The Lulac Edition #3737, March 22nd, 2018

LEGAL EAGLE BEAGLE EDITION!!!!!!

FORMER ACTING ATTORNEY GENERAL SALLY YATES SPEAKS IN PHILADELPHIA

Sally Yates at American Library Association meeting Wednesday. (Photo: Mrs. LuLac) 

Pam Sandlian-Smith, association president, interviews Yates at the Conference opening yesterday. (Photo: Mrs. LuLac)

Thousands braved a winter storm in Philadelphia yesterday to hear former acting Attorney 
General Sally Yates give a talk to the  Pennsylvania Library Association. The body is holding its annual meeting in the city of Brotherly Love and Yates spoke about her 3 decade long tenure in the Justice Department.
Yates said that when she first started at Justice, she was going to be there for just a short time. But after being in that department, she soon learned that there were many professionals in that area that sought justice. And only justice.
Yates spoke of the last ten days of her career at Justice and discussed the Travel ban haphazardly put in place by the President. The news on the first travel ban was sent out by the White House after 5pm on a Friday afternoon just 7 days into his administration. The lawyers for the government were expected to argue its merits in court the next day. Usually there is case law and precedents to consider. In her mind, she felt that the bans would not stand up to scrutiny which they did not. She said many at Justice were heartened by the flooding of concerned citizens at airports the next day to point out that many people were on their way to America and had no idea what awaited them.
Yates said that the Justice Department lawyers aren’t in their jobs like attorneys in private practice. A defense lawyer argues his client’s case. A corporate Attorney takes the side of the company paying the firm. But lawyers in the Justice Department are out for one thing and one thing only, the truth, with Justice being the final goal.
Yates was asked how her Thanksgiving was in2017 following her dismissal and she said her family avoids talking politics. She added that her family has always been supportive of her work in government.
Yates told the assembled multitude that Librarians are the Guardians of truth in a post truth world. In her speech and interview afterwards, Yates never mentioned the name of the last President she served under.

REPUBLICAN HOUSE STILL VOTES TO IMPEACH SUPREME COURT JUDGES OVER GERRYMANDERING DECISION!

Republicans lost their latest desperate attempt to block Pennsylvania’s new, fair maps when the U.S. Supreme Court rejected their efforts.
Now, with nowhere left to fight in the courts, they're launching another last-ditch effort to rig the system.
This week, Republicans introduced legislation to IMPEACH Pennsylvania State Supreme Court justices who struck down their gerrymandered map.
So what’s next, are they going to go after the United States Supreme Court?
What kind of idiots think that by impeaching Judges in our state, after the Supreme Court of the freaking United States upheld their decision is going to fly?
This is the reason why the overpaid, over fed, full of crap State Legislature is one of the least respected bodies in this country. 
In the meantime, the statewide Republicans do what they do best when they don't get their way! Our apologies to baby infants and twins everywhere.

TRUMP AND THE WOMEN HE  DIDN'T KNOW

Summer Zervos, Karen McDougal and Stormy McDaniels (Photo: NBC)

A Judge ruled Tuesday that former “Apprentice” contestant, Summer Zervos' defamation lawsuit against President Trump may proceed. This might allow her lawyers to begin collecting evidence to support her claim that he forcibly kissed and groped her years ago.
When it rains, it pours yellow legal pads because Summer’s news came on the same day a former Playboy playmate, Karen McDougal, sued the publisher of the National Enquirer for the right to break her silence about the 10-month affair she says she had with Trump more than a decade ago. 
These women want to talk and act. This only aggravates Trump’s ability to be taken seriously not only as a President, but as a human being. This adds more concerns for the embattled President who also faces scrutiny over his involvement with adult film actress Stormy Daniels whose interview is set for “60 Minutes” on Sunday.

THE HELEN GALLI SAGA

The alleged poisoning Grandma suspect Helen Galli is still in the news. This week she reached an accord with prosecutors that stopped another trial of this tawdry incident. She pleaded “no contest”, that will result in her serving the next nine months on house arrest.
Now 86, Galli was accused of spiking a glass of berry-flavored Juicy Juice with antifreeze in it 8 years ago (c’mon man not even Welch’s!!!!) and slipping a mickey to Dawn Simyan. The unsuspecting Dawn was the then-girlfriend of Galli’s son. The girlfriend became very ill over a few months. The motive? Galli’s son had reached a settlement with the gas drillers and Galli wanted to hold on to her son and apparently the money
At her first trial, Galli was convicted of aggravated assault and sentenced to serve up to 12 years in prison. She was granted a new trial new because her lawyer back then failed to seek exclusion of a key hearsay statement .
This incident prompted one of the Topic A classics that are still in the vault. A LuLac rewind if you will, with the late L.A. Tarone as we discussed the case back then when it was in a pre-trial phase. (LuLac, LuLac archives, Citizen's Voice).

MEDIA MATTERS

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ECTV LIVE

Rusty Fender will handle the hosting duties for ECTV Live during the week of March 26th. His guest will be Eileen Miner who will update her on going crusade against distracted driving including efforts to ban the use of cell phoniness driving.

ECTV Live can be seen on Comcast channel 19 (61 in some areas) and is aired during the Noon, 6pm and Midnight hours each day of the week. Following Monday's Live program the show will become available on Electric City Television's YouTube channel which can be viewed on your computer.

BUDDY RUMCHEK

Want to hear some great parodies on the news? Tune in to WILK Radio at 6:40 and 8:40 AM on Mondays. As Ralph Cramden used to say, “It’s a laugh riot!”

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At a cave in Starved Rock State Park near Ottawa, Illinois, the bodies of three women were found. All three, residents of Riverside, Illinois, and the wealthy wives of Chicago business executives, had been beaten to death two days before, during an afternoon of bird watching. A dishwasher at the park later confessed to killing the women after attempting to rob them. Chester Weger, convicted of the murder, was sentenced to life imprisonment, and was denied parole as recently as December 2009….Northwest Airlines Flight 710 crashed, killing all 63 persons on board. The wings fell off of the Lockheed L-188 Electra turboprop airplane at an altitude of 18,000 feet while the flight was en route from Chicago to Miami, and crashed into a soybean field near Cannelton, Indiana at 4:20 p.m., leaving a 12-foot-deep (3.7 m) crate…

The severed head of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland from 1653 to 1658, was reburied in an undisclosed location at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge after 300 years. Cromwell's body had been unearthed after his death in 1659, with the head displayed on a spike and the rest of the corpse dumped in the sea. After being passed among several owners, the head had been kept by several generations of a family since the early 1880s….in Pennsylvania as the Pittsburgh Pirates break camp in hopes of doing just a tad better than their season in 1959 when the Bucs were 78-76…in Wilkes Barre night classes at both King’s and Wilkes maintain their popularity as enrollment increases among the adult population and fifty years ago the number one song in LuLac land and America was “Where Or When” by Dion and The Belmonts.