NEWS OF THE DAY
From Across the Nation
_1 MLK arrest: A prosecutor in Georgia said he will expunge Martin Luther King Jr.’s record for his trespassing arrest during a 1960 sitin protesting the segregated dining rooms at an Atlanta department store. Fulton County Solicitor General Keith Gammage said he is also interested in erasing the records of all other civil rights workers who were arrested in Atlanta. King joined the Atlanta Student Movement’s campaign of sitins on Oct. 19, 1960, and was arrested after asking to be served in a whitesonly dining room at Rich’s Department Store. During his life, King was arrested more than two dozen times.
_2 Sessions campaign: President Trump’s campaign has sent a letter to Jeff Sessions, his former attorney general now running for a U.S. Senate seat, objecting to Sessions’ portrayal of himself as a Trump supporter in a campaign mailer. The March 31 letter accused Sessions of attempting to “misleadingly promote your connections to and ‘support’ of Trump,” in the mailer that mentioned Trump’s name 22 times. “The letter even makes the delusional assertion that you are President ‘Trump’s #1 Supporter,’” Glassner wrote. Before becoming attorney general, Sessions was the first U.S. senator to endorse Trump. But his public fallingout with Trump has threatened to upend his hopes of recapturing his former seat.
_3 Chicago police: Mayor Lori Lightfoot has named former Dallas police Chief David Brown to head the force in the nation’s third largest city, calling him “a leader who commands respect.” Lightfoot introduced Brown as the next superintendent of the Chicago Police Department during a news conference Thursday, saying he’s the right man for the job. Brown, who was one of two African Americans named as a finalist, has more than 30 years of experience in law enforcement.
_4 Judicial nomination: President Trump is nominating a 37yearold judge and former clerk to Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh to a seat on the powerful U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Justin Walker of Kentucky has been on the federal bench less than six months and is one of the youngest federal judges in the country, with deep ties to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, RKy. Walker drew a “Not Qualified“rating from the American Bar Association when Trump nominated him last year to be a federal judge in Kentucky. The Washingtonbased court is widely considered the nation’s secondmost powerful after the Supreme Court.
_5 Grand Canyon leader: A veteran lawyer for the U.S. Interior Department has been appointed as the new superintendent of Grand Canyon National Park, the National Park Service announced Friday. Edward Keable will assume his new post in northern Arizona within 60 days, the park service said. The Grand Canyon is normally the secondbusiest national park in the country behind Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Nearly 6.4 million visitors went to the Grand Canyon in 2018. The park closed on Wednesday because of the virus outbreak.