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There are now 52 confirmed deaths in 26 states and d.c., with the ages ranging from 17 through 75. illinois is now suing juul, the suit alleges juul s advertising undid years of progress for youth smoking. five other lawsuits were filed against the company. crime victims and prosecutors in kentucky stunned after former governor matt bevan issued 428 pardons before leaving office tuesday. among the offenses pardoned were reckless homicide, child rape, a man who murdered his parents when he was 16 and a woman who threw her newborn in the trash. the story was first reported in the louisville currier journal. calling the pardons an atrocity of justice. he signed the pardons because he s a big believer in second chances. ....
washington post that he saw these reports in the media and rushed to tell some of these families who may not have known yet. so this is really difficult. we heard from the mom of a girl who was raiped and she said, ths is like a slap in the face, like we re living this trauma all over again. i want to mention the prosecutor i spoke with in kenton county said prosecutors across kentucky have been trying to get a complete list of the people pardoned and whose sentences were commuted since tuesday, and they haven t been able to get that. so they had to file an open records request to get the whole list to see who all has been pardoned. and we know now that some state lawmakers have told the louisville currier journal that they want to see an investigation from an independent prosecutor into at least one of these cases, brianna. natasha, thank you for following this story. we appreciate it. it is an historic day here in washington as the house judiciary committee moves ....
Pardons before leaving office on tuesday. among the offenses pardoned were reckless homicide, child rape, a man who murdered his parents when he was 16 and a woman who threw her newborn in the trash. the story was first reported in the louisville currier journal. calling the pardons an atrocity of justice. he signed the pardons because he s a big believer in second chances. the new governor of kentucky has signed an executive order that restores the voting rights of more than 140,000 former felons in the state. he said he did it because his faith teaches him to treat others with dignity and respect. his executive order covers nonviolent felons who completed their prison terms. he is expressing concerns about kentucky voter access issues. one in four african-americans in the state are not allowed to ....
Behaved erratically. when you look at the results, republican, first african-american to be elected attorney general in kentucky s history, he outpaced bevin as far as his voter turnout. many of the other republicans did very, very well in this election. like i sid, they ve covered all the constitutional offices. they have supermajorities in the house and the senate. it really was both from a policy perspective, but really a personality perspective a rejection of matt bevin personally. phillip bailey of the louisville currier journal, your state is the center of the political universe tonight. thank you for joining us and helping us understand it a little bit better. thank you, steve. for more, let s turn to our panel. john allen, let me start with you. i m just going to put up the president s reaction. he was there in kentucky last night trying to get bevin re-elected. he put this up on twitter. ....
Mcauliffe. even fox news is beginning to lose hope for repealing the affordable care act. i think it is the essence of pragmatism to recognize this thing isn t working, let s start over, let s repeal every word of it. you re kind of in a minority when it comes to that. i know the democrats are saying mend it, don t necessarily defend it. but you look at the polling, senator, and a lot of americans like parts of it, would like to see parts of it continue, so to blow the whole thing up, i don t know if people are behind that. if you look at obama care and say okay, out of the 2 million pages, i like page 1109, are you going to go through elements of that and form a new plan to replace it? and where is the cruz plan? no, there is no page 1109. and in kentucky, the louisville currier journal reports the affordable care act has cut that ....