[BearingArms] How well are Chicago’s restrictive gun laws working out? Pretty good, at least from the perspective of armed criminals, who have an almost endless supply of unarmed victims to choose from. The website CWBChicago reports that at least 30 people were targeted by armed robbers in a twelve hour span Sunday night into Monday morning, including a news crew who had set up a live shot at the scene of an earlier robbery.
The newspeople were in the 1200 block of North Milwaukee early Monday when three or four masked men robbed them, according to preliminary information from the scene. An officer said the robbers were Black males wearing ski masks—one with a rifle, the others with handguns. But guns are outlawed in Chicago. This couldn't possibly have happened.
Without identifying the victims as a news crew, a Chicago police spokesperson confirmed that a 28-year-old man and a 42-year-old man were outside in the 1200 block of North Milwaukee when a black SUV and a gray sedan pulled up around 4:53 a.m.
Three men got out of the vehicles wearing ski masks and displaying guns. They took the victims’ belongings and fled southbound, police said. An initial police dispatch said the robbers took the journalists’ TV camera, but that has not been confirmed. They are the second Chicago TV news unit to be robbed this month.
Earlier, a woman was carjacked on the same block. Police said three men got out of a blue sedan around 10:12 p.m. One pointed a gun at her and took control of her white Ford Escape.
[Red State] The Atlanta-based Southeastern Legal Foundation filed a 14-page lawsuit against the National Archives and Records Administration, asking a federal judge to order the federal document custodian to produce the more than 5,400 emails from Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., where he used a pseudonym — more than 400 days after the initial request.
"All too often, public officials abuse their power by using it for their personal or political benefit. When they do, many seek to hide it," said Kimberly Hermann, the SLF general counsel.
"The only way to preserve governmental integrity is for NARA to release Biden’s nearly 5,400 emails to SLF and thus the public. The American public deserves to know what is in them," Hermann said.
"Public transparency is the most vital check the citizens have for holding our political class accountable," said Braden Boucek, SLF's litigation director.
"After over a year of trying to work with NARA, its continued unreasonable delays have forced SLF to file this lawsuit," he said.
In its filing, SLF’s legal team made clear that it was requesting documents that NARA already admitted holding: "By its own admission, Defendant has possession, custody, and control of the records to which SLF seeks access."
This assertion goes back to almost the beginning of the SLF quest for the Biden emails under assumed names.
The foundation first filed its Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, request on June 9, 2022, and on June 22, 2022, NARA gave two responses.
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[Red State] The Atlanta-based Southeastern Legal Foundation filed a 14-page lawsuit against the National Archives and Records Administration, asking a federal judge to order the federal document custodian to produce the more than 5,400 emails from Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., where he used a pseudonym — more than 400 days after the initial request.
