Two and a half years after January 6, lawyers who helped former president Donald Trump use lies about election fraud to try to retain power are finally starting to face sanctions for their actions.

On Friday, a legal ethics committee recommended that Rudy Giuliani, who helped Trump’s legal efforts following election day in 2020, be disbarred in Washington. “He claimed massive election fraud but had no evidence of it,” the three-member panel said in a 38-page ruling. “By prosecuting that destructive case Mr. Giuliani, a sworn officer of the Court, forfeited his right to practice law.”

“By prosecuting that destructive case Mr. Giuliani…forfeited his right to practice law.”

The three-member panel noted that Giuliani had a record of public service during his stints as mayor of New York and as a US Attorney. But “the misconduct here sadly transcends all his past accomplishments,” they said. “It was unparalleled in its destructive purpose and effect. He sought to disrupt a presidential election and persists in his refusal to acknowledge the wrong he has done.”

The DC case focused on Giuliani’s role in the legal effort to contest Trump’s defeat in Pennsylvania during the 2020 presidential election. “His hyperbolic claims of election fraud and the core thesis of the Pennsylvania litigation were utterly false, and recklessly so,” the panel said.

The recommendation that Giuliani lose his license must still be okayed by DC’s Board on Professional Responsibility and by Court of Appeals. One of Giuliani’s lawyers said he will file “a vigorous appeal.” Ted Goodman, a Giuliani spokesman, called the DC Bar Association’s leaders “an arm of the permanent regime in Washington,” adding: “This is also part of an effort to deny President Trump effective counsel by persecuting Rudy Giuliani—objectively one of the most effective prosecutors in American history. I call on rank-and-file members of the DC Bar Association to speak out against this great injustice.”

Jaap Stam, the renowned Dutch defender, has provided assurance to Arsenal that Jurrien Timber will meet expectations at the Emirates.

The Gunners are in the process of finalising the transfer of the Ajax player to further strengthen their defence, following their second-place finish in the league last season under Mikel Arteta’s guidance.

Timber was on the verge of a move to Manchester United last season but opted to remain in the Netherlands as he felt he wasn’t quite ready for the switch. Despite Ajax not having the most successful season, Arsenal has recognised Timber’s potential and views him as a key addition to their first-team squad.

With his experience and expertise, Stam has now offered reassurances to Arsenal that Timber is a top-class defender.

He tells Charles Watts Football: 

Over the last two years, Republican state politicians have done their best to wipe out access to gender-affirming medical care for trans adolescents. In a flurry of lawmaking—coordinated by conservative Christian legal groups and think tanks, and backed by fringe doctors and activists who deny that anyone is truly transgender—a whopping 20 states have passed laws forbidding medical professionals from caring for trans adolescents with treatments supported by all major US medical associations.

Three more states may still pass similar bans this year: In North Carolina, and Louisiana, Republican-controlled legislatures are preparing to call special sessions to override their Democratic governors’ vetoes of several anti-LGBTQ bills, including trans healthcare restrictions. And Ohio still has a ban on the table. 

Yet even as more states consider banning affirming medical care for trans youth, federal courts are blocking or overturning these restrictive laws in a cascade of wins for transgender rights. In Arkansas, on June 20, a federal judge struck down a law banning gender-affirming care for youth, concluding after a trial that “the evidence showed that the prohibited medical care improves the mental health and well-being of patients” and that despite its claims to the contrary, the state hadn’t been protecting children when it passed the law. Meanwhile, judges in Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee all granted temporary injunctions last month that will keep puberty blockers and hormone therapy accessible to trans adolescents while legal challenges to their state bans play out in court. (Update: Tennessee’s injunction was overturned on July 8 and the ban was allowed to go into effect.)

In every court case so far, judges have sided with the trans adolescents and their families suing for access to treatment.

The decisions, all issued during Pride month, follow a similar ruling in Alabama in May 2022 that temporarily blocked a law banning gender-affirming medication for trans people under the age of 19. All in all, in almost every court case so far in which a decision has been issued on gender-affirming care bans for youth, judges have sided with the trans adolescents and their families suing for access to treatment.

The rulings are a victory—though temporary, in some cases—for the parents who have sued their states to protect their children’s healthcare. The plaintiffs include the mom of a 9-year-old in Florida who had told her parents she was a girl even before she started kindergarten. According to court filings, she had stopped expressing the desire to self-harm after socially transitioning, and was waiting to start puberty blockers before the new law was passed. In Kentucky, a dad sued the state to protect his 14-year-old transgender son’s access menstruation suppressants and testosterone patches—medication which had helped reduce his gender dysphoria and suicidality. And in Arkansas, the parents of a 10-year-old transgender girl joined a lawsuit knowing that if the ban there took effect, they would have to move to make sure their daughter could get appropriate medical care when she enters puberty.  

Ivan Fresneda has captured the attention of Arsenal as they seek to bolster their squad during the current transfer window. The full-back had an impressive season at Real Valladolid, despite the club’s relegation from the Spanish top flight.

Fresneda’s performances have established him as one of the most promising young talents in La Liga. Arsenal has been monitoring his progress for several months and is now faced with competition from clubs such as Juventus and Borussia Dortmund in the race to secure his signature.

Currently representing Spain at the U19 Euros, Fresneda has been approached about his future amid interest from multiple clubs.

Fresneda said as quoted by Tuttomercatoweb:

“The truth is that right now I’m very concentrated on this competition. I’m very concentrated on the European Championship, after this competition I will do all the necessary assessments with the club.”

Arsenal have already pocketed some money from Granit Xhaka’s sale, and they are also expected to make some good money from Thomas Partey’s sale.

These two leaving, and Kai Havertz and Declan Rice joining represent new beginnings at Arsenal’s midfield. Arteta is not taking chances with his engine room, and there’s talk of a third midfielder joining Havertz and Rice as transfer arrivals. There’s a belief that this third midfielder could be Romeo Lavia. But even so, Craig Burley still believes Moises Caicedo is the midfielder for Arteta.

Burley advises Arteta to use the funds from Partey’s and Xhaka’s sales and the remaining transfer budget to sign his top winter target, Moises Caicedo. On ESPN, he said, “If they can get rid of Xhaka, I don’t know if the move has happened, but I think he is going to Leverkusen. If they can sell Thomas Partey as well, who had a pretty good season to the last sort of ten or 12 games. There is talk of Saudi Arabia for him as well.

“But if they could shift those out for a bit more money, then you would be asking for another player, and it would be Caicedo from Brighton.

“He is 21. He can defend. Get forward. Very good on the ball. He still has more to come out of him, and he has the energy to get around the pitch. I think that would be a better balance between him and Declan Rice, with Odegaard somewhere floating around.”

Ismail Oulad M’Hand, the talented midfielder, has signed his first professional contract with Arsenal, following in the footsteps of his older brother, Salah-Eddine.

The 18-year-old Moroccan youth international joined the club in January 2021 from Feyenoord, and his impressive performances earned him a call-up and debut for Morocco’s U-20 side in May 2023.

Congratulations to Arsenal prospect Ismail Oulad M’Hand (midfielder), who has signed his first professional contract with the club.

Ismail is the younger brother of Salah-Eddine, who is also at the club. #afc pic.twitter.com/q8AzbLVAvf

— afcstuff (@afcstuff) July 7, 2023

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In May, Starbucks abruptly shuttered a unionized store in Ithaca, New York. This week, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled that Starbucks had violated federal labor law, and ordered the company to reopen the store.

The College Avenue store, near Cornell University, was one of three Ithaca stores that closed after workers unionized, a move that the union characterized as retaliation. In a Thursday ruling, Judge Arthur Amchan wrote that the College Avenue store’s closure “was done in large part to discourage unionization efforts in Ithaca and elsewhere” and that Starbucks hadn’t proved that it wouldn’t have closed the store “absent its animus towards the pro-union employees who worked there,” Bloomberg reports.

As my colleague Noah Lanard wrote, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz had billed himself as a benevolent CEO, but, in coming out of retirement to attempt to quell the growing movement to unionize Starbucks cafes, has shown a different side of his American dream. The company has increased wages and allowed baristas to receive tips by credit cards—but only at non-union stores.

The Ithaca store closures aren’t the first examples of outright retaliation. As Noah reports:

According to an NLRB court filing, illegal firings of pro-union workers became routine. In one case, seven workers leading a drive at a Memphis store were simultaneously fired; a federal judge later found that to be illegal retaliation and ordered their jobs be offered back.

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Carolyn Lazard’s video CRIP TIME (2018), now on view at the Museum of Modern Art, lasts only 10 minutes but feels much longer. The entire work is one unbroken take, shot by a camera pointed down at a table, upon which are laid seven pillboxes, one for each day of the week. For some viewers, that shot offers an achingly slow experience; for others, its images will appear all too familiar.

Across the video’s runtime, Lazard can be seen opening the boxes and dropping in an array of pills—circular tablets, maroon discs, gigantic blue capsules. Lazard’s hands move with deliberation, only rarely faltering as a pill slips away before it is picked back up again and dropped in its rightful place. The medications properly distributed, the video ends with Lazard shutting the cases, restoring them to their former state.

CRIP TIME’s title alludes to the concept describing the pace at which disabled people experience life. Yet those searching for grand statements about chronic illnesses will not find it in this work, which reports on daily rituals undertaken by Lazard and people like them.

“I find myself interested in the labor that facilitates our staying alive and that labor is care and care work,” they said in an email interview.

Works by Lazard in the spirit of this one have appeared in venues ranging from the Whitney Biennial to the Venice Biennale. Their latest show is now in its final week at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, the city where they are from.