Big Time News Blog: 10/09/20

Friday, October 9, 2020

The DOJ is suing Yale, accusing it of discriminating against Asian American and white applicants. Their claims are 'leveraging the model minority myth' to pit racial groups against each other, scholars say.

The Trump administration DOJ's claim against Yale is just "political messaging for November," according to a senior counsel at the Brennan Center.

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Kentucky AG files motion to silence Breonna Taylor grand juror

"Allowing this disclosure would irreversibly alter Kentucky's legal system by making it difficult for prosecutors and the public to have confidence in the secrecy of the grand jury process going forward," the attorney general said.

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Code enforcement crackdown: One officer arrested, others fired

Derrick Erwin had been an Opa-locka code enforcement officer for over a decade before his career came crashing down last week. At around 1 a.m. last Friday, police took him into custody at his home less than half a mile from city hall, saying he committed fraud and theft by imposing thousands of dollars in fines on a property, then buying it himself before deleting the fines from the city’s computer system.