Jurors send a powerful message
CNN
In two cases, in Georgia and Virginia, juries spoke eloquently last week with their actions in ways that make a statement against racism and extremism. Three men accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery were convicted, and a jury imposed steep financial penalties against organizers of the 2017 Charlottesville rally.
Those words, famously echoed by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and former President Barack Obama, come to mind when juries render their verdicts, as they did twice last week in closely watched cases.
Over and over at a confirmation hearing on Wednesday, Democratic senators confronted Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about controversial comments they said he had made in the past. And over and over, President Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of health and human services either denied having said those things or said he wasn’t sure he had said them.
Investigators are intensifying their search into what caused the collision between American Airlines Flight 5342 and an Army Black Hawk helicopter, with recovery crews still working to pull wreckage from the Potomac River and initial concerns already raised about the path of at least one of the aircraft.