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Supreme Court will hear today a petition filed by Facebook India Vice-President, Ajit Mohan, which challenges the summons issued to him by Delhi Assembly's Committee of Peace and Harmony in relation to #DelhiRiots2020.

@FacebookIndia @secondatticus #Facebook

 In the previous hearing, Senior Advocate Harish Salv, appearing for Ajit Mohan, asserted before the Supreme Court that Mohan would not appear before the Committee of Peace and Harmony of the Delhi Legislative.

@secondatticus #Facebook
Facebook Only Gives A Platform; Its Vice President Will Not Appear Before Delhi Assembly Panel: Salve Tells SC

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Assembly Panel on Peace and Harmony is looking into complaints on the "role or complicity of Facebook officials in the Delhi riots" that took place in February 2020.

Mohan was issued two summons on August 31, 2020 and the second, on September 18, 2020.

@secondatticus #Facebook
A Bench of Justices SK Kaul, Dinesh Maheshwari and Hrishikesh Roy will be presiding over the matter.

#Facebook @secondatticus @raghav_chadha #DelhiRiots @DrAMSinghvi
Justice Kaul states that Item 14 will be taken up now and then the Bench will break.

Item 13 will be taken up after that.

#Facebook @secondatticus @raghav_chadha #DelhiRiots @DrAMSinghvi
Matter commences.

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Bench will reassemble. Senior Advocates Harish Salve, Dr. AM Singhvi, Rajeev Dhavan are present.

#Facebook @secondatticus @raghav_chadha #DelhiRiots @DrAMSinghvi
Dhavan: We have filed an Intervention and it’s on behalf of the Committee whose actions have been impugned through its Chairperson. I have prepared the submissions.

#Facebook @secondatticus @raghav_chadha #DelhiRiots @DrAMSinghvi
Dhavan: I’ll be sending it to the Registry. This issue concerns powers of the Committee.

Bench: This has been sent to others ?

Dhavan: It’s been filed.

#Facebook @secondatticus @raghav_chadha #DelhiRiots @DrAMSinghvi
Bench: We will have to issue notice and see what others have to say.

Dhavan: Will Mr. Salve have any problem ?

Salve: It is always a pleasure to hear. Dr. Dhavan. But, they are saying that Committee has separate powers as a jurisdictional entity.

#Facebook @secondatticus
Salve: We have a lot to say about his stand. We don’t have it in writing so far. You may allow this Application, subject to conditions. These are all legal issues ultimately.

#Facebook @secondatticus @raghav_chadha #DelhiRiots @DrAMSinghvi
Bench: Issues have been raised about the status of the Committee.

Salve states that notice can be issued.

Dhavan: If Salve says that question of law is involved, then it can be answered during the proceedings. I don’t want that to be held up.
Bench: How much time do you want to file Reply ?

Salve: I have American clients, and I want to play it safe. So, I would request for 4 weeks.

Bench: That’s too much.

#Facebook @secondatticus @raghav_chadha #DelhiRiots @DrAMSinghvi
Singhvi: If Salve feels it’s an issue of law, then I would suggest for the proceedings to continue. Otherwise, the earliest date.

#Facebook @secondatticus @raghav_chadha #DelhiRiots @DrAMSinghvi
Dhavan suggests that he is ready to hear Salve on any point against him. He is merely resisting the possibility of a further date when the Intervention is allowed.

#Facebook @secondatticus @raghav_chadha #DelhiRiots @DrAMSinghvi
Dhavan: If Salve says that it may be allowed.

Salve: The Bench may fix a date for final hearing and I will take my instructions.

#Facebook @secondatticus @raghav_chadha #DelhiRiots @DrAMSinghvi
Bench issues notice in the Application and gives two weeks to Petitioner to file a Reply. Applicant has been directed to file a written synopsis. Further, the Application will be listed along with the main matter.

#Facebook @secondatticus @raghav_chadha #DelhiRiots @DrAMSinghvi
Discussion ensues on the possible date for listing of matter.

Bench decides to list the matter in the third week of January, on a regular day, except for 19th January, 2021.

#Facebook @secondatticus @raghav_chadha #DelhiRiots @DrAMSinghvi
Justice Kaul remarks: I thought this matter would take the whole day.

Justice Roy: Yes, because earlier they all wanted 3 hours each!

#Facebook @secondatticus @raghav_chadha #DelhiRiots @DrAMSinghvi

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#LIVE Delhi High Court Women Lawyers Forum in Association with LiveLaw is conducting a Webinar on the topic 'Attack On Love Marriages And Freedom Of Choice'.

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Advocate Kajal Chandra begins the webinar and introduces the panelist Justice AP Shah, Delhi High Court’s Former Chief Justice. Advocate Gayatri Virmani introduces Human Rights Activist Jagmati Sangwan.

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Supreme Court takes up the suo moto case on 'remediation of polluted rivers'.


Meenakshi Arora (amicus curiae) : The water quality level as on January 18 was excellent. Ammonium levels were in control. If that can be maintained, it will be good.

Arora submits that the NGT has appointed a river monitoring committee for Yamuna river and requests court to call for a report from the committee.

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Arora : Haryana has said they are in the process of upgrading certain STPs and CETPs.
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CJI : Alright. Today we will pass an order calling for a report from the committee you mentioned.
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Supreme Court to hear shortly a petition filed by UPSC aspirants seeking extra chance for those candidates who had given their last attempt in October 2020.

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The petitioners rely on the September 30 order of the Supreme Court which directed the Centre and UPSC to consider granting an extra chance to last attempt candidates with corresponding rise in upper age limit.

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A bench comprising Justices AM Khanwilkar, BR Gavai and Krishnan Murari will take up the petition seeking extra attempt for last chance USPC aspirants in a short while.

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The bench has taken up the petition of UPSC aspirants for extra attempt.

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Issue regarding grant of extra chance for last attempt UPSC candidates is under consideration of the Central Government, Solicitor General tells the bench.

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SSR Case Media Trial : Bombay High Court to pronounce verdict at 11 AM today on the PILs seeking regulation of 'media trial'. The PILs were filed in the context of reportage of Sushant Singh Rajput death case.

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A division bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Dutta and Justice GS Kulkarni had reserved verdict on the PILs on November 6.
During the hearing, the bench made several sharp oral observations criticizing the media reports on #SSRCase.

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(From October 23, 2020)

Media Highly Polarized Now; Journalists Were Responsible & Neutral In Past, Bombay High Court Says While Hearing SSR Media Trial
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The Delhi High Court begins hearing Chaitanya Rohilla's petition challenging Whatsapp's updated privacy policy.


Court asks the petitioner: What is your grievance? It's a private app, don't join it.

Court: What is the data you feel is going to be compromised?

Petitioner: Whatsapp shares information globally. Everything they gather from us is shared.

Court: Mr. Lal, there are two issues. One is that your personal messages are looked into and shared. Two is that your browsing history is shared.

Petitioner: They analyze browsing history and form an opinion about the user and share that.

Court: All apps do that.

Petitioner: In Europe and the US, Whatsapp gives an option to accept or reject the updated policy. But here in India, no such option is given.

Court: You have an option, don't use the app.
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Trump is gonna let the Mueller investigation end all on it's own. It's obvious. All the hysteria of the past 2 weeks about his supposed impending firing of Mueller was a distraction. He was never going to fire Mueller and he's not going to


Mueller's officially end his investigation all on his own and he's gonna say he found no evidence of Trump campaign/Russian collusion during the 2016 election.

Democrats & DNC Media are going to LITERALLY have nothing coherent to say in response to that.

Mueller's team was 100% partisan.

That's why it's brilliant. NOBODY will be able to claim this team of partisan Democrats didn't go the EXTRA 20 MILES looking for ANY evidence they could find of Trump campaign/Russian collusion during the 2016 election

They looked high.

They looked low.

They looked underneath every rock, behind every tree, into every bush.

And they found...NOTHING.

Those saying Mueller will file obstruction charges against Trump: laughable.

What documents did Trump tell the Mueller team it couldn't have? What witnesses were withheld and never interviewed?

THERE WEREN'T ANY.

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1) FL absentees, early voting:

*Dems as expected ("souls to the polls Sunday") had a good day and FINALLY take the early walk-in vote lead by 6,100 votes.

Rs total: 1,151,593
Ds total: 1,092,547

Rs +59,046 combined lead. This is very good for this point in the campaign.

2) At this point in 2016, Rs only led by 40,000. I could be mistaken but I think yesterday was the last day polls were open on Sunday, so the final "souls to the polls" Sunday.

3) As of yesterday, four red counties were yet to report. That would likely boost the lead back to 70k

4) I don't think the FL Rs in their wildest dreams expected to lead this late in the campaign.

5) Likewise in NV:
Clark (with its union "encouragement" for members turned out big yesterday and added net 6,000 voters.

However---big however---neither Washoe nor the rurals . . .

(5) contd. . . were open yesterday. My guesstimate is that would slice that number in half.

While this helped, the NV Ds are still looking at a significant--to potentially massive--shortfall from their 2016 numbers coming out of early voting.

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For my followers who aren't experts on middle eastern politics, here's a summary and explanation of all that stuff I've been tweeting about for the last few days - Turkey, Gare, all that stuff.

Gare is a mountain in the autonomous region of Kurdistan, in Northern Iraq (also known as Başur, or South Kurdistan). It's held by the Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK), a formerly Maoist group who share an ideology with the YPG. They're pretty great.

Last week the Turkish Army launched an operation in the area, bombarding it with planes and dropping troops from helicopters. They're a long way from home here, and had to rely on the bases of local collaborators to launch the attack.

The initial assault appears to have gone badly, with Turkish troops forced to retreat some way down the mountain. A second front, seemingly aimed at preventing PKK reinforcements from arriving, may have been more successful.

The full aim of the operation isn't clear. They may have hoped to cut Gare from other nearby mountains, and they may have been trying to destroy specific facilities. The only thing we're sure of is that an attempt was made to free a group of high value POWs.
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1. "They're leaving! They're leaving!"" yell seditionist as they watch House members fleeing the floor through the glass doors the only thing (+ some under-armed officers + office furniture" that protected our elected REPs (same ballot as Trump, each & everyone

@McConnellPress

2. of them felt so inclined towards martyrdom and/or possessed the weapons (Jesus, what if they'd has a grenade & guess what, in America, yes, you can come up w functional equivalents of that bc barring people from them is a betrayal of freedom so great we must simply acquiesce

3. their eventual death tolls. One functional "freedom grenade" down that hallway, tossed w ease through a hole in the glass door, could have easily hit anyone fleeing.Unless it was Mo Brooks, MTG, or one of their well-known crazy boosters, here's a thing @LeaderMcConnell ought

4. to reflect upon as he makes his CRITCAL pivot decision, which he could rally 17 people & start a fight for control of the party that rest of the country will help him with,EVEN AFTER ALL THE SHIT HE'S DONE TO PEOPLE, YES, THE REST OF THE COUNTRY WOULD HELP HIM IF HE WAS TO

5. RALLY 17 SENATORS FOR IMPEACHMENT, he'd find his whole 🌎awakened. And Mitch, as far as I understand it, you could do it anonymously!! How much would THAT fuck w them?? How great would it be, for the 1st time in 5 yrs, to be the one w power- you LOVE power! Think of the FUN!
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