LA declares itself a ‘city of sanctuary’
LOS ANGELES — It took nearly a year and a half, but officials voted Friday to declare Los Angeles a “city of sanctuary,” long after other left-leaning cities took a similar stand against the Trump administration’s policies toward immigrants who lack legal status.
The Los Angeles City Council voted 12-0 to approve a symbolic resolution that elected officials first proposed in September 2017. The resolution doesn’t provide any new legal protections for immigrants but instead reaffirms existing policies, including Special Order 40, which bars Los Angeles police officers from initiating contact with someone solely to determine whether the person is in the country legally.
U.S. spy-satellites post
President Donald Trump nominated Christopher Scolese on Thursday to become the new director of the National Reconnaissance Office, the onetime classified organization that operates and oversees America’s network of spy satellites. Mr. Scolese is currently the center director of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
The existence of the National Reconnaissance Office and its mission were classified until 1992, shortly after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
N.H. rules on toplessness
New Hampshire’s highest court upheld Friday the conviction of three women who were arrested for going topless on a beach, finding their constitutional rights were not violated. In a 3-2 ruling, the court decided that Laconia’s ordinance does not discriminate on the basis of gender or violate the women’s right to free speech.
Associate Justice Anna Barbara Hantz Marconi wrote that courts “generally upheld laws that prohibit women but not men from exposing their breasts against equal protection challenges.”
Heidi Lilley, Kia Sinclair and Ginger Pierro are part of the Free the Nipple campaign — a global campaign advocating for the rights of women to go topless. They were arrested in 2016 after removing their tops at a beach in Laconia and refusing to put them on when beachgoers complained.
Stone opposes gag order
Attorneys for President Donald Trump’s longtime confidant Roger Stone urged a federal judge overseeing his criminal trial not to impose a gag order, citing his constitutional rights to free speech as a writer and political commentator, and asked to have his case reassigned to a different judge.
U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson last week warned she might cut off public comments by parties and attorneys in Mr. Stone’s case after he went on a weeklong media blitz following his indictment and arrest in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election.
Trump’s physical exam
Dr. Sean Conley, physician to the president, announced that President Donald Trump is in “very good health” following his physical examination at the Walter Reed military hospital Friday.
Last year, Mr. Trump received a glowing bill of health from his then-physician Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson, who noted the president’s “incredible genes” and joked that Mr. Trump “might live to be 200 years old” if he made improvements to his diet. But sources told CNN that Mr. Trump has made only minor changes to his diet and exercise regimen.