Trump Pardoned Officers Who Covered Up a Murder

Mitch McConnell hasn't voted since June but is cosponsoring bills, Texas is reinstating voters it wrongly purged, and ICE punished a DACA recipient it deported for leaving the country

Good afternoon. I’m Ryan Rose, and this is AlterNet America.

A jury convicted two Washington police officers of covering up the death of a young Black man, and Trump pardoned them before either served a day. Mitch McConnell has not cast a Senate floor vote since June but is still cosponsoring legislation remotely. Texas wrongly flagged some of its 2,724 …