him the first to carry that distinction into the White House.

#law #unfit #PresidentScumbag
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01/10/nyregion/trump-hush-money-sentencing?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Though #Trump will soon begin the #appeal process, the case will be concluded after sentencing, meaning it will no longer hover over him. But he will also be the first convicted #felon to be sworn in as president.

This week, Trump filed a civil action against the judge overseeing the case, challenging a pair of recent rulings that upheld his #conviction. Both rulings rejected Trump’s argument that, as a former & future president, he is entitled to #immunity.

#criminal #law #unfit

Shortly before 8:30AM, just over a dozen anti-Trump demonstrators with the group #RiseAndResist marched up Centre Street & silently gathered in front of the Manhattan #Criminal Courthouse. In the face of heckles from a few #Trump fans, they held signs that read “No Jail Time Is An Injustice To Us All” & “Orange Is The New Orange.”

“We are unhappy that he’s not getting jail time,” said one of the demonstrators, Jamie Bauer, 66. “There’s really no consequences to his actions.”

#law #unfit

That civil action, known as an Article 78 proceeding, will essentially serve as an early #appeal. In the coming weeks, a NY appeals court will begin to consider the proceeding.

In remarks Thursday evening at his Mar-a-Lago estate, #Trump attacked the case & vowed to formally appeal, even though he was expected to avoid #jail or any other substantive #punishment.

“We’re going to appeal anyway, just psychologically, because frankly it’s a disgrace,” he said.

#criminal #law #PresidentScumbag

Once he is sentenced, #Trump’s lawyers will have 30 days to file a statement indicating his intent to #appeal. He will then need to mount the actual appeal at New York State’s Appellate Division in Manhattan, & prosecutors will get a chance to respond.

#Legal experts have cast doubt on Trump’s chances of success. Appeals courts typically frown on overturning #jury decisions, barring some glaring error or misconduct by the judge or prosecutors.

#criminal #law #unfit #PresidentScumbag

On Friday, Justice Juan M. #Merchan sentenced Donald J. Trump to an #UnconditionalDischarge, a rare & lenient sentence in NY state courts that still cements #Trump’s status as a #felon before his inauguration.

A conditional discharge would have required him to meet certain conditions, like maintaining employment or paying restitution, but Trump will not be subject to any requirements going forward.

#criminal #law #unfit #PresidentScumbag #RapistInChief

Since 2014, ⅓ of defendants sentenced to the most serious charge of falsifying business records in the 1st degree in Manhattan received jail time, amounting to less than a year behind bars.

Other defendants received prison time — more than a year’s incarceration — or were sentenced to probation, conditional discharges, community service or fines.

No other defendant in the cases examined received an #UnconditionalDischarge.

#criminal #law #unfit #PresidentScumbag #RapistInChief #Trump

The outcome was expected: Last week, in an 18-page decision, Justice #Merchan said that he planned to give #Trump an #UnconditionalDischarge, writing that it “appears to be the most viable solution to ensure finality.”

Trump, who was convicted of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to cover up a sex scandal, had originally faced probation or up to 4 years in prison, & Justice Merchan had ample ground to consider incarceration.

#criminal #law #unfit #PresidentScumbag #RapistInChief

The Israeli PM’s office said #Israel “categorically rejects the absurd & false accusations & actions directed against it” by the court. “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not succumb to pressure, will not be intimidated, & will not retreat until all the war objectives set by Israel at the outset of this campaign are achieved,” it said in a statement.

#Netanyahu #Gallant #WarCrimes #Gaza #law #HumanitarianCrisis #geopolitics

In a statement, the court rejected #Israel’s challenge to its jurisdiction over “the situation in the State of Palestine” & over Israeli nationals. It said it found “reasonable grounds” to believe #Netanyahu & #Gallant bore responsibility for #crimes including the use of #starvation as a method of #war & for “murder, persecution, & other #inhumane acts.”

#WarCrimes #Gaza #law #HumanitarianCrisis #geopolitics

The #ICC’s chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, said he was seeking the arrest warrants in May, along w/those for snr #Hamas leaders. Although #Israel is not a party to the Rome Statute, upon which the court is founded, the warrants are a public rebuke of Israel’s conduct during the #war & are required to be enforced by the court’s 124 member states.

#Netanyahu #Gallant #WarCrimes #Gaza #law #HumanitarianCrisis #geopolitics

The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants Thurs for #Israel PM Benjamin #Netanyahu & fmr defense minister Yoav #Gallant “for crimes against humanity & #WarCrimes” over Israel’s military ops in #Gaza.

The #ICC also issued a warrant for a #Hamas military leader, Mohammed #Deif, who was killed in an airstrike in Gaza in July…. Prosecutors issued warrants because they were not able to confirm whether he is dead or alive….

#law #HumanitarianCrisis #geopolitics
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/11/21/israel-war-news-hamas-gaza-palestine/

#JosseliBarnica is 1 of ≥2 #Texas women who…lost their lives after doctors delayed treating #miscarriages, which fall into a gray area under the state’s strict #abortion #laws that prohibit doctors from ending the #heartbeat of a #fetus.

Neither wanted an abortion, but that didn’t matter. Though proponents insist the laws protect both the life of the fetus & the person carrying it, in practice, #doctors have hesitated to provide care under threat of #prosecution, #prison & professional ruin.

A Woman Died After Being Told It Would Be a “#Crime” to Intervene in Her #Miscarriage at a #Texas Hospital

#JosseliBarnica is 1 of at least 2 pregnant TX women who died after doctors delayed emergency care. She’d told her husband that the medical team said it couldn’t act until the #FetalHeartbeat stopped.

#law #AbortionIsHealthcare #WomensHealth #ReproductiveHealth #ReproductiveRights #AbortionRights #MaternalMortality #BodilyAutonomy #agency #Vote #HarrisWalz2024
https://www.propublica.org/article/josseli-barnica-death-miscarriage-texas-abortion-ban

#JosseliBarnica grieved the news as she lay in a #Texas hospital bed on Sept 3, 2021: The sibling she’d dreamt of giving her daughter would not survive this #pregnancy.

The fetus was on the verge of coming out, its head pressed against her dilated cervix; she was 17 wks #pregnant & a #miscarriage was “in progress,” doctors noted in hospital records.

#law #AbortionIsHealthcare #WomensHealth #ReproductiveRights #AbortionRights #MaternalMortality #BodilyAutonomy #HarrisWalz2024

For 40 hrs, the anguished 28-yr-old mother prayed for doctors to help her get home to her daughter; all the while, her uterus remained exposed to bacteria.

3 days after she delivered, #JosseliBarnica died of an infection.

#law #AbortionIsHealthcare #WomensHealth #ReproductiveHealth #ReproductiveRights #AbortionRights #MaternalMortality #BodilyAutonomy #agency #Vote #HarrisWalz2024

At that point, they should have offered to speed up the delivery or empty her uterus to stave off a #deadly infection, more than a dozen #medical experts told ProPublica.

But when #JosseliBarnica’s husband rushed to her side from his job on a construction site, she relayed what she said the medical team had told her: “They had to wait until there was no #heartbeat,” he told ProPublica in Spanish. “It would be a #crime to give her an #abortion.”

#law #AbortionIsHealthcare #HarrisWalz2024