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Overnight News Digest: The Heat is On Edition [1]

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Date: 2023-07-18

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Chicago Sun-Times: Illinois set to be first state to end cash bail after state Supreme Court ruling by Matthew Hendrickson and Andy Grimm

Illinois is set to become the first state in the nation to eliminate cash bail after the state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a landmark criminal justice reform law did not violate the state’s constitution. While other states have implemented similar reforms with varying degrees of success, Illinois will be the only one to completely do away with having to pay money to get released from jail. The high court’s opinion was released more than six months after the Pretrial Fairness Act was halted by the justices, just hours before it was to go into effect Jan. 1, in response to legal challenges. The high court said the law should now go into effect in September. In its 5-2 ruling, the court said the state’s constitution “does not mandate that monetary bail is the only means to ensure criminal defendants appear for trials or the only means to protect the public. Our constitution creates a balance between the individual rights of defendants and the individual rights of crime victims. The Act’s pretrial release provisions set forth procedures commensurate with that balance.”

New York Times: Al Gore on Extreme Heat and the Fight Against Fossil Fuels by David Gelles (subscriber-only newsletter)

It’s been 17 years since former Vice President Al Gore raised the alarm about climate change with his documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth.” Since then, he’s been shouting from the rooftops about the risks of global warming more or less nonstop. But the events of the past few weeks have Gore even more worried than usual. “Everywhere you look in the world, the extremes have now seemingly reached a new level,” he told me in an interview. “The temperatures in the North Atlantic and the unprecedented decline of the Antarctic sea ice, both simultaneously. We see it in upstate New York, we see it in Vermont, we see it in southern Japan, we see it in India. We see it in the unprecedented drought in Uruguay and in Argentina.” We can’t always say that a specific weather event was caused by climate change, but it is making certain extremes more likely. And this summer, the extreme weather chaos that Gore predicted in “An Inconvenient Truth” seems to have arrived all at once. “Every night on the TV news is like taking a nature hike through the Book of Revelation,” Gore said.

Washington Post: Trump says he received a target letter in federal Jan. 6 investigation by Perry Stein, Josh Dawsey, and Jacqueline Alemany

Former president Donald Trump said Tuesday morning that he received a letter from the Justice Department informing him that he is a target of the long-running investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Trump wrote on social media that special counsel Jack Smith — the prosecutor leading the federal investigation — sent a letter on Sunday. His advisers declined to provide a copy, and a spokesman for Smith declined to comment. The target letter and potential indictment further ensnare Trump in unprecedented legal peril while he is campaigning as the front-runner to be the 2024 Republican nominee for president. And the letter comes as state and federal prosecutors around the country appear to be preparing to lodge criminal charges related to efforts to overturn a presidential election that took place nearly three years ago and led to violence at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Attorney General Dana Nessel announced felony charges Tuesday against the group of Michigan Republicans who allegedly participated in a scheme to try to award the state's Electoral College votes to former President Donald Trump with a phony certificate in the 2020 election despite his 154,188-vote loss in the state. Those criminally charged include a former leader of the Michigan GOP, a former Michigan Republican National Committeewoman and other ardent Trump advocates: [...] (All of the people charged are listed. ck) The document they signed states that the group of 16 were "...the duly elected and qualified Electors for President and Vice President of the United States of America from the State of Michigan," according to a news release from Nessel's office. "That was a lie," Nessel said in a video announcing the charges brought by her office. Complaints provided by Nessel's office show each defendant faces eight felony counts each, including forgery-related charges each punishable by up to 14 years in prison and election law forgery charges each punishable by up to 5 years in prison. Those were filed in the 54-A District Court in Ingham County, according to Nessel's office

Washington Post: The heat index reached 152 degrees in the Middle East — nearly at the limit for human survival by Scott Dance

BBC News: Europe heatwaves: Wildfires rage in Greece as temperatures soar by Thomas Mackintosh

Large swathes of southern Europe continue to swelter in record heat as wildfires rage across the continent. As temperatures hit a high of 46.3C in Sicily, fire crews battled blazes in Greece and the Swiss Alps. Scientists say climate change is making heatwaves longer, more intense and more frequent. Across the world, millions of people are being impacted by extreme weather; from soaring temperatures in the US and China, to heavy rainfall in East Asia. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) says heatwaves will become more severe in the years ahead, and that extreme weather patterns highlight the need for more climate action. "These events will continue to grow in intensity and the world needs to prepare for more intense heatwaves," said John Nairn, senior extreme heat advisor at the UN agency.

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