WHAT'S BREWING
TRUMP NOTCHES HIS 200TH LIFETIME FEDERAL JUDGE Senate Republicans confirmed Trump’s 200th lifetime federal judge, a number higher than any president has confirmed in a first term in decades. Zero of his judges at the highest levels ― on the nation’s appeals courts and the Supreme Court ― have been Black. And it’s the first time in four decades that there isn’t a single appeals court vacancy left nationwide. The president hit the milestone as Republicans voted to put Cory Wilson onto the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. [HuffPost]
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION WILL BE ALMOST ENTIRELY VIRTUAL The Democratic convention in Milwaukee Aug. 17 to Aug. 20 will be almost entirely virtual, using live broadcasts and online streaming. Joe Biden plans to accept the presidential nomination in person, but it remains to be seen whether there will be a significant in-person audience to see it. The Democratic National Committee said in a statement that official business, including the official vote to nominate Biden, will take place virtually, with delegates being asked not to travel to Milwaukee. [AP]
CROWD TEARS DOWN STATUES AT WISCONSIN STATE CAPITOL Crowds outside the Wisconsin State Capitol tore down two statues and attacked a state senator amid protests following the arrest of a Black man who was at a restaurant with a megaphone and a baseball bat. Video released by Madison police shows the man talking through the megaphone Tuesday while walking near the restaurant’s outdoor patio. He goes inside and says he’s “disturbing” the restaurant. The unrest followed weeks of mostly peaceful protests of the death of George Floyd. [AP]
WOMAN WHO PRAISED KKK APOLOGIZES The Missouri woman who went viral for waving a Confederate flag, praising the Ku Klux Klan and vowing to teach hate to her grandchildren while at a Black Lives Matter protest in Branson is apologizing. “I’m so, so sorry,” Kathy Jenkins told Ozarks First. “I mean, if it would help for me to stand with Black Lives Matter, I absolutely would do that.” Jenkins said she “blacked out” during the event and doesn’t remember what she said as anti-racism protesters gathered outside a store that sells Confederate merchandise. [HuffPost]
FACIAL RECOGNITION FAIL LED TO FIRST KNOWN WRONGFUL ARREST A botched facial recognition match led to the first known wrongful arrest in the United States based on the increasingly used technology, civil liberties activists alleged in a complaint to Detroit police. Robert Williams spent over a day in custody in January after face recognition software matched his driver’s license photo to surveillance video of someone shoplifting, the ACLU said in the complaint. In a video shared by ACLU, Williams says officers released him after acknowledging “the computer” must have been wrong. [AP] | 
