Georgia
Former Georgia football players tell PETA to ‘chill out’ on its criticism of live mascot
After the College of Georgia gained its second consecutive nationwide championship, PETA referred to as consideration to the college’s use of a dwell bulldog for a mascot.
The group claimed final month the college’s use of Uga “drives demand for breathing-impaired breeds (BIBs),” like pugs, boxers and English and French bulldogs.”
The animal rights group referred to as on the college to discontinue its use of Uga and to be “a winner not solely in soccer but additionally in its remedy of” animals.
Two former Bulldog gamers snapped again at PETA and defended the usage of Uga.
“I don’t suppose of us understand how good of a life Uga lives,” former punter Tavarres King informed TMZ Sports activities. “That canine’s liked, bro. Relax, PETA.”
Former operating again Knowshon Moreno echoed King’s feedback.
“You’d be eliminating a number of custom,” he mentioned. “I really feel like these pets dwell the perfect lives. … Uga dwell the life.”
Uga would possibly even get higher remedy on highway journeys than the gamers, King mentioned.
“Even on away video games, you get on the airplane. Uga’s the primary seat on the airplane. … Uga’s very properly handled,” he added.
PETA wrote that utilizing a dwell mascot is “outdated.”
“Because the back-to-back nationwide champion, can’t UGA discover it in its coronary heart to actually look at the influence of its promotion of deformed canines and name time on its outdated, live-animal mascot program?” PETA Govt Vice President Tracy Reiman mentioned in an announcement obtained by Fox Information Digital final month. “PETA is asking on (College of Georgia president) Jere Morehead to be a peach and exchange poor Uga with a human mascot who can help the staff in a profitable method.
“PETA — whose motto reads, partly, that ‘animals will not be ours to make use of for leisure’ and which opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview — notes that Uga is a dwelling, feeling being, not a toy to be carted to chaotic soccer stadiums throughout the nation and trotted out in entrance of scores of screaming followers.”
Regardless of a number of pleas from the group, it doesn’t appear to be there will likely be a change.
“We’re happy with our beloved mascot and grateful for the superb care offered by Uga’s devoted house owners, the Seiler household,” Georgia athletic director Josh Brooks mentioned in an announcement final month to Fox Information Digital.
There have been 10 “Ugas” for the reason that mascot was first launched in 1956, every a descendant of the unique Uga.
Georgia
Nick Ammirati leaving Kentucky for Georgia; Nolan McCarthy enters transfer portal
Just a couple of weeks after the Kentucky Wildcats’ miraculous baseball season ended in their first-ever College World Series berth, assistant coach Nick Ammirati is leaving to join the Georgia Bulldogs, the school announced Tuesday.
Ammirati came to Lexington in 2021 after leaving Southern Mississippi, and his contract expired last night at midnight. Instead of a renegotiation, he leaves for Georgia to join former Wildcat coach Will Coggin, who was an assistant under Nick Mingione from 2020-2023.
Ammirati’s departure will sting a tad bit for Kentucky, as he was the lead recruiter for tons of players, both incoming freshmen and guys coming in through the transfer portal. The program is in a much better spot now than when Ammirati first got here, so finding a replacement shouldn’t be as challenging as one would initially think.
Mingione moved Ammirati to the dugout more than two years ago, when Ammirati originally coached third base, to be with the players in the dugout, leaving Coach Mingione to coach third base. Mingione made the switch and he credits that move being a pivotal point in turning the program around.
We could be seeing our first repercussion of this loss, as standout outfielder Nolan McCarthy has entered the transfer portal, according to Derek Terry.
It’s my understanding that McCarthy had a close relationship with Nick Ammirati, who left Kentucky for Georgia yesterday. Safe to say the Bulldogs are a team to watch in that recruitment.
— Derek Terry (@DerekSTerry) July 2, 2024
This past season McCarthy was Kentucky’s full-time starting centerfielder while batting .288 with eight home runs and 41 RBI. He was set to be a redshirt senior for the 2025 season.
McCarthy will forever live in Kentucky history after his memorable play vs. Oregon State that sent the Bat Cats to the College World Series. In Game 2 of the Lexington Super Regional against the Beavers, McCarthy scored from second base on a dropped third strike to give the Cats a 3-2 lead, which would prove to be the final score.
Exceptional baserunning by Nolan McCarthy who scores all the way from 2nd on this wild pitch to give Kentucky a 3-2 lead! How are you not covering the plate?! Pitcher was walking the entire time. Unbelievable. pic.twitter.com/dpudHSAuTY
— Peter Flaherty III (@PeterGFlaherty) June 10, 2024
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Georgia
Georgia Democrats weary after Monday's landmark Supreme Court ruling, presidents are now protected from prosecution for official acts
July 2, 2024
On this week’s live Political Breakfast, host Lisa Rayam, Democratic strategist Tharon Johnson and Republican strategist Brian Robinson process a landmark Supreme Court ruling that grants former presidents broad immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts.
How will this trickle down to affect Donald Trump’s current indictment and the election interference case here in Georgia?
It’s a legal victory for Trump, who touted the 6-3 ruling as a “big win for our Constitution and for democracy.”
Democrats condemned it and president Joe Biden warned that the ruling meant there were “virtually no limits on what the president can do” if Trump wins the 2024 presidential election.
Georgia
U.S. Supreme Court immunity ruling likely further delays Fulton racketeering case • Georgia Recorder
A U.S. Supreme Court decision Monday establishing a legal standard for presidential immunity could further slow down Georgia’s 2020 presidential election interference case, several legal experts predict.
The nation’s highest court ruling Monday shields U.S. presidents from criminal prosecution while engaging in “official” conduct related to their “core constitutional” presidential acts and removes immunity if the conduct is unrelated to their “unofficial” responsibilities. The ruling is in response to a federal election interference case brought by the U.S. Department of Justice against Trump, who is accused of allegedly plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
According to the majority opinion written by Chief Justice John Roberts, Trump’s claim of blanket presidential immunity was rejected and a legal test was established as to what type of presidential conduct is protected under the U.S. Constitution.
Several other pending criminal cases against Trump will be affected by Monday’s ruling, including a case in Fulton County Superior Court where Trump and 14 co-defendants are accused of committing felonies while conspiring to rig the 2020 presidential election.
The Supreme Court decision is another blow to the already minimal chances of jury selection in the Fulton election interference case beginning prior to the Nov. 5 presidential election. The fight over immunity is expected to draw out the case into 2025, with multiple court motions and appeals taking place, according to Anthony Michael Kreis, a law professor at Georgia State University.
The Supreme Court ruling doesn’t directly impact Trump’s co-defendants in Georgia, which include several members of Trump’s inner circle, former Trump attorneys, and other Republican allies. Four of his indicted co-defendants pleaded guilty last year reached agreements with prosecutors that will let them avoid jail time if they cooperate as state witnesses.
Legal experts say two of the eight the acts detailed in DOJ indictment could be significantly impacted by the Supreme Court’s decision.
Kreis also said it’s likely that several of the key Trump’s interactions listed in the Fulton indictment, including a post-election phone call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, will be considered outside the scope of presidential authority.
“The Supreme Court’s decision on presidential immunity makes state prosecutions of presidents for unlawful acts to subvert a presidential election even more important now because the evidence from state prosecutions will be focused on extra-federal executive conduct,” Kreis wrote on X Monday.
The way in which the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling is applied in the Justice Department’s Washington D.C. election interference case could serve as a template for the Fulton County case, according to legal experts.
Fulton Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee will have to determine whether Trump’s interactions with federal and state officials are protected from criminal prosecution as official presidential duties.
In both the DOJ and Fulton cases, Trump is accused of illegally pressuring Raffensperger in January 2021 to overturn Georgia’s election results and of obstructing the certification of the election by arranging for a false slate of Republican electors to meet in December 2020 to vote for Trump.
Previous federal court rulings in Georgia can give some guidance as U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan holds hearings to determine how immunity will be applied in Trump’s D.OJ. case, according to CNN analyst Norm Eisen, who served as legal counsel in the first impeachment trial of Trump.
Last year, Atlanta-based federal Judge Steve Jones rejected requests from Fulton co-defendants, former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark, who wanted their case moved to federal court under claims they were acting in their official roles as federal officers.
Jones ruled Clark and Meadows’ criminal charges weren’t related to their federal jobs, including Meadows’ role in setting up the infamous Trump recorded phone call with Georgia’s election chief several weeks after the 2020 election.
“The issues at play in the Georgia removal proceedings are strikingly similar to the ones Chutkan will be forced to consider with respect to Trump,” Eisen wrote Monday’s opinion column published by CNN. “The Supreme Court has explicitly directed Chutkan to determine whether Trump’s interactions with state officials and private parties were official and left open the door for her to hold hearings over allegations that involved Pence, too.”
”Chutkan can give both parties the opportunity to develop facts supporting their competing positions and then make her ruling on immunity, ensuring that Trump continues to receive due process throughout,“ Eisen said.
The Fulton case is on hold while the Georgia Court of Appeals reviews McAfee’s decision to reject defense attorneys’ arguments that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis should be removed from the case because her romantic relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade constituted prosecutorial misconduct. Willis hired Wade to lead the probe in November 2021 and she contends the relationship started after they started working on the case.
In August, a Fulton County grand jury indicted Trump and 18 others for allegedly conspiring to overturn the 2020 Georgia presidential election results. President Joe Biden’s win was confirmed by multiple recounts and audits, and all court challenges to the result were unsuccessful.
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