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Top eight Top eight stories for today including House lawmakers introduced a bill that would add over 200 new district court judgeships; Handwritten notes reveal former President Donald Trump pressured top Justice Department officials to proclaim the 2020 election results were fraudulent; International tourists are giving Italy’s culture and entertainment sector a much-needed boost, and more. Your Friday night briefing from the staff of Courthouse News Sign up for the CNS Top Eight, a roundup of the day’s top stories delivered directly to your inbox Monday through Friday. National 1.) House lawmakers introduced a bill Friday that would add 203 new district court judgeships spread over 47 judicial districts far surpassing the judiciary’s request earlier this year for 77 new seats across 24 districts. ....
Voters in Austin have chosen once again to ban homeless encampments within city limits. This marks a win for critics who saw the mayor’s and city council’s decision to decriminalize homeless camping as a failure to address Austin’s homelessness crisis. A homeless encampment on East 7th Street in Austin, Texas. (Courthouse News photo/Madison Venza) AUSTIN, Texas (CN) The success of Proposition B comes after two years of the group Save Austin Now PAC fighting to reinstate a camping ban after the mayor and city council passed an ordinance decriminalizing camping in 2019. Save Austin Now PAC was formed in 2019 by Matt Mackowiak, chairman of the Travis County GOP, and Cleo Petricek. ....
Texas’ capital city had a public camping ban in place for 23 years before it was repealed in 2019. Austinites are now voting on whether to revive it. Tents are seen in a homeless encampment on East 7th Street in Austin, Texas, along with a Vote No on Prop B sign. (Courthouse News photo/Madison Venza) AUSTIN, Texas (CN) Austin’s storied past dealing with homelessness is headed toward a new chapter. On Saturday, Austinites will for the first time have a chance to decide whether to again make it a crime for anyone to camp within city limits. Proposition B seeks to reinstate a criminal penalty for persons sleeping in the city outside of designated camping areas and for obstructing public sidewalks by either sitting or lying down. But Mayor Steve Adler, City Council members and homeless service providers are fighting to keep Prop B from becoming law. ....
(Image courtesy of National Human Genome Research Institute via Courthouse News) (CN) The United States marked a new age in vaccine science when the first candidates it deployed against the coronavirus also marked the first time a vaccine has relied on messenger RNA, or mRNA. Like all vaccines, the goal of mRNA vaccines is to prime the immune system to respond to a specific foreign agent. In preventing the spread of Covid-19, the target is the pandemic-unleashing coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2. Vaccines like the Oxford-AstraZeneca version which is available in Europe but not yet approved in the United States achieve that goal using virus DNA: Genes from the spike proteins that stud the coronavirus are put into a cold virus that has been weakened, and then injected into patients. ....