Florida Courier, May 10, 2019

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PRESORTED STANDARD MAIL U.S. POSTAGE PAID DAYTONA BEACH, FL PERMIT #189

HAPPY 94TH BIRTHDAY! EL-HAJJ MALIK EL-SHABAZZ (MALCOLM X)

Courier staff pays tribute to their moms See Page B1 www.flcourier.com

MAY 10 – MAY 16, 2019

VOLUME 27 NO. 19

WILL CONGRESS ‘LOCK HIM UP?’ Don’t bet on it. A long court battle looms between Donald Trump’s White House and Congress, with the 2020 election year hovering over it all. BY CHRIS MEGERIAN LOS ANGELES TIMES /TNS

WASHINGTON – Tensions between the White House and Congress boiled over Wednesday after President Donald Trump asserted executive privilege to block release to lawmakers of the special counsel’s un-redacted report, and a House committee voted to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt. The high-stakes tit-for-tat marked a major escalation of a legal and political fight that has few parallels since the Watergate era. The disputes are almost certainly headed to court. “We’ve talked for a long time about approaching a constitutional crisis,” Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the New York Democrat who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, said

after the contempt vote. “We are now in it.”

Jr. to be questioned Adding to the turmoil, the Republicanled Senate Intelligence Committee has issued a subpoena to Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son, as part of its investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election. It is the first known congressional subpoena of one of Trump’s children. The subpoena was issued recently, reportedly because Trump Jr. refused to appear voluntarily a second time to answer questions, but its existence became public only on Wednesday. Trump Jr. also had refused to testify voluntarily to the special counsel’s office. The day’s dramatic events began when the White House said Trump had asserted executive privilege – for the first time since he took office in 2017 –to block release to Congress of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s un-redacted report and its underlying evidence.

Wouldn’t submit report Hours later, the Democratic-led House See BARR, Page A2

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U.S. Attorney General William Barr testified before the Senate Appropriations Committee in Washington, D.C. on May 1. Democrats voted to hold Barr in contempt as President Donald Trump asserted ‘executive privilege,’ which would allow him to keep Robert Mueller’s full report secret.

FAMU 2019 SPRING COMMENCEMENT

An ‘uncommon’ man gets an honorary degree

Another health disparity Blacks unlikely to get addiction treatment BY AUBREY WHELAN THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER / TNS

An addiction treatment drug that health officials around the country have touted as a crucial part of the battle against the opioid epidemic is prescribed far more often to White patients. The study, authored by researchers at the University of Michigan and published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, looked at how often patients of different races and ethnicities were prescribed the treatment drug buprenorphine at doctors’ visits.

Less stigma

COURTESY OF FAMU

Hip-hop recording artist, actor, author and activist Common urged Florida A&M University’s graduates to serve and make a difference during one of three commencement speeches delivered last week. Common, former Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum and music industry attorney Nicole Wyskoarko spoke to more than 1,220 students who earned degrees during three separate ceremonies.

Getting the medicine at a doctor’s office is a selling point of the opioidbased treatment medication that has fewer federal regulations attached to it than methadone, which must be doled out at clinics and is more stigmatized. Patients can take buprenorphine in the privacy of their homes or doctor’s offices, and most patients on buprenorphine do receive the drug in “officebased settings,” the study authors wrote. Still, doctors need special permission to prescribe buprenorphine, something that isn’t required for the opioid painkillers that may have sparked the addiction crisis.

Millions of visits The study looked at more than 13 See HEALTH, Page A2

‘Teachers with guns’ is now the law

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BY ANA CEBALLOS NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA

A Medal of Freedom for Tiger

TALLAHASSEE – Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday signed legislation that expands the controversial school “guardian” program to allow armed classroom teachers. DeSantis’ office announced the signing shortly after 6 p.m. without ceremony or comments about the bill, which was widely backed by House and Senate Republicans and heavily opposed by gun-control activists, Democrats and some students who survived the mass shooting last year at Parkland’s

Blacks not keen yet on Buttigieg

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Recap of 2019 legislative session

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Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. The governor signed the bill (SB 7030) hours after it was sent to his desk.

MSD follow-up Earlier in the week, DeSantis praised the Legislature for implementing “dozens of school safety recommendations” made by the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission, noting the recommendations included expansion of the guardian program. The Legislature formed

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the commission last year to investigate the February 2018 shooting and recommend ways to make schools safer. Other changes included in the wide-ranging bill will put $75 million into school mental-health services, strengthen reporting requirements for potentially threatening incidents that happen on school premises, improve information-sharing between school districts on students with behavioral issues and continue investment in a tool that assists with school emergencies. Senate President Bill Galvano, R-Bradenton, issued a statement See TEACHERS, Page A2


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