A federal district court granted summary judgment to the Washington Department of Corrections on the First Amendment retaliation claims of a corrections officer candidate who wore a Black Lives Matter shirt during training and was later terminated. The officer candidate spoke as a public employee but his speech wasn’t a substantial or motivating factor in his termination by a decisionmaker unaware of the Police Lives Matter/Black Lives Matter shirt incidents. He acted in his own personal and private interest, when he wore the shirt in response to the department’s failure to respond to his complaint and failure to enforce a ...
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Zack Polanski, leader of the Green Party, has faced renewed scrutiny after claiming there are “definitely examples” of the Israeli government using “false flags”, as divisions over Israel and Zion...