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With ‘anti-monuments’ on power corridor Paseo de la Reforma,
activists are trying to exert control over who gets remembered
I
t’s been called one of the “world’s
coolest streets.” slicing through
the capital, Paseo de la Reforma
is a european-style gem, a leafy
boulevard of graceful fountains
and historic bronze statues.
it’s Mexico’s power corridor. the
country’s main parade route. And a
symbol of a city exploding with bike
lanes, charming Airbnbs and insta-
grammable meals.
But the 19th-century avenue has
been swept up in a very 21st-century
conflict, centered on questions famil-
iar to people in the United states and
europe: Whom should a country’s
statues honor? Who gets to write his-
tory? in the United states, that debate
has focused on memorials to confed-
erate leaders, enslavers and christo-
pher columbus. in Mexico, activists
have lined Reforma with grim remind-
U.N. builds case alleging
sexual violence on Oct. 7
Report finds ‘clear and
convincing information’
on Hamas hostage abuse
BY K AREN D E Y OUNG
AND S AMMY W ESTFALL
A team of United nations ex-
perts tasked with gathering infor-
mation on sexual violence linked
to Hamas’s oct. 7 attacks on israel
found “reasonable grounds to be-
lieve” that some victims were
sexually assaulted, including rape
and gang rape, according to a U.n.
report released Monday.
“in most of these incidents, vic-
tims first subjected to rape were
then killed,” a press release an-
nouncing the report’s findings
said. “the mission team also
found a pattern of victims, mostly
women, found fully or partially
naked, bound, and shot across
multiple locations.”
in the news
alternate-elector plot As part of a legal
settlement in Wisconsin, two pro-Trump
lawyers released a trove of communications
about their work after the 2020 election. a8
super Tuesday The Post’s live coverage of
today’s primary elections across the country
begins at 7 p.m. at washingtonpost.com.
Bringing
painful history
to the fore in
Mexico City
STORY BY M ARY B ETH S HERIDAN
PHOTOS BY L UIS A NTONIO R OJAS
in Mexico citY
Demonstrators protest in front of an
“anti-monument” to 43 missing students
on mexico City’s paseo de la reforma.
the 23-page report said the
team also found “clear and con-
vincing information” that some of
the women and children taken
back to Gaza that day by Hamas as
hostages were subjected to “rape
and sexualized torture and sexual-
ized cruel, inhuman and degrad-
ing treatment.” there were “rea-
sonable grounds to believe,” it
said, “that this violence may be
ongoing.”
Hamas has denied that its forc-
es sexually abused any of the more
than 1,200 israelis killed or 253
captured on that day. the issue
has been among the most volatile
of the israel-Hamas war, sparking
extensive media accounts, out-
rage and suspicion, but little con-
clusive information.
the release of the report, which
also discussed allegations of
“conflict-related sexual violence A solemn honor for an ‘absolute hero’
by the israeli security forces and The body of Loudoun County firefighter Trevor Brown is carried from the back of a firetruck
see report on a4
before his funeral at Cornerstone Chapel on Monday in Leesburg. Brown was killed by a house
Tonal shift: Harris increases public explosion caused by leaking propane in Sterling on Feb. 16. Story, B1
critique of Israel’s war in Gaza. A4
ThE NATION
texas gov. Greg Abbott
endorsed challengers to
Republicans who op-
pose school vouchers. A3
Jack teixeira pleaded
guilty to a massive leak
of intelligence docu-
ments on Discord. A20
Democracy Dies in Darkness
ers of the extreme violence of recent
decades.
these “anti-monuments” aren’t just
a protest. Mexico’s leaders have long
tried to control the historical narrative
to legitimize their rule — from the
Mexican-American War of the 1840s
to the Revolution starting in 1910.
now, a movement of artists, grieving
families and feminists is trying to
wrest that narrative away.
Mexico’s fight over monuments be-
gan in the wake of a notorious case of
police abuse. on the night of sept. 26,
2014, officers detained 43 students
from the Ayotzinapa teachers college
in southern Mexico as they headed to a
demonstration. then, the young men
vanished.
Authorities said that the police
were in league with a drug-trafficking
see mexiCo on a12
ThE ECONOmy
two big-box retailers
are joining a host of in-
ThE wOrLd dustry peers in invest-
the economy is expect- ing in smaller-format
ed to dominate China’s stores. A15
annual Two Sessions JetBlue and Spirit
meetings this week. A10 dropped plans to merge,
Haiti declared a state a decision that follows a
of emergency after judge’s ruling that their
armed gangs led a mass $3.8 billion deal violat-
prison break. A13 ed antitrust laws. A16
tuesday, march 5 , 2024
ELECTION 2024
Supreme Court
keeps Trump on
ballots nationwide
unanimously reverses Colorado ruling
States ‘have no power’ to block national candidates
BY A NN E . M ARIMOW
the supreme court on Monday
unanimously sided with former
president Donald trump, allow-
ing the 2024 Republican presiden-
tial front-runner to remain on the
election ballot and reversing a col-
orado ruling that disqualified him
from returning to office because of
his conduct around the Jan. 6,
2021, attack on the U.s. capitol.
the justices said the constitu-
tion does not permit a single state
to disqualify a presidential candi-
date from national office. the
court warned of disruption and a
chaotic state-by-state patchwork
if a candidate for nationwide of-
fice could be declared ineligible in
some states, but not others, based
on the same conduct.
“nothing in the constitution re-
quires that we endure such chaos
— arriving at any time or different
times, up to and perhaps beyond
the inauguration,” the court said
in an unsigned, 13-page opinion.
the court’s decision to keep
trump on the ballot applies to
other states with similar challeng-
es to his candidacy and, for now,
removes the supreme court from
directly determining the path of
the 2024 presidential election.
While the decision was unani-
mous, the court’s three liberal jus-
tices also wrote separately, saying
the conservative majority went
too far and decided an issue that
was not before the court in an
attempt to “insulate all alleged
insurrectionists from future chal-
lenges to their holding office.”
the justices fast-tracked the
challenge from voters in colorado
and issued their decision one day
before super tuesday, when that
state and more than a dozen oth-
ers hold nominating contests. in a
sign of the high court’s awareness
of the election calendar, the jus-
tices took the unusual step of an-
nouncing the opinion on the su-
preme court’s website on a day
when the court was not in session,
instead of issuing it from the
bench later this month.
trump praised the ruling as
“well-crafted” and “extremely im-
see Court on a6
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Decision shows
courts unlikely
to slow Trump
BY S ARAH E LLISON
AND T OLUSE O LORUNNIPA
When 2024 dawned, the presi-
dential race appeared destined to
play out as much in the courts as
on the campaign trail.
Former president Donald
trump faced a pair of federal
indictments. two state cases
brought the total criminal charg-
es against him to 91. challenges to
his ballot eligibility proliferated,
with the supreme court being
asked to weigh in on whether
trump could even be a candidate.
two months later, the federal
cases have been slowed to the
point where verdicts before no-
vember are considered unlikely.
one of the state cases has been
derailed by a sex scandal. the
other is due to go to trial later this
month, but is widely seen as the
least significant of the bunch.
And the challenge to trump’s
ballot eligibility was settled deci-
sively Monday, with the supreme
court unanimously ruling that
states lack the power to disqualify
him.
to anyone hoping that trump’s
efforts to overturn the last elec-
tion would lead the judicial sys-
tem to meaningfully penalize him
before the next one, recent devel-
opments have proved sobering.
“the real takeaway is that the
courts aren’t going to save us
from ourselves,” said stephen
Vladeck, a professor at the Uni-
versity of texas school of Law,
“and that the only surefire way to
ensure that an anti-democratic
candidate for president doesn’t
succeed is to beat him at the
ballot box.”
see trump on a6
super Tuesday: Former president
expected to make clean sweep. A7
The Fix: takeaways on the ruling
and justices’ disagreements. A8
All eyes on
Va. senator
as clock ticks
on arena deal
BY L AURA V OZZELLA
AND G REGORY S . S CHNEIDER
RICHMOND — Gov. Glenn Young-
kin’s plan to lure the Washington
capitals and Wizards across the
Potomac to northern Virginia is
back where it began — behind
closed doors, in the hands of a few
powerful figures.
But this time, the Republican
governor and the billionaire team
owner who secretly negotiated an
arena deal late last year do not
have seats at the table. chief
among those who do: sen. L. Lou-
ise Lucas (D-Portsmouth), a re-
lentless Youngkin antagonist who
hails from a poorer part of the
state and expresses grave doubts
about the $2 billion arena for
Alexandria’s Potomac Yard.
Lucas, who rose to a powerful
position this year as chairwoman
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Even in a meaner GOP, his insults stand out
pect of Robinson leading the tick-
et.
N.C. governor candidate “Listening to Republicans on
has lots of fans, and stirs and off Jones Street” — the hub of
state government in Raleigh —
lots of worry in party there’s a sense that “while he may
be the voice of the party, he’s not
the voice of North Carolina,” said
BY H ANNAH K NOWLES Jonathan Bridges, who managed
GOP former congressman Mark
OCEAN ISLE BEACH, N.C. — Sur- Walker’s now-shuttered cam-
rounded by fans at a beach town paign for governor.
bar, Mark Robinson addressed his The GOP has swept Senate and
absent critics. “Mark Robinson is presidential races in the Tar Heel
not running to be governor to be a State in recent years, yet Demo-
bully over anybody,” he said. crats have won the governor’s
Left unmentioned: the deluge mansion in seven of the past eight
of offensive comments that made election cycles.
such a declaration necessary. The last Republican governor,
There was the time he called Pat McCrory, faced massive blow-
school shooting survivors “media back for signing a 2016 bill that
prosti-tots” for advocating for required transgender people to
gun-control policies. The meme use the bathroom matching their
mocking a Harvey Weinstein ac- sex at birth. The law cost the state
cuser, and the other meme mock- billions in business and was ulti-
ing actresses for wearing “whore mately repealed — and Robin-
dresses to protest sexual harass- son’s critics say he will regret
ment.” The prediction that rising pushing LGBTQ+ issues to the
acceptance of homosexuality Madeline gray for the Washington Post forefront again.
would lead to pedophilia and “the North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, the front-runner for the GOP gubernatorial nomination, at a A ban on gender-affirming care
END of civilization as we know campaign event in Ocean Isle Beach, N.C., on Feb. 17. He has a history of making offensive remarks. for minors took effect in North
it”; the talk of arresting transgen- Carolina last year with much less
der people for their bathroom in a statement. He said Robinson bombastic insults. years later, in 2020, he sailed to public pushback. And Democrats,
choice; the use of antisemitic presents a sharp contrast with He chafed at assumptions that the GOP nomination for lieuten- who see Robinson as a formidable
tropes; the Facebook posts calling Stein as “a conservative outsider” Black people were Democrats. He ant governor. rival, are largely focusing this
Hillary Clinton a “heifer” and Mi- who understands voters’ eco- railed against Barack Obama’s “We’ve pushed back against the year on his record on abortion.
chelle Obama a man. nomic struggles and “will work unconventional presidential por- narrative that North Carolina’s a “I don’t care if you’re 24 hours
Even in a Republican Party every day to make our state a trait — “a reflection of the night- racist state, that America’s a racist pregnant. I don’t care if you’re 24
that, under former president better place to live, work and raise mare of Marxist Socialism” — and nation,” he told a local news sta- weeks pregnant. I don’t care. If
Donald Trump’s leadership, has a family.” embraced false claims that tion that fall. you kill that young’un, it is mur-
often rewarded crude insults, GOP foes regard his ascent as a Obama was not born in the Unit- He alluded to the family story der,” Robinson told a church in
baseless claims and incendiary damaging departure from other ed States. He joked that DACA, of hardship and perseverance 2021. (Robinson has said he paid
language, Robinson stands out contests where party leaders the acronym for Deferred Action that now features in his guberna- for the abortion of his “unborn
among candidates this year for boxed out risky candidates, and for Childhood Arrivals, a program torial campaign pamphlets. They child” in 1989 — a decision that he
the volume of his bigoted attacks they note that efforts to restrict for undocumented immigrants introduce Robinson as the ninth says was wrong.)
and vicious diatribes. The lieuten- transgender rights have been an who arrived in the United States of 10 children who grew up amid He “will be the most extreme
ant governor of North Carolina albatross for Republicans in as children, actually stood for poverty, alcoholism and domestic candidate that is nominated for
and the first Black person to hold North Carolina. “Dumb Ass Communist Ameri- abuse and, at multiple points, governor by either party in the
the office, Robinson is heavily Wealthy attorney Bill Graham cans.” declared bankruptcy. last 50 years in North Carolina,”
favored to clinch the GOP nomi- said he jumped into the guberna- At a time when many Republi- “Only in America could a story said Morgan Jackson, chief strat-
nation for governor in Tuesday’s torial race believing that national cans in North Carolina believed a like that exist, and I just count it egist for Stein, the state attorney
primary and, at a Saturday rally Republicans would help sideline bitter fight over transgender peo- as a huge blessing from God,” general who is likely to face Rob-
with Trump, got the former presi- Robinson, and he felt betrayed ple’s restroom use had cost them Robinson said. inson in the fall.
dent’s formal endorsement. when they didn’t step in. “They’ll the governorship, Robinson was Lonergan, the spokesman for
Robinson is expected to ad- just play the Mark Robinson top- Praise from Trump, Robinson’s campaign, retorted
vance to a November showdown 10 hit parade. They won’t need to concern from others that Stein “will be nothing but a
against Democratic Attorney say a word,” said Graham, predict- When Trump rallied in Wilm- rubber stamp for Joe Biden and
General Josh Stein, who has a ing the Democratic strategy if “He is history’s latest ington, N.C., before a crowd of the Democrats’ failing, far-left
much more measured tone — set- Robinson is the nominee. thousands ahead of the 2022 mid- agenda.”
ting up a clash that echoes the Supporters shrug off the re- example of someone terms, he declared Robinson “one
choice between Trump and Presi- porting on Robinson’s most out- of the hottest politicians” in the GOP frictions
dent Biden. To many Republicans, rageous comments as smear jobs trying to rise to power country. At a rally on Saturday in Robinson’s rivals have tried to
Robinson, 55, is a conservative and “fake news.” When asked Greensboro, Trump made his sup- convince Republican leaders and
Christian firebrand with Trump- about one of Robinson’s most- through hate.” port official — offering Robinson voters that he is damaging to their
like appeal — a charismatic, bra- scrutinized Facebook posts — a Dale Folwell, state treasurer, who is his “full and total endorsement” brand. Graham said he met with
zen outsider who burst onto the 2018 screed against the film running against Mark robinson in the in the governor’s race and declar- the Republican Governors Associ-
political scene just a few years ago “Black Panther” that references republican primary ing him “Martin Luther King on ation last summer to explore a
with a viral video. To others, he is Israeli currency and uses a Yid- steroids.” candidacy — offering himself as
a glaring liability in a battle- dish slur for Black people — Ed Trump retold a favorite story an alternative but arguing that he
ground race where centrist voters Broyhill, a Republican national defiant. Responding to a trans about once telling Robinson that could succeed only with major
are influential, and critics are committeeman from North Caro- protester with a poster asking he was better than the Black civil third-party spending against
alarmed at what he could do in lina, said, “I can’t help but think where they should go to the bath- rights leader — and not being sure Robinson.
the state’s top job. that that’s been manufactured by room, he uploaded a picture of that Robinson liked the compli- “The RGA was worried about
“He is history’s latest example some opposition.” himself smiling with his own ment. (Robinson has criticized Robinson. They may deny that,
of someone trying to rise to power The post is still accessible on- cardboard sign: “OUTSIDE King as a “communist.”) but they were,” Graham said.
through hate,” said Dale Folwell, line. WITH THE DOG!” Robinson’s appeal on the right Graham said he moved ahead
the Republican state treasurer, Robinson says he has “never In February of that year, a gun- has resonated well beyond North under the impression that an out-
who is waging a long-shot cam- been antisemitic,” and allies point man killed 17 people at a high Carolina. His reception at nation- side spending campaign against
paign against Robinson. to his trip to Israel last fall and school in Parkland, Fla. Robinson al conservative conferences has Robinson was in the works. His
With the general election near- talks with Jewish leaders as evi- began posting near-daily retorts rivaled that of some presidential chief strategist, Paul Shumaker,
ing, Robinson is trying to move dence he has sought to address to celebrities, politicians and sur- candidates. said the same and added that the
past his most inflammatory com- concerns. viving students who wanted new Campaigning at home, Robin- RGA sought the Graham team’s
ments and focus on issues such as Some of Robinson’s comments firearm laws. son has tried to focus on bread- input on a team to lead the effort.
the economy. “It’s sad but not have left a negative impression When his hometown of Greens- and-butter issues. At his rally last But no such spending material-
surprising that there’s no low the with voters that might be hard for boro, N.C., considered canceling a month in Faison, he spoke at ized.
Democrats and their allies in the him to undo. Nell Casper, 74, an gun show in response to the Park- length about the economy and Courtney Alexander, a spokes-
media won’t stoop to smear Mark independent voter from the Ra- land outcry, Robinson showed up lamented students’ low levels of woman for the RGA, said the
Robinson,” Robinson campaign leigh area, wasn’t moved by Rob- to a city council meeting and gave proficiency in reading. He saved group has “traditionally stayed
spokesman Mike Lonergan said inson’s recent efforts to back off a fiery, four-minute speech. his sharpest rebukes for the me- out of non-incumbent primaries”
from some old comments he “I’ve heard a whole lot of peo- dia, gazing around to find the and “has had no involvement” in
called “poorly worded.” She said ple in here talking tonight about reporters present and accusing the GOP contest in North Caro-
she would probably support the this group and that group and them of fixating on hot-button lina. She said that the RGA has
Democratic nominee. domestic violence and Blacks,” he topics. met with all of the Republican
“You can’t feel one thing and said. “These minorities and that “Notice,” he said, “I haven’t said candidates and that any of them
say it in front of the public … and minority. What I want to know is, anything about transgender peo- would be a stark contrast to the
then draw it back and not have when are you all going to start ple. I haven’t said anything about likely Democratic nominee.
people think about what you said standing up for the majority?” He any bathrooms. I talked about our Graham put his own money
in the first place,” Casper said.
“Because you’ve hurt those peo-
pushed a finger to his chest. “I’m
the majority. I’m a law-abiding
economy, and now I’m talking
about our education system.” The
behind primary ads attacking
Robinson for, among other
ple.” citizen who’s never shot any-
body!”
audience whistled and cheered as
he grew combative.
things, “demeaning women” and
“defending sexual predators.”
Installing Multilayer From factory worker A video of Robinson spread on “Lick your pencil and write Robinson asserted on a 2018 pod-
to firebrand candidate social media and caught the at- facts!” he yelled. cast that the political left is going
Foil Attic Insulation,
Blown Insulation and In 2018, Robinson was a long- tention of the National Rifle Asso- But the audience cheered loud- after “the Harvey Weinsteins and
time factory worker who raged ciation, which put him in a com- ly when he raged against “diversi- the Bill Cosbys” to replicate Sovi-
Air Sealing Can Have against the political left on Face- mercial and brought him to Dal- ty, equity and inclusion” and et-era intimidation.
an Immediate Impact book with homemade memes and las to address its convention. Two “agenda-driven junk” in schools. They also highlight Robinson’s
on Your Energy Bill! Down-ballot candidates — who 2022 suggestion at a church that
flocked to campaign with Robin- men, not women, are meant to be
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Texas governor targets Republicans who oppose voucher
Abbott is pushing a
proposal that critics say
will hurt public schools
BY P ATRICK S VITEK
The national movement for
school vouchers has burgeoned in
recent years, riding the momen-
tum of Republican championing
of parental rights during the
covid-19 pandemic. More than 30
states have programs that let par-
ents use taxpayer dollars to take
their children out of public
schools. Yet there remains a stub-
born holdout, one particularly no-
table because it’s a red state:
Texas.
Gov. Greg Abbott (R) and his
allies are mounting a campaign to
change that in the state’s Republi-
can primaries Tuesday. They are
pouring tens of millions of dollars
into an effort to unseat a group of
state House Republicans who
blocked a voucher proposal last
year, echoing long-held concerns
that it would devastate public
schools.
“It’s been a pretty big fight and
an uphill battle, but this is defi-
nitely an inflection point,” said
Brendan Steinhauser, a Texas Re-
publican strategist who has
worked in the national voucher
movement for more than a dec-
ade. “This is the time right now
when supporters have the re-
sources and buy-in from the pow-
ers that be to really make a change
in the Texas House of Representa-
tives.”
The school voucher fight head-
lines a Texas primary that other-
wise features little drama at the
top of the ticket. Former president
Donald Trump is expected to
romp in the state’s presidential
primary, while Rep. Colin Allred is
the front-runner for the Demo-
cratic nomination to challenge
Republican Sen. Ted Cruz.
Trump has doled out dozens of
down-ballot endorsements in the
primary, including to some Ab-
bott-backed challengers who
share his zeal for establishing a
NeW YORK
Man guilty of killing
woman for insurance
A New York man was
convicted Monday for killing and
dismembering a woman after
fraudulently taking out a life
insurance policy in her name —
then trying to collect the benefits,
federal prosecutors said Monday.
Cory Martin watched crime
shows including “Dexter” and
“The First 48” for tips on how to
get away with killing the woman,
a sex worker whom he managed,
a co-conspirator testified during
the two-week Brooklyn federal
court trial.
The 36-year-old Queens
resident was charged in the 2018
death of Brandy Odom, a 26-year-
old whose body was found
scattered in a park in Brooklyn.
Prosecutors said Martin,
Odom and the co-conspirator,
Adelle Anderson, lived together
in Queens.
They say Martin and Anderson
fraudulently obtained two life
insurance policies in Odom’s
name the year before Martin
strangled Odom in her bedroom
in April 2018.
Anderson, who has pleaded
guilty to charges related to the
life insurance scheme and
murder plot, testified in Martin’s
trial.
— Associated Press
CALiFORNiA
Masked shooters kill 4
at outdoor party
A group of men in masks
opened fire at an outdoor party in
central California, killing four
people and wounding seven
others, police said.
Police responded to a reported
shooting around 6 p.m. Sunday
in King City and found three men
with gunshot wounds who were
pronounced dead in a front yard,
the King City Police Department
said.
A woman also died after
someone took her to Mee
Memorial Hospital in King City,
about 106 miles south of San
Jose.
Several people were at the
party outside a home when three
men with dark masks and clothes
got out of a silver car and fired at
the group. The suspects, who
were not immediately identified,
Politics & the Nation
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) tours the Texas-Mexico border with former president Donald Trump last
week. Abbott and his allies are trying to unseat lawmakers who blocked a voucher proposal last year.
voucher program in Texas.
Abbott’s effort is unfolding
alongside that of another state-
wide official, Attorney General
Ken Paxton, who is seeking to
dislodge dozens of state House
Republicans who voted to im-
peach him last year. But it is the
voucher issue that has drawn the
most money to the primaries —
and prompted stark attacks by a
governor previously known for his
political caution.
Abbott has been campaigning
enthusiastically for the challeng-
ers, headlining multiple events for
each of them in recent weeks. He
arrived Wednesday in San Anto-
nio for his third stop for Marc
LaHood, an attorney running
against state Rep. Steve Allison,
and made a case against a fellow
Republican that went far beyond
his resistance to school vouchers.
“I cannot trust your current
representative, Steve Allison, to
have my back,” Abbott told a
crowd of nearly 100 people inside
a tavern on the city’s northern
outskirts. “I do trust Marc LaHood
D igest
Pat Setter uses a snowblower to dig out his trash container outside his
home at Donner Lake in Truckee, Calif., on Monday. A powerful blizzard
closed highways and ski resorts as it moved through the Sierra Nevada.
then fled the scene in the car.
— Associated Press
MiCHigAN
Man sentenced in
threats against Jews
A 20-year-old Michigan man
who admitted to using social
media to make violent threats
against Jewish people was
sentenced Monday to a year and
a day in prison.
Seann Pietila, who has been
locked up since June, was
accused of using Instagram to
spread neo-Nazi ideology, discuss
plans to kill people and praise
mass shooters.
Pietila admitted that he told
someone last summer about a
plan to kill or injure Jewish
people and wanted to post the
attack online. The FBI said Pietila
also had written the name of the
Shaarey Zedek congregation in
East Lansing, near Michigan
State University, on his phone
along with a 2024 date.
Pietila moved to the Lansing
area from the Upper Peninsula
when he was 16 years old.
Prosecutors had sought a
prison sentence of nearly three
years. But U.S. District Judge
Robert Jonker settled on 366
days, along with $10,648 in
restitution to the synagogue for
security. Pietila will get credit for
nearly nine months already spent
in jail.
— Associated Press
to fight for me and to fight for you.”
The lawmakers in Abbott’s
crosshairs have not shied away
from their opposition to school
vouchers. Allison, a former public
school board member, said in an
interview that his position is far
from new, and while he has “done
a lot of work” researching pro-
grams in other states, “I just can’t
get there.”
“I’m absolutely dumbfounded”
by the intensity of Abbott’s cam-
paigning, Allison said. Besides
this policy, he added, “I’ve been
with the governor on every single
issue and every single request he’s
made since I’ve been in the legisla-
ture.”
Other incumbents have been
less diplomatic in their pushback.
State Rep. Glenn Rogers said
Wednesday on X that the major
donors of his Abbott-backed op-
ponent want the “COMPLETE
DESTRUCTION OF OUR PUBLIC
SCHOOLS.”
School vouchers have long
faced a steep climb in the Texas
House, where Democrats and a
Andy BArron/AP
NORtH CAROLiNA
Two Venus' flytrap
poachers face arrest
Authorities in North Carolina
have obtained arrest warrants for
two people in a poaching case
involving hundreds of Venus’
flytraps, which grow naturally in
the eastern part of the state.
Officers with the North
Carolina Wildlife Resources
Commission obtained arrest
warrants for two people accused
of stealing nearly 600 of the rare
plants from conservation land in
Boiling Spring Lakes, WECT-TV
reported. It is not clear if the
people have been arrested.
Venus’ flytraps are native to
southeastern North Carolina.
“They only grow naturally
within a 100-mile radius of
Wilmington,” Sgt. Matt Criscoe
with the North Carolina Wildlife
Resources Commission told the
news station. “This time of year
they start to bud flowers,”
making it easier to find them and
prompting increased patrols for
poachers, Criscoe said.
He said the plants are sold on
the black market or locally.
Wildlife officers responded to
a complaint last month about
two people digging for flytraps in
Boiling Spring Lakes. They were
stopped at a gas station and their
backpacks searched. They’re
accused of harvesting more than
590 plants, Criscoe said.
— Associated Press
eZ re A3
In the Texas legislature, the an- ly close with the former president.
ti-voucher coalition’s numbers Trump has also aided Paxton and
dwindled last year, but it held firm Patrick by backing a challenger to
enough to keep a voucher propos- Phelan, who presided over Pax-
al from reaching Abbott’s desk. ton’s impeachment.
The final version of the initiative Despite the school-voucher
would have created “education push, polling continues to show
savings accounts” where parents Texas primary voters are far more
could use $10,500 in taxpayer concerned about the border,
funds annually to put toward pri- something Abbott acknowledges.
vate school expenses. Campaigning for LaHood, Abbott
Ultimately, 21 Republicans in said the challenger’s “No. 1 focus is
the House voted to strip the pro- my No. 1 focus” — the border —
gram out of an omnibus education and that he did not trust Allison
bill in November. Sixteen of them on that issue either.
are seeking reelection, and Abbott In the interview, Allison chal-
has endorsed primary challengers lenged Abbott to say where Alli-
to 10 of them. He has also en- son has been weak on the border
dorsed candidates for the open and suggested Abbott was making
seats. the attack because “the voucher
Abbott kicked off the primary issue isn’t playing as well as he
season by landing a $6 million anticipated.”
campaign donation from Jeff Yass, Other Abbott-targeted law-
a Pennsylvania billionaire who makers have sought to leverage
champions alternatives to public border politics by bragging that
education. The Abbott campaign they killed a program that would
called it the largest known cam- have given “tax dollars to illegal
paign contribution in Texas his- immigrants.” The voucher pro-
JABin BoTsford/The WAshingTon PosT tory. gram would have been open to any
Abbott’s campaign and two oth- current student, including those
er pro-voucher groups are set to in public schools, which accord-
spend nearly $10 million on TV ing to Supreme Court precedent
sizable number of Republicans advertising alone through Tues- must educate undocumented
representing largely rural dis- day, according to the media-track- children.
tricts have stood in the way. The ing firm AdImpact. The firm has Abbott’s push resonated
rural Republicans represent areas tracked more than $30 million Wednesday in San Antonio with
where public schools are seen as total flowing into the state House Rey Gonzalez, a 37-year-old father
the lifeblood of the community primaries. who said private school options
and their government support is Anti-voucher Republicans are were “really important” to him.
closely guarded. being defended by traditional pro- He said he has a 12-year-old
In recent years, other big states incumbent groups — like the cam- daughter in public school and
with Republican majorities, such paign of House Speaker Dade sends his 3-year-old son to a pri-
as Arizona and Florida, have far Phelan — but also getting help vate Christian school, in part, be-
outpaced Texas by creating new from Texas grocery chain owner cause he worries public schools
voucher programs or expanding Charles Butt. Since September, he are exposing students to certain
existing ones. Iowa recently gave has pumped at least $4.1 million social issues too early.
Abbott a political blueprint when into a political action committee “It causes confusion and makes
its governor, Kim Reynolds, suc- for the cause. the dinner talks a lot different,”
cessfully campaigned against fel- The biggest wild card may be Gonzalez said.
low Republicans who stood in her the other political forces animat- For Abbott, the campaign is a
way on the issue. ing the primary. While Paxton possible legacy-making moment
“Texas is the biggest state left,” supports school vouchers, he is as he looks to a political future
said Nathan Cunneen, a spokes- more broadly trying to remake a that could include running for
man for the American Federation House GOP majority that he sees reelection in 2026, which would
for Children. “When we talk about as too deferential to the minority set him up to be the longest-serv-
Republican-trifecta states” — party. ing Texas governor, or serving in a
states where the GOP holds the Trump has most notably inter- second Trump administration.
governorship and both legislative vened by endorsing challengers Trump toured the Texas-Mexi-
chambers — “all around the coun- who have the support of both Ab- co border Thursday with Abbott
try, when I’m traveling, people say, bott, Paxton and Lt. Gov. Dan Pat- and later said the governor was on
‘I can’t believe Texas doesn’t have rick, a longtime critic of state his shortlist for possible running
school choice yet.’ ” House leadership who is especial- mates.
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Harris takes the spotlight in calling out Israel over Gaza
BY C LEVE R . W OOTSON J R.,
T YLER P AGER,
Y ASMEEN A BUTALEB
AND S TEVE H ENDRIX
Vice President Harris has be-
gun taking a more public role in
the Biden administration’s effort
to handle the Gaza war, bluntly
criticizing Israel on Sunday for
limiting humanitarian aid and
meeting monday with Prime min-
ister Benjamin Netanyahu’s chief
political rival.
monday’s White House meet-
ing with Benny Gantz — a centrist
member of Israel’s war cabinet
who traveled to the United States
in defiance of Netanyahu — came
after Gantz previously spoke with
various American officials who
have visited Jerusalem. But a
Washington visit, particularly one
that included a meeting with Har-
ris, was seen as twisting the knife,
given Netanyahu’s own strained
relations with the president.
A White House summary of the
meeting said Harris reiterated
U.S. support for Israel but “ex-
pressed her deep concern about
the humanitarian conditions in
Gaza and the recent horrific trag-
edy around an aid convoy in
northern Gaza.” That was a refer-
ence to the death Thursday of
more than 100 Palestinians after
an aid convoy was swarmed and
Israeli soldiers opened fire.
A day earlier, Harris declared
during a speech in Alabama that
“the Israeli government must do
more to significantly increase the
flow of aid.” She added, “No excus-
es.”
Although Harris’s calls for a
cease-fire echoed President
Biden’s comments over the past
week, she took a notably sharper
tone, which comes as a growing
number of Democrats are voicing
their displeasure over Biden’s
handling of Gaza in television in-
terviews, protests, sternly worded
statements — and at the ballot
box.
“People in Gaza are starving.
The conditions are inhumane,”
Harris said. “And our common
humanity compels us to act.”
Biden’s staunch support of Isra-
el has long prompted criticism
from human rights activists that
the administration is complicit in
what they see as Israel’s extreme
reaction to the oct. 7 attacks,
when Hamas militants surged
over the border, killing about
1,200 Israelis and taking about
250 hostages. The counteroffen-
sive has disproportionately affect-
ed civilians and children, with dis-
turbing images from the escalat-
ing humanitarian crisis ricochet-
ing around the world.
U.S. officials are urgently trying
to secure a six-week cease-fire in
Gaza before Sunday, the start of
the muslim holy month of rama-
U.N. adds credence on sexual violence
report from A1
settlers” against Palestinians in
the West Bank, came on a day of
swirling charges and counter-
charges.
In a fiery address to the U.N.
General Assembly, Philippe Laz-
zarini, the director of UNrWA —
the U.N. agency for Palestinian
refugees that has worked in Gaza
and the West Bank for the past 75
years — accused Israel of a “delib-
erate and concerted campaign to
undermine [UNrWA] operations
and ultimately end them” with
misinformation, targeted attacks
on its infrastructure, and restric-
tions on its movements in the
West Bank and Israel.
“The repeated calls by the gov-
ernment of Israel to eliminate the
agency are not about neutrality,”
he said. “The campaign against
UNrWA is intended to shift the
long-standing political power in-
terests for peace in the occupied
Palestinian territory set by the
[U.N.] General Assembly and the
Security Council without consult-
ing either body.”
If it succeeds, he said, “the en-
tire humanitarian response in
Gaza will crumble.”
Lazzarini said, in remarks that
were met with widespread ap-
plause in the massive assembly
hall, that UNrWA’s ability to fulfill
its U.N.-ordered mandate is al-
ready “seriously threatened” by
the withdrawal of funding by
16 countries, among them the
United States and Germany.
The funding cuts came after
Israel said it had evidence that 12
of UNrWA’s 13,000 employees in
Gaza had been involved in the
oct. 7 attacks. After Israeli author-
ities informed Lazzarini verbally
of the charges on Jan. 18, he fired
the accused because of the “gravi-
ty of the situation,” he said, but “no
further information has been pro-
vided to me.” Two of the men
accused are believed to have been
killed. The charges and overall
UNrWA operations are being in-
vestigated by an internal U.N.
dan. Israel has agreed to elements
of the cease-fire deal, and now the
onus is on Hamas, Harris said
Sunday.
“Hamas claims it wants a cease-
fire,” she said. “Well, there is a deal
on the table. And as we have said,
Hamas needs to agree to that
deal.”
for months, Harris has private-
ly expressed concerns about the
plight of Palestinians, and she has
also told advisers that younger
voters view the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict through a different lens
than older ones, according to peo-
ple familiar with her views, who
spoke on the condition of ano-
nymity to describe private talks.
Some activists saw an added
significance in the setting of Har-
ris’s remarks on Sunday, part of a
prepared speech that aides said
was cleared by Biden’s team. The
vice president was speaking in
Selma, Ala., during a commemo-
ration of “Bloody Sunday,” when
state troopers in 1965 brutally at-
tacked civil rights marchers.
Some liberals have sought to
link the plight of Palestinians with
equity movements that involve
marginalized communities, in-
cluding Black Americans in the
Jim Crow South, citizens of color
in apartheid South Africa and,
more recently, the Black Lives
matter movement.
Still, some activists were skepti-
cal monday of Harris’s more pub-
lic outspokenness. “To me, this is a
public relations and messaging
shift,” said Waleed Shahid, a Dem-
ocratic strategist who has been
critical of the White House. “I
don’t see a policy shift.”
He said the venue of Harris’s
remarks was more revealing than
her words.
“It’s significant that Vice Presi-
dent Harris made her messaging
shift addressing a Black audience
in Selma, which makes me think
the White House is not only wor-
ried about losing Arab Americans,
muslim Americans and young
people, but also older Black vot-
ers,” he said.
This is not the first time Harris
has seemed to take a sharper tone
than Biden on the Israel-Gaza war.
In a speech in Dubai in Decem-
ber, Harris used forceful language
in calling on Israel to limit civilian
casualties, and she spoke in more
detail about Palestinian suffering,
which Biden had seldom done at
that point.
Her aides said she has made her
views known privately as well.
Harris has been particularly fo-
cused on the “day after” in Gaza,
they said, as the United States and
Israel have conflicting visions
over what the future of the enclave
will look like, with Biden strongly
embracing the idea of a Palestin-
ian state and Netanyahu dismiss-
ing it.
body and an independent panel
headed by french former foreign
minister Catherine Colonna.
Since then, Israel has released
video from oct. 7 showing a man it
identified as an UNrWA social
worker helping to put the body of
a slain Israeli into a car, ostensibly
to be taken back inside Gaza. Al-
though more than 100 hostages
were released during a negotiated
week-long pause in the fighting in
November, and there are ongoing
negotiations to release the rest, an
unknown number of those in
Hamas captivity are believed to be
dead.
on monday, Israel released
what it said was a declassified
recording of an intercepted tele-
phone call by an UNrWA teacher
“bragging” about the oct. 7 at-
tacks. The government also re-
leased an additional three names
of “terrorists employed by
UNrWA” and said that more than
450 of the agency’s employees are
“military operatives in terror
groups in Gaza.” Those claims
could not be immediately inde-
pendently verified.
Israel has previously said that
UNrWA itself is a terrorist organi-
zation.
In an earlier General Assembly
session monday, called to discuss
the most recent of three U.S. ve-
toes of Security Council resolu-
tions demanding an immediate
humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza,
robert Wood, the alternate U.S.
representative, said that such a
measure “would not achieve the
goal of a sustainable peace and
may in fact run counter to it.”
Instead, he urged members to sup-
port a U.S. draft resolution back-
ing negotiations for a temporary
cease-fire that would allow in-
creased humanitarian aid to Gaza
and the release of hostages.
At the same meeting, held be-
fore the release of the sexual vio-
lence report, Israeli Ambassador
Gilad Erdan called out the coun-
cil’s repeated failure to explicitly
condemn the attacks by Hamas,
even as it has extensively criti-
eZ re
Vice president Harris speaks at an event Sunday commemorating the 59th anniversary of the “Bloody Sunday” bridge crossing in Selma,
Ala. Harris has ramped up her rhetoric on Israel in recent days, including during the Selma event, where she called for a cease-fire.
The vice president has also
pushed Biden to address the con-
cerns of the Arab and muslim
community in America since the
beginning of the conflict. Shortly
after the oct. 7 Hamas attacks,
Harris convinced the president to
add a line addressing Islamopho-
bia in a speech promising uncon-
ditional support for Israel.
Israel launched its military
campaign after Hamas militants
rampaged through the Israel-
Gaza border fence on oct. 7, and its
war has now killed more than
30,000 Palestinians, according to
the Gaza Health ministry, displac-
ing more than 80 percent of the
population as people shelter in
squalid conditions.
The United States conducted its
first airdrop of food into Gaza on
Saturday, although aid groups
said it does not fundamentally
address what is needed to prevent
famine.
“We have seen reports of fami-
lies eating leaves or animal feed,
women giving birth to malnour-
ished babies with little or no medi-
cal care, and children dying from
malnutrition and dehydration,”
Harris said Sunday. “And just a
few days ago, we saw hungry, des-
perate people approach aid
trucks, simply trying to secure
food for their families after weeks
cized Israeli military actions in
Gaza. “The U.N. claims to care
about women,” he said. “Yet as we
speak right now, Israeli women
are being raped and abused by
Hamas terrorists. … Deafening si-
lence. Sure, we have heard the
empty words of U.N. officials call-
ing for the release of the hostages.
But have we seen any of them take
action? Nothing.”
The U.N. report did not assign
specific blame to Hamas, Palestin-
ian Islamic Jihad or what it said
were “other Palestinian paramili-
tary organizations … [and] armed
and unarmed elements” entering
Israel from Gaza in three “cumula-
tive waves” on oct. 7 and did not
“gather information and/or draw
conclusions” of responsibility.
“Such attribution,” it said,
“would require a fully-fledged in-
vestigative process,” which it
called for in its recommendations.
But Israeli foreign ministry
spokesman Lior Haiat said mon-
day on social media that Israel
“welcomes the explicit recogni-
tion” of a U.N. body on “the com-
mission of sexual crimes by
Hamas.”
Pramila Patten, the U.N. special
representative on sexual violence
in conflict, led the report team of
technical experts — including a
forensic pathologist and special-
ists in ethical treatment of survi-
vors of sexual violence. The team
interviewed survivors and wit-
nesses of the oct. 7 attacks —
although the report notes that
they did not speak directly with
any of the survivors of the alleged
sexual violence on that day.
The number of survivors is un-
known, but a “small number” of
them are reportedly undergoing
treatment and are experiencing
severe mental distress and trau-
ma, the report says. “Despite con-
certed efforts to encourage them
to come forward, the mission
team was not able to interview any
of these survivors/victims,” ac-
cording to the press release.
The team also reviewed over
5,000 photographs and about
of nearly no aid reaching northern
Gaza. And they were met with
gunfire and chaos.”
Harris is not the only high-
ranking Democrat to ratchet up
her rhetoric on Gaza in recent
days. “The collective punishment
in Gaza has got to stop, and Israel
must do more to protect civilian
life,” Sen. Patty murray (D-Wash.)
said on the Senate floor late last
week.
Sen. Chris murphy (D-Conn.), a
member of the foreign relations
Committee, called scenes from the
stampede and gunfire “appalling.”
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-md.),
decrying the lack of aid getting
into Gaza, said, “Enough is
enough.”
for Harris and the Biden ad-
ministration, the stakes are not
just about a conflict nearly 7,000
miles away. Harris is the under-
study to an 81-year-old president,
and polls show that many Ameri-
cans have questions about his
ability to continue in the most
demanding job in the world.
Coupled with those concerns
are worries among some voters
about how Harris would perform
if she found herself at the top of
the Democratic ticket or in the
White House. on issues from re-
productive rights to the Ukraine
war, Harris has sought to reassure
protesters wear fake blood as they take part in a demonstration outside BBC headquarters in London,
on Feb. 4, to bring attention to the plight of kidnapped Israeli women in Gaza.
50 hours of footage of the attacks,
and visited a morgue, a military
base and the locations of several
attacks.
The mission team’s mandate
was to gather, analyze and verify
information on incidents of
conflict-related sexual violence in
the context of the attacks, though
the report’s authors caution not to
interpret the document as “an in-
vestigation.”
The mission team adopted the
standard of proof of “reasonable
grounds to believe,” based on “its
own assessment of the credibility
and reliability of the witnesses it
met” and by verifying the sources
and methodologies of reports pro-
duced by others, cross-referenc-
ing information and assessing
whether “there was sufficient
credible and reliable information
… to make a finding in fact,” the
report said.
Among the challenges the team
faced, the report said, were “the
magnitude of the situation,” with
many casualties spread over a
the washington post
skeptics that she is a firm leader.
Harris’s recent actions reflect a
fundamental shift in the adminis-
tration’s posture as the war has
unfolded over the past five
months. Shortly after the oct. 7
attacks, Biden took a whirlwind
trip to Israel, sharing a brief hug
with Netanyahu, attending a
meeting of the Israeli war cabinet
and speaking with survivors of the
attacks.
In speaking with Gantz on
monday, Harris was meeting with
a centrist politician who angered
Netanyahu by coming to the Unit-
ed States this week. Harris told
reporters on monday that there is
no dissonance between her views
and Biden’s.
“The president and I have been
aligned and consistent from the
very beginning,” she said as she
headed to her meeting with Gantz.
Gantz did not clear his travel
plans with Netanyahu in advance,
according to Israeli media re-
ports. Instead, Gantz briefed Ne-
tanyahu on his itinerary on friday,
provoking an angry retort that
“Israel only has one prime minis-
ter,” according to Ynet, which
broke news of the spat over the
weekend.
Netanyahu’s allies also have
criticized Gantz’s trip. finance
minister Bezalel Smotrich, speak-
wide area and multiple perpetra-
tors; the high number of burned
bodies; the loss of “potentially
valuable evidence due to the inter-
ventions” of first responders and
soldiers without training in col-
lecting forensic evidence, leading
to “erroneous interpretations” of
what they found; and religious
sensitivities that led to dressing,
covering, repositioning or quickly
burying bodies.
It also cited a “lack of access to
first-hand testimonies” of surviv-
ing victims. Instead, the report
said, team members met with “a
small number” of oct. 7 survivors
and witnesses “who provided in-
formation on instances of sexual
violence,” including some whose
recollections differed from earlier
accounts.
The report noted that “trust in
... international organizations,
such as the United Nations, are at
an all-time low amongst many
survivors and/or witnesses …
making them reluctant to come
forward.”
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ing to members of his party, ac-
cused Gantz of letting himself be
used by Biden administration fig-
ures who wanted “to drive a
wedge between Israelis” to push
their plans for a Palestinian state.
Netanyahu, who openly em-
braced former president Donald
Trump, has long had a frosty rela-
tionship with Biden. As Biden and
Harris have ramped up their criti-
cism of Israel’s prosecution of the
war in Gaza and its failure to
facilitate more humanitarian aid,
more Israelis are accusing Netan-
yahu of mishandling relations
with the country’s most important
ally.
Gantz’s trip appears to be exac-
erbating those tensions. Numer-
ous outlets reported that Netanya-
hu had instructed Israel’s embas-
sy in Washington to boycott
Gantz’s meetings.
Netanyahu has plummeted in
the polls in the wake of the Hamas
attack, and Gantz is increasingly
seen as his likely successor. A sur-
vey released by Israel’s Channel 13
on monday showed Gantz’s Na-
tional Unity party winning more
than twice as many seats in the
Israeli parliament as Netanyahu’s
Likud party.
Hendrix reported from jerusalem. liz
Goodwin contributed to this report.
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The report, in occasionally
graphic detail, concluded that
there were “reasonable grounds”
to believe that sexual violence had
occurred, including rape and gang
rape, in at least three locations,
including the Nova music festival
site, road 232 and Kibbutz reim.
“Credible circumstantial informa-
tion, which may be indicative of
some forms of sexual violence,
including genital mutilation, sex-
ualized torture, or cruel, inhuman
and degrading treatment, was
also gathered,” it said.
It determined that at least two
alleged instances of sexual vio-
lence reported in the media were
unfounded, including the “graphi-
cally publicized case of a pregnant
woman whose womb had report-
edly been torn open.”
“The mission team was unable
to establish the prevalence of sex-
ual violence and concludes that
the overall magnitude, scope, and
specific attribution of these viola-
tions would require a fully-fledged
investigation,” the report said.
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Schi≠ ’s insider support trumping Porter’s outsider appeal in Senate race
The Democrat has
pushed ahead in part by
promoting GOP rival
BY M AEVE R ESTON
lONG BEaCH, Calif. — As Katie
Porter high-fived her way to the
microphone at a recent rally here
with Taylor Swift’s “The Man”
pumping from loudspeakers, two
front-row fans greeted her bear-
ing mini versions of the accessory
she made famous: whiteboards,
theirs bearing the hashtag #Team-
KatiePorter.
“I just love how she stands up
and represents like a middle-class
liberal,” gushed LeAnne Wunsch
of San Pedro, her custom white-
board dangling from a string like
a necklace as she recounted
watching Porter shred the argu-
ments of banking and pharma-
ceutical CEOs in congressional
hearings. “She stands up to corpo-
rations, to rich people. She’s just
so relatable.”
But Porter is finding that the
outsider credentials she built in
those viral moments as the relat-
able, minivan-driving, suburban
mom-turned-interrogator in Con-
gress are no match for the insider
advantages of Adam Schiff, a long-
time lieutenant of Rep. Nancy
Pelosi, the former speaker of the
House, who locked down the sup-
port of much of California’s Dem-
ocratic establishment early last
year.
The two popular Democrats,
who are both prodigious fundrais-
ers, had long been viewed as the
probable victors Tuesday in Cali-
fornia’s jungle primary, in which
the top two vote-getters will ad-
vance to the general election re-
gardless of party. But with Schiff,
Porter and their Democratic col-
league, Rep. Barbara Lee, splitting
their party’s vote, Schiff has wield-
ed his enormous war chest to
boost support for their top Repub-
lican rival, former Major League
Baseball player Steve Garvey.
Garvey surged to first place,
ahead of Schiff, in a poll released
Friday by the UC Berkeley Insti-
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tute of Governmental Studies,
even though the onetime first
baseman for the Los Angeles
Dodgers and the San Diego Padres
has not aired any of his own ads
and has barely been visible on the
campaign trail. Data from Ad Im-
pact shows that 60 percent of
Schiff’s recent broadcast airings
have mentioned Garvey as Schiff
and his allies have spent more
than $11 million on the airwaves
elevating Garvey’s profile.
Porter, who is also being target-
ed with nearly $9 million in
spending by a crypto industry-
backed super PAC, noted the irony
of her situation Saturday after six
years in Congress fashioning her
agenda around fighting corrup-
tion and the way in which corpo-
rate PAC donations influence poli-
ticians.
“People in their 20s and 30s
and 40s feel like elections are
about big money; they’re about
shady money and dark money,”
she said, the frustration palpable
in her voice as she dropped off her
ballot and accompanied her 18-
year-old son, Luke Hoffman, to
vote for the first time at a polling
location in Irvine. “We’ve seen a
lot of that in this election cycle in
this Senate race. That is discour-
aging to younger people, because
it makes them feel like — what’s
the point of voting if $10 [million]
or $20 million in dark ads are
going to influence the outcome of
the election?”
In one final plot twist, Porter
and her allies are incensed that
after helping engineer Garvey’s
rise, Schiff has spent the final days
of the primary race fundraising
off the surge that he helped fund,
dispatching texts asking for dona-
tions by warning a “MAGA ex-
tremist” could be California’s next
senator. “That’s the cynical cycle,”
she said.
Schiff is campaigning in his
final sprint across the state as
though his contest with Porter
and Lee is already over — keeping
his focus on what he views as the
threat to democracy posed by
Trump in his potential return to
the White House.
He became a celebrity to many
Democratic voters — and a night-
ly presence on cable news — while
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California’s jungle primary for the state’s open U.S. Senate seat.
managing Trump’s first impeach-
ment trial, a role that Pelosi select-
ed him for. As the former presi-
dent has continued to attack him
over the past year, Schiff has used
those slights, including Trump’s
nicknames for him like “pencil
neck” and “shifty Schiff,” to fuel
his small-dollar fundraising. “We
beat him before; we will beat him
“You can’t buy my vote. You have to earn it
by showing me how you’re going to
deliver for Californians.”
Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.), candidate for U.S. Senate
again,” Schiff said Saturday at a
union hall in Orange, “and he will
never set foot in the Oval Office
again.”
Though Garvey has refused to
say whether he will vote for
Trump again, Schiff has tried to
paint the two men with the same
brush: “He voted for Donald
Trump repeatedly even after wit-
nessing the chaos and extremism
of Trump’s four years in office,”
Schiff told his supporters. “We’re
going to make sure he never sets
foot in the Senate.”
Schiff has been able to keep his
campaign focused on Trump in
part because there are so few
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ideological differences between
him, Lee and Porter. Though
Schiff was a member of the Blue
Dog Coalition — a caucus of mod-
erate House Democrats — during
his earlier years in Congress, he
shifted left over the years — align-
ing himself with many of the pri-
orities championed by the Con-
gressional Progressive Caucus, in-
cluding the Green New Deal and
Medicare-for-all. Both Porter and
Lee have helped lead that group —
and have been quick to point out
they championed some of the
group’s priorities before Schiff
did.
Schiff has also avoided engag-
ing with Porter on her criticism
that he took corporate PAC money
in earlier races, except when she
has directly challenged him on
that topic in debates. (He has not
accepted corporate PAC money in
this race).
In a recent debate he echoed
the attacks that have been aired
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corporate PAC donations, the ads
from Fairshake have noted that
she has taken contributions from
people who worked at banking,
pharmaceutical and oil compa-
nies.
“I don’t think Rep. Porter has
been fully clear about her own
record of taking thousands of dol-
lars from people in the oil indus-
try, thousands from Wall Street
bankers, thousands from people
in the Pharma industry, as
OpenSecrets has revealed,” Schiff
said. “The problem with purity
tests, as Rep. Porter would like to
establish, is that invariably the
people establishing them don’t
meet them.”
Touting the endorsements of
Pelosi and more than 300 current
and former elected officials in
California, Schiff has framed his
relationships with his colleagues
as an asset — highlighting his
ability to work within the system
to advance legislation while
obliquely referring to Porter’s
more adversarial positioning as a
problem.
“There’s nothing easier than
putting your name on a bill,”
Schiff said, suggesting Porter
lacked legislative accomplish-
ments during a recent debate.
“Where you see the real legislators
is they write their own legisla-
tion.”
Some of Schiff’s establishment
backers, such as former senator
Barbara Boxer, have also mocked
Porter’s promise to “shake up the
Senate” — stating that kind of
disruption is unnecessary at a
moment when members are more
often struggling to find consen-
sus.
During a recent debate, Porter
was also pressed to explain why 27
members of California’s House
delegation had endorsed Schiff
and only one, Rep. Robert Garcia
of Long Beach, had endorsed her.
Porter, who has said she didn’t go
to Washington to make friends,
reiterated that she is “not behold-
en to corporate special interests”
and noted that her opposition to
earmarks sets her apart from
many of her colleagues: “I have
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cial interests push back; they fund
these people’s campaigns and it
affects what they do.”
But Schiff noted this weekend
that it was unusual for so many of
his House colleagues to get in-
volved in a primary where three
members of the delegation are
running against one another:
“They know who has the ability to
get things done.”
“Congress is a place where you
can’t do anything on your own.
You have to be able to work with
other people,” Schiff said after a
rally Sunday morning in San Di-
ego. “If you can’t work with other
people, you can’t be effective. So
this is a race about results versus
just rhetoric.”
The recent Berkeley poll, co-
sponsored by the Los Angeles
Times, underscores that Porter
could pose a threat to Schiff in
November — and that Garvey
would be a much weaker oppo-
nent. In a hypothetical two-candi-
date race in November, Schiff led
with 53 percent to Garvey’s 38
percent, with 9 percent undecid-
ed. But if the race were between
Schiff and Porter, they essentially
begin the contest in a tie.
The low rate at which Califor-
nia’s more than 21 million voters
are returning mail-in ballots thus
far could spell trouble for Porter
on Tuesday. A plurality of the
ballots returned have been from
voters who are 65 years or older, a
dynamic that is likely to favor
Schiff and Garvey. Polls have con-
sistently shown a generational di-
vide among Democrats — with
younger Democrats favoring Por-
ter and Lee, and older voters fa-
voring Schiff.
Porter has pleaded with her
backers to ramp up turnout, argu-
ing it will be critical to ensuring
that “California has a warrior in
Washington.”
“We need a leader who doesn’t
just talk about being a hero for
democracy, we need a leader who
is doing it by changing how Wash-
ington runs,” she said at the Long
Beach rally, contrasting her ap-
proach with Schiff’s. “You can’t
buy my vote. You have to earn it by
showing me how you’re going to
deliver for Californians.”
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Fearing ‘chaos,’
high court keeps
Trump on ballots
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portant” in remarks from mar-a-
Lago, his florida home and pri-
vate club, on monday afternoon.
Trump’s eligibility to return to
office is not the only question be-
fore the justices that could affect
the electability of the former presi-
dent, who is facing four criminal
indictments, two of them related
to his efforts to block Joe Biden’s
2020 election victory. The high
court next month will hear
Trump’s claim that he is protected
from criminal prosecution by
presidential immunity. The jus-
tices’ decision to take that case
delayed Trump’s D.C. federal trial
for allegedly trying to overturn the
2020 election results until at least
late summer, just a few months
before the general election.
The justices separately have
agreed to review the validity of a
law that was used to charge hun-
dreds of people in connection with
the Jan. 6 riot and is also a key
element of Trump’s four-count
federal election obstruction case
in Washington.
Trump is the first former U.S.
president ever charged with a
crime. The high court’s involve-
ment in his legal and political
future as he campaigns to return
to the White House has made the
2024 election an unprecedented
test of America’s judicial and dem-
ocratic institutions.
In the Colorado case, the jus-
tices were reviewing a decision
from Colorado’s top court that re-
lied on a long-dormant post-Civil
War provision of the 14th Amend-
ment to declare Trump ineligible
to return to the White House. The
case thrust the Supreme Court
into a pivotal role not seen since
2000, when the high court’s deci-
sion in Bush v. Gore handed the
presidency to George W. Bush and
bitterly divided the nation.
The provision prohibits anyone
who previously pledged to sup-
port the Constitution as “an officer
of the United States” from return-
ing to office if they betrayed their
oath by engaging in insurrection.
The text of Section 3 does not
specify who is supposed to enforce
the clause or when it should be
invoked.
The court’s opinion monday did
not address the question of wheth-
Supreme Court ruling darkens critics’
hopes for a judicial curb on Trump
Trump frOm A1
While the court had been wide-
ly expected to rule in Trump’s
favor, the decision came amid a
string of setbacks in efforts to
hold Trump accountable for his
efforts to disrupt the transfer of
power after the 2020 vote. Trump
is also outpolling President Biden
in many head-to-head matchups
and continues to dominate the
republican primary, with the
chance to put the intraparty con-
test effectively out of reach on
Tuesday as 15 states cast ballots.
The court’s 9-0 decision over-
turned a December ruling from
Colorado’s Supreme Court, which
barred Trump from appearing on
the state’s ballot under Section 3
of the 14th Amendment. The Civil
War-era provision prohibits those
who have taken an oath to the
Constitution and then engaged in
insurrection from holding office
again. The Colorado court cited
Trump’s role in the events around
the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection as
the basis for its decision.
Trump is the first former presi-
dent to have been charged with a
crime. He is facing four separate
cases, two of which relate to his
efforts to overturn the 2020 elec-
tion.
All nine justices — the six con-
servatives plus the three liberals
— said an individual state should
not be able to ban a candidate
from running for federal office.
They warned of the consequences
of a nationwide patchwork in
which candidates were barred in
some states but not others.
“Nothing in the Constitution
requires that we endure such
chaos — arriving at any time or
different times, up to and perhaps
beyond the inauguration,” the
court said in an unsigned, 13-page
opinion.
The push to disqualify Trump
under the seldom-used Section 3
had divided constitutional schol-
er Trump engaged in insurrection.
It also did not list a single justice as
the primary author and was in-
stead issued “per curiam” in an
effort to show unanimity.
The justices drew a clear dis-
tinction between state and nation-
al elections, writing that “States
may disqualify persons holding or
attempting to hold state office. But
States have no power under the
Constitution to enforce Section 3
with respect to federal offices, es-
pecially the Presidency.”
five of the six conservative jus-
tices then went further, writing
that the disqualification clause
can be enforced for national office
only through federal legislation —
not a federal court challenge or
nonlegislative action by Congress.
“responsibility for enforcing Sec-
tion 3 against federal officehold-
ers and candidates rests with Con-
gress and not the States,” the ma-
jority said.
Legal analysts said that require-
ment would presumably prevent
Congress from trying to enforce
the statute by refusing to count
Trump electoral votes at the Jan. 6,
2025, joint session to certify the
election results.
The three liberal justices, in
their sharply worded concur-
rence, said the majority’s ap-
proach “shuts the door on other
potential means of federal en-
forcement. We cannot join an
opinion that decides momentous
and difficult issues unnecessarily.”
The majority, they said, had
foreclosed enforcement through
the courts if, for instance, “a party
is prosecuted by an insurrection-
ist and raises a defense on that
score.”
By dictating how Section 3 is
enforced, Justices Sonia Sotomay-
or, Elena Kagan and Ketanji
Brown Jackson added, the majori-
ty “attempts to insulate all alleged
insurrectionists from future chal-
lenges to their holding office. In a
sensitive case crying out for judi-
cial restraint, it abandons that
course.”
They criticized the majority for
creating what they called a “spe-
cial rule” for disqualification, not-
ing that other sections of the 14th
Amendment, including due proc-
ess and equal protection guaran-
tees, do not require specific imple-
menting legislation.
ars, with some championing the
case and others expressing
doubts about either the legality or
the practical impact of keeping
Trump from running — or both.
mark Graber, a University of
maryland constitutional law
scholar who last year published a
book on the history of the 14th
Amendment, said the justices ap-
peared focused on the real-world
implications of a ban but that the
legal basis of the decision was
thin.
“The opinion makes sense as a
matter of policy,” Graber said.
While it might be “a good idea
to have a rule that states cannot
disqualify federal officers or can-
didates for federal office,” Graber
said, there is nothing in the text of
the fourteenth Amendment that
says that “states can disqualify
state officers, but not federal offi-
cers.”
J. michael Luttig, a conserva-
tive former U.S. Court of Appeals
judge who co-wrote with Lau-
rence H. Tribe a piece for the
Atlantic in August that helped to
galvanize interest in the 14th
Amendment as a means to dis-
qualify Trump, cited the language
of the three liberal justices in
their concurring opinion, which
critiqued elements of the majori-
ty’s decision. The liberals agreed
with the conservatives that states
should be prohibited from kick-
ing candidates off the presiden-
tial ballot under Section 3, while
disagreeing with the majority
specifying Congress’s role in any
disqualification. The standard,
Luttig argued, makes it function-
ally impossible to disqualify in-
surrectionists from holding fed-
eral office.
“The court today decided that
no person in the future will ever
be disqualified under Section 3 of
the 14th Amendment regardless
of whether he or she has engaged
in insurrection or rebellion
against the Constitution of the
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Gabriel Chambers outside the Supreme Court on Feb. 8, the day of oral argument on the ruling from Colorado’s top court.
The three justices also ap-
peared to call out Chief Justice
John G. roberts Jr. for not taking a
more narrow path in the Colorado
case. Their concurrence opens
with a quote from roberts’s own
concurrence in the 2022 Dobbs
decision upholding mississippi’s
15-week abortion ban, when the
chief justice urged his conserva-
tive colleagues not to take the ad-
ditional step of overturning Roe v.
Wade.
“If it is not necessary to decide
more to dispose of a case, then it is
necessary not to decide more,”
roberts wrote at the time.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a
conservative, agreed with the lib-
erals in part, writing separately to
say that the lawsuit before the
court “did not require us to ad-
dress the complicated question of
whether federal legislation is the
exclusive vehicle through which
Section 3 can be enforced.”
But she also appeared to chide
the liberals for the tone of their
concurrence, saying this fraught
political moment was not a time to
“amplify disagreement with stri-
dency.”
“The Court has settled a politi-
cally charged issue in the volatile
season of a Presidential election.
Particularly in this circumstance,
writings on the Court should turn
United States,” Luttig said. “The
decision is stunning in its over-
reach.”
The impact of monday’s deci-
sion was immediate, effectively
nullifying efforts in states across
the country to ban Trump from
running. Within hours of the rul-
ing, maine Secretary of State
Shenna Bellows withdrew her
earlier determination that Trump
should be barred from the ballot
in her state. The maine primary is
Tuesday.
In comments shortly after the
ruling, Trump praised the court’s
decision and quickly pivoted to
another case “of equal impor-
tance” before the court, one re-
viewing his sweeping claim of
immunity from prosecution over
actions taken while president.
The Supreme Court agreed last
week to review Trump’s argu-
ments in that matter, setting oral
arguments for late April. The de-
cision was a blow to special coun-
sel Jack Smith’s efforts to move
the federal Jan. 6 case quickly to
trial, and cast doubt over whether
there will be a verdict before the
November election.
Trump allies cheered the mon-
day ruling. “The Supreme Court
unanimously showed us today
that we cannot silence the voice of
the American people and stop
democracy,” Alina Habba, one of
Trump’s attorneys, wrote in a post
on X.
The court pointedly did not
address whether Trump engaged
in insurrection. In Colorado, Sec-
retary of State Jena Griswold (D)
said that while she welcomed the
clarity the decision would give
millions of Americans preparing
to vote, she said she was “disap-
pointed” by the ruling.
“It means that federal oath-
breaking candidates will have a
pass to run for office again given
the nonfunctioning in Congress,”
she said.
former Colorado House and
the national temperature down,
not up,” Barrett wrote.
Language embedded as “hid-
den text” in the digital version of
the court’s opinion, but not visible
in the public-facing document,
suggests there may have been
even more disagreement among
the justices initially. The text —
hidden at the top of the concur-
rence and first reported by mark
Joseph Stern of Slate — lists Soto-
mayor as “concurring in part and
dissenting in part,” suggesting
that earlier in the process the con-
currence might have included a
partial dissent.
The court did not respond to a
request for comment about the
hidden text.
The challenge to Trump’s candi-
dacy was brought by six Colorado
voters — four republicans and
two independents. The Colorado
Supreme Court found that Trump
engaged in insurrection when he
summoned his supporters to
Washington and encouraged an
angry crowd to disrupt Congress’s
certification of Biden’s victory.
Noah Bookbinder, president of
Citizens for responsibility and
Ethics in Washington, which
helped bring the lawsuit, posited
that by not addressing the insur-
rection question, the high court let
that finding from Colorado stand.
Former president Donald Trump attends a rally at the Special Events Center in Greensboro, N.C., on
Saturday. The Supreme Court unanimously decided that Trump should stay on the ballot.
Senate majority leader Norma
Anderson, a republican who was
a plaintiff in the case, said the
court’s ruling “does not change
this fact: Donald Trump engaged
in insurrection against the Unit-
ed States Constitution.”
She added that she now be-
lieves that “the court cases
against Donald Trump do noth-
ing to hinder him. The thing to do
is to get to the ballot box.”
The sentiment was echoed by
Biden’s deputy campaign manag-
er, Quentin fulks. In an appear-
ance on mSNBC, he said that, “we
don’t really care,” about the Colo-
rado decision. “Our focus since
day one of launching this cam-
paign has been to defeat Donald
Trump at the ballot box.”
Asked about the case in De-
cember, Biden said it was “self-ev-
ident” that Trump was an insur-
rectionist — though he stopped
short of saying how the court
should rule. “Now, whether the
14th Amendment applies, I’ll let
the court make that decision,” the
president told reporters. “But he
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He also said the voters, not the
courts, would have to pass final
judgment on Trump’s conduct.
“The Supreme Court removed
an enforcement mechanism, and
in letting Trump back on the bal-
lot, they failed to meet the mo-
ment,” Bookbinder said in a state-
ment. “But it is now clear that
Trump led the January 6th insur-
rection, and it will be up to the
American people to ensure ac-
countability.”
Trump’s legal team said the
court’s ruling is a “victory is not
just for President Trump but for
the integrity of our electoral sys-
tem and the rights of voters across
the country.”
“The attempt to use the 14th
Amendment in this manner was a
dangerous overreach that, if left
unchallenged, could have set a
perilous precedent for future elec-
tion,” attorney Harmeet K. Dhillon
said in a statement.
At oral argument on feb. 8,
justices from across the ideologi-
cal spectrum warned of troubling
political ramifications if they per-
mitted Colorado to order the lead-
ing republican presidential can-
didate off the ballot. Several jus-
tices suggested that such a deci-
sion would throw the presidential
race into turmoil and lead other
states to try to disqualify Demo-
ScoTT MUTherSbaUgh For The WaShingTon PoST
“The real takeaway is
that the courts aren’t
going to save us from
ourselves and that the
only surefire way to
ensure that an anti-
democratic candidate
for president doesn’t
succeed is to beat him at
the ballot box.”
Stephen Vladeck,
University of Texas
School of Law professor
. tuesday, march 5 , 2024
Jahi chikWendiU/The WaShingTon PoST
cratic candidates.
Trump’s lawyer, Jonathan
mitchell, told the court that en-
forcement of the disqualification
clause is up to Congress, not state
courts or officials. In addition,
mitchell said Section 3 does not
apply to Trump because a presi-
dent is not an “officer of the United
States,” which is one of the terms
the section uses when discussing
potential insurrectionists. The
justices did not embrace that ar-
gument in monday’s opinion.
Jason murray, the lawyer for the
Colorado voters, urged the justices
to definitively resolve the question
of Trump’s eligibility. He warned
that if they did not do so, Congress
could still try to disqualify Trump
and prevent him from taking of-
fice if he won the general election.
Derek muller, a Notre Dame
Law School professor closely fol-
lowing the case, said the court’s
decision “does not resolve the con-
tentious insurrection issues,
which will remain live and disput-
ed in the public domain in the
months to come. But it shuts the
door on any exclusion of Trump
from the ballot in any state, either
in the primary or the general.”
The case is Trump v. Anderson.
chris dehghanpoor and amy b Wang
contributed to this report.
certainly supported an insurrec-
tion. No question about it. None.
Zero.”
Still, Biden has framed much of
his bid for reelection around the
idea that he is uniquely posi-
tioned to protect the nation’s de-
mocracy by defeating Trump and
preventing him from returning to
the Oval Office. Biden’s aides and
allies have described the prospect
of a second Trump term as an
existential threat to Americans’
fundamental freedoms and sense
of security — a message they say
they can deliver more effectively
when it becomes clear that nei-
ther the courts nor the republi-
can primary will keep the former
president off the ballot in Novem-
ber.
Biden and his allies say they
are eager for another one-on-one
matchup between the two men
that will again offer voters a stark
choice.
“I’m the only one who has ever
beat him,” Biden told the New
Yorker in an interview published
monday. “And I’ll beat him again.”
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ELECTION 2024

Trump poised to dominate Super Tuesday, which may be Haley’s last stand
BY H ANNAH K NOWLES
AND M ARIANNE L E V INE
Donald Trump is poised to
continue his march to the GOP
presidential nomination on Tues-
day, when 15 states will vote to
award more than a third of the
party’s delegates and test how
quickly Republicans are coalesc-
ing behind the former president.
Trump has decisively won all
but one contest so far and is
expected to make a clean sweep
of Super Tuesday, a normally
high-stakes moment in the pri-
mary calendar that the former
president’s dominance has
stripped of its suspense. But de-
spite Trump’s near-incumbent
status in the race, a significant, if
losing, percentage of voters has
opted for another candidate in
several contests — underscoring
some voters’ reservations and the
potential general-election chal-
lenges ahead. Trump’s last stand-
ing GOP challenger, Nikki Haley,
has pointed to this trend as she
has made a case for continuing
her campaign.
In many ways, a rematch be-
tween President Biden and
Trump is effectively underway,
and observers and strategists ex-
pressed mixed views of what the
margins in the GOP contests
portend for Trump in November.
The incumbent and his allies are
ramping up criticism of Trump as
a threat to democracy, abortion
rights and other freedoms, while
the ex-president has hammered
Biden over immigration and the
economy. Trump’s 91 criminal
charges, which he has used as a
rallying cry in the primary con-
test, are also expected to factor
into the fall campaign.
Trump’s team expects to lock
down the nomination by March
19, advisers said. Haley, a former
U.N. ambassador, has only com-
mitted to staying in the race
through Tuesday, setting the
stage for a potentially quick exit.
Recent polling shows that
more than 90 percent of regis-
tered Republicans back Trump
over Biden, who is struggling
with low enthusiasm on the Dem-
ocratic side and cracks in the
scoTT MuThersbaugh for The WashingTon PosT
Supporters at a rally for Donald Trump in Greensboro, N.C., on
Saturday. North Carolina is one of 15 states voting Tuesday.
coalition that delivered him a
narrow victory in 2020.
At the same time, the pri-
maries have demonstrated Ha-
ley’s appeal to independents and
college-educated voters as she
lays out a forceful argument
against Trump. Super Tuesday
will provide more snapshots of
who is in Trump’s camp and who
may need persuading in the
months ahead.
“The next chapter of this race will be about how
Trump treats Nikki Haley and her supporters.”
Scott Reed, republican strategist
“The next chapter of this race
will be about how Trump treats
Nikki Haley and her supporters,”
said veteran Republican strat-
egist Scott Reed. “He’s on track to
be able to unite the party,” Reed
added, “but he has to treat the
Haley voters with respect.”
The biggest prize up for grabs
on Tuesday is California, where
Trump has a good shot to take
home all 169 delegates by win-
ning more than 50 percent of the
vote. The delegates formalize the
pick by voting for their candidate
at the Republican National Con-
vention in July.
California Republicans used to
award delegates to the victor of
each congressional district, but
Trump allies successfully pushed
last year to adopt new rules that
they believed would help Trump
quickly amass the 1,215 delegates
he needs nationally to secure the
nomination. Many Super Tues-
day states have winner-take-all
provisions, but the details vary.
The states that vote Tuesday
account for some 865 Republican
delegates and will test Trump and
Haley’s strengths across very dif-
ferent electorates — from red
stronghold Texas to battleground
North Carolina to solid-blue Mas-
sachusetts, where the Republican
population is more moderate. Al-
abama, Alaska, Arkansas, Colora-
do, Maine, Minnesota, Okla-
homa, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont
and Virginia will also vote.
The Trump team says he could
win the nomination as early as
March 12 and will get there by
March 19 even under their most
generous modeling for Haley,
which is based on her best show-
ing so far, in New Hampshire. On
Saturday, Trump swept GOP cau-
cuses in Michigan, Missouri and
Idaho.
“Republican voters have deliv-
ered resounding wins for Presi-
dent Trump in every single pri-
mary contest, and this race is
over,” said campaign spokesman
Steven Cheung. “Our focus is now
on Joe Biden and the general
election.”
Holding a rally on Saturday in
Raleigh, N.C., before blitzing
Massachusetts, Vermont and
Maine, Haley continued her
sharp criticism of Trump before
an enthusiastic crowd. She said
his comments about NATO and
Russia showed that he was “will-
ing to side with a thug,” and she
lamented that it’s “not normal” to
call opponents “vermin,” as
Trump has.
Trump directed most of his fire
on Biden at his own North Caro-
lina rally this weekend and fo-
cused on the southern border,
which attendees repeatedly
named as their top concern. He
was not done with Haley, howev-
er, declaring her “bad news” and
“very average.”
One attendee, 67-year-old John
Wayne Lambeth from Winston-
Salem, said Haley should drop
out and tell her followers, “I am
behind Trump 100 percent.” An-
other, 64-year-old Ben Hamilton
from Lexington, suggested that
Haley was trying to “be a spoiler.”
But Hamilton also said he
wanted to hear how Trump
would “join the Republicans to-
gether.”
Haley has stayed in the race as
a vessel for dissatisfaction with a
Trump-Biden matchup, arguing
that more voters deserve an op-
portunity to support a GOP alter-
native. She won 43 percent of the
vote in New Hampshire and
40 percent in her home state,
South Carolina, and pointed to
those performances as evidence
of broad hesitations about
Trump, even as he leads with
almost every demographic in the
GOP.
In South Carolina, where Ha-
ley served as governor, she had
the strongest support in more
urban, educated and affluent ar-
eas, though Trump still led in the
suburbs. In statewide exit polls,
she led by nearly 10 points with
college graduates and 25 points
with independents. Her team has
argued that Super Tuesday states
with similarly open primaries —
where non-Republicans can vote
— offer more favorable terrain.
Haley’s coalition, which draws
heavily on independents, does
not indicate that a large swath of
Republicans will oppose Trump
in November, said Charles Frank-
lin, who runs Marquette Law
School’s polls of the 2024 race.
The latest national Marquette
survey, released in February,
found that 7 percent of registered
Republicans would vote for
Biden over Trump if they had to
pick between those options —
slightly less than the 9 percent of
registered Democrats who would
choose Trump.
“He’s dominant in the party,
but there are minority views in
the party as well that have kept
Haley in the mix,” Franklin said.
Trump posted a wider lead
over Haley last week in Michigan,
where he won 68 percent to
Haley’s 27 percent. That suggests
that his advantage in the pri-
maries may grow as the race
nationalizes and moves to places
where Haley has not campaigned
intensely, some political observ-
ers said.
Independent pollster Richard
Czuba took note, however, that
Haley garnered a third of the vote
in places like Oakland County
and Kent County. “That’s where
Donald Trump lost the election in
2020 in Michigan,” he said, “be-
cause those suburban voters
came out in droves in a way they
didn’t in 2016.”
How Haley voters there might
vote in November is hard to say,
he said. For some, “we don’t know
where they’re going to go because
they don’t know where they’re
going to go.”
Still, many Republicans dis-
missed the Haley team’s argu-
ment that primary results are a
“flashing warning sign for Trump
in November.”
Constantin Querard, a GOP
consultant in battleground Ari-
zona, once traveled the state
gathering signatures urging Flor-
ida Gov. Ron DeSantis to run for
president, believing he would be
strongest at the top of the ticket
and lift his down-ballot clients.
But he said he doesn’t see votes
for Haley as a red flag and point-
ed to recent general-election
polls of swing states.
“Trump’s winning,” he said
simply. Other surveys have had
Biden leading but consistently
show a close race.
In the GOP race, Haley faces
rising pressure to step aside.
Trump warned after his New
Hampshire victory that anyone
who donated further to his rival
would be “permanently barred
from the MAGA camp.”
Trump has a long history of
abruptly ending his feuds with
opponents who change their tune
to praise him; he declared his
mocking nickname for DeSantis
“retired” the day that DeSantis
dropped out of the 2024 race and
endorsed him. When DeSantis
criticized the former president in
a February call with supporters,
however, the Trump team quickly
punched back.
It’s not clear how Haley will
approach Trump in the long
term. Asked on Friday if she
would keep criticizing the GOP’s
direction under Trump even if
she drops out, Haley said, “I don’t
know.” On “Meet the Press” on
Sunday, Haley said she no longer
felt bound by a pledge to support
the eventual nominee, which the
RNC required of all debate partic-
ipants last year.
George Andrews, a GOP con-
sultant in California, argued that
Haley can wield influence even in
defeat. “Bernie Sanders lost in
2020, but his influence on Joe
Biden’s policy — holy cow,” said
Andrews, who worked for a pro-
DeSantis super PAC and has now
volunteered as a delegate for
Haley in California.
Saul Anuzis, a former chair of
the Michigan GOP, said Trump
would be smart to be magnani-
mous toward his critics but add-
ed, “Trump is going to be Trump.”
scott clement and Dylan Wells
contributed to this report. LeVine
reported from greensboro, n.c.

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Pro-Trump lawyers central to alternate-elector plot settle lawsuit in Wis.
BY Y VONNE
W INGETT S ANCHEZ
Two attorneys who advanced a
strategy to try to overturn the
2020 presidential election by or-
ganizing rosters of Republicans to
falsely portray Donald Trump as
the winner of several states have
reached a legal settlement in Wis-
consin with two of the state’s
rightful electors and a Democratic
voter, ending a lawsuit.
As part of the settlement, the
two lawyers — James Troupis, a
former Dane County judge who
oversaw Trump’s legal efforts in
Wisconsin, and Kenneth Chese-
bro, an architect of the plan to try
to invalidate Joe Biden’s win by
convening Republican electors in
seven states — released on Mon-
day a trove of their communica-
tions about their work after the
2020 election. The attorneys also
agreed to not facilitate or send
documents on behalf of future
presidential electors who are not
certified as true electors — unless
there is explicit language that the
electoral votes would be counted if
legal challenges resulted in chang-
es to electoral outcomes.
Troupis and Chesebro did not
admit to liability or culpability for
their roles in the elector strategy,
records show. Troupis agreed to
pay an undisclosed financial set-
tlement to the plaintiffs.
Troupis and Chesebro did not
immediately respond to requests
for comment.
The agreement comes on the
heels of another legal settlement
in Wisconsin by the same plain-
tiffs with the 10 Republicans who
falsely purported Trump was their
state’s winner. In December, they
agreed to withdraw their inaccu-
rate filings, acknowledge that
Biden won the presidency, and not
serve as presidential electors in
2024 or in any election where
Trump is on the ballot. That civil
settlement marked the first time
pro-Trump electors had agreed to
revoke their untrue filings and not
repeat their actions in the 2024
presidential election.
The cache of records from Trou-
pis and Chesebro reveal addition-
al details about the heavy involve-
ment of both men in the alternate-
elector strategy as they sought to
give Vice President Mike Pence a
reason to declare that the outcome
of the election was somehow in
doubt on Jan. 6, 2021, when he
presided over the congressional
counting of the electoral college
votes.
The text messages, emails and
other records released Monday
show how Troupis helped give
Chesebro’s legal theories a vital
audience: Trump’s allies, who
Four takeaways from the Supreme Court’s ruling on 2024 primary ballots
States’ efforts to
The Fix disqualify former
aaron president Donald
Blake Trump from their
primary ballots
for “engaging in
insurrection” have come to an
end, with the Supreme Court
ruling that states cannot enforce
the 14th Amendment for federal
candidates.
The ruling in Trump v.
Anderson reverses the Colorado
Supreme Court’s disqualification
of Trump. It also means Trump’s
disqualifications in Illinois and
Maine won’t be allowed to stand.
The overall judgment that
Colorado could not disqualify
Trump was unanimous. But four
justices took issue with how far
the ruling went in saying
Congress must pass legislation
for the 14th Amendment to be
enforced against a federal
candidate.
States can’t decide; Congress
must act
The ruling says that a state
can’t disqualify a presidential
candidate, in part because it
doesn’t have that power and in
part because having such power
would lead to chaos.
“It would be incongruous to
read this particular Amendment
as granting the States the power
— silently no less — to disqualify
a candidate for federal office,”
the ruling says.
The ruling notes that allowing
the states such power could lead
to a “patchwork” approach, in
part because states handle such
matters in varying ways.
“An evolving electoral map
could dramatically change the
behavior of voters, parties, and
States across the country, in
different ways and at different
times,” the ruling says. “The
disruption would be all the more
acute — and could nullify the
votes of millions and change the
election result — if Section 3
enforcement were attempted
after the Nation has voted.”
It added: “Nothing in the
Constitution requires that we
helped bring them to fruition. The
records trace the evolution of a
kernel of a legal theory that began
in Wisconsin in the days after
Trump’s defeat and rapidly grew
into what prosecutors have called
a multistate conspiracy to prevent
Biden from taking office.
While Troupis’s early involve-
ment in the operation was known,
the extent of his role and the vol-
ume of his communications with
those in Trump’s orbit have been
less understood. Troupis’s contri-
butions to the elector plan were
largely overshadowed by the at-
tention paid to the work per-
formed by two chief architects of
the elector strategy, Chesebro and
California attorney John East-
man. Both men’s roles have faced
significant scrutiny.
“By publishing these docu-
ments and restricting the defen-
dants from submitting fake votes
again we are providing Wiscon-
sinites with the transparency and
accountability they deserve,” said
Scott Thompson, an attorney with
the liberal nonprofit firm Law For-
ward, which represented the
Biden electors. “Today is a win for
our democracy.”
The documents could help in-
vestigators and prosecutors
across the country. Republicans in
five states that Biden won — Ari-
zona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada
and Wisconsin — filled out paper-
work in December 2020 claiming
Trump had won. Republicans in
Pennsylvania and New Mexico
also filled out elector paperwork;
theirs included caveats that said
their votes were to be counted only
if they prevailed in litigation over
the 2020 election outcome.
Trump’s supporters used the ma-
terial to try to prevent Congress
from certifying Biden’s victory.
Congress confirmed Biden had
won on Jan. 6, 2021, hours after a
pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S.
Capitol.
Special counsel Jack Smith has
been investigating the attempt to
overturn the 2020 results for the
Justice Department, and last year
a federal grand jury indicted
Trump for his alleged involve-
ment. Meanwhile, prosecutors in
Michigan, Georgia and Nevada
have obtained felony charges
against some Republican electors.
An investigation by Arizona’s at-
torney general into the GOP elec-
tors is ongoing. The records shed
new light on how the plan was
assembled there. The settlement
agreement indicates that Chese-
bro gave the documents to Wis-
consin’s attorney general.
Chesebro has pleaded guilty in
Georgia to a single felony count of
participating in a conspiracy to
file false documents for his role in
The Supreme Court’s overall judgment that Colorado could not disqualify Donald Trump from its
primary ballots was unanimous, but some justices said the ruling went too far.
endure such chaos — arriving at
any time or different times, up
to and perhaps beyond the
Inauguration.”
Five justices went further,
ruling that the 14th
Amendment is not “self-
executing” — that it needs
Congress to enforce it.
While Section 3 of the 14th
Amendment bars people who
have “engaged in insurrection”
from holding office, the ruling
cites Section 5 as limiting states’
power. Section 5 says that
“Congress shall have power to
enforce, by appropriate
legislation, the provisions of this
article.”
“Congress’s Section 5 power is
critical when it comes to Section
3,” the ruling says.
The ruling did say that states
may, however, disqualify
someone from holding state
office under the 14th
Amendment.
eZ re
organizing the pro-Trump elec-
tors. He has since met with other
state investigators — including in
Nevada and Arizona.
Chesebro, who aided the Trump
campaign with legal challenges
after the November 2020 election,
has testified under oath that Trou-
pis brought him into the former
president’s sphere. He was eager
to lend his expertise, records
show.
In the immediate days after the
election, Troupis and Chesebro
mostly communicated about rou-
tine legal issues involving legal
challenges and the recount Trou-
pis was heading up for Trump. The
first inkling of the elector strategy
appears in the documents on
Nov. 8, a day after the Associated
Press had called the race for Biden.
Chesebro wondered whether
there were legal grounds to chal-
lenge the result in Wisconsin
based on various issues. If so —
and if court proceedings were on-
going during the deadline for
states to certify results, he wrote,
“I don’t see why electoral votes”
certified by the governor “should
be counted over an alternative
slate sent in by the legislature.”
The two attorneys became in-
“By publishing these documents and restricting the
defendants from submitting fake votes again we
are providing Wisconsinites with the transparency
and accountability they deserve.”
Scott Thompson, an attorney with the liberal nonprofit firm Law forward,
which represented Biden electors in the lawsuit
creasingly focused on the elector
theory after Chesebro sent Trou-
pis a memo in late November that
pushed for the idea of a pro-Trump
roster of electors organizing in
Wisconsin.
Troupis emailed Chesebro’s
analysis to a Trump deputy cam-
paign manager on Nov. 25: “Here
is the memo we discussed about
potentially moving the drop dead
date back by several weeks in
naming electors,” Troupis wrote.
“This requires some very careful
research for a given State, and
some very precise actions the
Trump electors must take in those
states.”
As the calendar ticked toward
Dec. 14, when electors were to
meet in each state to cast their
votes for president, Chesebro sent
a new memo that Trump’s electors
should meet in what he described
as “six contested States, and send
in the certificates” to official chan-
nels. He urged Troupis to get it to
Trump’s campaign “and others in-
No discussion of whether
Trump actually ‘engaged in
insurrection’
The ruling provides precisely
zero clarity on the underlying
issue of whether Trump actually
engaged in insurrection —
neither ruling that he did nor
that he didn’t, or even engaging
in discussion about it.
Both a Colorado district court
and the Colorado Supreme
Court ruled that Trump had
engaged in insurrection, citing
both his Jan. 6, 2021, speech that
preceded the attack on the
Capitol and his lack of
immediate action when it began.
The state Supreme Court said
Trump’s “actions constituted
overt, voluntary, and direct
participation in the
insurrection.”
A judge in Illinois and Maine’s
secretary of state also found that
Trump engaged in insurrection,
and several other judges have
volved with national strategy
ASAP.” Chesebro added: “We’re
only 7 days away now.”
In a garbled emailed response,
Troupis indicated that he had “by-
passed” the campaign staffer and
was working on the issue. Troupis
also texted Chesebro on Dec. 7: “I
have sent it to the White House
this afternoon. The real decision-
makers.” He texted that he had
also given it to Trump’s former
chief of staff, Reince Priebus, who
was from Wisconsin and had once
led the state party there.
“So he might talk with the presi-
dent,” Troupis wrote.
Troupis also made contact with
Trump campaign adviser Boris
Epshteyn. He described the
Chesebro memos to him as docu-
ments that “I had prepared for me
on appointing a second slate of
electors in Wisconsin.” The plan,
Troupis said, could be replicated,
and the “key nationally would be
for all six states to do it so the
election remains in doubt until
January.” But, he wrote, pro-
Trump electors had to meet, vote
and transmit their results on
Dec. 14.
Two days later, Epshteyn wrote
Troupis with a question from
Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani.
Epshteyn wondered whether
Troupis could “prepare a sample
elector ballot for Wisconsin? If the
answer is yes,” wrote Epshteyn,
“how would you feel about prepar-
ing same sample ballots for PA,
Georgia, Michigan, AZ, Nevada
and New Mexico? If that’s difficult,
we can have counsels in those
states do it. Thank you!”
Troupis forwarded Epshteyn’s
message to Chesebro and others:
“KEN — would you be able to do
this for the other States?” Chese-
bro agreed, and Troupis contin-
ued to provide direction, asking
him to draft ballots and instruc-
tions for Trump electors on how
and where to meet and how to
mail paperwork to official govern-
ment offices.
Pages of emails and text mes-
sages over the course of about
three months — between early
November and early February —
detailed extensive portions of the
attorneys’ correspondence with
JaBin BoTsford/The WashingTon PosT
come close to accusing Trump of
that.
Four justices say the court
went too far
The judgment is one thing;
the scope of the ruling is
another. Five justices went
further than the full court by
declaring that Congress must
enforce the insurrection clause.
The three justices from the
court’s liberal wing strongly
objected to this, and Justice Amy
Coney Barrett objected less
forcefully. Each of the four
indicated that the court need
not have gone that far.
The concurrence from
Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena
Kagan and Ketanji Brown
Jackson is full-throated on this
point.
They agreed that allowing
Colorado to disqualify Trump
would lead to “chaos,” but they
disagreed with the argument
the washington post
each other, with Trump’s cam-
paign officials and key Trump al-
lies, and with state party officials
around the nation as they scram-
bled to implement the plan and
then ensure that the paperwork
arrived in Washington on time.
On the eve of the Dec. 14 gather-
ing of electors — as Republicans in
Pennsylvania said they were un-
comfortable portraying them-
selves as legitimate electors —
Chesebro wrote to two Trump
campaign advisers that the cam-
paign “should indemnify electors
against any legal costs,” even
though he thought they had no
legal exposure.
“A state might be able to punish
faithless electors” who do not back
their candidates, Chesebro wrote.
“It can’t punish electors for being
faithful, and backing their candi-
date through speech acts that ex-
pand congress’s options.”
Late that night, hours before
electors gathered, Troupis texted
Chesebro: “Is everything under
control for tomorrow electors
vote?”
Chesebro, who had flown to
Wisconsin to attend the signing
ceremony for GOP electors there,
replied that it was. Wisconsin’s
Supreme Court decided a case in-
volving the recount about an hour
before Republicans met to sign
their paperwork. The court up-
held Biden’s victory, and Trump
said he would appeal to the U.S.
Supreme Court.
He said that he had fielded
questions from those involved in
Arizona, Georgia and Pennsylva-
nia.
In Arizona, Chesebro had been
working with then-state Republi-
can Party Chair Kelli Ward and the
party’s executive director, Greg
Safsten, who was also an elector,
according to a Dec. 12, 2020, email
from Arizona-based attorney Jack
Wilenchik, who was also working
with them.
“Kelli knows how to get in touch
with all the electors and has been
coordinating with them I believe,”
Wilenchik wrote.
In other emails, Ward asked
about the process used to deter-
mine drafts of elector certificates
that showed that GOP activist
Nancy Cottle would serve as secre-
tary of the effort and that Tyler
Bowyer, a Republican national
committeeman from the state and
executive of a conservative group
that targets young voters, would
serve as chair. Chesebro replied
that he had drafted the elector
certificates and said that the cer-
tificates should “be edited to re-
flect who is actually elected to
those positions.” Cottle became
the chair, and another GOP activ-
ist became secretary.
that congressional enforcement
was “critical” to the 14th
Amendment. And they
suggested the court’s majority
was insulating both Trump and
other alleged insurrectionists.
They said the five justices
“decide novel constitutional
questions to insulate this Court
and petitioner” — Trump —
“from future controversy.”
“By resolving these and other
questions, the majority attempts
to insulate all alleged
insurrectionists from future
challenges to their holding
federal office,” the three justices
wrote.
The three justices began
their non-dissent dissent by
quoting Chief Justice John G.
Roberts Jr. When Roberts
agreed with the court’s
judgment in Dobbs v. Jackson
in 2022 but wanted to stop
short of overturning Roe v.
Wade, Roberts said, “If it is not
necessary to decide more to
dispose of a case, then it is
necessary not to decide more.”
Barrett’s concurrence was
much briefer. She did not join in
the section in which the
majority calls Section 5 “critical”
to Section 3. That means she
effectively agreed that states
can’t disqualify federal
candidates, though she declined
to embrace the idea that only
Congress can.
But she seemed to take issue
with the tone of the three liberal
justices’ concurrence, saying
that “this is not the time to
amplify disagreement with
stridency.”
Notably, none of these
disagreements is labeled a
dissent. It’s clear the court
wanted to speak unanimously —
even as it was not unanimous on
some key issues.
Where it leaves us
The fact that the justices
wanted to maintain at least the
appearance of unanimity is
important. They will be taking
up other divisive Trump-related
issues, and they recognize the
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In another email, Ward on
Dec. 12 asked that the Trump cam-
paign create and produce the doc-
uments and transmit them.
“I spoke directly to Rudy and
told him we were working to make
sure we accomplish what we need
to do,” she wrote.
Emails show that Chesebro sent
Ward, Safsten, Wilenchik and an-
other Arizona attorney detailed
instructions on how to carry out
the plan and a draft of a news
release, which was “borrowed
from what the lead lawyer in WI
(Jim Troupis) wrote & expects to
release.” He instructed them to
ensure that envelopes were sealed
and labeled and to retain copies of
ballots “as proof that the Electors
did actually cast ballots for Presi-
dent & Vice President.”
The communications also in-
clude photos taken by Chesebro of
Trump electors meeting to sign
documents in Wisconsin, a video
taken of the meeting, and of Re-
publican lawyers and officials
gathered inside an aircraft during
a trip to Washington in mid-De-
cember. On that trip, which hap-
pened after the electoral college
met, they met with Trump in the
Oval Office and discussed the elec-
tor strategy. After that meeting,
Chesebro texted Troupis a tweet
from a conservative figure that
referenced Trump’s Dec. 19, 2020,
tweet about a “big protest”
planned in Washington ahead of
the Jan. 6, 2021, joint session of
Congress.
“Be there, will be wild,” Trump’s
tweet had said.
Chesebro texted Troupis:
“Wow. Based on 3 days ago, I think
we have unique understanding of
this.”
Troupis sought information
from Chesebro on what to expect
as objections to the official certifi-
cation of electoral votes in Con-
gress played out. Chesebro invited
Troupis to stay in an extra room he
had booked at the Trump hotel,
but Troupis was not planning to
travel to Washington for the Jan. 6
certification.
On that day, Troupis encour-
aged Chesebro in a text to “Enjoy
the history you have made possi-
ble today.” Soon after, they learned
that Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.)
could not get the elector paper-
work he was supposed to deliver
to Pence “because it is not sealed,”
Troupis texted. Chesebro texted
photos of himself on the ground,
smiling among a crowd and wear-
ing a red Trump 2020 hat.
“Tear gas in the Capitol,” Trou-
pis texted. Chesebro replied that
he had caught a whiff.
Patrick Marley and adriana Usero
contributed to this report.
importance of at least looking as
if they’re speaking with one
voice.
But the price of that
purported unanimity is that it
leaves the matter somewhat
unresolved.
By not weighing in on
whether Trump engaged in
insurrection, that remains open
to interpretation — and
specifically, Congress’s. What if
Trump won in November, for
instance, but Democrats
controlled both chambers of
Congress and moved to
disqualify him?
The ruling also creates some
tension with other writings of
the court, in which it found that
other Reconstruction-era
amendments — one of which
includes similar language to
Section 5, and even the 14th
Amendment itself — were self-
executing.
In South Carolina v.
Katzenbach in 1966, the court
ruled that the 15th Amendment
was self-executing. That
amendment states, “The
Congress shall have power to
enforce this article by
appropriate legislation.”
The court even previously
said, in 1883 in the Civil Rights
Cases, that the 14th Amendment
“is undoubtedly self-executing,
without any ancillary legislation,
so far as its terms are applicable
to any existing state of
circumstances.”
The three liberal justices in
Monday’s Trump v. Anderson
opinion wrote that the ruling
“simply creates a special rule for
the insurrection disability in
Section 3.”
The ruling also invites Trump
to continue arguing that liberal
activists have gone too far in
trying to take him down in the
courts. (Though it’s worth
noting the Colorado suit was
brought by Republican and
unaffiliated voters.)
Shortly after the ruling was
handed down, Trump quickly
scheduled a news conference at
Mar-a-Lago.
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Kerry, stepping down as climate envoy, remains optimistic on global e≠ort
BY M AXINE J OSELOW
Soon after he was tapped to
help save the planet, U.S. special
climate envoy John F. Kerry
found himself on another planet
entirely.
It was April 2021, during the
depths of the coronavirus pan-
demic, and Kerry had flown to
Shanghai to meet with his Chi-
nese counterparts. He was greet-
ed on the tarmac by dozens of
people in hazmat suits who
resembled astronauts wearing
“moon suits,” Kerry recalled in a
recent interview with The Wash-
ington Post.
“They were completely anti-
septically sealed from us,” he said.
“It was like going into some weird
otherworld.”
Those early talks with Chinese
climate diplomats — who sat at
the opposite end of a long table
from Kerry and his staff — paved
the way for a key agreement last
year. As part of the deal, Beijing
agreed to collaborate with Wash-
ington on reducing planet-heat-
ing methane emissions and tran-
sitioning from fossil fuels to re-
newable energy.
Analysts say the U.S.-China
deal helped clinch a historic out-
come at last year’s U.N. Climate
Change Conference in Dubai.
There, negotiators from nearly
200 countries agreed for the first
time to phase out fossil fuels, the
main cause of rising tempera-
tures that have wrought devasta-
tion across the globe.
Now, Kerry, who turned 80 in
Dubai, is stepping down from his
post after more than 40 years of
public service, including as a sen-
ator from Massachusetts and as
secretary of state during the
Obama administration. His last
day in the role will be Wednesday.
President Biden has tapped sen-
ior adviser John D. Podesta to
replace Kerry, although Podesta
will be based at the White House
rather than the State Depart-
ment.
The move marks the end of an
era in climate diplomacy. Kerry, at
6-foot-4, has literally and figura-
tively towered over global climate
talks. He was seemingly omni-
present at the 2022 talks in Sharm
el-Sheikh, Egypt, before he con-
tracted the coronavirus and was
sidelined to his hotel room during
the final days of negotiations.
Kerry has drawn on “unbeliev-
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for President Biden this year while also teaching at the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs. His last day as climate envoy is Wednesday.
able reserves of energy” at the
U.N. climate talks, where bleary-
eyed negotiators run on just a few
hours of sleep, said Sue Biniaz,
the U.S. deputy special climate
envoy.
“Even when the rest of us were
ready to give up on things, he
would always want to keep try-
ing,” Biniaz said. “He would some-
times lapse into ‘the sky is falling,’
but then that would propel him to
do more, and then he would get
optimistic again.”
Jennifer Morgan, the German
climate envoy, agreed. “When I
think of him, I think of a tireless
energy, like an Energizer bunny,”
she said of Kerry.
Mohamed Adow, the director
of the Nairobi-based environ-
mental think tank Power Shift
Africa, credited Kerry with
“bringing some sanity back to the
climate discourse” after the
Trump administration withdrew
the United States from the Paris
agreement. But he criticized Ker-
ry and Congress for not fulfilling
President Biden’s pledge to pro-
vide more than $11 billion annu-
ally in international climate aid.
“However you want to think of
John Kerry, he hasn’t delivered
the serious gains to those of us on
the front lines of the climate
crisis,” Adow said.
Because of his regular travels,
Kerry spends little time at his
State Department office, which is
sparsely decorated, with the ex-
ception of a helmet emblazoned
with “SPEC” — an acronym for
“special presidential envoy for
climate” — that he wears when
riding electric scooters around
Washington.
It was there The Post sat down
with Kerry last month to discuss
his legacy, the 2024 election and
the future of global efforts to
stave off a climate catastrophe.
Compartmentalizing with
China
Kerry credited his close rela-
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recently retired as Chinese cli-
mate envoy, for helping to rekin-
dle climate cooperation between
the two economic superpowers.
The two men forged an unusual
friendship built on mutual re-
spect, even as relations between
their two countries soured over
trade, technology, Taiwan and
other issues.
“We were able to separate the
very legitimate issues of conten-
tion … from what we think is not a
bilateral issue at all, but a univer-
sal issue,” Kerry said. “We were
able to compartmentalize in a
way that allowed us to be con-
structive. And Xie Zhenhua and I
have known each other for about
20, 25 years. We built up a level of
trust and knowledge and respect
for each other. I think that was
central to being able to get things
done.”
Still, the U.S.-China deal is si-
lent on Beijing’s plans to continue
building coal-fired power plants.
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fossil fuel, to avert the worst
consequences of a warming at-
mosphere.
“They do have coal plants that
are coming online, and they have
coal plants that are planned, and
we’ve raised those plants with
them very, very directly,” Kerry
said. “They insist that they may
not need to bring many of those
plants online because of the level
of renewables that they are de-
ploying. And we know for a fact
that China is building and deploy-
ing more renewables than the
rest of the world put together.”
Reworking U.N. climate talks
The U.N. climate summits are
run by consensus, meaning any
single country can scuttle a deal.
Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest
oil exporter, had historically
blocked language on phasing out
fossil fuels.
Some climate advocates have
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so that petrostates wield less in-
fluence. Environmental cham-
pion and former vice president Al
Gore, for instance, has argued
that a supermajority of 75 percent
of countries should approve final
decisions.
Kerry said he is “willing to look
at” such proposals. But he cau-
tioned that there could be unin-
tended consequences, such as
developing countries muscling
through deals over objections
from developed nations such as
the United States.
“Putting it bluntly, you could
wind up with some outcomes that
Al Gore and people in the United
States might really oppose and
hate,” he said. “So you’ve got to
look at this very carefully.”
Taking on Trump
Former president Donald
Trump, the front-runner for the
Republican presidential nomina-
tion, has pledged to repeal Biden’s
signature climate law, the Infla-
tion Reduction Act. Trump’s for-
mer advisers say he would also
use a second term to again aban-
don the Paris climate accord.
Kerry hopes to head off that
outcome by campaigning for
Biden, while also teaching at the
Yale Jackson School of Global
Affairs. But regardless of the elec-
tion results, he said, America
won’t reverse its clean-energy
transition.
“During [Trump’s] first term,
85 percent of the new electricity
in the United States came from
renewables,” he said. “Why? Be-
cause governors of states — Re-
publicans and Democrats alike —
have renewable portfolio laws
that they have to follow. So in
effect, Donald Trump may have
left the Paris agreement, but the
United States did not.”
Kerry also noted that the ma-
jority of clean-energy invest-
ments spurred by the Inflation
Reduction Act are in Republican-
led districts, according to data
compiled by the advocacy group
Climate Power.
“For a man who claims that he
values making money and knows
how to make money, I will be
stupefied if he’s going to pull the
rug out from under a whole
bunch of his supporters who are
investing in and making a lot of
money in clean energy,” Kerry
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Chinese national flags flutter at Tiananmen Square in Beijing on Thursday ahead of the annual Two Sessions meetings, a highly choreographed event where Communist Party leaders declare their goals.
BY C HRISTIAN S HEPHERD
AND L YRIC L I
iN BeijiNg
C
hina is facing a tricky year
ahead, with economic
growth slowing, the popula-
tion — and more importantly, the
workforce — shrinking, markets
in turmoil and tensions with the
United States remaining high.
The American presidential cam-
paign will probably see an in-
crease in anti-Beijing sentiment.
How will the ruling Commu-
nist Party deal with these chal-
lenges? We will get a good handle
on policies and approaches when
the “Two Sessions” begin in Bei-
jing this week.
The meetings will probably last
about nine days and will see about
5,000 delegates from around the
country descend on the great Hall
of the People — the palatial build-
ing on one side of Tiananmen
Square — many of them wearing
the traditional dress of their peo-
ple. The event is high on pomp
and ceremony, and also on con-
trol: Traffic is rerouted and secu-
rity is dramatically tightened.
The political proceedings will
be highly choreographed, with
most of the decisions having al-
ready been made by Communist
Party leaders in advance, but the
events give those leaders an op-
portunity to declare their inten-
tions to the country. They’re also
closely watched by outside ob-
servers looking for clues about the
direction in which China is head-
ing.
it’s particularly important this
year because China’s economy,
the world’s second-largest, is
struggling. Li Qiang, the new pre-
mier and a loyal lieutenant of
leader Xi jinping, will give his
first government “work report,”
setting out the Communist Party’s
growth target and economic strat-
egy, as well as foreign policies.
What is the ‘Two Sessions’?
The Two Sessions, or “lianghui”
in Chinese, is the annual gather-
ing of China’s National People’s
iRan
Hard-liners keep hold
in low-turnout vote
iranian hard-line politicians
dominated the country’s vote for
parliament, results released
Monday showed, maintaining
their hold on the legislature in a
vote that saw a record-low
turnout amid boycott calls.
interior Minister Ahmad
Vahidi said Friday’s vote saw
25 million ballots cast — a
turnout of just under 41 percent.
it took several days for iran to
announce turnout statistics,
without explanation.
it’s unclear whether turnout
was depressed by voter apathy or
a desire to send a message to
iran’s theocracy.
Of 290 races held for
parliament, voters decided 245
Economy expected to dominate
annual political confab in China
Congress (NPC), the rubber-
stamp legislature, and the Chi-
nese People’s Political Consulta-
tive Conference (CPPCC), an advi-
sory body without legislative
power.
According to the Chinese con-
stitution, the lawmaking NPC is
the highest organ of state power.
But real decision-making authori-
ty remains firmly in the grasp of
the Chinese Communist Party’s
Politburo and its seven-member
standing committee.
The NPC session involves near-
ly 3,000 delegates, mostly officials
and Communist Party members,
who will ratify legislation, finalize
personnel reshuffles and approve
the government budget for the
year. This year’s meeting kicks off
Tuesday and is expected to last
about a week.
The 2,000-odd representatives
to the CPPCC meet at the same
time in the same place to offer
policy suggestions, although their
input rarely translates into signif-
icant shifts in policy.
Bringing in business leaders,
celebrities and other influential
people from outside the party
elite as representatives is meant
to show engagement with the
broader society. Previous del-
egates have included NBA star
Yao Ming and actress gong Li.
Why do these meetings
matter?
While laws pass with over-
whelming majorities, the Two
Sessions are where Beijing signals
its priorities for the year. They
may be scripted, but the meetings
are often a vehicle for important
announcements.
it was at previous Two Sessions
meetings that China formally
ended the one-child policy, re-
seats in the first round, interior
Ministry spokesman Mohsen
eslami said.
— Associated Press
tHe Hague
International court
plans hearing on Kony
international Criminal Court
prosecutors will present
evidence to back up charges of
war crimes and crimes against
humanity against fugitive
Ugandan rebel leader joseph
Kony at the global court’s first in-
absentia hearing later this year.
The court announced Monday
that it will hold a “confirmation
of charges” hearing starting Oct.
15 against Kony, the alleged
leader of the Lord’s Resistance
Army, a brutal rebel group,
nearly two decades after first
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vealed plans to pass a “national
security law” to curb dissent in
Hong Kong, and removed term
limits for the presidency, clearing
the way for Xi to rule for life
should he choose to.
Li, the premier, is heading the
meeting for the first time since
being appointed in last year’s ses-
sion. He will open the proceedings
Tuesday with a speech that sums
up the past year and sets priorities
for the year ahead.
it is here that important eco-
nomic goals are revealed, includ-
ing the closely watched gross do-
mestic product target. Li is in
effect giving the country’s sprawl-
ing bureaucracy its marching or-
ders.
After a week of meetings —
where lawmakers (nominally) de-
bate the policies and (more often)
praise the top leadership — the
work report is passed, usually
with only cosmetic changes. The
delegates also vote on laws and
bills drawn up in advance by the
top leadership.
everything passes, although
sometimes there are delays or
symbolic protest votes when del-
egates want to signal displeasure
with controversial policies.
in 2013, almost a third of del-
egates voted against a new lineup
for the environmental Protection
and Resources Conservation
Committee out of protest over the
government’s poor handling of air
pollution. The appointment went
ahead, though that opposition
slowed a later revision of the envi-
ronmental protection law.
Delegates also use a system of
proposals to publicly raise pet is-
sues, with policy solutions rang-
ing from practical ideas, such as
reforms to parental leave or rais-
ing minimum wages for gig work-
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seeking his arrest.
Kony faces 12 counts of crimes
against humanity, including
murder, sexual enslavement and
rape, and 21 counts of war crimes
including cruel treatment of
civilians, pillaging and enlisting
child soldiers, allegedly
committed in 2003 and 2004 in
northern Uganda.
— Associated Press
tHailanD
Former prime minister
acquitted of fraud
A Thai court on Monday
acquitted former prime minister
Yingluck Shinawatra, who is
living in exile, on charges of
mishandling funds for a
government project in 2013, the
latest legal victory for the
ers, to nationalist grandstanding
over issues like cutting english
lessons from the school curricu-
lum.
What is special about this
year?
Xi’s historic third term, which
officially began in March last year
after he broke norms of succes-
sion and stacked the top leader-
ship with his political acolytes,
has had a rocky start.
China’s ending of harsh “zero
covid” restrictions did not result
in the anticipated economic re-
bound, shaking confidence and
weakening its stock markets,
which began the year with a
10 percent slump.
The Chinese economy expand-
ed by 5.2 percent last year, and
many analysts expect Li to set a
growth target of around 5 percent
for 2024, an ambitious goal given
the property market weakness
and insipid consumer demand.
While that is high compared
with developed economies, it is
already far lower than the more
than 6 percent target of five years
ago — and a far cry from the
10 percent mark recorded before
Xi came to power in 2012.
This year’s legislative meeting
is a chance for the Chinese leader-
ship to show it has a plan to
prevent a sudden economic slow-
down. Li is expected to unveil
stronger stimulus measures and
more government spending.
The reality of the slowdown,
driven primarily by a shrinking
real estate sector that still ac-
counts for a fifth of the economy,
has led some Chinese economists
to suggest scrapping an economic
target altogether, which they fear
helps fuel unsustainable levels of
debt.
powerful family of former
premier Thaksin Shinawatra.
The action comes shortly after
Thaksin, Yingluck’s brother, was
released on parole for corruption
offenses. Last year, he returned
home after more than a decade
of self-imposed exile, and was
detained in a hospital six months
before being granted clemency
due to age and ill health.
it was the latest favorable
verdict for Yingluck, 56, who was
prime minister from 2011 until
she was forced from office in
2014. in December, the same
court cleared Yingluck of abuse
of power linked to a personnel
transfer she had overseen.
in 2017 she was sentenced in
absentia for alleged negligence in
implementing a rice subsidy
program that lost a massive
amount of government money.
— Associated Press
the washington post
What about China’s view of
the world?
Pronouncements from top
leaders are also watched closely
for subtle shifts in language that
may signal more military aggres-
sion toward Taiwan, the island
democracy of 23 million that Bei-
jing claims as its territory.
in the latest example of these
pressure tactics, the Chinese coast
guard has in recent weeks started
to patrol near Taiwan’s outlying
island of Kinmen after a Chinese
fishing boat capsized while being
chased from Taiwanese-
controlled waters.
The meeting could unveil a new
Chinese foreign minister, too.
Qin gang, who was chosen as
the face of Chinese diplomacy in
December 2022, disappeared af-
ter only six months on the job and
was removed from his post in july.
Qin and ousted defense minister
Li Shangfu were both removed as
state councilors last week.
Oxford-educated diplomat Liu
jianchao, a fluent english speak-
er, is the front-runner, analysts
said. Liu and the recently appoint-
ed defense minister, Dong jun,
are expected to replace their dis-
graced predecessors and become
state councilors, a senior role in
the official hierarchy.
The upcoming U.S. election will
hang over the proceedings, ac-
cording to analysts and state me-
dia. To preempt potential upheav-
al from a Donald Trump victory,
Beijing is expected to double
down on plans to ensure “self-
reliance” in critical technologies
like semiconductors.
in a sign of national security
concerns, a revised law on state
secrets, expected to take effect in
May, will broaden the scope of
restricted sensitive information
Greenland women sue
Denmark: A group of indigenous
women in greenland have sued
Denmark for forcing them to be
fitted with intrauterine
contraceptive devices in the
1960s and 1970s and demanded
total compensation of nearly
$6.3 million, their lawyer said
Monday. The 143 inuit women
say Danish health authorities
violated their human rights
when they fitted them with the
devices, also known as coils.
Some of the women — including
many who were teenagers at the
time — were not aware of what
happened or did not consent to
it. each is demanding up to
$44,000, the women’s lawyer,
Mads Pramming, told the
Associated Press. The purpose
was allegedly to limit population
growth in greenland.
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to “work secrets.”
What’s Xi up to during all
this?
Although Xi is not formally in
charge of proceedings at the Two
Sessions, China’s most powerful
leader in decades tends to make
his presence known throughout
the event with comments that of-
ten get top billing in state media.
Through drop-ins with provin-
cial delegations, industry bodies
and military representatives, he
could present new slogans or hint
at shifting priorities — all of
which gets folded into his person-
al ideology that is meant to guide
Chinese policymaking.
experts on Chinese politics
track Xi’s movements closely to
signs of who is in or out of favor.
Attendance at a province’s session
can be a stamp of approval for the
local party chief and their ap-
proach.
it’s also a time for Xi to burnish
his populist image through sup-
posedly spontaneous interactions
with people beyond his inner cir-
cle.
For outside observers, the trick
is extracting hard policy signals
from the propaganda and pag-
eantry.
in a bid to rebuff international
concern about repression in Xin-
jiang, Tibet and inner Mongolia,
Xi is often shown meeting and
receiving gifts from delegates
from the country’s periphery, who
attend wearing colorful tradition-
al dress.
in 2017, as a mass internment
campaign targeting Uyghurs and
other mostly Muslim groups in
the far northwest was taking
shape, Xi joined a delegation led
by Chen Quanguo, often consid-
ered the architect of the crack-
down.
in state media, though, the fo-
cus was on Xi being given a tradi-
tional Uyghur hat from the de-
scendants of a man who once,
according to Communist Party
mythology, rode a donkey from
Xinjiang to Beijing to visit Mao
Zedong.
Ramses statue found in Egypt:
An egyptian-U.S. archaeological
mission has uncovered the upper
part of a huge statue of King
Ramses ii during excavations
south of the egyptian city of
Minya, egypt’s Tourism and
Antiquities Ministry said
Monday. The limestone block is
about 3.8 meters (12½ feet) high
and depicts a seated Ramses
wearing a double crown and a
headdress topped with a royal
cobra, Bassem jihad, head of the
mission’s egyptian team, said in
a statement. The upper part of
the statue’s back column shows
hieroglyphic writings that glorify
the king, one of ancient egypt’s
most powerful pharaohs, he said.
Also known as Ramses the great,
he was the third pharaoh of the
19th Dynasty of egypt and ruled
from 1279 to 1213 B.C.
— From news services
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Explosion at rail bridge deep inside Russia demonstrates Ukraine’s reach
BY I SABELLE K HURSHUDYAN
KYIV — Ukraine hinted Monday
that its agents were responsible
for an explosion on a Russian
railway bridge used to transport
ammunition, in what appears to
be the latest successful operation
targeting infrastructure deep be-
hind enemy lines as Ukrainian
forces struggle against advancing
Russian troops.
Ukraine’s military intelligence
agency, the GUR, said Monday
that the explosion on the railway
bridge in Russia’s Samara region
— about 650 miles from the
Ukrainian border — occurred
about 6 a.m. local time. “Its use in
the next few weeks is impossible,”
the agency said in a post on the
Telegram social media app.
The GUR did not directly as-
sert responsibility for the attack,
but this wouldn’t be the first time
Ukraine’s security services have
targeted military rail routes in
Russia — a hybrid warfare tech-
nique that has increased as Rus-
sia has regained the offensive
initiative along the front line in
Ukraine.
The Security Service of
Ukraine, or SBU, was responsible
for December explosions on rail-
way links between Russia and
North Korea in the Buryatia re-
gion, about 3,750 miles east of
Gang rape of foreign tourist seizes India’s attention
BY A NANT G UPTA
NEW DELHI — Police in eastern
India say they have arrested three
men and are pursuing four others
in the gang rape of a Brazilian
tourist, a case that has drawn cries
of fury and shame from those in
Indian society who say sexual vio-
lence against women remains a
stubbornly endemic problem.
The attack on the Brazilian
travel blogger and her Spanish
partner took place in a forest late
Friday, as the couple were camp-
ing while traveling by motorbike
across eastern India to Nepal.
Struggling to fight back tears
and showing bruises on their fac-
es, the couple said in an Insta-
gram post Saturday morning that
seven men held knives against
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Ukraine, according to Ukrainian
intelligence officials.
“Such actions are important in
any case. These are legitimate
military objectives that must be
their throats and took turns sexu-
ally assaulting the woman while
beating and restraining her male
partner.
Local police in Jharkhand state
said in a news release that they
had taken the victims to a nearby
hospital and confirmed the out-
lines of their account. All seven
men have been identified and a
special investigation team has
been set up to arrest the four still
at large, police in the Dumka
district said.
While cases of rape targeting
Indian women from lower castes
and Indigenous tribal communi-
ties are rife, and often receive
little notice and aren’t pros-
ecuted, the incident involving a
foreigner — who went public on
social media to her more than
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destroyed — that is, everything
that allows the Russian Federa-
tion to create, provide and use an
amassing of troops,” said Mykola
Bielieskov, a military analyst at
200,000 followers — focused na-
tional attention to an unusual
degree.
National newspapers covered
the case, and women’s rights ac-
tivists, politicians and even Bolly-
wood celebrities weighed in on
social media to condemn what
they described as an intractable
problem despite efforts at cultur-
al and legal reform.
Karanjeet Kaur, a writer who
published an op-ed Monday
about her outrage over sexual vio-
lence against Indian women, said
the case sparked so much discus-
sion because the survivor stood
out by sharing an experience all
too common for Indian women.
“We have become so inured to
violence against women that only
when the contours of a case are
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the government-run National In-
stitute for Strategic Studies in
Ukraine.
It’s unclear how much the at-
tacks have hindered Russia’s abil-
very different does it make a dent
in our conscience,” she said in a
phone interview. “Otherwise our
bodies, our minds, our autonomy
does not matter at all.”
In December 2012, thousands
of Indians took to the streets to
protest the gang rape and death of
a 22-year-old student, a case that
prompted the Indian government
to expand the legal definition of
rape and introduce the death pen-
alty as a possible sentence for
rapists.
When Prime Minister Naren-
dra Modi first ran for the office in
2014, women’s safety featured
prominently in his outreach to
female voters, and nearly a decade
later, his administration remains
sensitive to any potential political
blowback from controversies over
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front. Ukrainian President Volod-
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Russia maintains a significant
ammunition advantage, firing
seven times as much as Ukrainian
forces. Though Kyiv is no strang-
er to shell shortages, the deficit
has become especially acute as
security assistance from Wash-
ington has stopped with the
White House’s requested $60 bil-
lion aid package stalled in Con-
gress.
The resource issues on the
battlefield — Ukrainian com-
manders have said they also lack
sufficient personnel — have al-
lowed Russia to advance in recent
weeks, capturing the eastern
Ukrainian city of Avdiivka and
several surrounding villages.
Ukrainian officials have privately
cautioned that Kyiv is unlikely
to attempt another counter-
offensive this year, especially
without an increase in Western
aid soon.
Guerrilla tactics, such as Mon-
day morning’s explosion on the
rail bridge, have taken on height-
ened importance as a result.
While attacks on Russian terri-
tory were rare during the first
year of the war — and were once
considered out of the realm of
Ukraine’s capabilities — they
have since become regular occur-
crimes against women.
Yet violent crimes against
women continue to rise, accord-
ing to national statistics, and
high-profile rape cases continue
to surface with alarming regulari-
ty, largely as a result of what many
say is a culture of downplaying
sexual harassment and violence
— and of giving impunity to the
perpetrators — in a patriarchal
society.
Last year, India’s Supreme
Court criticized the Gujarat gov-
ernment, led by Modi’s Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP), for the early
release of 11 men convicted of
gang-raping a Muslim woman,
Bilkis Bano, during riots in the
state in 2002. Upon their release,
the convicts had been garlanded
with flowers by well-wishers and
praised by a BJP lawmaker as
good Brahmins, the highest Hin-
du caste. In January, the Supreme
Court canceled their release and
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rences. Some are done with
drones, while others require op-
eratives on the ground to plant
explosives.
Russian officials confirmed an
explosion on the bridge but said
the damage was minimal. Al-
though train traffic was suspend-
ed, Russian emergency services
told the Russian Interfax news
agency that the bridge supports
were not damaged and that re-
pairs would take just several
hours.
“Sappers have found and neu-
tralized another explosive device,
a dud, at the location where the
railroad bridge over the Chapa-
yevka River was blown up,” Alex-
ander Khinshtein, a member of
parliament for the Samara re-
gion, said on Telegram.
The GUR also said Monday
that its hackers gained access to
Russian Defense Ministry serv-
ers, swiping secret military docu-
ments. The claim could not be
independently verified.
“The information obtained al-
lows us to establish the complete
structure of the system of the
Russian Ministry of Defense and
its units,” the GUR said in a post
on Telegram.
anastacia galouchka in kyiv and
natalia abbakumova in riga, Latvia,
contributed to this report.
ordered them returned to cus-
tody.
India’s female wrestlers staged
demonstrations starting in Janu-
ary last year against the chair of
the wrestling federation, accusing
him of repeatedly groping women
over the previous decade. But the
powerful BJP politician faced no
consequences until a court or-
dered police to investigate the
case in April 2023
The chief of India’s National
Commission for Women, Rekha
Sharma, was herself accused of
downplaying sexual violence
soon after the Brazilian blogger’s
experience became public.
When an American journalist
retweeted the couple’s account of
their assault and told of experi-
ences of his own, saying he had
never witnessed so much sexual
aggression as in India, Sharma
took him to task for “defaming”
India.
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Memorials
to painful
history in
Mexico City
MExICO from A1

group, which had “disappeared”

the students. But independent in-
vestigators found that state and
federal officials were involved in
the crime, too — and they alleged a
coverup. As mexico was rocked by
its biggest protests in decades, a
small group of activists decided to
put a memorial in a place where
the government couldn’t ignore it:
reforma.
The protesters formed a clan-
destine network — including ar-
chitects, welders, engineers and
construction workers. In a ware-
house far outside mexico City,
they secretly fashioned a 1,870-
pound sculpture. It was a giant 43,
with a plus sign nodding to the
growing number of people disap-
pearing, allegedly at the hands of
criminal groups, the police and
the military.
“We thought the story would
end with the plus-43. That the
government would take it down,”
said one of the activists, who only
gave his code name, Juan. But
after the statue was installed in
2015, he said, “people began to
claim it as their own.”
In the years since, activists have
installed anti-monuments up and
down reforma, as well as in near-
by plazas. The sculptures protest
government repression, deaths
blamed on bureaucratic or corpo-
rate indifference, pervasive vio-
lence against women in a machis-
ta culture.
Alexandra Délano, a scholar at
the New School in New York, said
activists “are trying to create a
space where memory does not
mean closure.” Instead, she said,
“memory means continuous
struggle.”
That’s true for Cristina Bautis-
ta, who often visits the plus-43
monument with other parents of
the missing Ayotzinapa students.
“Every month, we are there,” she
said. “Demanding the govern-
ment return our children alive.”
reforma has long been mexi- PhoTos by Luis anTonio rojas for The WashingTon PosT

co’s national stage, the site of pro-

tests and celebrations — whether
for a new president or the winner
of a soccer championship. But for
years, the avenue’s luster was
dimmed by street crime, eco-
nomic crises and the effects of the
1985 earthquake.
Lately, the mexican capital has
been experiencing a renaissance.
Leftist city governments tamed
the downtown crime. mexico’s re-
laxed covid-19 protocols contrib-
uted to a boom in tourism. Now,
on Sundays, reforma is thrown
open to bicyclists, runners and
exercise classes. Glittering five-
star hotels offer $250 tequila tast-
ings and host fashion Week. In
2021, reforma made Time out
magazine’s list of the “world’s
coolest streets.”
The contrast between the anti-
monuments and mexico City’s
new vibe couldn’t be starker. The
memorials are in-your-face re-
minders of institutional failure
and widespread impunity.
one statue, outside the mexi-
can Social Security Institute, re-
calls a 2009 blaze that ripped
through one of its day-care cen-
ters, killing 49 children. Another,
in front of the Stock Exchange,
commemorates 65 workers buried
by an explosion in 2006 at a coal
mine owned by a major company,
Grupo mexico.
The activists behind the instal-
lations have mostly remained
anonymous — to evade the police,
to allow victims’ families to take
center stage, to keep the govern-
ment on edge. Authorities “don’t
know when or how an anti-monu-
ment will appear,” Juan said.
In late 2020, George floyd’s
murder in police custody in min-
neapolis sparked global protests
against racial injustice, leading to
the toppling of statues commemo-
rating the Confederacy. As the tar-
gets spread to Spanish colonial TOP: In September 2021, activists installed an “anti-monument” on the pedestal where a Christopher Columbus statue had once stood on Mexico City’s Paseo de
icons — viewed as symbols of op- la Reforma. ABOVE: A demonstration in August on Reforma by relatives and friends of students from the Ayotzinapa teachers college who went missing in 2014
pression of Indigenous peoples — after they were detained by Mexican police. Protesters include Cristina Bautista, left, and a student at the school.
mexican authorities removed a
statue of Christopher Columbus
from a traffic circle on reforma.
months later, feminists and
mothers of the disappeared joined
veteran anti-monuments organiz-
ers in seizing the plaza. on top of ments alone, mexico City mayor “In New York, if a group took be forgotten,” he said. tary parade confront reminders of fronting this monopoly of legiti-
the empty pedestal, they placed a Claudia Sheinbaum — López ob- over the Statue of Liberty and said In may 2022, activists seized human rights abuses that the macy that the president and his
silhouette of a girl with her fist rador’s protégé and a hopeful in it would become the statue of another traffic circle on reforma, army was accused of having taken movement want.”
raised. They painted the site with the 2024 presidential race — drew some movement, would the U.S. known as the Plaza of the Palm. part in. The government hasn’t agreed
names of women who had battled the line at the Columbus circle. government allow it?” he asked. They renamed it the Plaza of the Authorities say they’re not try- to cede the Plaza of the Disap-
for justice. They christened it the City workers painted over the As in the United States, the Disappeared and plastered it with ing to downplay the country’s vio- peared. But last summer, after
Plaza of the Women Who fight. names on the anti-monument. debate over memorials has divid- photos of their missing loved ones. lence; a memorial garden honor- more than a year of legal skirmish-
The takeover was an open chal- The women repainted them. The ed mexicans. As López obrador nears the end ing victims was opened in 2013 in es and protests, the city gave up its
lenge to President Andrés manuel city announced it would replace “They’re taking away so many of his term, violence remains near mexico City’s main park, fight to put a new statue in the
López obrador, who built his ca- Columbus with a statue represent- of the beautiful things we have in record levels, with fresh reports of Chapultepec. But few people visit circle where Columbus once
reer on confronting the authori- ing Indigenous women. The activ- mexico,” said Genoveva Illescas, disappearances nearly every day. the out-of-the-way site. The activ- stood.
tarian, one-party state that domi- ists called it a distraction from as she strolled down reforma on a No one has been convicted in the ists want to keep the issue front If you look for the site on Google
nated mexico, and who had taken their protest. Sunday. Ayotzinapa case. and center. maps, it’s clear who has won this
office in 2018 pledging to improve ricardo ruiz, a top city official, Alfredo Cruz, who had just fin- The anti-monuments have be- That means reforma. small battle over mexican history.
the lives of the poor and bring says demonstrators can’t simply ished a race on the avenue, de- come a permanent j’accuse. Their demands go beyond a me- It’s now known as the Plaza of the
justice in disappearance cases. rename plazas or replace monu- fended the anti-monuments. Politicians pass them on their morial, said Jorge Verástegui, a Women Who fight.
Although authorities, for the ments — no matter how legitimate “People should not allow the dis- way to work. Soldiers marching member of a group searching for
most part, had left the anti-monu- their cause. appeared, the 43, the children, to down reforma in the annual mili- the disappeared. “We are also con- Lorena ríos contributed to this report.
tuesday, march 5 , 2024
What to know about
a potential cease-fire
deal between Israel
and Hamas
Sides have accepted general framework,
U.S. officials say, but not all of the details
BYB EN B RASCH,
L IOR S OROKA
AND D ANIEL W U
After weeks of negotiation,
Israeli and Palestinian authori-
ties may be nearing a cease-fire
agreement that would allow for
the release of hostages in the
custody of Hamas — which gov-
erns the Gaza Strip — and prison-
ers detained in Israel. Both sides
have accepted the general frame-
work that includes more aid for
Gazans, U.S. officials say, but not
all of the details. Israel, Hamas
and their mediators are trying to
make a deal before Sunday, the
start of the holy month of Rama-
dan.
How long would the cease-
fire last?
Vice President Harris said over
the weekend that the agreement
would include an immediate
cease-fire to last at least six
weeks, the longest pause in fight-
ing since a week-long period that
ended in December. The humani-
tarian pause facilitated hostage-
for-prisoner exchanges and aid
deliveries. Cease-fires generally
last longer than such pauses, The
Washington Post reported in No-
vember.
White House officials, who
spoke on the condition of ano-
nymity under ground rules set by
the White House to brief report-
ers, said Saturday that the frame-
work would include freeing hos-
tages held by Hamas and allow-
ing more aid.
Gazans are enduring a desper-
ate and worsening humanitarian
crisis, partly because of Israeli
restrictions on aid. Harris and
President Biden said recently
that Israel should allow more aid
into Gaza.
What is the status of
negotiations?
Talks involving Egypt, Qatar
and the United States were un-
derway Sunday in Cairo, but a
deal did not appear to be immi-
nent.
Israel will not send a high-level
delegation to Egypt until Hamas
responds to questions about the
framework, an Israeli official
with knowledge of the negotia-
tions told The Post over the
weekend, speaking on the condi-
tion of anonymity to discuss
sensitive talks.
The questions were about the
number and identities of Hamas-
held hostages and Israeli-
detained prisoners who would be
swapped, Israeli media reported.
White House officials said a
deal was close.
“The framework is there,” a
senior administration official
. the washington post
said Saturday in a background
briefing. “The Israelis have basi-
cally signed on to the elements of
the arrangement. And right now,
the ball is in the court of Hamas.”
On Sunday, Harris said it was
up to Hamas to accept the plan.
“Hamas claims it wants a
cease-fire,” she said during a
speech in Alabama. “Well, there
is a deal on the table.”
Details have bedeviled the
progress of negotiations since
January, The Post reported, and
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu rejected a cease-fire
framework in February.
Who would be released?
One of the White House offi-
cials said Saturday that “vulner-
able hostages” would be available
for release in the first phase of
the agreement. Defining that
group has been a point of conten-
tion, but it loosely includes the
sick, the wounded, the elderly
and women.
The Israeli government as of
Feb. 27 estimated that about 100
hostages remain in Gaza, though
it has not given the full basis for
its estimates. It is unclear how
many prisoners Israel would re-
lease in exchange for some hos-
tages. Hamas has said it would
release all hostages if Israel with-
draws all of its troops. Israel has
said it will not stop fighting until
it has destroyed Hamas.
At least 30,534 people have
been killed and 71,920 injured in
Gaza since the war began, ac-
cording to the Gaza Health Min-
istry, which does not distinguish
between civilians and combat-
ants. Israel estimates that about
1,200 people were killed in
Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack and says
246 soldiers have been killed
since the start of its military
operation in Gaza.
Why do mediators hope to
reach a deal before
Ramadan?
Ramadan is the holiest period
of the Islamic calendar, observed
by a month of fasting. From dawn
to dusk during Ramadan, adult
Muslims abstain from food,
drink, smoking and sexual rela-
tions.
The holy month, which begins
this year at sundown on Sunday,
is celebrated by Muslims around
the world as a time for religious
gatherings and prayer but has
historically been a flash point in
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Last year, Israeli police raided
al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem
and arrested Palestinian wor-
shipers during Ramadan,
prompting a deadly exchange of
strikes between Hamas and Isra-
el.
Inmates are seen at the Haitian National Penitentiary on Sunday, hours after armed gangs attacked the prison in Port-au-Prince. The
assault allowed a large number of the prison’s estimated 4,000 inmates to escape, according to Haitian Finance Minister Patrick Boivert.
Haiti declares emergency after mass prison break
BY W IDLORE M ÉRANCOURT
AND A DAM T AYLOR
PORt-aU-PRiNCE, Haiti —Haiti
is under a nighttime curfew after
armed gangs led a mass prison
break and demanded the resigna-
tion of the country’s prime minis-
ter, who is abroad seeking sup-
port for a U.N.-backed interna-
tional security force for the Carib-
bean nation.
The curfew is part of a renew-
able 72-hour state of emergency
imposed Sunday, following an
attack by gunmen on the coun-
try’s largest prison, the National
Penitentiary, late Saturday. The
attack allowed a large portion of
the prison’s estimated 4,000 in-
mates to escape, according to
Finance Minister Patrick Boivert.
In a statement, Boivert ac-
cused Haitian gangs of numerous
violent criminal acts, including
kidnapping, assassinations, and
violence against women and chil-
dren, as well as attacks on pris-
ons.
“The police were ordered to
use all legal means at their dis-
posal to enforce the curfew and
apprehend all offenders,” Boivert
said. He wrote that the curfew
would run from 8 p.m. until 5 a.m.
The dramatic escalation of vio-
lence comes after Jimmy Chériz-
ier — a former police officer
turned gang leader known by the
nickname “Barbecue” — called
for Haiti’s warring criminal fac-
tions to unite to oust the coun-
try’s acting prime minister, Ariel
Henry.
Gangs, such as Chérizier’s G9
Family and Allies alliance, are
now estimated to control up to
80 percent of the Haitian capital,
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Port-au-Prince, amid a surge in court ruled that a 2023 agree- international force in Haiti, in-
violence that led to 4,789 homi- ment to send police officers to stead focusing on providing other
cides last year, according to the Haiti would be unconstitutional types of aid. In a security alert
United Nations. because Kenya’s National Police issued Sunday, the U.S. Embassy
It was not immediately clear Force cannot be deployed outside in Port-au-Prince said U.S. citi-
how many people died in the of the country and the two na- zens should “depart Haiti as soon
weekend’s violence, though a tions did not have reciprocal as possible” and said its opera-
journalist at Spanish news agen- agreements. tions may be affected by “gang-re-
cy EFE recounted seeing at least In a lecture at Kenya’s United lated violence and its effects on
10 dead bodies at the National States International University transportation and infrastruc-
Penitentiary. on Friday, Henry said elections ture.”
Henry, a neurosurgeon who were needed to stabilize the coun- State Department spokesman
has served as Haiti’s top official try. “We need democratic govern- Matthew Miller told reporters
since the 2021 assassination of ance in order to have people to Monday that the United States is
President Jovenel Moïse, left the come and invest in Haiti,” he said. monitoring the situation and
country last week to try to rally Haiti has no elected officials in condemned efforts by gangs to
support for an international secu- power and has not held elections “further destabilize and take con-
rity force. In Nairobi, he attended in almost a decade. Caribbean trol of Haiti.”
a signing ceremony for reciprocal leaders said late Wednesday that “It’s our understanding that
agreements that could help send Henry had agreed to hold general the prime minister is returning to
1,000 Kenyan police officers to elections by mid-2025, though the country,” Miller said. “We
Haiti to lead a U.N.-backed inter- security concerns hang over any think it’s important that he do so,
national police force. such pledges. and that he be allowed to do so.”
Henry’s trip to Kenya came The Biden administration has
after the African country’s top refused to commit troops to an taylor reported from Washington.
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France enshrines right to abortion as ‘guaranteed freedom’ in constitution

BY K ARLA A DAM

PARIS — With the endorsement

of a specially convened session of
lawmakers at the Palace of
Versailles, France on Monday be-
came the first country in the
world to explicitly enshrine abor-
tion rights in its constitution —
an effort galvanized by the roll-
back of protections in the United
States.
The amendment referring to
abortion as a “guaranteed free-
dom” passed by a vote of 780 in
favor and 72 against, far above the
required threshold of support
from three-fifths of lawmakers, or
512 votes.
French President Emmanuel
Macron announced that a “seal-
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coinciding with International
Women’s Day.
“We’re sending a message to all
women: Your body belongs to
you, and no one can decide for
you,” Prime Minister Gabriel At-
tal told lawmakers assembled in
Versailles.
Thousands of Parisians gath-
ered to watch the proceedings
live on a giant television screen at
Le Parvis des Droits de l’Homme
— or Human Rights Square — in
central Paris, with the Eiffel Tow-
er looming dramatically over the
scene.
When the amendment passed,
the crowd erupted in celebration,
and the tower lit up with twin-
kling lights. Mothers and daugh-
ters embraced. People cheered
and waved French flags. The
square immediately transformed
into a massive street party, with
revelers singing the lyrics from a
Beyoncé song, “who run the
world, girls.”
Laurence Beldowski, 53,
turned to her daughter, Eugenie,
22, and hugged her tightly. A
topless woman danced through
the crowd with the words, “Bless-
ings, abortion is finally in the
constitution,” painted across her
bare torso.
“It’s incredible,” Beldowski
said. “It’s a long fight for all
generations, my mother, my
grandmother, my daughter; it’s
for every woman. It’s incredible to
be the first country to protect this
fundamental right of all women.”
France decriminalized abor-
tion in 1975. Abortion is legal here
French lawmakers applaud after voting to enshrine abortion rights in the country’s
constitution in a specially convened session at the Palace of Versailles on Monday.
for any reason through the 14th
week of pregnancy; that’s more
restrictive than in nearly half of
U.S. states, where abortion is pro-
tected well past 14 weeks. This
amendment won’t in itself loosen
any laws.
But while other countries have
inferred abortion rights protec-
tions from their constitutions, as
the U.S. Supreme Court did in Roe
v. Wade, or implied it, as Slovenia
does with a line about the free-
dom to choose to have children,
France is the first to explicitly
codify in its constitution that the
voluntary termination of preg-
nancy is protected.
“March 4, 2024, is now en-
graved in the great history of
human rights and women’s rights
as a historic turning point‚” said
Sen. Mélanie Vogel, one of the
main backers of the bill.
The outcome was “also a prom-
ise for all women who fight all
over the world for the right to
have autonomy over their bodies
— in Argentina, in the United
States, in Andorra, in Italy, in
Hungary, in Poland,” said law-
maker Mathilde Panot, who had
introduced the bill in the Nation-
al Assembly. “This vote today tells
them: Your struggle is ours; this
victory is yours.”
A reaction to the United
States
Activists and politicians have
been transparent that this is,
above all, a response to what has
been happening in the United
States since the Supreme Court
overturned Roe in 2022 and de-
termined that the right to abor-
tion has no constitutional stature
— that it could no longer be
inferred from constitutional pri-
vacy protections.
France has moved in the oppo-
site direction, with its politicians
saying that abortion is indeed a
matter of constitutional rel-
evance. And more than that: The
right to an abortion should be a
“guaranteed freedom.”
“It’s interesting to see French
politicians saying, ‘We’re going to
take the constitution into our
own hands and away from the
courts, or at least limit how much
discretion the courts are going to
have in this area,’” said Mary Ruth
Ziegler, a law professor at the
University of California at Davis
and the author of “Roe: The His-
tory of a National Obsession.”
The overturning of Roe was a
“major shock around the world,”
said Floriane Volt, a spokeswom-
an for the Fondation des Femmes
(Women’s Foundation), a wom-
en’s rights organization that orga-
nized Monday’s gathering.
“In France, it helped us so that
French politicians understood
what we were saying to them for
years and years. … We have to
fight for abortion rights,” she
said.
She added that she hoped the
success of the French campaign
would strengthen other abortion
The Eiffel Tower is lit up with the message “My Body My Choice” after the vote.
France’s effort to protect the right to abortion was in response to U.S. restrictions.
rights movements.
“U.S. activists, don’t give up the
fight,” said Lola Schulmann, an
advocacy officer with Amnesty
International in Paris who was at
Monday’s gathering.
What would it take to change
the U.S. Constitution, too?
In both the United States and
France, polls show that a majority
of people broadly support abor-
tion rights. But abortion is more
divisive in the United States than
in France. The largest of the anti-
abortion protests Monday ap-
peared to be a “March for Life”
demonstration near Versailles in-
volving several hundred people.
That may be in part because
France is proud of its commit-
ment to secularism. It may also be
because abortion in France has
long been framed as a public
health issue, rather than a privacy
issue, said Stéphanie Hennette-
Vauchez, a professor of public law
at the University of Paris-
Nanterre.
Changing the U.S. Constitution
would be harder — it requires not
only two-thirds majority support
in both houses of Congress, but
also ratification by at least 38 of
50 state legislatures.
“The obstacles are more signif-
icant,” Ziegler said.
Since the U.S. Constitution was
ratified in the 1780s, it has been
amended only 27 times, including
with the Bill of Rights. “That sort
of perspective gives you a sense of
just how difficult it is” to change
it, said Melissa Murray, a law
professor at New York University.
“It’s even more difficult today to
come up with a supermajority
given the political divisions.” By
contrast, the current constitution
of France, adopted in 1958, has
been amended 24 times.
State constitutions in the Unit-
ed States can be amended more
easily than the U.S. Constitution.
And so, “for people supporting
women’s rights, the strategy has
been to go incrementally through
the states, and hope to build
eventually towards something
nationally,” Ziegler said.
Since the end of Roe, six states
— California, Kansas, Kentucky,
Michigan, Vermont and Ohio —
have approved abortion-related
constitutional amendments. At
least 13 additional states are try-
ing to get abortion amendments
on their ballots this year.
The future of abortion rights
in France
In France, nothing will change
immediately as a result of the new
constitutional amendment.
The amendment does not
change the status quo or the
content of legislation as it stands
today. For instance, it is not sud-
denly legal for any reason to
terminate a pregnancy after the
15th week of pregnancy. The
French National Assembly and
the Senate would need to pass
legislation if they wanted to make
that kind of change.
“It’s up to Parliament to regu-
late in this field,” Hennette-
Vauchez said. But, going forward,
“Parliament cannot do exactly
what they want. They need to
legislate in a particular direction.
And that direction is one that
would preserve the idea of a
guaranteed freedom.”
It would now be more difficult
for a new government to ban
abortion at anything less than 15
weeks, or even to decide that
abortion was no longer fully cov-
ered by the country’s health in-
surance system.
But Hennette-Vauchez noted
that judicial interpretation is
hard to predict. “In that sense, the
word ‘guarantee’ is very impor-
tant, but it’s also relatively unde-
fined.”
France’s constitutional amend-
ment doesn’t safeguard abortion
rights in France for eternity. Rec-
ognizing a right doesn’t eliminate
all of the questions about that
right. There will still be judicial
interpretation over what a “guar-
anteed freedom” means.
And as lawmakers this year
have shown, constitutions can be
changed.
Far-right leader Marine Le Pen
dismissed the historic nature of
Monday’s vote, saying that it did
not respond to any particular
difficulties in France and was
merely “a day that [President]
Emmanuel Macron organized for
his own glory.”

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Economy & Business

Apple hit with nearly $2 billion E.U. antitrust fine for ‘abusing’ app store
Tech giant says it will
appeal commission’s
decision in Spotify case
BY C RISTIANO L IMA- S TRONG
The European Commission
fined Apple nearly $2 billion
Monday for “abusing” its control
over music streaming services by
squelching competition through
its app store, a major broadside as
regulators around the globe push
to rein in the tech giant’s alleged
antitrust violations.
The commission said it found
that Apple violated European
competition rules by preventing
app developers from informing
users about “alternative and
cheaper” music services.
The fine is the result of a years-
long investigation stemming
from an antitrust complaint by
rival Spotify.
Margrethe Vestager, executive
vice president and antitrust chief
for the commission, said in a post
that Apple’s conduct “had an im-
pact on millions of [E.U.] consum-
ers, who were not able to make a
#free choice as to where, how, and
at what price to buy music
streaming subscriptions.”
In 2019, Spotify accused Apple
of abusing its power over its app
store and unfairly “taxing” com-
petitors’ apps.
By placing fees on companies
offering rival products, Apple was
“essentially acting as both a play-
er and referee to deliberately dis-
advantage other app developers,”
CEO Daniel Ek wrote at the time.
The European Commission
took up charges against the tech
giant in 2021, criticizing the com-
pany for requiring that develop-
ers use its in-app payments sys-
tems and for imposing a 30 per-
cent commission on such transac-
tions, an approach it said “dis-
torts competition.”
The commission said Monday
that its investigation uncovered
“unfair trading conditions.”
Apple said in a statement in
response that it will appeal the
1.8 billion euro fine.
“Today, the European Commis-
sion announced a decision claim-
ing the App Store has been a
barrier to competition in the digi-
tal music market,” the company
said. “The decision was reached
despite the Commission’s failure
to uncover any credible evidence
of consumer harm, and ignores
the realities of a market that is
thriving, competitive, and grow-
ing fast.”
Spotify said in a statement
Monday that the commission’s
decision marks “an important
moment in the fight for a more
open internet for consumers.”
But the company said that
while it was “pleased” with the
move, “it does not solve Apple’s
bad behaviour towards develop-
ers beyond music streaming in
other markets around the world.”
Apple prevailed over a separate
antitrust challenge against its app
store in the United States, where
Epic Games, maker of the popular
Fortnite video game series, al-
leged the tech giant had abused
its monopoly by forcing develop-
ers to use Apple’s payment pro-
cessing service without inform-
ing consumers about alternatives.
A federal appeals court last
year affirmed a decision that Epic
Games had failed to prove its case
that Apple violated federal anti-
trust laws.
The Justice Department is also
currently investigating whether
Apple violated U.S. antitrust law
by stifling competitors; it could
face a lawsuit as early as late
March, according to media re-
ports.

BY J ACLYN P EISER

T
wo of the biggest names in
big-box retail have boosted
their bets on a growing
trend for bricks-and-mortar sales:
smaller stores.
Best Buy and Macy’s last week
announced plans to add small-
format stores in a strategy that
could help the companies cut
costs while answering customers’
demand for convenience. They
join Nordstrom, Target, Kohl’s
and other national chains in scal-
ing back their locations with tens
of thousands of square feet that
anchor malls and shopping cen-
ters, while focusing on more com-
pact and efficient stores.
“Consumers use stores differ-
ently than they used to,” Moody’s
Investor Services analyst Christi-
na Boni said, adding that shop-
pers want stores nearby and ac-
cessible, and often see them as
ways to complement their online
shopping with pickups and re-
turns. “All of those things merit
itself to thinking about a box that’s
different than what it was before.”
Small-format stores address a
modern shopping experience, one
very different from the days be-
fore e-commerce, Boni said. Con-
sumers are no longer discovering
products by browsing through
100,000-square-foot stores —
they’re doing it on social media as
well as on the brands’ apps and
websites.
For example, Nordstrom is
slowly growing Nordstrom Local,
a store primarily focused on ser-
vices including alterations, pick-
ups and returns. In 2022, Kohl’s
announced that it was adding 100
small-format stores that are about
35,000 square feet in size. Furni- yukI Iwamura/bloomberG News/Getty ImaGes

ture retailer Ikea has at least 26
mini stores, including ones just
for picking up orders and others
that resemble a showroom called
“Plan & Order.”
The most recent example is
Best Buy, which said Thursday
that it will open small-format lo-
cations in new markets and down-
size in existing ones, though
didn’t specify where or how many.
That announcement came two
days after Macy’s said it would
close 150 namesake locations to
focus on small-format stores un-
der its Bloomingdale’s and Blue-
mercury brands. Fourth-quarter
sales at Macy’s department stores
fell 2.5 percent year over year,
while Bloomingdale’s and Blue-
mercury sales rose 3.5 percent
and 7.8 percent, respectively, the
company said.
Chains embracing the small-
format strategy are those in cate-
gories that “have been under
more pressure,” said R.J. Hottovy,
head of analytical research at foot
traffic analytics firm Placer.ai.
That includes home furnishings,
Macy’s flagship location is seen last month on Herald Square in New York. The national chain recently announced that it would focus on more compact and efficient stores.
Trying to stay relevant, big-box stores and figuring out where that
makes sense,” she said. “The more
inventory they take out of stores,
the more they’re almost forcing
chains turn focus to smaller formats the consumer online.”
Some retailers — like Best Buy
— are also looking to expand into
new markets, leveraging the data
they have collected on their cus-
tomers to find small locations
The strategy could help retailers such as Best Buy and Target cut costs and meet customers’ with higher consumer interest.
demand for convenience, analysts say, but downsizing brings its own set of challenges Retailers see opportunities to fol-
low customers who moved during
the pandemic from large urban
centers to rural and suburban ar-
department stores and consumer director of U.S. retail analytics at new leases from 2021 through limited inventory. Over the past 15 eas, Hottovy said.
electronics. “It’s all these catego- real estate analytics company Co- 2023 shrink 35 percent, Svec said. years, there has been almost no “All of a sudden, these markets
ries that saw a pull forward in Star Group. New retail leases of Smaller-format stores can be new development of open-air with a population smaller than
demand [during the coronavirus more than 25,000 square feet fell more cost-effective because they shopping centers, he said. 100,000 people are a lot bigger,” he
pandemic] and now are normaliz- 12 percent from 2022 and made have lower rents, carry less inven- Downsizing brings a new set of said. Placer.ai found that the ma-
ing and maybe figuring out they up 22 percent of all new retail tory and require fewer employees. challenges, said Katherine Black, jority of households that moved
don’t need as much square foot- square footage — the lowest share But with that comes mounting who leads the food, drug and have a higher income, “so when
age,” Hottovy said. since CoStar started tracking competition for those storefronts, mass-market retail division at you get these markets that saw a
Store downsizing has been hap- these metrics in 2006, according Svec said, as big-box retailers seek consulting firm Kearney. lot of growth and higher house-
pening across the industry for to Svec. the same types of spaces as dis- “The real crux for these retail- hold incomes, it starts to present a
years, but it accelerated in 2023, One notable large retail chain, count, off-price, and food and bev- ers is picking the right merchan- pretty attractive proposition for a
said Brandon Svec, the national Target, saw the average size of its erage tenants in a market with dise for these smaller-format lot of retail brands.”

Digest

AViAtion
FAA: Boeing failing to
meet quality standards
The Federal Aviation
Administration said Monday
that its audit of manufacturing
at airplane-maker Boeing and its
key supplier turned up “multiple
instances” of the companies
failing to make sure
manufacturing met quality
standards.
The FAA said it found
“noncompliance issues” with
Boeing’s manufacturing-process
control and parts handling and
storage.
The FAA said it gave a
summary of findings from its six-
week audit to Boeing and
supplier Spirit AeroSystems, but
it did not make the summary
public. A spokeswoman said the
FAA can’t release details because
its investigation is continuing.
The agency has stepped up its
scrutiny of Boeing since Jan. 5,
when a panel blew off a Boeing
737 Max 9 as it flew 16,000 feet
above Oregon. Pilots of the
Alaska Airlines jet were able to
safely land the plane despite the
hole in its side.
— Associated Press
soCiAl MeDiA
Former Twitter execs
sue Musk for $128M
Four former top Twitter
executives, including former
CEO Parag Agrawal, have sued
Elon Musk for more than
$128 million in severance, the
Wall Street Journal reported
Monday.
The other plaintiffs are Ned
Segal, Twitter’s former chief
financial officer; Vijaya Gadde,
its former chief legal officer; and
Sean Edgett, its former general
counsel, according to the report.
The executives, who led the
company during a lengthy and at
times hostile takeover process in
which they sued Musk to follow
through with the acquisition
after the billionaire changed his
mind, say Musk fired them citing
gross negligence and willful
misconduct, which they deny,
the Journal reported.
X, the social media platform
formerly known as Twitter, did
not immediately respond to a
request for comment.
— Reuters
RAil
Amtrak boosting
service on East Coast
Amtrak said Monday that it
will boost passenger service on
the East Coast as it vows to
double ridership by 2040.
The railroad is increasing
Northeast Regional service
between Boston and Washington
by as much as 20 percent on
weekdays and adding 1 million
additional seats over the next
year. Congress approved
$66 billion for rail as part of the
2021 infrastructure bill, with
$22 billion dedicated to Amtrak.
— Reuters
Also in Business
American Airlines announced a
massive order for new planes
Monday, splitting 260 new
aircraft between Boeing, Airbus
and Embraer in a move designed
to meet growing travel demand
and increase the airline’s supply
of premium seats. American said
it placed options for up to 193
more planes over the next
several years. The airline and
aircraft-makers did not disclose
financial terms for the orders.
The package of orders includes
85 Boeing 737 Max 10s, a larger
version of the Max that has not
yet been certified by U.S.
regulators. The plane is already
years behind schedule, and
United Airlines — which has 100
on order — is planning as if it
will never receive the planes,
according to its chief executive.
The sports streaming venture
formed by Walt Disney, Warner
Bros. Discovery and Fox Corp.
expects to have 5 million
subscribers in its first five years,
Fox chief executive Lachlan
Murdoch said Monday. The
companies last month
announced plans for the sports-
centric service, which is hoping
to get younger viewers and will
launch later this autumn. Pricing
for the service — which would
have rights to the National
Football League, the National
Basketball Association, Major
League Baseball and college
competitions — could be higher
than what people have talked
about, Murdoch added.
Whole Foods Market
announced Monday that it is
introducing a new, quick-shop
store format designed to provide
customers in urban
neighborhoods a convenient
shopping experience with easier
access. The new Whole Foods
Market Daily Shop format will
initially launch on the Upper
East Side in Manhattan, with
additional locations in New York
to follow. The first store is
expected to open this year.
Following the New York launch,
Whole Foods plans to bring the
format to other cities across the
country.
A federal judge in Virginia
dismissed a lawsuit Monday
accusing Capital One of
overcharging credit and debit
card customers on transactions
made in foreign currencies. U.S.
District Judge Patricia Tolliver
Giles in Alexandria said
cardholders in the proposed
class action did not identify
language in their card
agreements that was “clear and
unambiguous” about what rates
and fees Capital One would
impose. Four plaintiffs said
Capital One sought to maximize
profit by charging “fictional”
rates when it converted foreign
currency transactions into
dollars. They said the McLean,
Va.-based bank ignored rules
set by card processors Visa and
Mastercard that it use
wholesale market rates or
government-mandated rates.
The judge said the plaintiffs
failed to show that their card
agreements incorporated the
processors’ rules or created an
“objectively justified
expectation” that their
exchange rates would resemble
those incurred by Capital One
or the processors.
— From news services
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Longtime Trump Organization executive pleads guilty to perjury in N.Y.
BY E L M . C ALABRESE
AND M ARK B ERMAN
NEW YORK — Allen Weisselberg,
the former longtime top financial
officer of Donald Trump’s compa-
ny, pleaded guilty Monday to per-
jury, admitting that he lied under
oath to the New York attorney
general’s office while it was inves-
tigating the former president.
The plea added to the web of
Trump-related legal and financial
peril that Weisselberg has faced in
recent years, a period that saw
him plead guilty to multiple felo-
nies in a different case, serve
months behind bars as a result
and then face stiff sanctions, in-
cluding a $1 million penalty, fol-
lowing a separate civil fraud trial.
The developments Monday
came through an agreement with
the office of Alvin Bragg, the Man-
hattan district attorney. The plea
also marked the latest legal loss
suffered by Trump or someone in
his orbit, this time only three
weeks before Bragg’s office is set
to prosecute Trump in a separate
criminal case.
In that case, Trump is accused
of falsifying business records dur-
ing the 2016 presidential cam-
Texas migrant law set to take e≠ect Sunday put on hold by Supreme Court
Enforcement is blocked
until at least March 13
after frenzy of rulings
BY M ARIA S ACCHETTI
AND A RELIS R . H ERNÁNDEZ
The Biden administration and
immigrant advocates rushed to
the Supreme Court on Monday to
prevent Texas from enforcing
one of the harshest immigration
laws in the United States, saying
the new statute would disrupt
more than a century of federal
control over international bor-
ders.
The sprint to the nation’s high-
est court is the latest chapter in
an ongoing battle between the
Biden administration and Texas
over whether states can play a
role in immigration enforce-
ment. It follows a frenzy of
judicial rulings over the law
known as Senate Bill 4, which
takes the extraordinary steps of
making it a state crime for
migrants to cross the border
illegally and authorizing Texas to
deport undocumented individu-
als.
Republicans have defended
the law with incendiary language
claiming migrants are invading
the state, but a lower-court judge
found no evidence of that and on
Thursday blocked the law from
taking effect.
Two days later, a panel of the
conservative U.S. Court of Ap-
peals for the 5th Circuit reversed
that decision 2-1 without expla-
nation, clearing the way for the
Texas law to take effect this
weekend unless the Supreme
Court intervenes. However, on
Monday evening, Supreme
Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.,
who oversees matters that origi-
nate in the 5th Circuit, put the
law on hold until at least March
13.
Solicitor General Elizabeth B.
Prelogar had earlier in the day
urged the justices to wipe out the
appeals court decision, warning
that the law could impose “pro-
found harms” on U.S. foreign
policy and federal immigration
laws.
“Absent this Court’s interven-
tion,” she wrote, “SB4 will go into
JetBlue and Spirit drop plans to merge after judge raises antitrust hurdle
BY L ORI A RATANI
JetBlue Airways and Spirit Air-
lines announced Monday that
they have dropped plans to merge,
a transaction that would have
created the nation’s fifth-largest
carrier.
In a statement, JetBlue said that
while the two companies still be-
lieve in the “procompetitive ben-
efits of the combination,” it was
unlikely they would be able to
reach the necessary legal and reg-
ulatory approvals by July 24 as
called for in their agreement.
The two carriers were in the
midst of appealing a decision is-
sued this year by U.S. District
Judge William G. Young, who
blocked the merger on the
grounds that it violated antitrust
laws. Young’s ruling was a signifi-
cant victory for the Biden admin-
istration, which has sought to
block mergers in industries it
thinks are too concentrated. It was
the second time the Justice De-
paign while seeking to keep adult-
film actress Stormy Daniels —
whose real name is Stephanie Clif-
ford — from publicly alleging that
she had an affair with him years
earlier. Jury selection is scheduled
to begin March 25, which would
mark the first criminal prosecu-
tion of a former president.
Neither side in that coming tri-
al has suggested plans to call Weis-
selberg to testify, leaving it un-
clear whether his plea Monday
could affect those proceedings.
In his case, Weisselberg, 76,
faced five counts of perjury in the
first degree — a felony — and
agreed to plead guilty to two of
them. His sentencing is scheduled
for April 10. Bragg’s office said
Weisselberg is expected to receive
a five-month sentence.
The counts Weisselberg plead-
ed guilty to stemmed from com-
ments he made in 2020 while
testifying before the office of New
York Attorney General Letitia
James (D) during its investigation
of Trump and his financial state-
ments.
That investigation led to
James’s 2022 lawsuit against
Trump, his company, Weisselberg
and others, in which she accused
A constable directs Honduran migrants on where to await Border Patrol personnel in 2021 in Mission, Tex. The Biden administration
rushed to the Supreme Court on Monday to prevent Texas from enforcing a law that makes it a state crime to cross the border illegally.
effect at 12:01 a.m. on March 10,
2024, profoundly altering the
status quo that has existed be-
tween the United States and the
States in the context of immigra-
tion for almost 150 years.”
On Monday, Texas Gov. Greg
Abbott (R) said on X that the
state was preparing to enforce
the law, “unless the Supreme
Court intervenes.”
The Texas legislature passed
S.B. 4 last year as part of Abbott’s
push to expand the state’s role in
border security, which historical-
ly has been the responsibility of
federal law enforcement agen-
cies. The statute criminalizes
illegal migration as a misde-
meanor, punishable by up to six
months in jail. Anyone accused
of reentering the country illegal-
ly could face felony charges.
Lawmakers also empowered
partment prevailed in a case in-
volving U.S. airlines.
Even so, executives from Jet-
Blue and Spirit continued to por-
tray the $3.8 billion deal as pro-
consumer.
“We believed this merger was
worth pursuing because it would
have unleashed a national low-
fare, high-value competitor to the
Big Four airlines,” Joanna Ger-
aghty, chief executive of JetBlue,
said in a statement. “We are proud
of the work we did with Spirit to
lay out a vision to challenge the
status quo, but given the hurdles
to closing that remain, we decided
together that both airlines’ inter-
ests are better served by moving
forward independently.”
Ted Christie, Spirit’s chief exec-
utive, also cited regulatory obsta-
cles as a key factor in his compa-
ny’s decision to terminate the
merger agreement, but he ex-
pressed optimism about Spirit’s
future, even as it faces financial
and operational challenges.
ez Re
them of participating in a finan-
cial fraud by lying on financial
statements to get better terms
from lenders and insurers. A trial
in that matter began in the fall and
concluded this year, and a judge
last month handed down millions
of dollars in penalties and other
punishments to Trump, Weissel-
berg and other defendants.
James’s office and her 2022 law-
suit accused the defendants in
that case of knowingly lying on the
financial statements. In one ex-
ample included in the lawsuit, a
Trump Tower triplex apartment
was described as being 30,000
square feet — about three times its
actual size.
According to the complaint
filed by Bragg’s office in the new
perjury case, Weisselberg was de-
posed in July 2020 during the
attorney general’s investigation
and questioned about the triplex’s
size. The complaint said Weissel-
berg testified that he did not know
the square-footage figure was in-
correct and said he only learned
this from a news media article
later. But that was untrue, the
complaint said.
According to the complaint,
Weisselberg also lied in May 2023
state judges to order deporta-
tions to Mexico and allow local
law enforcement personnel to
carry them out. Judges could also
drop the state charges if the
migrant agrees to return volun-
tarily.
A pair of immigrant advocacy
groups, the Las Americas Immi-
grant Advocacy Center and
American Gateways, sued along
with El Paso County and the
Biden administration to block
the law from taking effect.
On Thursday, days after hold-
ing a hearing, U.S. District Court
Judge David A. Ezra in Austin
issued a 114-page ruling that
signaled the state law is probably
unconstitutional and “could
open the door to each state
passing its own version of immi-
gration laws.”
Texas appealed to the 5th
“We are disappointed we can-
not move forward with a deal that
would save hundreds of millions
for consumers and create a real
challenger to the dominant ‘Big 4’
U.S. airlines” — United, American,
Delta and Southwest — Christie
said in a statement. “However, we
remain confident in our future as a
successful independent airline.”
Attorney General Merrick Gar-
land pushed back on the carriers’
view that the merger would have
been good for consumers, charac-
terizing JetBlue and Spirit’s deci-
sion to drop their plans to merge
as a “victory for the Justice De-
partment’s work on behalf of
American consumers.”
“The Justice Department
proved in court that a merger be-
tween JetBlue and Spirit would
have caused tens of millions of
travelers to face higher fares and
fewer choices,” he said in a state-
ment.
JetBlue will pay Spirit $69 mil-
lion as part of the termination
to the attorney general’s office
during another deposition, falsely
claiming he was not involved in
valuing properties. Then, the
complaint continued, he lied
again in October 2023, this time
while testifying during the civil
fraud trial spurred by James’s law-
suit. During his testimony, the
complaint alleged, Weisselberg
falsely said he “never focused on
the triplex” and “never thought
about that apartment,” even
though emails and conversations
disproved that.
“It is a crime to lie in deposi-
tions and at trial — plain and
simple,” a spokesperson for
Bragg’s office said in a statement.
By pleading guilty, the statement
said, Weisselberg is “being held
responsible for his conduct.”
The agreement signed by
Bragg’s office and Weisselberg
stated that he was pleading guilty
specifically to perjury counts re-
lating to his July 2020 testimony.
He also admitted “that he commit-
ted the conduct as alleged” in May
2023 and then October 2023,
while not pleading guilty to those
counts.
The plea agreement signed by
Bragg’s office and Weisselberg
MiChael Robinson Chávez/the Washington Post
Circuit late Friday, seeking an
administrative stay of Ezra’s or-
der blocking the law. The appeals
panel issued its decision about a
day later, giving the Biden ad-
ministration seven days to ap-
peal to the Supreme Court.
Ezra’s ruling came on the same
day President Biden and former
president Donald Trump, who is
again seeking the White House
and is the leading Republican
candidate, made separate visits
to the U.S.-Mexico border, each
emphasizing their policies on
immigration. After that visit,
Trump, who favors aggressive
immigration enforcement, told
Fox News that Abbott is a possi-
ble contender to become his
running mate.
“He’s done a great job,” Trump
said, according to the Dallas
Morning News.
agreement. Spirit stockholders re-
ceived approximately $425 mil-
lion in prepayments while the
merger agreement was in effect.
Monday’s announcement now
leaves the two carriers with the
formidable challenge of navigat-
ing on their own through a market
dominated by four major airlines.
Spirit in particular is facing finan-
cial and operational challenges.
The Florida-based carrier has
been forced to ground dozens of
its Airbus jets because of a Pratt &
Whitney engine issue.
JetBlue has grappled with cuts
in the number of flights it operates
in and out of the New York area,
the result of staffing shortages at a
key air traffic control center. The
carrier also has a new chief execu-
tive in Geraghty, who took over
last month after Robin Hayes re-
tired. Hayes was the architect of
the JetBlue-Spirit merger, outbid-
ding Frontier Airlines, which had
previously announced plans to
merge with Spirit.
the washington post
does not include any language
requiring Weisselberg to testify
during Trump’s upcoming crimi-
nal trial.
“Allen Weisselberg looks for-
ward to putting this situation be-
hind him,” Seth L. Rosenberg, an
attorney for Weisselberg, said in a
statement released by his law
firm.
Weisselberg has faced repeated
legal and investigative scrutiny
recently, including in another
criminal case. In 2021, he and the
Trump Organization were indict-
ed and accused of carrying out a
long-standing fraud aimed at hid-
ing income from tax authorities.
Weisselberg pleaded guilty in
2022 to committing more than a
dozen felonies. He was sentenced
to five months in jail and five years
of probation, then released after
about three months. The company
was convicted in 2022, then or-
dered to pay $1.6 million in fines.
An attorney said at the time of
Weisselberg’s previous guilty plea
in 2022 that the decision was
meant “to put an end to this case
and the years-long legal and per-
sonal nightmares it has caused for
him and his family.” Monday’s plea
means Weisselberg has now
The 5th Circuit decision sets
the stage for another Supreme
Court ruling to settle an ongoing
debate about Texas’s border pol-
icies.
The Biden administration has
notched several victories in re-
cent years, despite the conserva-
tive tilt of the Supreme Court,
which has a 6-3 conservative
supermajority with three justices
appointed by Trump. In January,
the Supreme Court voted 5-4 that
the Biden administration could
remove razor wire that Texas had
installed on the U.S.-Mexico bor-
der, until the courts determine if
it is legal for the state to erect its
own barriers.
In June, the Supreme Court
ruled 8-1 that Biden has the
authority to set the federal gov-
ernment’s immigration enforce-
ment priorities, rejecting a law-
Some analysts, however, think
JetBlue may ultimately benefit
from the failure of the merger.
“Airline mergers are lengthy,
messy and complex to execute,”
said Henry Harteveldt, an aviation
analyst and president of Atmos-
phere Research. “They distract a
lot of the acquiring airline’s man-
agement’s time and focus. Now,
JetBlue can proceed unencum-
bered.”
However, Harteveldt said Spirit
may continue to struggle.
Last week, the two sides filed a
brief in their appeals case outlin-
ing why they thought the judge’s
decision blocking the merger was
flawed. However, JetBlue’s an-
nouncement Monday was not a
complete surprise. Shortly after
Young’s decision, JetBlue execu-
tives indicated they might not ap-
peal the case and received strong
pushback from Spirit.
In his 113-page decision, Young
wrote that while a combined
JetBlue-Spirit carrier could put
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pleaded guilty to 17 total counts
across the two cases.
Trump and his associates have
long assailed scrutiny from inves-
tigators and law enforcement, say-
ing he and others have been treat-
ed improperly. He is seeking an-
other term in office while facing
four pending criminal cases.
Trump has denied wrongdoing in
all matters and argued that he is
being politically targeted.
Christopher Kise, an attorney
for Trump, said in a statement
Monday that Bragg “continues to
waste public resources in a tyran-
nical attempt to impede President
Trump’s ongoing ascent to the
White House.”
“This plea was no doubt extort-
ed by threatening an elderly and
innocent man with immediate
and lengthy incarceration,” Kise
said.
The upcoming criminal trial in-
volves Trump’s alleged misclassifi-
cation of reimbursement pay-
ments to Michael Cohen, a former
Trump associate turned nemesis,
who paid the adult-film actress
$130,000 to keep her from speak-
ing out.
berman reported from Washington.
suit filed by the states of Texas
and Louisiana that said the U.S.
government should target all
undocumented immigrants for
deportation.
And in 2022, the Supreme
Court ruled 5-4 that the Biden
administration could end a
Trump administration policy
that required asylum seekers to
await their hearings in Mexico.
In court filings Monday, Prel-
ogar said the Texas law tramples
on federal responsibilities that
Congress has laid out; could
inflame tensions with Mexico,
the largest U.S. trading partner;
and could lead to the deportation
of migrants whose lives are in
danger, a violation of federal law.
The Texas law, she wrote, “pre-
vents the Nation from speaking
‘with one voice’ in matters in-
volving foreign affairs.”
The Supreme Court rulings
reinforcing that immigration en-
forcement is a federal responsi-
bility have not deterred Texas
and other states from challeng-
ing Biden’s border policies. Offi-
cials in those states say their
communities have been upended
by record numbers of migrants
being taken into custody at the
U.S.-Mexico border since Biden
took office in 2021, with many
released to await asylum pro-
ceedings in the United States
because of a lack of detention
capacity and strict rules about
who can be deported.
Officials say they are acting
because Biden has failed to con-
trol the border.
Abbott has deployed the state
National Guard and state troop-
ers to guard the border, urged
state law enforcement agencies
from other states to join them,
and cordoned off the Rio Grande
with miles of razor wire to pre-
vent adults and children from
crossing illegally. He has also
paid to bus tens of thousands of
migrants to cities such as New
York and Chicago, forcing local
governments to pay millions to
shelter and feed them.
The Biden administration and
other plaintiffs contend that S.B.
4 gives law enforcement overly
broad powers to arrest anyone
they suspect of having crossed
the border illegally, no matter
how far they live from the border
itself or the details of their
immigration status.
pressure on the four biggest air-
lines, it would hurt consumers
who rely on Spirit’s low fares. He
noted that when Spirit enters a
market, rival airlines reduce pric-
es by 7 to 11 percent on average.
Consumer advocates said the
failure of the JetBlue-Spirit merg-
er would promote airline competi-
tion.
“The decision by JetBlue and
Spirit to call off their merger is
good news for the flying public,”
said Diana Moss, vice president
and director of competition policy
for the Progressive Policy Insti-
tute. “The district court opinion
backed up DOJ’s strong case for
why the merger would raise fares
and eliminate important consum-
er choice. It sets a mark for how
further consolidation in the U.S.
passenger markets will get close,
close scrutiny.”
In December, two other U.S.
carriers, Alaska Airlines and Ha-
waiian Airlines, announced plans
to merge.
tuesday, march 5 , 2024 . the washington post
ERs have become
so e∞cient, they’re
killing people
BY HASHEM ZIKRY
W
ith a gentle squeeze of the 84-year-old
patient’s swollen calves, I confirmed my
diagnosis: She had congestive heart fail-
ure. It was causing fluid to accumulate
in her lungs and legs, leaving her breathless and
fatigued. As an emergency doctor, I see many
patients with congestive heart failure; like most of
them, this woman needed to be hospitalized to have
the excess fluid removed. I put in an order to admit
her to an inpatient floor upstairs.
But two nights later, when I arrived for my next
shift, I found my patient bleary-eyed on the same
stretcher where I’d left her. “Dr. Z,” she implored me,
“I’ve been here for two days! I haven’t slept, and I
feel worse than when I came in. When do I go
upstairs?”
Her predicament alarmed me, but it did not
surprise me. Emergency patients who need hospital
admission routinely wait hours, even days, for a bed.
It’s called “boarding” — and though boarding is not
new to the U.S. medical system, ripple effects from
the pandemic have transformed it from a problem
into a crisis.
It has been well-documented that covid-19 took a
devastating toll on emergency departments nation-
wide, revealing and exploiting the fragility of our
acute-care system. Less has been written, however,
about the side effects of hospitals’ attempts to
recover from that era — one of the most serious of
which is the proliferation of boarding. As hospitals
scramble to regain their footing (and their profit
margins), the financial incentive structure that un-
dergirds U.S. medicine has gone into overdrive.
Inpatient beds that might previously have been
reserved for patients, such as the 84-year-old wom-
an, who require essential care but generate very little
money for the hospital, are increasingly allocated for
patients undergoing more lucrative procedures.
The consequences of this systemic failure cannot
be overstated. Four hours is supposed to be the
maximum time spent boarding in an emergency
department, but recent data shows that hospitals
nationwide are failing to meet that goal when
occupancy is high (which it routinely is). In my
experience, the problem is worse than the data
indicates. I worked at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens
when it was dubbed “the epicenter of the epicenter”
of the U.S. covid outbreak, and at two of the most
prestigious academic hospitals in the country. At all
three hospitals, my emergency patients have rou-
tinely waited 10 or even 20 hours for an inpatient
bed. Predictably, the most vulnerable suffer dispro-
portionally; a majority of emergency doctors report
psychiatric patients waiting days for a bed. On any
given shift, hallways in the emergency department
are lined with patients on stretchers. Boarding leads
to a cascade of harms — including ambulances
diverted to hospitals far from patients’ homes,
patients charged for beds they haven’t yet occupied
and overwhelmed emergency medicine personnel
leaving the field because of burnout. Most alarming-
ly, evidence, including a 2023 study in JAMA, shows
that emergency department boarding is associated
with higher rates of in-hospital death.
Many narratives around boarding focus on the
patients themselves, shaming some for inappropri-
ately using the emergency department. Proposed
solutions include pushing patients to urgent-care
centers or modifying “patient flow.” But the issues
with boarding cannot be addressed with such minor
tweaks.
The solution is actually clear: use data from past
years to predict future admission needs, then save
that number of beds on inpatient floors. Studies
have shown this is feasible, and it has already been
successfully implemented in a handful of health
systems. Administrators plan less-emergent pro-
cedures around the inpatient bed capacity. So,
instead of having knee replacement surgery on a
Monday, a patient would be scheduled for a Thurs-
day, when the hospital is generally less busy. The
doctors who perform these procedures sacrifice a
degree of control over their schedules, but the payoff
is substantial for the many patients with acute care
needs.
So why haven’t we implemented this strategy
across the country? Because that would require
administrators to change the way the health-care
business runs. When efficiency and profitability are
the guiding values, empty hospital beds are seen as
waste, not crucial buffers facilitating acute care.
This model dictates that lucrative elective admis-
sions and high-revenue procedures are prioritized
at the expense of acute emergency admissions.
Thus, that knee replacement takes priority over my
patient’s congestive heart treatment, and both get
an inpatient bed before an unhoused person need-
ing psychiatric care. Boarding is not an unfortunate
byproduct of our health-care system; it is baked into
the design.
To meaningfully effect change, we need new
financial incentives that better align the essential
public good with our privatized health system. To
start, we must acknowledge that boarding is not an
emergency department problem, as it is often treat-
ed, but rather a systemwide failure. We need to
rethink how hospitals can (and should) make mon-
ey. If they were rewarded financially for holding a
certain number of inpatient beds open, change
would follow — not only for emergency department
patients, but also for when the next public health
crisis strikes and demand for hospital beds surges.
To figure out the financial incentives, hospitals
will have to find partners. Engaging experts in
finance, behavioral economics and the insurance
industry would be a good start, but there are limits
to what private industry can accomplish alone.
Public-private models have been successfully imple-
mented in other areas where the public good is
dependent on the private sector. Think of the
electrical grid or the military, in which the govern-
ment partners with private industry to provide our
basic needs and protection.
To those of us working on the ground, it is clear
that we are failing to meet our communities’ basic
needs. This is a national health-care crisis, and it
requires a national response.
the writer is an emergency medicine physician and a
scholar in the national clinician scholars Program at
UclA. he previously was chief resident in the emergency
department at Mount sinai hospital in new york.
TUESDAY Opinion
Why not require a civics test
for all Americans?
O
ne morning this January, Yulia Wardani
stepped into a small office in downtown
Newark to change her identity.
Across the desk was an officer of the
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, who
began posing questions from the USCIS naturaliza-
tion civics test.
Name the U.S. war between the North and the
South.
What do we show loyalty to when we say the Pledge
of Allegiance?
Twenty-seven years earlier, Wardani, born and
raised in Jakarta, Indonesia, had married an Ameri-
can man. They had built a happy life together: two
kids, a house in the Jersey suburbs, a cluster of close
friends. But she had never become a U.S. citizen,
because doing so meant relinquishing her citizen-
ship in Indonesia, where much of her family lives.
This year — her trips to Asia becoming less frequent,
her American children now young adults — she
decided it was time.
To pass the test, applicants must correctly answer
six of 10 questions. Wardani nailed the first six in a
row like Caitlin Clark draining jump shots. By early
afternoon, she stood in an auditorium, right hand
raised, to recite her citizenship oath. Moments later,
she was posing for family photos, waving a miniature
American flag.
For Team USA, adding Wardani to the roster is a
huge win. I know that for sure. Because Yulia is my
sister-in-law. And now she — Yulia Wardani Pink — is
my fellow American.
For more than 100 years, the United States has
used a civics test as a gentle screen for naturalizing
new citizens. The idea behind the brief exam is
straightforward: To participate fully in the life of the
republic, newcomers must first evince some knowl-
edge of the values and mechanics of that republic.
Sensible enough, right? It’s an ideal whose clear
logic and simple implementation make it easy to
support. But watching a close relative navigate this
process got me thinking.
Why not deploy a civics test more widely — as a
modest hurdle other Americans must surmount
before enjoying some of the many privileges of
U.S. citizenship?
Karen attiah
Texas, where big hair is beautiful but Black hair is hated
O
nce again, Texas is making Black hair history,
but this time, for all the wrong reasons.
The Crown Act — “creating a respectful and
open world for natural hair” — became Texas
law last year after Black legislators and activists spent
years trying to protect ethnic and natural hairstyles
from discrimination. The law, intended to safeguard
braids, locs, twists and other features associated with
Black style, declares that “any student dress or groom-
ing policy adopted by a school district . . . may not
discriminate against a hair texture or protective hair-
style commonly or historically associated with race.”
All good, right? Not so much, unfortunately. The
law took effect in September, and yet Darryl George, a
junior at Barbers Hill High School near Houston who
had been suspended in August for having locs and
refusing to cut them, was suspended again in Decem-
ber. School officials claimed that their dress codes
focused on hair length, not hair style, and that
George’s neatly styled locs contained hair long enough
to violate the code if he let his hair down. “Male
students’ hair must not extend below the top of a
t-shirt collar or be gathered or worn in a style that
would allow the hair to extend below the top of a
t-shirt collar, below the eyebrows, or below the ear
lobes when let down,” the manual declared. While
George cooled his heels in detention, his mother filed
a discrimination lawsuit against the school district.
He was transferred to a disciplinary school in October
and had just returned to Barbers Hill when he was
suspended again.
A state judge recently ruled that the Crown Act
didn’t, well, extend far enough. According to the
ruling, a right to style one’s hair does not include a
right to have hair long enough to style it. But how can
that be? The “protective” part of a hairstyle law surely
includes protection against cutting it off.
George’s family has said they intend to seek protec-
tion in federal court.
eZ re
Daniel PinK
The 14th Amendment holds that anyone born on
U.S. soil is a citizen. Neither a jackbooted federal
marshal nor a well-meaning newspaper columnist
can revoke that status or force you to renew it by
passing a quiz.
But citizenship is more than a legal category. It
carries a broader significance that the United States’
24 million naturalized citizens inevitably consider,
but that native-born Americans rarely ponder.
“We ask a lot of immigrants. We ask them to think
about what their duty is in joining our community,”
Sara Wallace Goodman, a political scientist at the
University of California at Irvine, told me. “But we
don’t turn that lens around.”
Inserting a basic civics test into a few corners of
American life might reposition that lens.
For example, every year, about 3.5 million Ameri-
cans graduate from high school, crossing the thresh-
old into adulthood. Why not require a civics test for
graduation, as some states already do, to remind
young people that their new status brings both
opportunities and obligations? Goodman would go
further and ask graduates to take the oath of
citizenship as an additional rite of passage and a
signal of their fresh civic responsibilities.
Or consider another domain, like naturalization,
where the bureaucratic and the patriotic briefly
twine. Today, a record 48 percent of Americans have
a passport, according to the State Department. Why
not offer a voluntary civics test as part of the
application process — with the incentive that the
applications of those who pass will be expedited?
After all, when Americans travel abroad, we act as
citizen ambassadors, representing Americanness
overseas.
We could also install the test as a speed bump on
the road to public office. We already require senators,
House members, judges, military personnel and
many others to repeat an oath of fealty to the
U.S. Constitution. Why not ask people running for
office, from county auditor to U.S. president, to sit for
a test that verifies their understanding of that
foundational document?
Whatever the exact approach, the aim isn’t exclu-
sion. It’s the opposite.
The USCIS test isn’t very difficult. Although a
MichAel Wyke/AP
Darryl George, a junior, enters Barbers Hill High
School in Mont Belvieu, Tex., on Sept. 18.
Arguably, the length of a high school student’s
neatly styled hair should not be a federal case, but
regulating Black hair has a long history, not limited to
Texas, or America for that matter.
Enslaved Africans were typically forced to cut their
hair to remove traces of their original identities. It was
one step in the process of breaking their spirits.
Colonizing powers in Africa applied similar rules. Even
today, in a number of African countries, including my
fatherland of Ghana, girls are often required to shave
their hair, and boys are not allowed to wear dreadlocks
or other styles. Blogger Nambe Patrick wrote that
African girls attending European-run “castle schools”
in the colonial era were forced to shave their hair to
distinguish them from mixed-race children.
The idea that Black hair — and, by extension,
Blackness — is confusing, distracting and incompati-
ble with education is global. How insulting is it that we
are the only race considered to be so dumb that we
cannot learn unless our hair is cut?
But back to the United States. While the Crown Act
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Molly MAgnell For the WAshington Post
2018 poll found that only 1 in 3 Americans could
pass, actual applicants receive the 100 possible
questions in advance. Eighty-eight percent of aspir-
ing citizens pass on the first try. All but 4 percent
pass by the second attempt.
The real value is in the preparation, not the
performance. Test-takers review the questions and
practice their answers. Family members quiz them
around the kitchen table. They read. They learn. The
exercise demands they carve out space to stop and
think.
“Rituals prompt reflection on shared values,”
Michael Norton, a Harvard Business School profes-
sor, told me. As he explains in a forthcoming book on
the topic, rituals enhance our lives and deepen our
emotions by transforming behavior from “automat-
ed” to “animated.”
Citizenship is a concept rich with meaning. It
confers rights, imposes responsibilities, establishes
identity and promotes belonging. But most Ameri-
cans seldom stop and think about it. For us,
citizenship is automated. A ritual like a civics test
might animate it.
And if a lot more people experience this ritual, a
few more might tackle topics that now are easier to
sidestep.
How should our system of government work?
Whom should it serve? Which rights are inalienable
and which duties are inviolable? What do we owe one
another? And, ultimately, what does it mean to be an
American?
That final question is one our country has
confronted many times — during the Civil War, amid
the waves of European immigration in the early
20th century, and now again with a U.S. population
that each day becomes more racially, religiously and
ethnically diverse. As pride in being American has
fallen, and as some challenge who really is an
American, the matter has become more urgent.
What does it mean to be a citizen of this beautiful,
complicated, sprawling nation of 336 million people?
My sister-in-law — my fellow American — had to
contend with that question in ways I was never
required to. That ought to change. Maybe the point of
a citizenship test should not be to keep some of us
out, but to keep all of us together.
was intended to protect Black people from discrimina-
tion, this reversal, slipped into view on the question of
hair length, has the potential to affect other groups for
whom long hair on boys and men is a marker of
cultural and spiritual significance. Last year, a Kansas
school forced an 8-year-old Native American boy to cut
his hair short. A state-funded charter school in North
Carolina made the same demand of a first-grade
Native American boy. In 2016, a Sikh soldier fought
and won the right to wear his long hair while serving in
the U.S. military. Captain Simratpal Singh was re-
quired to pass $32,000 worth of tests to prove he could
function with the same long hair worn by Sikh war-
riors for centuries.
But hair isn’t the only nefarious strand at work
here. When Barbers Hill won the state judicial order
to require the cutting of George’s hair, the school
district superintendent, Greg Poole, drew a huge
conclusion from his victory. “The U.S. Supreme Court
recently ruled that affirmative action is a violation of
the 14th Amendment,” he crowed, “and we believe the
same reasoning will eventually be applied to the
CROWN Act.”
A hair-raising warning if there ever was one.
George’s removal from school because of his hair is a
reminder that Black students are much more likely to
be suspended and expelled from school than White
students. Because whether it’s about hair at the grade-
school level or admissions at the collegiate level, it is
about using whatever reason necessary to deny Black
students access to education and opportunities. Cou-
ple this with the fact that there are concerted efforts to
attack diversity initiatives and Black-focused issues.
At the root of this all is a White backlash to efforts to
promote Black progress.
The Crown Act was a monumental achievement,
but we cannot be complacent. Fight on, Darryl George.
It’s unfair that you, a teenager, must carry the burden
of forcing fully grown adults to play fair.
a18
Keeping Mr. Trump on the ballot is the right call
N
O, THERE is no one weird trick to keep
former president Donald Trump off the
ballot and out of the White House. That is
the unanimous opinion of the Supreme
Court, which ruled Monday that the 14th Amend-
ment does not authorize states to disqualify presi-
dential candidates from seeking the office based on
alleged oath-breaking and insurrection. This settles
a legal controversy whose answer
EdiTORiaL ought always to have been clear,
leaving primary responsibility for
preventing Trump 2.0 in the hands of voters.
Nearly as important as the substance of the
Supreme Court’s decision this week was its speed.
The justices expedited review of the Colorado
Supreme Court’s Dec. 19 ruling that Mr. Trump was
ineligible thanks to the Constitution’s “insurrection
clause.” Thus their opinion arrived one day before
Super Tuesday’s nominating contests. That allows
voters to choose from among all the candidates
without worry that their preferred option will be
removed by the time of the general election. The
country would benefit from similar promptness in
another matter under the high court’s consider-
ation: Mr. Trump’s weak claim that he is immune
from criminal prosecution.
Of course, the substance of the 14th Amendment
case was what matters most. The notion that an
arcane Civil War-era provision could be used to
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D.C. recall is distracting from issues
Connor Kurtz’s assessment in his Feb. 28 letter,
“The D.C. Council recall petitions,” which used D.C.’s
failure to address homelessness as justification for
recalling D.C. Council member Brianne K. Nadeau
(D-Ward 1), was a clear illustration that those
pushing the recall effort pay very little attention to
what actually happens in the Wilson Building.
As a Ward 1 voter who has worked to solve
homelessness in D.C. and nationally, I know
firsthand that Ms. Nadeau is a champion for ending
homelessness in Ward 1 and across D.C. As chair of
the Human Services Committee, she funded
programs that will end homelessness for thousands
of our neighbors. Sadly, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser
(D) has failed to move with urgency to spend this
lifesaving and homelessness-ending money, which,
in turn, means more people are sleeping outside.
It seems to me that those behind these recall
efforts forget — or are not well-versed enough in the
D.C. policy arena — that it is Ms. Bowser, not D.C.
Council members, who is to blame for D.C.’s failure
to meet the needs of its residents, both housed and
unhoused. Still, Ms. Nadeau continues to put Ward 1
first, even if she does not have a partner in the
mayor’s office.
Jesse Rabinowitz, Washington
As a Ward 1 resident, I’m deeply concerned that
the recall effort facing D.C. Council member Brianne
K. Nadeau (D-Ward 1) will distract us from
implementing policies that will increase safety.
The mayor, the D.C. Council, the city’s public
safety agencies and experts have spent years
developing plans to grow key safety solutions to
address the instability that emerged from the
pandemic. We need to implement the plans city
leaders have developed and voted for (often
unanimously) to address the safety gaps in crisis
response, affordable housing, violence interruption
and income support for people at risk of violence.
These approaches are desperately needed at a
much larger scale.
Just two years after my neighbors and I
overwhelmingly reelected Ms. Nadeau, the
distraction of a recall election will make us less safe
if it means our city won’t be as focused on
implementing consensus-driven plans to reduce our
safety gaps.
Rather than a recall, people who want to increase
safety in Ward 1 should be supporting Ms. Nadeau’s
efforts to solve homicide cases and increase support
for victims of crime — practical solutions to our
safety challenges.
Jason Ziedenberg, Washington
A ‘roaring’ economy is not good
“The economy is roaring, and immigration is a
key reason,” read a Feb. 28 front-page headline. And
these two clauses offer a clue to President Biden’s
low approval ratings.
Does “roaring” bring serenity? The
“extraordinary recent growth” of the labor market is
jacking up gross domestic product, which is
“projected to grow by $7 trillion more over the next
decade.” Why isn’t everybody cheering the
administration?
Yet, as I recall Sen. Cory Booker (N.J.) stating in
the Democratic presidential primary debates a few
years ago, “GDP doesn’t speak to my constituents.”
Mr. Booker was pushing back against President
Donald Trump’s obsession with growth.
Most people couldn’t care less about GDP. For
people in the MAGA crowd, especially, the things
they thought were great are going the way of the
dodo. They’re being lost to all that “growth.”
It’s not just the MAGA crowd worried about
where we’re losing. I’m an independent, and I am
appalled by all the surges in noise, traffic, housing
developments, red lights and congestion in general.
I love the mix of people from all countries, but the
“extraordinary recent growth” scares me. Not the
individuals, mind you; it’s the sheer number
thereof.
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exclude Mr. Trump from presidential politics was
always a bit too good to be true. The arguments in
favor contained multiple points of failure: Did the
insurrection clause even apply to the presidency, as
opposed to the “offices” it explicitly named? Had the
rule against rebels returning to power in Washing-
ton, approved soon after the Civil War, already been
expunged with the Amnesty Act of 1872? Was the
former president even an insurrectionist, and who
should decide? As it happened, the Supreme Court
didn’t need to bother with these intricacies. The
justices turned instead, sensibly, to federalism.
The framers designed the presidency as a unique-
ly national office, so it made little sense to suppose
that the authors of the 14th Amendment could have
intended to make eligibility subject to a de facto
state veto. The justices accordingly noted that
federal officers “owe their existence and functions to
the united voice of the whole, not a portion, of the
people.” They warned against the “patchwork” that
would result from allowing various states with
various rules to make various determinations about
who may or may not run for federal office.
More compelling still, the justices put these
precepts in historical context. The 14th Amend-
ment, drafted in the immediate aftermath of a
rebellion carried out under the bogus “states’ rights”
banner, was at its core a rebalancing of power
between the states and the federal government — to
The United States can hardly handle “$7 trillion
more” than the current, bloated economy that is
threatening our countryside, our way of life and
even the climate we so fundamentally depend on.
What we need is a conservation ethic, some
ecological economics and a political cure for the
obsession with GDP growth.
Brian Czech, Arlington
The meaning of a sacrifice
The Feb. 27 Metro article about Aaron Bushnell,
“Who was the U.S. airman who burned to death in
protest?,” buried the lede. The headline asked who
he was and then answered the question. He grew
up in a religious group and identified as an
anarchist. A good portion of the article was about
the troublesome religious group that he left.
Midway through the article, it focused on this
young man, who served homeless people and was
going to leave the Air Force. He was becoming
disenchanted with the military and the U.S.
government’s use of force. He sounded like
someone I would like to have met.
I think we all are revolted by the violence of the
Hamas attack and the “over the top” Israeli
response. Many people in the United States do
small things to ameliorate events across the ocean.
Few give the final measure. Perhaps the headline
might have read: “Man gives his life trying to save
innocent lives.”
Henry P. McEntee, Arlington
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limit the former and strengthen the latter. “It would
be incongruous,” they pointed out, “to read this
particular Amendment as granting the States the
power — silently no less — to disqualify a candidate
for federal office.”
The framers designed the presidency
as a uniquely national office, so it
made little sense to suppose that the
authors of the 14th Amendment could
have intended to make eligibility
subject to a de facto state veto.
To be sure, the court’s unanimity was not perfect.
In a disgruntled joint concurring opinion, liberal
justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji
Brown Jackson took their conservative colleagues to
task for declining to limit their rationale to federal-
ism. Instead, the court’s majority opinion went on to
say that nobody can enforce Section 3 against
anybody without an act of Congress detailing whom
michaEL RamiREz
Dropping like a stone
The U.S. and the rules-based order
In his Feb. 27 WorldViews column, “In Ukraine
and Gaza, twilight for the ‘rules-based order’,”
Ishaan Tharoor missed the point about a rules-
based order. The most basic principle of that order
is exactly why the world community was so unified
in its opposition to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine —
countries cannot attack other countries without
provocation — and those that are attacked have the
right to defend themselves. That is exactly why the
Biden administration has been so supportive of
Israel’s right to defend itself against the brutal,
unprovoked Hamas attack of Oct. 7.
What is hypocritical and really threatens the
rules-based order is the world’s reaction to Israel’s
defensive actions.
Ester Scheibel, Bethesda
Ishaan Tharoor gently pointed out that global
reaction to a U.S. double standard for responding to
the Russian invasion of Ukraine vs. the Israeli
invasion of Gaza is hamstringing U.S. diplomacy
and risking the denouement of a rules-based order
— as if the world did not already understand that
the United States considers these rules applicable
only to countries with White European populations
and that nominally making them appear to be
universally applicable was a mere nicety to facilitate
their passage through rulemaking international
organizations. Mr. Tharoor quoted Western foreign
policy experts lamenting how “U.S. hypocrisy”
undermines Western efforts to enforce the rules
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the provision disqualifies. The three liberals called
this judicial overreach, designed to “insulate this
Court and petitioner” from future political
firestorms.
They have a point: The 14th Amendment is far
from clear on the matter, and Section 3 does become
harder to employ if only Congress can do so. The
court leaves no room for Congress to refuse to certify
the election of an alleged insurrectionist, for
instance, and no room for courts to consider
lawsuits against a president or their appointees on
the grounds that they’ve been improperly installed.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a Trump appointee,
agreed with the liberals. What she objected to,
however, in a short concurrence that read more like
a blog post than a legal opinion, was the “stridency”
with which the three expressed their quibble. “All
nine Justices agree on the outcome of this case. That
is the message Americans should take home.”
Justice Barrett might not be the right messenger
— spin is not part of the court’s job description — but
it was the right message. This often bitterly divided
Supreme Court managed to reach the same bottom
line: Whatever else it might do, the 14th Amend-
ment does not authorize states to cull the presiden-
tial ballot. It struck a blow both for federalism and
for democracy — albeit ironically, given Mr. Trump’s
own antidemocratic tendencies. The way to prevent
his comeback remains clear: to vote.
against Russia.
Meanwhile, some analysts and policymakers are
starting to question whether eastern Ukraine really
is the civilizational fault line the Biden
administration makes it out to be, Mr. Tharoor
reported. But Republican reluctance to help pay for
Ukraine’s defense might not be as it seems as long as
military funding for Ukraine is bundled with Israeli,
Western Pacific and other military assistance.
Mr. Tharoor pointed out that Israel is already in
the dock at the United Nations’ top court over
charges that it might be conducting a genocide in
Gaza. That court has already found those charges
plausible and ordered protective measures, which
the Israelis have rejected. Any further U.S. funding
for the Israeli war effort could open members of
Congress voting for it to being charged at the United
Nations as accessories to genocide by countries that
don’t get along with the United States. Instead,
House Republicans insist they will fund Israel but
not Ukraine and want border changes, and House
Democrats insist on bundling the funding. This
keeps both parties from prosecution at the United
Nations’ top court without having to directly
challenge the powerful Israel lobby.
Dino Drudi, Alexandria
From Michigan to Jerusalem? If only.
Regarding the Feb. 29 front-page article “For
Biden, is Michigan a mountain or molehill?”:
More than 100,000 residents of Michigan voted
“uncommitted” in last Tuesday’s Democratic primary.
Do they really think it will make a difference to Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the man who
leads the onslaught in Gaza? Mr. Netanyahu seems to
care little about President Biden’s situation. And,
indeed, he has to date rejected the world’s cease-fire
entreaties as ineffective and unreasonable.
Mr. Netanyahu appears to be playing the long
game, preferring that incompetent former president
Donald Trump be returned to the White House.
Mr. Trump appears to be managed, manipulated and
coerced. The former president, who has a long history
of animus toward Muslims (with the apparent
exception of the Saudi crown prince), once called for a
total ban on residents of some majority-Muslim
countries entering the United States. Is Mr. Trump the
candidate whom some Arab Americans and Muslims
are willing to restore to the Oval Office? If so, their
hubris will never be forgotten or forgiven.
David Kahn, Palm Beach, Fla.
Shoot for the stars — in expectations
Regarding the Feb. 29 news article “NASA calls
Odysseus landing a success, despite problems”:
I hope these “shots on goal” by Intuitive
Machines, Astrobotic and other companies under
NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services
program come closer to full-blown, without-a-
doubt, total successes on their missions. Otherwise,
I fear expectations might start diminishing, and a
culture of accepting partial successes as “good
enough” might take hold, just as Artemis ramps up.
We don’t need a more casual mentality creeping
in, especially when the big players in Artemis, such
as Boeing, are having their own quality-control
issues these days.
Clinton Thacker, Fairfax County
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ruth MarCus
One unanimous
ruling does not
bridge the court’s
deep division
“If it is not necessary to decide more to dispose
of a case, then it is necessary not to decide more.”
— Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.,
concurring in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s
Health Organization (2022)
“What it does today, the Court should have left
undone.”
— Retired Justice Stephen G. Breyer,
dissenting in Bush v. Gore (2000)
T
hose quotations, which bookend the concur-
ring opinion released on Monday by three
liberal justices on whether former president
Donald Trump can be removed from the
ballot in Colorado, amount to the judicial equivalent
of fighting words. They constitute a two-part slap
across the face of their supposedly conservative
colleagues, accusing them of outrageous judicial
activism in shielding Trump from being disqualified
from holding office under Section 3 of the
14th Amendment.
“In a sensitive case crying out for judicial re-
straint,” write Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan
and Ketanji Brown Jackson, the court “abandons that
course. . . . Today, the majority goes beyond the
necessities of this case to limit how Section 3 can bar
an oathbreaking insurrectionist from becoming
President.”
The justices aren’t this explicit, but I’ll be their
anger translator: You guys are in the tank for Trump
in a way that is unnecessary, unseemly and — take
that, Chief Justice — hypocritical.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett took a similar position,
but with a far more soothing tone. She didn’t join the
court’s broadest holding, but she implicitly lectured
her liberal colleagues for stirring up the masses. “In
my judgment, this is not the time to amplify disagree-
ment with stridency,” Barrett wrote. Stridency, real-
ly? Gendered much?
“The Court has settled a politically charged issue in
the volatile season of a Presidential election,” Barrett
cautioned. “Particularly in this circumstance, writ-
ings on the Court should turn the national tempera-
ture down, not up. For present purposes, our differ-
ences are far less important than our unanimity: All
nine Justices agree on the outcome of this case. That
is the message Americans should take home.”
To translate again: Simmer down. The children can
hear us.
This is the surprising, and surprisingly furious,
denouement of a dispute that was both high-stakes
and lacking in evident suspense, especially in the
wake of an oral argument in which the justices
seemed unanimously disinclined to bounce Trump
from the ballot.
I confess to being somewhat perplexed, as were a
number of liberal legal scholars with whom I spoke
after the ruling, about the apparent magnitude of the
rage. There is an infuriating tails-Trump-wins, heads-
his-critics-lose aspect to the decision in Trump v. An-
derson: Where exactly is the forum in which Trump is
finally held to account for his actions?
But the practical implications of the ruling, for
reasons I’ll get to, aren’t enormous. What helps ex-
plain the level of anger here, I suspect, is the liberals’
fury not just at this decision but also at the continuing
conservative power grab, all under the bogus cloak of
judicial modesty. And this is pure speculation, but I
wonder whether the liberals’ frustration over other
aspects of the court’s behavior, such as the undue delay
in hearing the Trump immunity case, might be boiling
over and manifesting itself in the Colorado ruling.
The court’s unanimous bottom line in Trump
v. Anderson, that a single state doesn’t have the
authority to use Section 3 to disqualify a candidate
for federal office, was correct, as a matter of constitu-
tional law, the structure of our federal system and the
broader public interest. Section 3, enacted in the
aftermath of the Civil War to deal with the problem of
ex-Confederates seeking to return to power, prevents
former officials who “engaged in insurrection” from
holding state or federal office.
The Colorado Supreme Court, concluding that
Trump was an insurrectionist within the meaning of
Section 3, ordered him kept off the Super Tuesday
primary ballot as a result. “States have no power
under the Constitution to enforce Section 3 with
respect to federal offices, especially the Presidency,”
the court said in its per curiam ruling. As the liberal
justices noted: “Allowing Colorado to do so would, we
agree, create a chaotic state-by-state patchwork, at
odds with our Nation’s federalism principles. That is
enough to resolve this case.”
Where the two sides diverge is with the majority’s
digression into the arena of federal enforcement of
Section 3 — “musings,” the liberal justices said, that
“are as inadequately supported as they are gratuitous”
and that would “insulate all alleged insurrectionists
from future challenges to their holding federal office.”
The majority asserts that, for Section 3 to be enforced,
Congress must enact further legislation outlining how
and to whom it applies — a hurdle that the court hasn’t
required for any other section of the 14th Amendment.
Not just that, the majority instructs, any such
legislation must reflect “congruence and proportion-
ality.” What gives with making pronouncements on
issues that aren’t remotely implicated by Colorado’s
action?
I get that the court would prefer to nip future
challenges to Trump’s legitimacy in the bud; it wants
out of the unpleasant and seemingly unending busi-
ness of deciding Trump cases. Could Congress refuse
to certify Trump’s election on the grounds that he is an
insurrectionist not entitled to hold office? Could an
executive order by an insurrectionist president — call
him Donald Trump — be challenged on the grounds
that he is not entitled to hold office? Could a prosecu-
tion by an insurrectionist attorney general — call him
Jeffrey Clark — be similarly called into question?
Confronted with these questions down the road —
say, once Trump was back in the White House — there’s
little chance the court would declare a sitting presi-
dent constitutionally disqualified from holding office.
All of which helps explain why the liberal justices
are fed up with a court that professes judicial restraint
but consistently arrogates power for itself. The most
telling aspect of Trump v. Anderson might be the
glimpse it offers behind the scenes of a court that, even
when it appears unanimous, is bitterly divided.
OPINION
Abused women are resorting to violence
to survive. They aren’t criminals.
BY E LIZABETH F LOCK
B
y the time Deven Grey shot her boyfriend
in 2017, he had been isolating and abus-
ing her for years. The night she killed him
at their home in rural Alabama, he had
fired a gun at her, pistol-whipped her and
strangled her with a hose. In court, she filed a
“stand your ground” self-defense claim — which
she was denied because she had shot her abuser
five minutes after he had lain on the couch. “I just
didn’t want it to be me,” she said.
She took a guilty plea for manslaughter and
was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
For years, I have interviewed women around
the world who resorted to violence to survive. I
have studied hundreds of cases of abused women
who were prosecuted for defending themselves
and interviewed dozens more in prison. The
more I’ve learned about these women, many of
whom picked up a gun or knife after decades of
abuse, the better I’ve come to understand that
sometimes, the vulnerable must turn to violence
to live — and that the American legal system is
not built to conform to this reality.
One U.S. study found women are twice as
likely as men to be convicted of a crime after
claiming self-defense; the odds are even worse
for a woman of color. (Grey, for instance, is Black;
her abuser was White.) Women are asked why
they did not leave an abuser, why they were an
imperfect victim or why they did not seek help
from the police or courts — institutions that
failed to protect them in the first place.
These cases should be treated as self-defense.
But our self-defense laws — written originally by
and for White men defending their property, not
for women who might be experiencing domestic
or sexual abuse — require a threat to be
imminent. They do not take into account that an
abused woman often cannot defend herself at
the precise moment of an attack. And they do not
take into account that she might have been under
assault for years.
Stand-your-ground laws are even more
flawed; their application has been found to be
colored by racial and gendered biases in ways
that fail to protect abused women. As Caroline
Light, a Harvard University lecturer and author
of the book “Stand Your Ground: A History of
Colbert i. King
The blank spaces in Relisha Rudd’s story
are the most horrifying
T
en years after Relisha Rudd’s disappear-
ance, it remains an agony to imagine her
fate. What we know is a horror. Worse is
what we are forced to suppose.
Sunday’s front-page Post article on the 2014
disappearance of Relisha, then 8, from a makeshift,
dilapidated and bug-ridden shelter at what used to
be D.C. General Hospital in Southeast Washington,
portrayed some of the people who knew and
interacted with her before she
went missing. It recaptured the
disgraceful conditions under
which the little second-grader
lived. And it touched briefly on
Kahlil Tatum, the janitor em-
ployed by the nonprofit Com-
munity Partnership for the Pre-
vention of Homelessness,
which the D.C. government
D.c. POlicE DEPt. hired to operate the shelter.
Relisha Rudd Tatum, the prime suspect in
Relisha’s disappearance, was
wanted by the FBI in connection with his wife’s
murder but apparently killed himself before author-
ities could question him.
The Post article explored the impact and conse-
quences of Relisha’s disappearance on the commu-
nity and beyond. I was around at the time, too,
asking questions and publishing columns of my own
about that tragedy. Some of what I learned makes it
hard to speak of Relisha in the present tense.
In a 2016 column, I noted reporting that the
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America’s Love Affair with Lethal Self-Defense,”
put it, these laws, despite their seemingly neutral
language, were “crafted in a way that would slam
the door on abuse survivors while enabling more
homicidal violence, especially armed violence, by
the usual suspects.”
Many people call for peaceful ways out of
abuse. The problem is, these often don’t work.
Some women never report the violence out of
fear of retaliation from their abuser. Others
report it but no action is taken — or they report it,
or attempt to leave their abusers, and are killed
before the authorities respond. When a woman
does fight back, she is often treated not as a
longtime victim but as a criminal.
Self-defense laws must expand
to acknowledge the dynamics
of intimate-partner violence,
especially around timing and what
constitutes reasonable fear.
This conundrum of “criminalized survival,” as
it is known, is not new. Advocates have been
raising the alarm for decades.
Rachel White-Domain, who heads the Women
& Survivors Project at the Illinois Prison Project,
said that some of her clients have been “in
constant positions of terror and violence,” and
that after enduring so much, it’s no wonder some
see no other way out. Because women and men
are often different sizes and strengths, women
are more likely to defend themselves with guns
or knives, while men more often use hands and
fists. But prosecutors and judges, “people on the
other side of the looking glass, just don’t live
those kinds of lives” of continuous violence, and
so fail to put a woman’s response in its proper
context.
It is a common prosecutorial tactic to try to
discredit an abused woman by making her seem
unreasonable for believing she was in danger.
Consider the case of Brittany Smith, an Alabama
51-year-old Tatum was a convicted felon who had
been incarcerated from 1993 to 2003 and again from
2004 to 2011 for burglary, larceny, and breaking and
entering. The column also noted that a 2012
D.C. inspector general report found that the Com-
munity Partnership employed people to work in
direct contact with families and children at the
shelter who had not undergone criminal back-
ground checks or drug and alcohol testing, as the
city contract required. The Community Partnership,
according to the inspector general, acknowledged
that it had “grandfathered in” six workers with
criminal convictions.
Further, in a March 2014 article soon after
Relisha’s disappearance, The Post reported that
D.C. General rules prohibiting social contact and
interaction were regularly flouted, “in particular by
Tatum, who several mothers said had offered money
to their daughters in plain view of other shelter staff.”
But this column is not about what the D.C. gov-
ernment did or failed to do for Relisha and her
family. About that much can be said. Or where her
family fell short in their responsibility for her care
and support. That, too, is a story.
I’m taking the liberty of repeating some of what I
learned, two years after Relisha tragically disap-
peared, concerning Relisha while in Kahlil Tatum’s
hands.
Her family said Tatum, with their knowledge,
brought Relisha gifts and took her for sleepovers, as
well as to the movies and malls.
The D.C. police launched a missing-person probe
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woman who shot and killed her rapist and was
charged with murder. When claiming self-
defense, Smith was told by the prosecutor that
her rapist had not had a weapon on him. Smith
protested that the man’s hands and penis had
been weapons. Her rape kit documented
33 wounds. She said she was afraid she would die
— but the court wasn’t convinced. She pleaded
guilty to murder and was sentenced to 20 years
in prison.
Though no national data exist, White-Domain
estimates that since the creation of U.S. prisons,
tens of thousands of women have been criminal-
ized for defending themselves. The legal system
has begun to evolve to address female defen-
dants with abuse histories, but not fast enough.
Since the 1970s, some attorneys have used a
theory and defense called “battered-woman syn-
drome,” which helps courts give proper consider-
ation to an abused woman’s experiences. Today,
more defense attorneys are arguing that their
abused clients’ actions constitute self-defense.
But our self-defense laws must expand to
acknowledge the dynamics of intimate-partner
violence, especially around timing and what
constitutes reasonable fear. When the law does
not acknowledge this, it is much more difficult
for attorneys to invoke self-defense laws for their
abused clients. The fact that they can’t is a double
standard that hurts survivors.
Some state laws have sought to redress the
problem during or after sentencing. Since 2012
in California, “sin by silence” laws, building on
earlier legislation, have allowed courts to consid-
er new evidence for women whose abuse might
not have been adequately presented at trial. In
2016 in Illinois, an amended law added abuse as
a mitigating factor at sentencing. And in New
York, the Domestic Violence Survivors Justice
Act of 2019 has allowed for reduced sentences for
those who experienced domestic violence.
More states need to pass similar legislation.
Even better, law enforcement and prosecutors
must be better informed so that fewer women
with abuse histories are arrested or tried in the
first place.
Elizabeth Flock is a journalist and the author of two
books, most recently “the Furies: Women, Vengeance,
and Justice.”
for Relisha on March 19, 2014. Tatum and his wife,
Andrea, lived in an apartment on N Street SE, but
that isn’t where he and Relisha would be seen in
videos gathered by authorities.
Such as on Feb. 26, when he and Relisha can be
viewed walking down the hall at a Holiday Inn
Express in Northeast.
Such as days later, on March 1, when Relisha is
seen walking past the fountain in front of the Days
Inn on New York Avenue. She is observed in the
lobby and entering a room with Tatum.
Think about it.
A senior law enforcement official, speaking to me
on background, asked at the time: “What’s a grown
man doing with a little girl in motels?” The official
voiced a strong opinion that Tatum was “pimping”
Relisha “for himself and others.” “People in this city
have no idea how many kids are being taken
advantage of by predators,” the official added. The
official also speculated that Tatum’s wife “found out
about what he was doing and he killed her.”
None of that would ever be established in a court
of law — or anywhere else. Tatum was found dead
from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. His wife was
found shot to death with the gun authorities believe
Tatum used on himself.
Relisha has never been found. The mind is left to
fill in the blanks about the fate of an innocent child
who brought none of this horror upon herself.
We need the truth about what happened to
Relisha, and why, and by whom, living or dead. This
city must learn the truth.
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Teixeira pleads guilty to leaking classified intelligence documents on Discord

BY S HANE H ARRIS,
S AMUEL O AKFORD
AND D EVLIN B ARRETT
BOSTON — Jack Teixeira appeared
in a federal district court monday
and pleaded guilty to the massive
leak of U.S. intelligence docu-
ments last year on Discord, an
online chat platform popular with
video gamers.
Dressed in orange inmate fa-
tigues and wearing a rosary, his
ankles shackled, Teixeira stood be-
fore Judge Indira Talwani and ac-
knowledged that the evidence
would show he knowingly shared
classified information on Discord
with people who weren’t author-
ized to have it.
Teixeira made no formal state-
ment and responded to the judge’s
questions usually with a simple
“Yes, your honor.”
Teixeira pleaded guilty to all six
charges against him, including the
willful retention and transmission
of national defense information
that the government had classi-
fied as top secret.
Teixeira was accused of using
his top-secret security clearance
to access classified government
computer networks on an Air
force base in Cape Cod, where he
worked with a unit providing in-
telligence support to the military.
A Washington Post investigation
revealed that, while Teixeira was
serving in the massachusetts Air
National Guard, he shared hun-
dreds of classified documents as
well as his own summaries of clas-
sified reports on Discord.
In court, prosecutors explained
that Teixeira would write down
classified information inside the
secure facility, then remove it and
post the transcriptions to Discord
under his handle TheExcalibur-
Effect. Audit data also showed
that Teixeira accessed and printed
hundreds of classified documents
at the base, primarily using an
isolated workstation in the base-
ment of the intelligence facility,
prosecutors said.
Teixeira had pleaded not guilty
after his arrest last April. His law-
yers spent the past several months
reviewing the evidence, including
classified documents, that pros-
ecutors intended to use at trial.
“He is significantly remorseful
for his conduct. He has accepted
full responsibility for his conduct,”
Teixeira’s attorney michael K.
Bachrach told reporters after the
hearing. He said that Teixeira
would address the court at a sen-
tencing hearing in September.
Teixeira has asked the judge to
impose a sentence of 11 years.
But prosecutors are seeking a
stiffer penalty of more than
16 years, which they argued re-
flected the severity of Teixeira’s
crimes and would send a message
to others who also took an oath not
to disclose government secrets.
The leaks were seen as one of the
most serious breaches of U.S. na-
tional security in recent years.
Some U.S. and European officials
said the information could risk
lives if it were widely known.
“Jack Teixeira will never get a
sniff of a piece of classified infor-
mation for the rest of his life,”
Joshua S. Levy, the acting U.S.
attorney for the District of massa-
chusetts, told reporters. “But we
also bring these cases for general
deterrence. The message goes out
to anyone who may be tempted to
violate their position of trust like
mr. Teixeira that there are very,
very severe consequences.”
David Aaron, a former national
security prosecutor who worked
on leak cases, said the range of a
potential prison sentence agreed
upon by the two sides reflects the
significance and potential harm of
Teixeira’s disclosures — more
egregious than of NSA contractor
reality Winner, who gave a single
document to a news organization,
but less harmful than CIA em-
ployee Joshua Schulte, who gave a
raft of sensitive information to
WikiLeaks.
“It really looks as though [Teix-
eira] was very cooperative early
on, and the government gave him
time to be cooperative, and that
probably earned him substantial
time off a sentence,” Aaron said.
“That being said, he transmitted a
lot of really sensitive stuff, and did
it over a period of time.”
Teixeira had posted informa-
tion about a vast range of topics,
including the war in Ukraine, in a
small Discord server called Thug
Shaker Central that he formed
with friends during the coronavi-
rus pandemic. The group was
united by a mutual interest in
guns and military hardware, as
well as a distrust of law enforce-
ment agencies and embrace of rac-
ist and antisemitic views.
Teixeira also posted classified
information about the war as early
as february 2022 in another, larg-
er server, called Abinavski’s Exclu-
sion Zone, with hundreds of active
users. The Post found that some of
the members of the servers includ-
ed foreign nationals, a fact that
prosecutors have emphasized to
show how Teixeira may have facili-
tated classified U.S. intelligence
ending up in foreign hands.
“mr. Teixeira enabled hundreds
of members of his online chat
groups, including individuals it
was clear to him were located
overseas, to further disseminate
national defense information
across the internet,” said matthew
olsen, the assistant attorney gen-
eral for national security.
As Teixeira awaited a possible
trial, the tightknit members of
Thug Shaker Central remained in
touch on a new server, which in-
cluded a channel devoted to up-
dates on the case. At times, some
users claimed the government’s
case was weak, but they seemed
not to appreciate the strength of
the evidence.
on monday, friends expressed a
mixture of sympathy for Teixeira
and frustration with the govern-
ment’s insistence on a lengthy
prison term.
“It’s cruel and unusual. Eleven
to 16 years for exposing govern-
ment secrets kept by taxpayer dol-
lars just shows how the govern-
ment is willing to silence you,” said
a now 18-year-old former member
of the server, who agreed to speak
on the condition that he be identi-
fied by his middle name, Charles.
“It was nice being able to read
accurate info on the war, but was
unsettling that he was so ready
and willing to post it all,” said
Jeremiah, a moderator on Abi-
navski’s Exclusion Zone who
agreed to speak on the condition
that only his first name be used.
It’s unclear whether investiga-
tors were able to fully re-create the
extent of what Teixeira shared on-
line. Before his arrest, Teixeira
took advantage of Discord’s data
retention policies to cover his
tracks. He also deleted an entire
server, called Thug Shaker Cen-
tral, where The Post found that
Teixeira had been sharing classi-
fied material with a group of most-
ly teenage boys in an attempt to
impress them. Discord officials
said Teixeira’s actions left them
without an archive of the server to
provide to law enforcement. A
“thread” of messages containing
information about the war in
Ukraine also disappeared from
another server where Teixeira was
active, according to users.
Investigators first became
aware of Teixeira’s actions early
last year. on feb. 28, 2023, a teen-
age member of Thug Shaker Cen-
tral with the online handle “Luc-
ca” began posting to a different
server several dozen photographs
of classified documents that Teix-
eira had taken. five days later, yet
another Discord user posted 10 of
the photographs on minecraft
Earth map, a server devoted to the
popular video game. Soon the doc-
uments were swirling around the
internet, and Pentagon and fBI
officials scrambled to find their
source.
After Teixeira’s arrest, authori-
ties struggled to track the spread
of classified material linked to
him.

In showdown on arena plans, key state senator keeps Richmond guessing

viRGinia from a1
of the Senate finance and Appro-
priations Committee, has blasted
what she’s labeled the “Glenn
Dome” as a gift to team owner Ted
Leonsis and a threat to state fi-
nances. As the plan enters its next
phase — at the mercy of a small
conference committee called to
hash out the state budget — all
eyes are on an intense game of
chicken between Lucas and
Youngkin. The governor has hint-
ed he might veto unrelated bills if
the arena plan goes down.
The wild card in their standoff
is House Speaker Don L. Scott Jr.,
another Portsmouth Democrat
who considers Lucas a mentor
but struck up an unlikely friend-
ship this year with the governor.
He says he understands Lucas’s
skepticism but thinks the arena is
worth considering.
Adding to the intrigue: It’s not
entirely clear, even to Senate col-
leagues, if Lucas really wants to
kill the arena or is merely trying
to drive the hardest possible bar-
gain with Youngkin for Demo-
cratic priorities related to high-
way tolls, marijuana and the min-
imum wage.
Lucas declined to speak at
length to The Washington Post
about her intentions.
Youngkin’s office declined to
make him available for an inter-
view but said in a written state-
ment that he continues to work
with all parties, including Lucas.
“my relationship with Sen. Lu-
cas is underpinned by my respect
for her and our shared desire to
move Virginia forward,” Young-
kin wrote.
Time is running out on a Gen-
eral Assembly session scheduled
to wrap up Saturday. The House
version of the budget contains
language authorizing the arena;
the Senate’s, thanks to Lucas, does
not. Such differences will be rec-
onciled in committee, with six
lawmakers picked by Lucas on the
Senate negotiating team and six
picked by Scott for his chamber.
Even if the full House and Sen-
ate ultimately agree to a budget
bill without arena language,
Youngkin still has a path forward.
He could insert arena language in
a budget amendment, forcing a
floor vote on the plan at the legis-
lature’s April 17 “veto session.” or
the governor could call a special
session to consider a new arena
bill.
But it’s far from certain that he
has enough support from legisla-
tors on both sides of the aisle to
approve the project. The North-
ern Virginia delegation — like
legislators across the state —
seems split, with some embracing
it as an economic development
win and others sharing Lucas’s
concerns.
How the drama plays out could
shape Youngkin’s political trajec-
tory as much as Alexandria’s land-
scape. Delivering a major devel-
opment deal that draws two ma-
jor professional sports teams to a
state with none would constitute
a legacy-making coup for the re-
publican, who cannot run for re-
election next year because Vir-
ginia bans its governors from
serving back-to-back terms.
failure to pull it off, however,
could reshape the former private-
equity chief ’s image from rising
republican star to flash in the pan
— just as last November’s elec-
tions, when Youngkin’s party lost
control of the House and didn’t
flip the Senate, killed the buzz
about his long-teased 2024 presi-
State Sen. L. Louise Lucas (D-Portsmouth) has voiced opposition to
the plan to bring two professional sports franchises to virginia.
The Potomac Yard site in alexandria where Leonsis and Youngkin hope to relocate the District’s professional basketball and hockey teams.
as of now, virginia’s House budget includes language authorizing the arena, while the state’s Senate budget does not.
dential ambitions.
a Youngkin-Lucas showdown
With great fanfare in Decem-
ber, Youngkin and Leonsis an-
nounced a handshake deal to
build an arena for the teams,
which now play at Capital one
Arena in the District.
Early on, Lucas wrote on X that
she might play ball in exchange
for lowering highway tunnel tolls
in her part of the state and estab-
lishing a legal marketplace for
marijuana. other Democrats
wanted metro transit system
funding, affordable housing and a
higher minimum wage.
Lucas’s tone has grown harsh-
er, with warnings that the project
could jeopardize the state’s prized
AAA bond rating and leave tax-
payers on the hook for $1.5 billion
in bonds if it fails.
Lucas made it clear that Hamp-
ton roads toll relief alone would
not win her over after news broke
last week that the governor had
offered Lucas and Scott a stun-
ning $322 million for that pur-
pose in exchange for arena sup-
port — well above the $92 million
that Lucas included for tolls in the
Senate budget.
In a brief interview with The
Kristen Zeis for the Washington Post
Washington Post outside the Sen-
ate chamber friday, Lucas said
the governor’s offer had come a
month ago — “old news,” she said.
“my position hasn’t changed,”
she said. “I still don’t think [the
arena] is a good idea for the state.
To think that I would cave when
this [toll relief ] just really takes
care of just a few people. . . . I need
more people to be helped by what-
ever we do.”
richmond has been bracing for
a Lucas-Youngkin showdown
since the republican moved into
the Executive mansion two years
ago.
A combative former shipyard
worker — Lucas once nearly came
to blows with another female
Democrat on the Senate floor and
belittled a republican leader with
a cutting fashion critique — she
routinely targeted the new gover-
nor on what was then Twitter.
By contrast, Youngkin, who
made a personal fortune in the
cutthroat but mannerly world of
private equity, made a show of
giving Lucas one of his signature
red vests even as he pushed cul-
ture-war issues that enraged her.
While the governor tries to
build relationships to sell the deal
in the Capitol, Lucas is testing the
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Washington Wizards and Capitals owner Ted Leonsis, left, and
virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) announced their plan last year.
michael s. Williamson/the Washington Post
limits of ties she’s forged over crushing burden for low-income
three decades in richmond, de- workers who have to travel back
ploying a string of highhanded and forth daily. The tolls are col-
procedural tactics aimed at the lected by a private firm under a
arena. long-term contract inked more
Is Lucas trying to kill the proj- than a decade ago with the state.
ect or just bargaining? “I have no “You have a 58-year toll on one
idea,” said one Senate Democrat, of the poorest communities in
who spoke on the condition of Hampton roads,” Scott said. “She
anonymity for fear of offending has some scar tissue from these
Lucas. “Nobody does.” types of . . . quasi-public-private
partnerships.”
Scott in the middle He said his own approach is
Stylistically and biographical- different, in deference to House
ly, Scott is in the middle — a man Appropriations Committee
who served a stretch in prison for Chairman Luke E. Torian (D-
a youthful drug-related convic- Prince William) and majority
tion, but rebuilt his life as a prom- Leader Charniele L. Herring (D-
inent defense lawyer before this Alexandria), whose Northern Vir-
year becoming Virginia’s first ginian constituents are directly
Black House speaker. affected by the plan.
Scott, who has privately repre- “So if my leadership team is
sented Lucas in court cases, says saying that they want to continue
her reluctance to issue bonds for to have a conversation, we’ve got
the arena stems from her experi- to continue the conversation,”
ence with another public-private Scott said.
partnership: highway tolls on two He pointed out that Northern
tunnels under the Elizabeth river Virginia’s traffic problems are go-
between Norfolk and their home- ing to require a major state invest-
town of Portsmouth. ment regardless of whether the
While the amounts are low by arena gets built. maybe arena rev-
Northern Virginia standards — enue could help cover those costs,
around $3 during rush hour for he said.
EZPass holders, $7.57 for non- Youngkin has been making
pass holders — they can be a that case to Scott in regular texts
and phone calls. While Scott has
been one of Youngkin’s sharpest
critics, he has entertained the
governor’s efforts to court him
this year. They joke about a
shared fondness for Dr Pepper;
Youngkin attends Scott’s morning
Bible study every Wednesday.
Youngkin has not spent quite
as much time wooing Lucas lately,
but his spokesman said the gover-
nor has had to play catch-up with
Scott, who only ascended to the
chamber’s top spot this year.
Lucas said that she hardly feels
neglected and that every week,
Youngkin calls, texts or sends
someone from his team to see her.
But she has said she felt snubbed
that the administration did not
bring her in on the arena project
earlier.
It didn’t help when Youngkin
insulted Democrats with a speech
at a mock presidential nominat-
ing convention in february, say-
ing the party does not believe in “a
strong America.”
In the immediate aftermath,
Lucas killed the Senate’s stand-
alone arena bill without a hearing
— contrary to Senate practice and
without buy-in from Democratic
colleagues. She did so even as
Senate majority Leader Scott A.
Surovell (D-fairfax), who had
sponsored the bill at Youngkin’s
request, was reworking it with the
goal of increasing the legislature’s
oversight and better protecting
taxpayers.
“I had a rewrite ready to go,”
Surovell said in an interview with
The Post, noting that traditionally
in the Senate, every bill gets dock-
eted for a hearing. He said Lucas
has occasionally objected to hear-
ing bills she dislikes. “In the past,
we’ve been able to work through
it,” he said. “But this year, she
wasn’t willing to talk about it.”
After killing Surovell’s arena
bill, Lucas did the same to the
House version once it crossed
over to the Senate. She also
stripped arena language from the
Senate budget bill and included
no new funding for the metro
transit system, whose expansion
would be critical for the project.
(The House, by comparison, in-
cluded $149.5 million for metro.)
The only public pushback came
over her actions on metro fund-
ing, widely considered critical to
the Northern Virginia economy
irrespective of any arena. She got
a visit from metro leadership the
next day and softened her tone.
Youngkin has begun signaling
that he can play hardball, too,
perhaps taking revenge on a host
of Democratic legislation with his
veto pen. While the governor typi-
cally avoids weighing in before
measures get to his desk, his
spokesman recently volunteered
that Youngkin has concerns on
bills related to slots-like machines
known as “skill games” — a meas-
ure Lucas has supported.
All was cordial, though, as the
budget conferees from both the
House and the Senate met with
the governor friday for a tradi-
tional breakfast as they prepared
to launch negotiations. Scott is
not a budget negotiator but also
attended.
Lucas said the governor re-
minded them of all the things he
called for at the end of last year
when he unveiled his budget plan,
which included the arena.
“At breakfast this morning he
said, ‘Well, I told everybody what
my priorities were in December,’ ”
Lucas said that afternoon. “I said:
‘I did, too. Go back and read my
Twitter feed.’”
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Footage
of police
shooting
released
man was fatally
shot in his home
Officer was responding to
reported break-in in Md.

BY J ASMINE H ILTON
AND K ATIE M ETTLER

In the moments before a

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Prince George’s County police
officer burst through the door of
Melvin Jay’s apartment with his
gun drawn, the man was stand-
ing in the middle of his family
room.
The lights were off. The blinds
were drawn. The TV in the corner
glowed.
Jay, according to body-camera
footage released by authorities,
was facing away from the front
door as the uniformed officer —
who did not identify himself as
police — yelled repeatedly for the
31-year-old man to show his
hands. Jay walked around a cor-
ner into his kitchen. The officer
fired a single shot, hitting the
man in the face.

‘Our absolute hero’ The encounter between the

Thousands mourn Trevor Brown, a Virginia firefighter killed in a house explosion last month
BY J USTIN J OUVENAL
Thousands of firefighters and
law enforcement officers sud-
denly stood straight and saluted
the moment six pallbearers in
crisp uniforms and white gloves
lifted the casket of firefighter
Trevor Brown from the back of a
fire engine Monday.
The procession slowly
marched the flag-draped coffin
past the sea of mourners in blue
who came out to honor the
sterling Volunteer Fire Company
firefighter who died in a massive
explosion Feb. 16 that destroyed
a home and injured 14 others in
Loudoun County.
About 3,000 people attended
the funeral at Leesburg’s Corner-
stone Chapel, including Virginia
Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) and
members of the General Assem-
bly and the Loudoun Board of
TOP: A firetruck bearing the coffin of firefighter Trevor brown leaves
Cornerstone Chapel in leesburg after his funeral Monday. AbOVe: brown is
supervisors. Firefighters and law
two men, from the moment Offi-
cer Braxton shelton entered Jay’s
apartment to the moment he
fired his gun, lasts roughly seven
seconds.
In the month since the Feb. 1
shooting at the Windham Creek
enforcement officers came from Apartments on suitland Road,
across Maryland, Virginia and law enforcement officials have
West Virginia. released little information about
Brown, 45, is one of 13 fire- what may have prompted shel-
fighters killed in the line of duty ton to fire.
in the United states this year. sEE SHOOTinG On b2
The news media was not allowed
inside the chapel, but the service
was streamed online.
Youngkin spoke first, saying
Brown, who is survived by his
wife and three children, loved his
Additional
family, community and country.
He enjoyed the outdoors, coach-
ing youth soccer and baseball,
funding
and was a “beacon of light.”
He said Brown was finishing a
12-hour shift Feb. 16 and was
needed for
ready to go home to his kids
when he got the call about a
propane gas leak at a house in
Purple Line
the 300 block of silver Ridge
Drive in sterling. He and his
“fellow heroes” responded,
Youngkin said.
Request puts project,
one of 13 u.S. firefighters killed in the line of duty this year. sEE FunerAl On b2 delayed until late 2027,
$4 billion over budget

BY D ANNY N GUYEN

Maryland transit authorities

are seeking an additional
$425 million to fund construction

Md. lawmakers drop aid-in-dying bill, dashing patients’ hopes
Senate panel chooses
not to vote on legislation,
citing insufficient support
BY K ATIE S HEPHERD
For nearly a decade, dying pa-
tients have asked Maryland law-
makers to consider allowing peo-
ple with terminal illnesses to end
their own lives through self-ad-
ministered medication to avoid
the immense suffering that can
come in their final weeks.
Despite initial optimism that
the End-of-Life Options Act
might pass this year, Democratic
leadership on Friday decided the
bill would not get a vote because it
did not have the support needed
to move out of the senate Judicial
Proceedings Committee, dashing
hopes that the bill would finally
become law. The decision came
down to one or two votes, said
of the Purple Line, putting the
long-delayed project more than
$4 billion over budget.
The Purple Line, a 16.2-mile
It was probably the last test of light-rail line with 21 stations that
the bill until the composition of would run through Montgomery
the state senate changes, senate and Prince George’s counties, has
President Bill Ferguson (D-Balti- faced numerous hurdles because
more City) said last week. That of lawsuits, unfavorable economic
potentially delays the bill until conditions and logistical issues,
2027 when the next legislative like hard rock that limited drill-
term begins. ing.
The bill’s fate devastated pa- The request from the Maryland
tient advocates who want to die Transit Administration, issued
on their own terms. Friday, is the second-largest single
“I am worried sick that I may request for additional funding to
not live long enough for them to date for the Purple Line. The only
pass it during the next legislative bigger request came in 2022,
session,” said Lynn Cave, a silver when the MTA asked for $3.4 bil-
spring resident with incurable lion after the pandemic had
eye cancer that has metastasized caused rising material costs, sup-
to her liver and will eventually ply chain issues, labor shortages
cause her organs to shut down. and more expensive insurance.
A week before the bill stalled The state’s Board of Public Works
on Friday, Diane Kraus still be- approved this request in 2022. It
lieved lawmakers might clear the sEE PurPle line On b3
way for her to access medical
aid-in-dying before her metastat- Petula
ic breast cancer — which has
spawned several tumors in her Dvorak
brain — robs her of her identity.
“I’m afraid I’m going to lose
who I am,” she said. JoNaThaN NeWToN/The WashiNgToN PosT

state sen. William C. smith Jr. Kraus said she wants the Maryland Sen. William C. Smith Jr. (D-Montgomery), center, said he told members of the Senate She is away. Her column will resume
when she returns.
(D-Montgomery). sEE bill On b3 Judicial Proceedings Committee that, “on issues like this, that it’s a vote of conscience. it’s so personal.”
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Thousands, including Youngkin, attend firefighter’s funeral

FUNERAL from B1

The governor stood next to

Brown’s flag-draped casket, near
the center of the altar, and ad-
dressed the fallen firefighter’s
family: “The words ‘I am so sorry’
seem wholly, wholly inadequate.
Your loss is unimaginable.”
David Short, the Sterling Vol-
unteer fire Company chief, said
Brown had a special way of
saying goodbye to his children
before each shift and always sent
them pictures when the firefight-
ers ate at five Guys because his
children, ages 6, 9 and 11, loved
to eat there. Short said Brown’s
children and godchildren asked
him to read a poem to remember
him.
The day you left and gained
your wings,
My heart just broke in two.
I wish you could have stayed,
But heaven needed you.
Thomas Brown, the firefight-
er’s father, said those children
are his son’s legacy. Trevor Brown
was a stay-at-home dad and for-
mer marine who had a “unique,
clever humor which made us
laugh uncontrollably at times.”
Thomas Brown said his son’s love
of humanity was “given freely.”
“Trevor Bryan Brown is our
absolute hero,” his father said.
The packed church gave
Thomas Brown a long round of
applause after he spoke.
The deadly incident began
about 7:40 p.m., when a resident
of Silver ridge Drive called 911.
“There’s a smell of gas outside,” a
man said, according to a record-
ing of the call.
firefighters dispatched to
the scene found a leaking, 500-
gallon underground propane
tank at the home next door to the Jahi ChikWendiu/The WashingTon PosT

caller. Loudoun County fire
Chief Keith Johnson told the
Board of Supervisors in an up-
date last week that propane had
seeped into the home.
firefighters evacuated the
homeowner, her roommate and a
number of pets and began inves-
tigating the leak when some-
thing caused the propane to
explode shortly before 8:30 p.m.,
leveling the home in a massive
blast that could be heard across
the Potomac river in montgom-
ery County.
“We just had a catastrophic
explosion!” a firefighter shouted
into a radio at one point.
A neighbor described the ex-
plosion as sounding like a “sonic
boom.” He said that it caused the
ceiling of the master bedroom of
Firefighters salute a vehicle carrying the remains of Loudoun County firefighter Trevor Brown after his funeral at Cornerstone Chapel in Leesburg, Va., on Monday. Brown
died and more than a dozen others were hurt Feb. 16, when leaking propane at a residence in Sterling led to a massive explosion, authorities said.
his home to fall on his head and
that of his 2-year-old son, and
that the bedroom windows shat-
tered inward, spraying his wife
with glass.
The blast caused a blaze and
rained insulation, clothing and
other debris on surrounding
trees. Two firefighters trapped
by wreckage sent desperate
maydays by radio.
Brown, who was outside the
home, was killed in the explo-
sion, and a number of other
firefighters were injured, John-
son said. The crews on scene
called for backup and began a
rescue operation to find the fire-
fighters trapped in the basement
of the home. By 9:15 p.m., the
trapped firefighters had been
rescued and the others account-
ed for.
“I don’t believe we have any
statistics on the survival rate of
firefighters calling mayday
that are trapped, but I can tell
you now it’s not very high,”
Johnson told the supervisors
last week.
The injured included 11 fire-
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R),
fighters, a sheriff ’s deputy and
two civilians. one firefighter,
who was trapped in the base-
ment, remains hospitalized in a
burn unit, but the others have
been treated and released.
The investigation into the ex-
“The words ‘I am so
sorry’ seem wholly,
wholly inadequate.
Your loss is
unimaginable.”
to Trevor Brown’s family
plosion continues. Laura rine-
hart, a spokeswoman for the
Loudoun fire department, said
monday that the fire marshal’s
office has wrapped up work at
the scene but is still trying to
determine what sparked the
blast.
rinehart said Johnson is
scheduled to meet this week with
the National Institute for occu-
pational Safety and Health as
part of an independent probe of
how firefighters handled the re-
sponse to the blast. The effort,
which is expected to take
months, is being led by the fire
chief of frederick County, md.
An initial estimate of property
damage caused by the explosion
is $2.5 million. Loudoun fire
officials said six homes were
damaged, including three that
are no longer inhabitable.
monday’s funeral ended with
firefighters removing the U.S.
flag from Brown’s coffin and
presenting it to his relatives.
firefighters then delivered three
teddy bears to Brown’s children,
and Youngkin got on one knee to
give the family a Virginia flag
framed in a wooden box.
Then, as thousands silently
watched, a firefighter rang a bell
nine times. Each peal echoed in
the hushed chapel, signaling the
end of Brown’s watch.

Body-cam footage released in fatal shooting by Prince George’s police o∞cer

SHOOTING from B1
The state’s Independent Inves-
tigations Division (IID), an arm
of the maryland Attorney Gener-
al’s office that investigates police
shootings, had initially said the
officer was responding to a 911
call of a breaking-and-entering in
progress at a unit in the apart-
ment complex.
But on monday, the attorney
general’s office and the Prince
George’s County Police Depart-
ment publicly released body-
camera video footage and audio
from the 911 call, providing more
details of the deadly encounter
that, experts say, will force inves-
tigators to untangle a web of
miscommunications and possi-
ble police policy violations to
determine if the shooting was
justified or a crime.
“The primary issue in regards
to whether this shooting was
justified is whether or not the
officer reasonably perceived an
immediate threat to his safety,”
said Ed obayashi, a national
expert on police shootings. “Just
because you can’t see someone’s
hands doesn’t mean that the
individual constituted immedi-
ate threat.”
The caller who lived in the
apartment was not home when
he called 911, officials said mon-
day, but the caller did not disclose
that two men were in his apart-
ment when he left home and that
a family member had called him
earlier threatening to take his
property.
Jay’s family declined to com-
ment for this article but were
able to view the body-camera
footage before it was made pub-
lic, authorities said. The family
has retained the Baltimore-based
civil rights law firm murphy
falcon & murphy to represent
them.
In a statement monday, Thom-
as Lester, spokesperson for IID,
said the state investigation into
the shooting is ongoing.
Shaun owens, a fraternal or-
der of Police attorney represent-
ing Shelton, did not respond to
an email requesting comment. In
a statement, foP President Ange-
lo Consoli said that union offi-
to patrol officers.
Shelton responded, arriving at
the quiet Hillcrest Heights apart-
ment complex at 5:27 p.m.
The dispatcher relayed what
she had heard: “A caller saying
he’s being told by the neighbor
that someone’s breaking into his
apartment.”
“Copy,” Shelton replied. “I’m in
the complex; hold me out.”
Video from Shelton’s body
camera shows the officer stepped
out of his police cruiser and
jogged up to the apartment com-
plex. He climbed a flight of stairs
and walked up to the 911 caller’s
apartment door, which was
“Show me your —” the officer
continued, cut short by the pierc-
ing pop of his own gun, firing one
shot at Jay’s face.
The man immediately fell to
the ground.
once additional officers ar-
rived, Shelton cleared the rest of
the apartment, then began ren-
dering aid to Jay. Shelton does
not say why he shot Jay — only
that the man ran from him and
“grabbed something” in the
kitchen.
“What’d you go in there and
get?” Shelton asked Jay, who
could not speak, in the video. The
video also shows Shelton check-

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cials “await the findings of the
Attorney General’s Independent
Investigations Division” but that
they are “confident” investigators
slightly ajar. The officer did not ing the coat Jay was wearing,
wait for backup and did not pulling a gun from the right side
announce he was there — or with pocket.
the police department — before “Yeah, there we go,” the officer

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will find “exactly what the video
and the known information
shows in that while no one wants
to see the tragic loss of life, the
officer was justified in his ac-
tions.”
The 911 call that drew Shelton
to the apartment was placed at
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said. In it, the caller — who police
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and background checked team the apartment’s lease holder —
told a dispatcher that he was not
members. All backed by a 5-year home but a neighbor had called
workmanship warranty. Offering him to say someone was actively
breaking into his home.
peace of mind since 1961. “I got somebody breaking and
entering in my house,” the caller
said, stating that the alleged thief
was taking something out of the
apartment and that the neighbor
had said the man had “dreads.”
The caller told the dispatcher
that he was making the call from
a firehouse, where he was “get-
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he pushed open the door, gun
drawn, and entered the apart-
ment, according to the video.
Those two choices, obayashi
said, deviate from the standard
protocols of most U.S. police
departments.
“It would have been standard
operating procedure to wait for
backup, for obvious reasons,”
obayashi said. “And then an-
nounce your intentions and then
see what develops.”
Instead, the body-camera vid-
eo shows that Shelton’s first
words were: “Show me your
hands!”
“Show me your hands!” he
shouted again.
When Jay began rounding
around a corner to walk toward
the kitchen, the video shows,
Shelton yelled again: “Bring your
a-- over here!”
Then Shelton, who still had
not identified himself, followed
Jay around the corner with his
gun raised in one hand.
“Show me your . . . hands,”
Shelton yells with an expletive.
can be heard saying.
Along with the 911 call audio,
Prince George’s police officials
also published a video of Police
Chief malik Aziz providing addi-
tional information police learned
after the shooting. What is not
shown in the video, Aziz said, is a
second gun that was found in the
kitchen sink area, near where Jay
was shot.
The 911 caller, Aziz said, had
not been fully transparent about
the alleged burglary at his home.
The burglar was not a stranger,
Aziz said, but an unrelated family
member who had said he would
be coming over to take the caller’s
belongings from the apartment.
“This fact was not shared dur-
ing the 911 call for help,” Aziz
said.
The 911 caller also did not
reveal that two other people —
Jay and the other man from the
body-camera footage — were in-
side the apartment when the
caller had left, about 25 minutes
before he reported the alleged
burglary to 911.

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Aid-in-dying bill stalls, frustrating terminally ill patients
FrOM LeFT: Lynn Cave, of Silver Spring, has incurable eye cancer that has metastasized to her liver. “I am worried sick that I may not live long enough for them to pass it during the next legislative session,”
she said of the aid-in-dying bill. Diane Kraus, of Baltimore, was hopeful that lawmakers would clear the way for her to access medical aid-in-dying before her metastatic breast cancer robs her of her identity.
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option to end her life, but she
hasn’t given up on living yet. In
her Baltimore apartment, sur-
rounded by lovingly pruned
houseplants and a vast collection
of carefully sorted Lego bricks,
Kraus said she is committed to
treating her cancer with experi-
mental drugs as long as she can.
Still, if the time comes when there
is nothing else to do except suffer
as her cancer continues to grow
and spread, Kraus said she wants
to make a choice about how and
when to die.
for people such as Linda
Lampkin, the wait has already
been too long.
Lampkin’s husband, ron Dick-
ey, died in November 2022 after
months of lobbying for aid-in-dy-
ing. She has continued his push,
enduring the tyranny of hope
with each new session.
This year is not the first time
that the measure — which has
been passed in the District and 10
Long-delayed Purple Line needs additional $425 million
PurPLe LIne from B1
will vote on the $425 million pack-
age next week.
The mTA says the funds are
needed to extend a contract with
Purple Line Transit Partners, the
private manager of the Purple
Line, to run the line until the end
of 2057 amid project delays
caused in part by the departure of
a construction contractor in 2020.
The project also faced a rocky start
in 2016 when a lawsuit from oppo-
nents of the line prompted a feder-
al judge to suspend a key environ-
mental approval.
The latest funding request
comes as transit systems across
the country struggle to recover
from plunging ridership follow-
ing the pandemic. A November
report from metro, which is not
involved with the Purple Line
project, shows metrorail rider-
ship and parking usage have not
yet returned to pre-pandemic lev-
els.
former governor Larry Hogan
(r) launched the Purple Line proj-
ect during his first term while
scrapping Baltimore’s red Line.
State and local officials said they
hoped the Purple Line would
transform car-dependent regions
of maryland, particularly in
montgomery and Prince George’s
counties, into public transit ha-
vens and spur development of
apartments, stores and restau-
rants.
Had everything stayed on
schedule, the Purple Line, which
started construction in 2017,
would have begun carrying pas-
sengers throughout the Washing-
ton suburbs by now. But by the
end of Hogan’s second term last
Retropolis
states, including oregon, Califor-
nia and New Jersey — was felled
by a vote or two.
“I really felt betrayed last year,”
Lampkin said. “There was a lot of
lip service, and then it didn’t hap-
pen.”
The votes on this issue have
always been tight in the state
Senate, where lawmakers have
expressed divided opinions over
the ethics of allowing terminal
patients to end their own lives.
Pressure from the Catholic
Church and constituents from
Black communities with historic
distrust of the medical system
have swayed some legislators to
oppose the bill. Some lawmakers
also expressed concerns during
bill hearings that the legislation
did not go far enough to protect
vulnerable marylanders from be-
ing coerced or pressured into us-
ing the option to end their lives.
“While I sympathize with peo-
ple who are dealing with extreme-
ly difficult medical conditions, I
have been and am concerned
An abandoned Purple Line construction site is seen at the intersection of Kenilworth Avenue and riverdale road in Prince George’s
County in 2022. Despite the inconvenience — and cost — to residents, lawmakers in the county remain optimistic about the project.
year, the project was 4.5 years
behind schedule and the budget
had ballooned from $5.6 billion to
$9.28 billion. Now it is anticipated
to open in late 2027 — more than
five years late — barring any fur-
“I really felt betrayed
last year. There was
a lot of lip service,
and then it didn’t
happen.”
Linda Lampkin,
whose husband, ron Dickey, died
in November 2022 after months
of lobbying for aid-in-dying
ther delays.
montgomery County Executive
marc Elrich (D), who has long
been critical of the project, said
monday that the Purple Line is a
“colossally mismanaged” project
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about vulnerable people and have
been unable to convince myself
that this is the answer here in
maryland,” Sen. Charles E. Syd-
nor III (D-Baltimore County),
who is on the Senate Judiciary
Committee, said in an email.
The campaign, driven largely
by patients and a national advoca-
cy group called Compassion and
Choices, has faced similar hurdles
in other states, where efforts to
legalize medical aid-in-dying
have sometimes taken decades to
succeed. oregon was the first to
enact the measure in 1997, but the
movement gained significant mo-
mentum about 10 years ago when
terminally ill Brittany maynard
became an advocate after finding
out she would die of a malignant
brain tumor at age 29. maynard
moved from California to oregon
to access medical aid-in-dying
and inspired her home state to
change its laws the year after her
death. maynard’s husband, Dan
Diaz, has continued to advocate
such measures across the United
that is no longer worth its price
tag. He would have rather spent
the funds on a bus rapid transit
system, which operates in dedicat-
ed lanes and which he said would
cost a fraction of the Purple Line’s
States, including in maryland.
The movement, sometimes
termed “death-with-dignity” or
“aid-in-dying,” came closest to
succeeding in 2019 when a bill
passed the maryland House of
Delegates, then failed in a tied
vote on the Senate floor. Since
then, many lawmakers have been
reluctant to take a vote on the bill
without assurances that it will
pass.
Sen. Ariana Kelly (D-mont-
gomery), a judicial committee
member who said she would have
been a strong supporter of the
legislation, said that the commit-
tee is “notoriously conservative
on some issues and not represen-
tative of the opinions of the full
Senate.”
ferguson, who has publicly
supported the legislation, said
friday that party leaders chose to
avoid voting on a bill to create
space for hesitant senators to
change their position in the fu-
ture.
“If somebody goes on record
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budget. Elrich recently proposed a
separate $580 million, 28-mile ex-
pansion of BrT in the county.
Kathryn Lamb, an mTA spokes-
woman, responded by highlight-
ing several benefits of the Purple
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voting against something, it is
harder to then change your vote,”
he said.
Democratic leaders also said
that the party put no pressure on
anyone to vote one way or the
other.
“I told every member of this
committee, that on issues like
this, that it’s a vote of conscience.
It’s so personal,” said Smith, who
supported the legislation and had
been a bill sponsor in years past.
Sen. Chris West (r-Baltimore
County), a co-sponsor of the bill
and one of few republicans to
back the measure, said he came to
support the movement after wit-
nessing the end of his mother-in-
law’s life. She struggled desper-
ately to breathe through fluid and
damage in her lungs caused by
chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease, he recalled; it was as if
she had drowned in open air and
died mid-gasp.
“Because I had a very bad
death, I know exactly why this is
needed,” he said.
Line, including zero-emissions
electric vehicles, noise-reducing
technology and low floors allow-
ing for easy boarding.
maryland state Sen. malcolm
Augustine (D-Prince George’s)
said the years-long construction
delays have hurt his neighbors
along University Boulevard.
“They’ve had to live with roads
that are basically impassable for
years,” he said, adding, “It’s cost a
lot of people a lot of money and
convenience.”
But he’s still optimistic about
the project’s ability to address
traffic congestion.
“for marylanders who do not
want to be in a car, you have to be
able to get from one point to an-
other,” he said. The Purple Line
“remains critical for any sort of
growth that can occur in this cor-
ridor of Prince George’s County.”
Angela D. Alsobrooks (D), the
Prince George’s executive, shares
Augustine’s optimism.
“Construction challenges and
adjustments that have caused de-
lays and added costs to the Purple
Line are concerning, but we re-
main committed to and excited
about delivering a reliable solu-
tion for Prince Georgians,” she
said in an emailed statement.
“our transit-oriented develop-
ment plans around the Purple
Line will bring new amenities,
homes and jobs to Prince George’s
County.”
Still, with all the delays and cost
overruns, Augustine isn’t sure
what to tell his constituents about
the Purple Line.
“There’s only so many times you
can go back to the well and tell
them something is coming up,” he
said.
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VirGiNia

Supreme Court declines to rule on bias-reporting program at Virginia Tech

BY R ACHEL W EINER
The Supreme Court has de-
clined to review a defunct pro-
gram at Virginia Tech that al-
lowed students to anonymously
report allegations of biased be-
havior, frustrating two of the
most conservative justices.
The school disbanded the pro-
gram in early 2023 when the dean
who created it left Virginia Tech
and told the Supreme Court it
would not be revived. For that
reason, the Supreme Court de-
clared the case moot and vacated,
or undid, a lower-court ruling
deeming the policy constitution-
al. But circuit courts across the
country have split over similar
anti-bias programs at other uni-
versities. These offices, created at
hundreds of schools across the
country in recent decades, were
intended to address claims of
discrimination on campuses but
have been accused of chilling
unpopular speech — particularly
by conservatives.
“This petition presents a high-
stakes issue for our Nation’s sys-
tem of higher education. Until
we resolve it, there will be a
patchwork of First Amendment
rights on college campuses,” Jus-
tice Clarence Thomas wrote in
dissenting from the decision. He
was joined by Justice Samuel A.
Alito Jr.
The case is one of nine filed
by the advocacy group Speech
First challenging university bias-
But Speech First argued the pol-
icy nevertheless made students
afraid to voice conservative views
such as support for Donald
Trump or opposition to affirma-
tive action, illegal immigration,
same-sex marriage and transgen-
der rights.
Speech First provided no evi-
dence that anyone had been disci-
plined or threatened with disci-
pline by the bias team. While the
group highlighted bias com-
plaints it deemed unfair — such
as a claim of gender discrimina-
tion after some male students
dismissed the athleticism of fe-
male students during a snowball
fight — there was no evidence the
cHRiS Keane/ReuTeRS school took any action in re-
Advocacy group Speech First argued Virginia Tech’s bias-reporting sponse to those reports in the
program made students afraid to voice conservative views, though court record.
the group gave no evidence of disciplinary action by the bias team. For those reasons, the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the 4th Cir-
reporting policies on behalf of Posters on campus encouraged cuit concluded last year that
conservative students who say students to “make a report . . . if Speech First did not have stand-
they are being silenced. Several you hear or see something that ing to challenge the policy.
other influential organizations feels like a bias incident, state- “The First Amendment does
on the right backed the challenge, ment, or expression.” not stand in the way of modest
including the powerful Christian The team had no power to efforts to encourage civility on
legal group Alliance Defending discipline students accused of college campuses,” the 4th Circuit
Freedom. bias or even to require them to majority, made up of Democratic
Virginia Tech’s “Bias Interven- discuss an incident with school appointees, wrote. “Just as uni-
tion and Response Team” was officials. It could refer allegations versities may legitimately strive
created in 2018 by the then-dean of criminal activity to the police, to promote intellectual curiosity,
of students. He said in a court and claims of school code viola- so too they may legitimately
filing that he wanted to make the tions to the appropriate adminis- strive to promote civility and a
reporting process simpler, more trators, but with no more authori- sense of belonging among the
efficient and easier to track. ty than any individual on campus. student body.” In dissent, a Re-
“BIRT serves as a sort of ‘air Complaints that involved protect- publican appointee on the court
traffic control’ for bias-related ed speech were not pursued by argued that even if the bias sys-
complaints,” he wrote in 2021. the office, administrators said. tem resulted in no discipline or
obligation, it created “uncertain-
ty” that “can cause students to fall
silent rather than speak up.”
Speech First has successfully
challenged university anti-dis-
crimination policies in three oth-
er appellate courts after losing at
the district court level, where a
single judge reviews the evidence
and would oversee any trial. The
4th Circuit majority wrote that
those courts were “seemingly ig-
noring the factual findings” of
district court judges who found
no concrete evidence speech was
being chilled. One appellate
court, the 7th Circuit based in
Chicago, ruled against the group,
saying the lawsuit was based on
“speculation.” But the University
of Illinois settled that lawsuit
before it could be appealed to the
Supreme Court, in part by affirm-
ing its bias team has “no authority
to impose any form of discipline
on any student.” Several other
schools have changed their pol-
icies or disbanded bias-reporting
offices after being sued.
Brian Soucek, a law professor
at the University of California at
Davis, said universities have “a
tricky line to walk” in balancing
competing legal obligations —
students’ free speech rights and
their right to be protected from a
racially or sexually hostile cam-
pus environment. “I see the bias-
reporting teams as a way to navi-
gate that dilemma,” he said, “to
resolve incidents without disci-
pline.”
It’s hard to tell whether its
working, he said, because none
of the litigation has involved a
disputed intervention by a bias-
reporting team. Instead, anony-
mous students have said they fear
such action.
“There has never been a single
instance of actual disciplinary ac-
tion in any of these cases,” Soucek
said. Instead, he said, “Judges are
just filling in this absence of facts
with their own views about the
speech climate on campuses
these days; they are really basing
these standing decisions on vibes
about what the state of free
speech is on campus right now.”
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson,
one of the Supreme Court’s liberal
members, also dissented, saying
briefly that the court should have
denied the petition to reconsider
the ruling from the 4th Circuit
because the challengers had not
made a compelling case, rather
than declaring it moot because of
the change in policy.
In a statement, Speech First
Executive Director Cherise
Trump said the group was “disap-
pointed” that the Supreme Court
did not hear the case but took
credit for ending Virginia Tech’s
bias-reporting policy. “The battle
for campus free speech is bigger
than ever before and we will
continue to defend our students’
right to free speech across the
country,” she added.
A spokesperson for Virginia
Tech declined to comment.

obituaries
Howard H. Hiatt, 98

Former Harvard dean became champion of global public health initiatives

BY J OSHUA B ROCKMAN
Howard H. Hiatt, a former dean
of the Harvard School of Public
Health who mentored genera-
tions of physicians and scientists,
campaigned against nuclear pro-
liferation, and became an influen-
tial champion of global health ini-
tiatives, died March 2 at his home
in Cambridge, Mass. He was 98.
His daughter-in-law, Pooh Sha-
piro, confirmed the death but did
not note a specific cause.
As a physician, educator and
administrator, Dr. Hiatt had a sub-
stantial impact on medicine as a
professor at Harvard Medical
School, dean of the public health
school and senior physician at
Boston’s Brigham and Women’s
Hospital.
His research career included a
stint in the early 1960s at the
Pasteur Institute in Paris, where
he collaborated with future Nobel
laureates on the identification of
messenger RNA, a discovery that
helped lay the groundwork for the
Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna
coronavirus vaccines.
Nearly denied entry to Harvard
in the 1940s because of quotas
limiting the number of Jewish stu-
dents, Dr. Hiatt was deeply at-
tuned to injustices in medical ac-
cess. As physician in chief from
1963 to 1972 at Beth Israel Hospi-
tal in Boston (now Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical Center), he de-
veloped programs that brought
medical care to underserved com-
munities in the city.
In 1972, he was appointed dean
of the Harvard School of Public
Health (now the Harvard T.H.
Chan School of Public Health). He
told the Harvard Crimson news-
paper that he had no background
in public health but that the field
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“Over the years there has been a
distortion of priorities in the
health fields,” Dr. Hiatt said, add-
ing that he hoped health profes-
sionals would shift their focus
away from “curative prevention”
and toward prevention.
Over the next 12 years, he nearly
doubled the school’s endowment.
In an effort to expand the school’s
portfolio beyond traditional pub-
lic health issues, he took a multi-
disciplinary approach. He estab-
lished a center for the analysis of
health practices, bolstered statis-
tical sciences and created a De-
partment of Health Policy and
Management.
“He was meticulous and
thought through what he wanted
to accomplish,” said Alfred Som-
mer, dean emeritus of the Johns
Hopkins Bloomberg School of
Public Health.
Dr. Hiatt also recruited public
health experts, including Donald
Berwick, a future administrator of
the Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services, and Harvey
Fineberg, who succeeded him at
Harvard as dean of the public
health school.
Around 1980, Dr. Hiatt began to
turn his attention to what he
called the “last epidemic” threat-
ening the world: the nuclear-arms
race between the United States
and the Soviet Union. With other
high-profile scientists and physi-
cians, he served on a special com-
mittee convened by Pope John
Paul II to study the consequences
to humanity of the nuclear threat
and to lobby world leaders about
the findings.
When committee members
went to the White House in De-
cember 1981, Dr. Hiatt asked Presi-
dent Ronald Reagan to imagine a
one-megaton bomb exploding in
Washington and destroying
George Washington University
Hospital, the medical center
where the president had been
treated after an assassination at-
tempt that March.
“I tried to personalize it for the
President,” Dr. Hiatt recounted to
the New York Times. “I told him
there would be 800,000 people in
shock from burns and radiation. …
Given these facts, those people
who talk about winning or surviv-
ing a nuclear war don’t under-
stand what they are talking
about.”
In a commentary published in
the New England Journal of Medi-
cine in 1982, he criticized the Rea-
gan administration’s five-year
plan to spend $1.6 trillion on de-
fense. Dr. Hiatt argued that cut-
backs in essential biological, be-
havioral and health services — in-
cluding what he described as mas-
sive reductions in federal child
nutrition programs — “will ad-
versely affect the health of our
generation and of future genera-
tions” and that physicians had a
responsibility to speak out in op-
position.
Dr. Hiatt stepped down as dean
in 1984 and joined Brigham and
Women’s Hospital the next year as
a senior physician. He had been a
professor of medicine at the hospi-
tal since 1985.
He co-founded the hospital’s
Division of Global Health Equity,
and, in 2004, the hospital estab-
lished a residency in global health
equity and internal medicine
named in honor of Dr. Hiatt and
his wife, Doris.
“Throughout his professional
life, Howard Hiatt brought com-
passionate and innovative ap-
proaches to health and medical
care,” said Fineberg, president of
the Institute of Medicine (now the
National Academy of Medicine),
in a 2007 ceremony honoring Dr.
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cells that carries genetic code, or
instructions, for producing pro-
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shared the Nobel Prize in physiol-
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leagues at the Pasteur Institute,
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tuesday, march 5 , 2024 . the washington post
Guy Alexandre, a noted transplant surgeon, argued for taking organs from brain-dead patients, which
reduces the biological breakdown that occurs after even a few minutes without oxygen.
Guy alexandre, 89
Transplant surgeon challenged
traditional perceptions of death
BY B RIAN M URPHY
In early June 1963, a patient
with massive head trauma was
rushed to a hospital in Belgium
after a car crash. Surgery was
performed. Yet the injuries were
so severe that doctors declared
the patient “brain-dead” — fully
unresponsive but with a still-
beating heart.
In another ward of the hospi-
tal, a patient was struggling with
kidney failure and in urgent need
of a transplant.
A doctor just back from a fel-
lowship in Boston, Guy Alexan-
dre, went to the hospital’s head of
surgery with an unprecedented
request. Take the kidneys from
the crash victim while the pa-
tient’s heart was still functioning,
he appealed. This would reduce
the biological breakdown that oc-
curs in organs after even a few
minutes without oxygen.
The chief of surgery, Jean
Morelle, made “the most impor-
tant decision of his career” and
approved the procedure, said Dr.
Alexandre, who died Feb. 14 at his
home in Brussels at 89.
The transplant, performed on
June 3, 1963, would eventually
usher in a transformation in med-
ical ethics, challenging percep-
tions of death and testing the
boundaries of a fundamental
principle of medicine, “do no
harm.”
But first, Dr. Alexandre faced a
torrent of questions and recrimi-
nations that put his reputation
and career on the line. Dr. Alexan-
dre stood firm. He noted that the
patient who received the trans-
plant kidney lived another 87
days, which was considered a
significant outcome at a time
when transplant science was still
developing.
He also described the physi-
cians who accused him of murder
as hypocrites. “They viewed their
brain-dead patients as alive,” he
said in a 2019 interview with
Tablet magazine, “yet they had no
qualms about turning off the ven-
tilator to get the heart to stop
beating before they removed kid-
neys.”
In the end, Dr. Alexandre’s
views prevailed. By the late 1960s,
he had the support of influential
medical societies. Today, doctors
are considered within ethical
grounds to remove transplant or-
gans from patients who display
Dr. Alexandre’s five-point criteria
for determining what he called
“brain death.” They include no
reflexes or responses to pain, a
flat electroencephalogram (EEG)
and inability for autonomous
breathing.
When Dr. Alexandre was given
the approval for the first “brain-
dead” transplant in 1963, the hos-
pital did not contact the patient’s
family for permission. “If you
would have asked that, we would
have [been] refused,” he said in a
2018 interview. He justified the
decision by saying it was “self-evi-
dent” the patient had no chance
of recovering.
‘‘In Belgium, the coroner was
allowed to perform an autopsy
and remove and examine organs
without permission from — and
even over the objection of — the
family,” he once said. “So
shouldn’t a surgeon be allowed to
take an organ out of a dead body,
similarly without the permission
of the family, in order to save
another patient’s life?”
The family of the donor was
told the patient died during the
night. Dr. Alexandre performed
eight other similar transplant
procedures over the next two
years. In 1965, he was invited to
obituaries
London for a medical conference
on transplant ethics. He em-
braced the role of lead provoca-
teur.
He asked why a heartbeat was
considered the only definition of
life, asserting that brain activity is
an equally relevant measure. He
told the conference that he was
“taking organs from a dead per-
son,” holding the same ethical
standard as any other physician.
He used the phrase “heart-beat-
ing cadaver.”
Some doctors at the conference
were aghast and raised scenarios
such as cases of barbiturate over-
dose in which a patient had a flat
EEG but then recovered. Dr. Alex-
andre countered that the EEG
was just one of the five metrics he
used to declare a patient “brain-
dead.” He left London appearing
to have swayed some doctors and
hospital administrators to con-
sider his side, but critics re-
mained.
Thomas Starzl, an American
transplant surgeon at the confer-
ence, vowed that no member of
‘‘In Belgium, the
coroner was
allowed to perform
an autopsy and
remove and
examine organs
without
permission from —
and even over the
objection of — the
family. So
shouldn’t a
surgeon be
allowed to take an
organ out of a
dead body,
similarly without
the permission of
the family, in order
to save another
patient’s life?”
Guy alexandre,
transplant surgeon
university of LouvAin Archives
his team would consider a patient
“dead as long as there was a
heartbeat.” Near the end of the
gathering, attendees were asked
to show who backed Dr. Alexan-
dre’s definition of “brain death.”
“I was the only one to raise my
hand,” Dr. Alexandre recalled. “All
the others did not.”
Still, Dr. Alexandre helped stir
debate on a “new approach to the
definition of death,” Calixto
Machado, a Cuban researcher in
neurosurgery, wrote in the July
2005 issue of the journal Neurolo-
gy.
In December 1967, South Afri-
can surgeon Christiaan Barnard
performed the first heart trans-
plant from a donor who had been
declared “brain-dead.” The next
year, the concept of using neuro-
logical criteria to determine
death was supported by the Har-
vard Ad Hoc Committee and the
World Medical Assembly.
Nobel mentor
Guy Pierre Jean Alexandre was
born on July 4, 1934, in the Brus-
sels suburb of Uccle. His father
worked in government adminis-
tration, and his mother was an
executive assistant.
Dr. Alexandre completed his
medical studies in 1959 at the
University of Louvain, where he
received additional training as a
transplant surgeon. In 1961, he
was granted a Harvard University
fellowship and studied state-of-
the-art transplant procedures at
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
(now part of Brigham and Wom-
en’s Hospital), one of Harvard’s
teaching hospitals and where the
first kidney transplant took place
in 1954.
Dr. Alexandre worked under
Joseph E. Murray, who shared the
1990 Nobel Prize in physiology or
medicine for advances in trans-
plant surgery. During one kidney
transplant by Murray, Dr. Alexan-
dre was invited into the operating
room. He noticed that the donor
kidney was slightly damaged by
the lack of oxygen after the respi-
rator was turned off, waiting for
the patient’s heart to stop.
Already, Dr. Alexandre was fa-
miliar with the concept of coma
dépassé, literally “beyond coma,”
which had been used by franco-
phone doctors since the late
1950s.
“In addition to ‘killing’ the pa-
tient, they were giving the recipi-
ents damaged kidneys,” Dr. Alex-
andre recounted thinking while
watching the Boston transplant.
Dr. Alexandre returned to Bel-
gium in 1963 to become a profes-
sor at the University of Louvain
and transplant specialist at asso-
ciated hospitals. During the
1980s, he developed techniques
to help allow transplants between
people with incompatible blood
types, and performed one of the
first successful interspecies
transplants, known as xenotrans-
plants, placing a pig kidney in a
baboon.
His wife of 65 years, Eliane
Moens, died in October. Survivors
include five children; 17 grand-
children; and 13 great-grandchil-
dren. His son Xavier Alexandre
confirmed the death but did not
note a cause.
Dr. Alexandre was once asked
whether he thought the early
resistance to his ideas was in-
grained by art and culture, which
long described the heart as the
home of emotion and feeling. He
looked to his Catholic faith and
his belief in a soul that lives on.
“We know that we are dust,” he
said. “And you take organs from a
patient, from a corpse, so you take
a little bit of that dust.”
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IN MEMORIAM
OWEIS
ANNE B. OWEIS
6/29/1934 – 3/5/2013
We miss you, love you
& remember you today and every day.
Love, Your Family
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BOGAGE
JOE SOLOMON BOGAGE
8/10/1926 - 3/2/2024
Joe Bogage, a father, grandfather, U.S. Navy
veteran, clothier, community volunteer,
and all-around decent man, died March 2,
2024 at his home in Columbia, MD, at age
97. The cause was complications due to
prostate cancer.
Mr. Bogage was the patriarch of the
sprawling Bogage family, a tightly-knit clan
of aunts, uncles, and cousins clustered in
the Baltimore and Washington suburbs.
He is survived by his wife, Shirley; their
three children, Nancy (Steve), Alan, and
Barry; and 13 grandchildren, great-grand-
children, and great-great-grandchildren.
He was predeceased by his parents, Lazer
and Rebecca; siblings, Ben and Caroline;
and granddaughter, Jody Adleman. Private
Services.
DAVIS
DOROTHY L. (ETCHISON) DAVIS
Dorothy L. Davis (Etchison) (98 years old)
passed away on March 1, 2024 peace-
fully in her sleep, granting her wish to
go home and reunite with her husband.
Dorothy was born on February 23, 1926
in Potomac, West Virginia, she worked at
the Return Desk for Old Dominion Bank
(later known as First Virginia Bank/BB&T/
Truist) where she retired from First Vir-
ginia Bank after 24yrs. She is preceded in
death by her husband of 66 years, Ralph
Davis, both parents, George and Frances
Etchison, and brothers, George and Robert.
She is survived by her daughters, Joyce L.
Davis-Ross of Danville, VA, Linda A. Kidd
of Alexandria, VA, and Nancy L. Davis of
Stanley, VA; granddaughters Jennifer L.
Kidd, Jaclyn L. Davis, and Katherine L. Kidd.
Known lovingly as Aunt Dot to many, she
always made sure to let those around her
know she was thinking of them, whether
by phone or mail. Dorothy was a beloved
daughter, wife, mother, grandmother, aunt,
and sister.
Family will receive those that loved Doro-
thy at a later date to celebrate her life.
MCBRIDE
MARY CHRISTINA MCBRIDE (Age 102)
Mary C. McBride, beloved mother, grand-
mother, great-grandmother, died of natural
causes on February 27, 2024, at her home
in Falls Church, Virginia, at the age of 102.
Mary was born on December 21, 1921, in
Providence, Rhode Island, to the late Thom-
DEATH NOTICE
UTGOFF
VICTOR ALAN UTGOFF “Utgoff”
We are deeply saddened to announce the
passing of Victor Alan “Vic” Utgoff, a cher-
ished father, grandfather, and friend to
many. Vic left us peacefully at the age of 85
on February 29, 2024 with his daughters and
wife at his bedside holding his hands.
Vic was born in 1938 to Victor Victorovich
Utgoff and Margaret Sniffen Utgoff. Com-
mander Utgoff was a naval test pilot, so Vic
and his siblings (Carl, Alexandra, and Paul)
moved frequently, spending time in Califor-
nia, Hawaii, and elsewhere. Vic learned to
make friends anywhere, later recalling, “I
learned to always ask the prettiest girl in
school to the dance. I realized everyone else
was too scared.”
Vic dedicated his career to learning, and
serving his country by shaping defense pol-
icy. He earned his S.B. in Aeronautics and
Astronautics from MIT in 1960 and his Ph.D.
in Electrical Engineering from Purdue Uni-
versity in 1970. He served on the National
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GRACE ROBINOWITZ DODY
Grace Robinowitz Dody died
peacefully at home on Friday
March 1, 2024. She was 89.
The daughter of the late Wil-
liam and Stella Robinowitz, she
was preceded in death by her
late husband Donald Dody. She is survived
by her brother Max Robinowitz (Carolyn)
and two nephews (Mark and David). She
loved life and tried to live fully, in spite of
many health challenges. A graduate and
loyal alumna of the University of Maryland,
she was a passionate supporter of the arts
and of Jewish culture. Graveside service
to be held on Tuesday, March 5, 2024 at 1
p.m. at Garden of Remembrance Memori-
al Park 14321 Comus Rd, Clarksburg, MD
20871. in lieu of flowers, donations may
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20852 or Edlavitch DC JCC 1529 16th St
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DVORNYCHENKO
VLADIMIR NIKOLAIVICH
DVORNYCHENKO
Vladimir Nikolaivich Dvornychenko passed
away January 23, 2024. He was 82. He was
born in Kiev, Ukraine July 30, 1941 and
emigrated from Europe at age 10, with his
mother and sister.
He spent most of his life in the Los Angeles
area, graduating from Belmont High School
in Los Angeles in 1959. He graduated Cali-
fornia Polytechnic Institute with a physics
degree. He also earned a masters degree
in electrical engineering from University of
Wisconsin in Madison. Fluent in four lan-
guages including Russian, Ukrainian, and
German, he also was an advanced chess
player.
His career included positions at Jet Propul-
sion Laboratory and in defense contracting
and aerospace engineering at TRW and lat-
er Northrop Grumman, working on stealth
technology and developing solid rocket
fuel formula for Goddard Institute.
In 1994, he moved to Rockville, Maryland
and worked in positions at the Federal
Bureau of Investigation and National Insti-
tute of Standards and Technology. After his
retirement, he returned to Los Angeles in
2018.
He is survived by his wife Georgia of 55
years and daughter Lisa. He also is sur-
vived by stepdaughters Anita Seline and
Monica Allen; niece Margaret Wierbilis, and
members of an extended family. He is pre-
deceased by his mother Lucial (Sakovich)
Werdi, father Nikolai Dvornychenko, sister
Tanya Wierbilis, nephew John Wierbilis,
grandniece Heather, and stepfather Nick
Werdi.
He will be interred at Hollywood Forever
Cemetery in Los Angeles at a graveside
ceremony March 10, 2024 at 1 p.m.
GILBERT
JACKSON B. GILBERT
9/13/1932 - 2/22/2024
Jackson B. Gilbert, age 91, of Charlottes-
ville, VA, died on February 22, 2024.
He was the son of Mr. & Mrs. C. Randolph
Gilbert of Norfolk, VA. Jackson is survived
by his beloved wife of over 62 years, Maria
de las Mercedes Diez y Ponce de Leon orig-
inally from Jerez, Spain, his two daughters
and their husbands, Allegra and Joseph
Helms, Dr. Victoria Gilbert and Christopher
Maksymowicz as well as his grandchildren,
Marisol Helms and Casimir Maksymowicz.
Funeral services will be held at St. Paul’s
Church, Ivy, VA on March 23, 2024 at 2 p.m.
with reception to follow at Westminster
Canterbury.
In lieu of flowers, please consider making
a contribution to the Shriners’ Hospital or
UVA Law School.
as and Hannah Laffey. Mary nurtured others
as an elementary school teacher, social
worker, and homemaker.
She is survived by her thirteen children: Mi-
chael of Alexandria, VA; Peter, Falls Church,
VA; Margaret, Arlington, VA; Timothy, Annan-
dale, VA; Kathleen, Falls Church, VA; Ste-
phen, McLean, VA; Christopher, Rochester
Hills, MI; Edward, Wilmington, DE; John, Falls
Church, VA; Robert, Columbus, OH; Charles,
Singapore; Andrew, Austin, TX; and David,
Brooklyn, NY. Mary was grandmother to 27
grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband,
Richard T. McBride, and siblings Joseph, The-
resa Newton, Ambrose, and Rita.
Family and friends are invited to pay their
respects at the wake on Wednesday, March
6, from 5 to 8 p.m., at Murphy Funeral
Homes, 1102 W Broad St, Falls Church, VA
22046. The funeral service will be held at
noon on Thursday, March 7, at St. John the
Beloved Church, 6420 Linway Terrace, Mc-
Lean, VA 22101, followed by burial at Colum-
bia Gardens Cemetery, 3411 Arlington Blvd,
Arlington, VA 22201.
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Security Council during the Carter Adminis-
tration and played an instrumental role as a
strategic advisor to the President, including
on the decision to cancel the B-1 bomber
program. He spent decades thinking and
writing about how the world could avoid a
catastrophic exchange of nuclear weapons.
He served with distinction at the Institute
for Defense Analysis from 1981 to 2023,
where he received the Goodpaster Award
for excellence in research, the think tank’s
highest honor. He was the founding direc-
tor of the Advanced Systems and Concepts
Office at the Defense Department’s Threat
Reduction Agency.
Vic met his wife Kathy at a Chinese painting
class in 1974. They married in 1978, and had
two daughters, Anna and Margaret. Vic was
a superlative father and husband, who sup-
ported his family during times of need and
cheered them on during times of triumph.
He taught his daughters how to work hard,
treat people with kindness, and meet the
world with open hearts.
Vic was beloved for his kindness and joy.
He was quick to laugh and slow to anger.
He found himself constantly in awe at the
beauty of the world and grateful for his time
here. He got to fly a plane across the coun-
try; he got to teach his granddaughters how
to play liar’s dice; he got to see whales and
redwood trees and the Eiffel Tower and the
Kremlin. He marveled at the beauty of it all.
Vic spent his last day doing things he loved:
he went for a fried chicken lunch and
stopped at the grocery store for some coco-
nut chocolate macaroons. He fell on his way
to bed and hit his head, lost consciousness
immediately, and never opened his eyes
again. He died the next day.
A celebration of Victor’s life is planned for
this spring. In lieu of flowers, please honor
Victor with a contribution to Feeding Amer-
ica.
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GOLDMAN
CATHERINE W. GOLDMAN
On March 2, 2024, in Bethesda, Maryland,
at 105 years old. Beloved wife of the late
Max Goldman (deceased 1962), devoted
mother of Celia Goldman Kirsch (Lau-
rence), cherished grandmother of Rachel
Kirsch and Max Kirsch (Elizabeth), delight-
ed great-grandmother of Arthur Kirsch,
and beloved member of Max Goldman’s
extended family.
Kate Goldman graduated from the Uni-
versity of Georgia Law School in 1941 and
came to Washington, DC in the following
year, where she spent her career as an
attorney with the National Labor Relations
Board. Following her retirement in 1988,
she dedicated her independent spirit to
nurturing the next generation of her family.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions
may be made to the District of Columbia
Bar Pro Bono Center (www.dcbar.org/
pro-bono). No services are scheduled at
this time.
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MUMLEY
GLORIA THERESA (MARAGIOGLIO)
MUMLEY (Age 88)
Of Herndon, VA passed March 1, 2024.
Beloved wife of Reginald E. Mumley Jr.
Loving Mother of Mary Mumley of Reston,
James Mumley of Hagerstown, MD, Patricia
(James) Smith of South Riding, Ann Mum-
ley and, Stuart Mumley of Herndon. Also
survived by brother-In-Law John Phillip
Mumley. Preceded in death by Husband
Reginald Edward Mumley Jr.; Son Reginald
Edward Mumley, III, and Nephew Phillip S.
Mumley. Mass Service will be at 1130 a.m.
on Thursday, March 7, 2024, at St. Joseph
Catholic Church, 750 Peachtree St., Hern-
don, VA followed by interment at Chest-
nut Grove Cemetery in Herndon. In lieu of
flowers, memorial contributions suggested
to the American Heart Assoc. or the Amer-
ican Lung Assoc.
WACHTER
DAVID JOHN WACHTER
David John Wachter of Takoma Park, Mary-
land, died peacefully on Friday, February
23, 2024. He was surrounded by love with
his wife and children at his side. Dave is
preceded in death by his parents, John J.
Wachter and Jeanne Marie Davis; siblings
Christine Bonsby, John A. Wachter, Jeanne
Miller, Kathy Michos; and brother-in-law
John C. Bonsby.
He is survived by his wife Jackie, and chil-
dren John (Karin), Thomas, Griffith, and
Kate; siblings Louise (Jessica) Parker Kelley
and James (Kathy) Parker; brother-in-life
Peter Michos; and a multitude of loving
family members and friends. Dave will re-
main in our hearts forever.
Funeral Mass will be held on Thursday,
March 7, 2024 at 11:30 a.m. at St. John
the Evangelist Historic Church, 9700 Ro-
sensteel Avenue, Silver Spring, Maryland.
Inurnment will be held in 2025 at Arlington
National Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions
may be made to the American Heart As-
sociation and the Disabled American Vet-
erans.
IN MEMORIAM
BOYKINS
DANTE’ A. BOYKINS
March 5, 1979 - July 6, 2012
Happy 45th Birthday
Your life was a blessing
Your memory a treasure
You are loved beyond words
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In ‘Dune: Part
Two,’ a hunk
of scary villainy
from Butler
BY S ONIA R AO
it is Feyd-rautha Harkonnen’s birth-
day, and his uncle has the perfect gift:
three drugged prisoners to pummel to
death, a fun, low-stakes ego boost for a
sadistic boy. But as he begins to fight the
men, it becomes clear one of them hasn’t
actually been subdued. The task now
requires some work, and he relishes in
the savagery.
Who do you cast to play this sci-fi
villain, heir to the menacing Harkonnen
house in Frank Herbert’s intergalactic
epic “dune”? david lynch took a big
swing in his maligned 1984 film with
sting, the Police frontman who played
Feyd with fiery red hair and those
winged leather underpants. denis Ville-
neuve, who on Friday released the
second part of his adaptation, turned to
Austin Butler.
Butler? The guy who couldn’t unstick
his Elvis accent after playing the king of
rock and roll in Baz luhrmann’s extrava-
gant 2022 biopic? Well, sure. if there
were a prerequisite to taking on a
character as relentless as Feyd — a
singularly bloodthirsty villain in this
universe of profit-seekers and prophets
— it would be commitment to the bit.
And Butler has shown he will give a role
his all.
in “dune: Part Two,” that involves
appearing bald with gnarly black teeth
and no eyebrows — the trademark
Harkonnen look, and one Butler manag-
es to imbue with an unsettling sexiness.
He might not be as ruthless as his uncle
— the lumpy baron Vladimir Harkonnen
(stellan skarsgard), whose frequent
baths do not seem to have relaxed him
one bit — but Feyd is still a bad, bad
man. Brutality earns him higher stand-
ing in the Harkonnen clan, and Feyd
maintains a dead-eyed stare — except
for when he nears his kill. He betrays
little humanity while slaughtering his
former lovers, to say nothing of those
standing in the way of his family’s
throne.
Butler earned an oscar nomination
for his breakout role in “Elvis” following
a barrage of stories about the extreme
measures he took to play the troubled
singer. He said he didn’t see his family
for three years — some of which over-
lapped with the pandemic — and “had
months where i wouldn’t talk to any-
body, and when i did, the only thing i
was ever thinking about was Elvis.” He
told GQ he was rushed to the hospital
after wrapping the project: “My body
just started shutting down the day after i
finished ‘Elvis,’” he recalled. “The next
day i woke up at 4 in the morning with
excruciating pain.”
As far as anyone knows, Butler did not
contract a mysterious virus on “dune:
Part Two.” He noted in a recent interview
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the only female essayist
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either getting or
Monica considering a divorce.
Hesse leslie Jamison’s new
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with the birth of her daughter. Emily
Gould’s union didn’t end, but came
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millimeter and day-by-day.
“This American Ex-Wife,” a blistering
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shift to the right
That actually wasn’t the relationship-
ender, though. The final straw, she
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n a recent February afternoon, rep. lauren Boebert’s (r-Colo.) campaign the trash was all over the floor. it had
manager walked into a coffee shop for a gathering of the Pachyderm Club, a been decaying there for God knows how
long, and lenz decided that she could
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wasn’t there herself; she was back in her old district, figuring out whether her be in charge of the trash even while
traveling on business, where her spouse
ex-husband had thrown her belongings into a pond. ¶ That morning, Boebert acted as though a chore was beneath
had driven to her old house to retrieve the last of her things from a farmhouse on their him but not beneath her.
“it soon became clear,” lenz writes,
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main house and, according to Boebert, when she called him ahead of her arrival, he told her her relationship was holding her back
rather than supporting her, “i could be
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flaps looked like so many discarded ideas your best. You tell me this is good, but i
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model holding out a pair of flaps as if she dissonance is frustrating. of course, the
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electable raises the question of whether
republicans might want a different kind of
politician as a neighbor than they want as a
president.
“I think she’s a great representative of my
values, but is she a great representative of the
district?” said Bryan mannlein — a Boebert
fan who had driven 20 miles through the
snow to see her speak — echoing a statement
repeated in various interviews across the
state. “Is she just doing this to hold onto a
job? Why did she move?”
W
hen Boebert was 4 years old, her
mother, Shawna Bentz, took her on a
Greyhound bus from florida to Colo-
rado to stay with a man they barely knew.
Before long they were back in florida,
moving in with a different boyfriend, only to
quickly head back to live with the Colorado
man.
“my mom could be, in a word, ‘flighty,’”
Boebert wrote in her memoir, “my American
Life.” “Perhaps that is where my need for
adventure originates from.”
Her mom could also be, in a word, lenient.
“She’s basically never had a leash on her,”
Bentz said of Boebert in an interview. “She’s
still the same way, never leashed down.”
Bentz, who became a mom at 18, some-
times acted more like a big sister than a
parental figure, and today she and Boebert
call each other their “best friend.” Neither
Bentz nor her daughter knows the identity of
Boebert’s father. Bentz said the closest they
ever came to finding out was when Boebert
took a DNA test and found out that she was
“part whatever Jesus was.”
“That’s good enough for me,” Bentz re-
members telling her daughter. “Jesus is the
only father you need.”
After the permanent move out west, the
Colorado man became Boebert’s stepfather.
They moved into an Aurora apartment,
followed by an Aurora house, and then — as
the family grew — to the montbello neighbor-
hood of Denver. Things were tricky in mont-
bello. Bentz said she pulled Boebert out of her
middle school after having problems with a
teacher, and one day Boebert was jumped by
classmates on the street and bloodied up.
Seeking a safer option, they moved to rifle, a
town in western Colorado that Boebert would
call home for years.
Home was not necessarily a sanctuary,
though. In her book, Boebert writes that the
Colorado man was abusive to her mother,
yelling at her and slapping her around. It
took years, until Boebert had moved out
herself, before Bentz finally left him.
Bentz says now that she wasn’t as good at
being a mother as Boebert was at being a
daughter. “I told her a couple of weeks ago
that I am so thankful that she’s so strong and
I don’t have to see the things that should be
bothering her,” Bentz said. “I don’t think I
could handle it. And she said, ‘mom, that’s
why I disappear sometimes and you don’t
hear from me.’”
As a teenager Boebert listened to Eminem,
and she recalls earning the respect of her
peers by participating in rap battles after
school. She even wrote a rap about Eminem
for a contest to appear on the mTV show
“fANatic,” where fans meet their idols. It was
“amazing” work, according to her mom, but
Bentz never actually submitted it. “I wasn’t
the kind of mom to do whatever you had to do
to make things happen,” she said, “so I never
did anything with it. But I still make her sing
it to me today.” (When asked by The Post
about this, the congresswoman claimed she
couldn’t remember any bars. “Was never
recorded,” Boebert said in a text. “maybe a
really good thing!”)
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She never finished high school, dropping
out after getting pregnant with her and
Jayson’s eldest son. But Capitol Hill is its own
kind of high school, and Boebert came to
Washington with Mean Girl energy. Along-
side fellow MAGA bully Rep. Marjorie Taylor
Greene (R-Ga.), Boebert interrupted assem-
blies (heckling Biden during the State of the
Union), name-called their classmates (refer-
ring to a group of their liberal colleagues as
“The Jihad Squad”), and fought among them-
selves over who should get to try to impeach
Biden first (“You’ve been nothing but a little
b---- to me,” Greene snapped at Boebert on the
House floor, according to reporting by the
Daily Beast. “And you copied my articles of
impeachment after I asked you to co-sponsor
them.”)
Boebert said she and Greene “never had a ABOVE: Boebert
personal relationship whatsoever,” and is poses for a portrait.
happy to try to differentiate herself from her BELOW:
Georgia colleague. Lately she has been talking Sonnenberg,
about a bill she sponsored, the Pueblo Jobs pictured at his
Act, that got folded into the National Defense ranch in Sterling,
Authorization Act and signed into law by ranks among
Biden, bringing as many as 1,000 jobs to her Colorado’s most
old district. conservative
“I don’t get loud to hear myself talk or just politicians, but
to be heard,” she said. “I do it to be effective stylistically, he’s far
and have an end goal. Everything I do, I do more staid than
with a purpose.” Boebert.
“Lauren has went through a lot in the past
year,” Greene told The Post in a statement.
“She faces many challenges ahead, like how
to get people to vote for her in the new
district.”
A
few hours after finishing her event at
the Wide Open Saloon, Boebert found
herself in what appeared to be a large
cafeteria, trying to figure out where to sit.
“Picking a table can be like getting in a hot
tub,” she said. “You worry that maybe your
presence will send everybody out if you’re
not vibing.”
This was the Washington County Lincoln
Day Dinner, and after grabbing a seat with
members of her campaign staff, Boebert
sneaked to the back of the room to eat vanilla
ice cream and gossip about her primary
opponents, some of whom were also in
attendance.
There was Richard Holtorf, an antiabor-
tion state representative who had recently
been in the news for saying he had once paid
for a girlfriend’s abortion so she could live
her best life. “He kept telling me this was his
backyard,” Boebert said. “So how come he’s
wearing two name tags?” There was Ted
Harvey, a Trump-aligned political consultant
who has, in the past, gotten heat for operat-
ing a political action committee that raised
millions of dollars and then spent most of it
on operating costs. “He’s been a grifter for 10
years,” Boebert said. (Harvey later called this
comment “desperate” and “unfounded” and
said his “record speaks for itself.”) Candidate
Mike Lynch, the former state House minority
leader who had stepped down over a 2022
arrest for driving and having a gun while
intoxicated, was nowhere in sight. “I hope
he’s not in the clink,” snarked Boebert
between bites of ice cream.
In politics as in the back of a classroom,
Mean Girl energy can seem fun when you’re
not the one in the crosshairs. Part of what
Boebert’s die-hard supporters love about her
is her penchant for cracking on others (and
herself ), and for bringing them in on the
joke.
“She’s fun,” said Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla) a
close ally of Boebert’s. In early 2023, Gaetz,
Boebert and a clique of Republican trouble-
makers ganged up on then-Rep. Kevin Mc-
Carthy (R-Calif.) for a humiliating game of
keep away with the House speaker’s gavel.
“Some folks out on the trail, even when they
run for president, don’t quite have half the
sparkle Lauren does,” Gaetz said.
Boebert’s “sparkle” is, of course, beside the
point to anyone worried about the MAGA
threat to reproductive and LGBTQ rights,
democratic institutions, climate policy or
the nature of truth itself. If Trump wins back
the White House, his and his allies’ ambi-
tions reportedly include radically reshaping
the federal workforce in his image, sending
the Justice Department after his enemies,
using the Insurrection Act to crack down on
political protests and initiating militarized
mass deportations.
Running against fellow conservatives in
her new district, rather than against a
Democrat in her old one, means that Boebert
— one of Trump’s most loyal supporters —
will not have to answer to voters who are
worried about that stuff. Republicans here
are broadly onboard with Trump’s plans for
America. (They are, in a word, lenient.) On
Saturday, Trump offered what could be a
Deus ex MAGA, throwing his “Complete and
Total” support behind Boebert on the social
media platform Truth Social. “If someone
gets Trump’s endorsement,” Holtorf had said
in an interview before the endorsement,
“this race is probably over.”
ez re
As strange as it may sound, Boebert is
occupying the role of Washington insider.
She was, according to Gaetz, the first person
to suggest that Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.)
would make a good speaker of the House.
Earlier this month, Speaker Johnson re-
turned the favor by endorsing her and
showing up to one of her Washington
fundraisers. Boebert’s move from fringe
candidate to a member of the Republican
establishment doesn’t mean that she’s
changed — it means the establishment has.
Trump is the GOP standard-bearer, MAGA
is mainstream, and the main dividing line in
the party is between conservatives who
support and defend Trump happily and
those who do so unhappily.
M
y father used to tell me that I was
born 100 years too late.”
Jerry Sonnenberg, the man many
believe to be Boebert’s biggest competitor for
the seat, lives in a one-story ranch house,
situated on 4,000 acres of wheat fields and
cattle pastures, that has belonged to his
family since 1937.
Sonnenberg has lived here almost all of
his life, except for a few brief sojourns, like
when he moved to California in the 1970s to
pursue a career as a baseball umpire. He is
opposed to the idea of moving. Instead he’s
in a constant cycle of rehabbing his house.
Much to his wife’s chagrin, he’s been in the
middle of a bathroom renovation for six
years.
Once, Sonnenberg was pulled over for
driving 65 miles per hour in a 55 mph zone.
In those days, if you were pulled over with an
out-of-state license you had to post a bond.
Sonnenberg had a California license, but not
$100.
And so, during a recent debate with his
fellow candidates, he had raised his hand
when the moderator asked how many people
onstage had been arrested. (Six of the nine
candidates present had been, including Boe-
bert, who was arrested for disorderly con-
duct at a music festival in 2015 and again
after skipping a court date for a careless
driving infraction.)
“My wife was like, ‘Why did you raise your
hand? You weren’t really arrested!’” Sonnen-
berg said, sitting on a leather couch in his
living room while his wife, Vonnie, graded
her middle school students’ math tests on a
nearby table. “And the truth was, I wasn’t,
but I spent part of the night in jail. … I didn’t
want to not raise my hand and then have
someone dig that up and call me a liar.”
In important ways, Sonnenberg isn’t very
different from Boebert. As a longtime state
representative he was always ranked as one
of the most conservative politicians in Colo-
rado. He has a house full of guns, is
vehemently antiabortion, and won’t say a
bad word about Trump. But stylistically,
Sonnenberg is pretty much Boebert’s oppo-
site. He’s an avuncular pol who calls himself
a “coalition builder,” and is so anti-drama
that even his reason for spending time in jail
is boring.
“I liken myself to a workhorse rather than
a show horse,” Sonnenberg said. But is there
even room for such a thing in today’s
Republican Party? It’s possible that he’s as
antiquated as the actual workhorses, Finale
and Fred, he keeps on his farm. They are big,
beautiful Belgian drafters, around 2,000
pounds of muscle, the kind of horses that
used to plow the fields but now have no real
use on a modern farm.
“If we have a problem as Republicans in
Congress, we need to lock ourselves in a room
and solve the problem,” he said, “rather than
embarrass ourselves across the country.”
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S
avannah Wolfson, a former Boebert vol-
unteer who used to live in Boebert’s old
district, said in a phone interview that
the drama fatigue had set in among some
supporters long before the “Beetlejuice” inci-
dent.
Wolfson said that last year she and some of
her friends had noticed Boebert had been
posting “weird” pictures on Facebook that
looked like she was “constantly at frat parties.”
One of her friends decided to text Boebert with
a warning: I don’t know if this is the road you
want to go down, Wolfson said paraphrasing
the text.
“She just responded with a kissy face emoji,”
said Wolfson.
It felt, Wolfson said, like Boebert was saying
“bye, b----” to the people who helped elect her
in the first place.
“She has a bad reputation with her volun-
teers at this point,” Wolfson continued. “She
just kind of uses you and then leaves.”
Boebert has tried framing her move as good
for everyone except the libs: Leaving a com-
petitive seat would stop the flow of “Holly-
wood” money into elections in her old district,
where Democratic donors nationwide sense
that a well-funded candidate could have
bumped her off.
But the biggest thing, she said, is that she
wanted to get away from Jayson, with whom
things had gotten particularly nasty since
their divorce. In early January, Jayson was
arrested after an argument with Boebert got
unruly at a restaurant. He accused her of
punching him in the face, authorities cleared
her of wrongdoing and he was charged with
disorderly conduct after refusing to leave.
Jayson was charged a second time a few weeks
later after a physical altercation with their
18-year-old son, Tyler, in which Jayson had
grabbed a rifle after the teenager called the
authorities.
Her opponents note that it would have been
possible for Boebert to get away from Jayson
without abandoning her current constituency.
You could drive six hours, from Grand Junc-
tion to Pueblo, and still be in the 3rd district.
And some of them have questioned whether
her decision to remain in the limelight is the
best thing for her boys right now. (Last week,
Tyler made headlines after being arrested and
charged with 22 counts including vehicle
trespass, property thefts and criminal posses-
sion of ID documents.)
Boebert said she has contemplated receding
from public life — the way anyone, especially
someone with kids, might consider quitting
their job, but said she thinks it’s important for
her to continue fighting in Washington to keep
the country safe and free for her family.
The move, she said, has been “liberating.”
She now has a chance to be the best version of
herself — which, to be clear, will be just like the
old version.
“The only difference I perceive is that I’m
not weighted down and afraid someone is
going to be mad at me at the end of the day,”
Boebert said of her new life. “I can have a
thousand people come and tell me how much
they love me, and say ‘Thank you so much.’
And if I don’t get it from the one person I’m
really needing it from, then I feel like, you
know, maybe I’m not doing enough.”
There are a lot of different ways to look at
Boebert’s move. You could see it as a necessary
step for a divorcee to cope with a legitimately
harrowing family ordeal. You could see it as a
strategically convenient way for a politician
who enjoys power and status to avoid losing it.
You could see it as a way for someone who
grew up without a leash to slip out of some
unwelcome restraints.
Maybe it’s as simple as this: She moved so
she doesn’t have to change.
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engagement party used to work:
The parents threw a party and
dine. I’m happy to do this, but
just curious about protocol.
But they are not obliged to serve
it, and you are not obliged to
bring it in the first place.
Are you planning to be part of
this marriage? Or are you only
the couple’s jeweler? Perhaps the

pregnancy without gifts then announced the

engagement by offering a toast
to the new couple. Presents for
Bringing wine was never
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even considered somewhat
Dear Miss Manners: A friend of
mine has been engaged for
couple sees that ring as
symbolizing the welcome return
of the harmony of their early
an engagement were not insulting, as if the host could not months. Then she and her fiancé engagement. Or as a rock that
Dear Miss party? It’s not a shower; it’s not customary. They do seem to be be counted on to provide a had a misunderstanding and he remains solid despite any
Miss Manners: I’m a gender reveal. What is a name now, as at every self-celebration. decent drink. Flowers or candy asked for the ring back. She troubles. In any case, Miss
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JacobINa this new stage in Why do people believe that they would have brought you otherwise, now that guests I say she needs a new ring, or of friendship.
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NIcholas any gifts. I do not Probably because the name object of a non-gimmicky, non- contribute to the actual meals in that one remounted or somehow New Miss Manners columns are
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of hosting to fall But that is not your intention, been achieved. wine — if not a course of the use a ring he had first given to washingtonpost.com/advice. You can
on another person. I definitely and there is no such need. You dinner — has become someone else. I say when he send questions to Miss Manners at
do not want to do a gimmicky can just invite people over for a Dear Miss Manners: I’m newly commonplace, even though it asked for it back, it terminated her website, missmanners.com. You
“gender reveal.” I just want to good time, and if you have sober — a long time coming — may not go with the food and the contract of marriage, and can also follow her
host a party celebrating this something to celebrate, you can and wondering if it’s still may not be enough for the therefore this is a new @RealMissManners.
moment. create a sensation by required to bring a bottle of number of guests. It makes hosts engagement and needs a new
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Should reader let friends know she was unaware of her ex-husband’s crimes?
Dear Amy: I was
Ask Amy so sad and
Amy embarrassed to
Dickinson learn that my ex-
husband was
involved in
corporate crimes during the time
we were married. One of two
cases and the related court
dockets and evidence reveal
participation in a complex
scheme that resulted in the
plaintiff company being awarded
a huge settlement.
I quietly left the marriage and
took a work assignment halfway
across the country to escape my
former husband’s erratic
behavior, irresponsibility, and
terrible work ethic. I had no idea
he was committing crimes, in my
home and under my nose — a
common scenario, as I now
understand it, when it comes to
wives of white-collar criminals. A
second corporate fraud case is
now on the docket. I am aware
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. the washington post
that these crimes impacted many
people far and wide.
I am now wondering whether
I should remain silent about my
departure from the marriage, or
take a few proactive measures to
share with those that were once
in our common circle of friends
and colleagues that I was neither
aware nor would I have ever
condoned such illicit and
predatory acts. From what I am
reading, a divorce from a white-
collar criminal is often perceived
as a means for the wife to protect
her interests, all the while
standing by her man.
For better or for worse, I am
not that person, and I am
increasingly uncomfortable that
this could be the perception.
What should I do?
— Amy in SC
Amy: Because you feel so
strongly about this, you should
claim your own narrative, using
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snow day or school day?
your own words and writing
down the story you want others
to know. But for now, do this only
for yourself. I don’t think it is
wise to publicly note any details
about your ex-husband’s crimes,
until these crimes are completely
settled through the courts and
you receive current and
competent legal advice directed
only to you. The last thing you
want to do is to somehow
accidentally ensnare or implicate
yourself in the situation you are
trying to maintain your distance
from.
Your actual friends know you
and understand your situation.
The people in your former circle
who may have “perceptions”
about your divorce? Didn’t you
leave these perceptions behind
when you left your previous life
behind? Because the fact is, you
did leave the marriage in order
to protect your own interests.
And — good for you.
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EZ RE C5
Dear Amy: My godson is getting also offer many other important weeks of solitude, away from her
married soon and since he and reproductive health services to husband. Your answer was
his fiancé live in a small women. If you don’t condemn terrible!
apartment, they are not listed on this couple’s stand on abortion, Marriage is about being
any bridal registry. However on then surely you wouldn’t together. Do I sometimes want to
their wedding website, they condemn their choice to donate be away from my husband of
suggest that if guests want to their own money toward four decades? Of course! But
make a donation to honor their supporting a clinic. And if you we’re married. You never even
wedding, to give their gift to a give them money for their took her husband’s wishes into
local clinic that performs wedding gift, this money will no account.
abortions. longer be your money, but their — Upset
I do not condemn their choice money, to spend as they choose.
of being pro-abortion, but to In lieu of cash, you could give Upset: My answer offered several
place that on their wedding them your Aunt Bertha’s old ways for her and her husband to
invitation is beyond my belief. I gravy boat, but they could then work this out, so, of course, she
will not give to an abortion clinic turn around and sell it and needs to discuss this with him
(my choice). I was planning on donate the proceeds. My point is and take his wishes into account.
giving them a wedding check that you don’t have the right to
and will be upset if it goes to an control where the gift you give to Amy's column appears seven days a
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Dune: Part Two (PG-13) CC: Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
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5:15 Yaiba - To the Hashira Training (R) 3:15-9:00; 12:30-6:00
- To the Hashira Training (R) Experience (PG-13) CC: 12:00- 2024 Oscar Nominated Short
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Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba 3:10-3:40-4:10-4:40-5:10-5:40-
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Bob Marley: One Love (PG-13) Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 1:25- 6:50-7:20-7:50-8:20-9:20
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The Beekeeper (R) CC: 9:10 3:00-5:50-8:40
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American Fiction (R) CC: 4:15 Drive-Away Dolls (R) 8:50
The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 6:30-9:30
12:10 Dune: Part Two - The IMAX The Chosen: Season 4 Episodes Bob Marley: One Love (PG-13) Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 11:30- Bob Marley: One Love (PG-13)
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Maestro (R) 3:50 Experience (PG-13) CC: 1:00-
The Chosen: Season 4 Episodes 4:45-8:30 Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Operation Valentine (Telugu) Migration (PG) 11:30-2:00 Argylle (PG-13) 2:50-6:00-9:10
7-8 (PG) 12:00 Land of Bad (R) CC: 1:45-9:40 - To the Hashira Training (R) 3:10 1:50-5:15-8:20 Madame Web (PG-13) 10:30- Operation Valentine (Telugu)
The Chosen: Season 4 Episodes 1:30-4:20-7:10-10:00 12:40-4:00-7:30
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Ordinary Angels (PG) CC: 1:15- Article 370 12:50-3:55
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3:10; 12:30-6:10 The Taste of Things (La passion
Regal Waugh Chapel & IMAX de Dodin Bouffant) (PG-13) 3:00
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1419 South Main Chapel Way Drive-Away Dolls (R) CC: 1:30-
4:15-7:00-9:45 Dune: Part Two (PG-13) OC: 5:00 Manjummel Boys 8:50 Drive-Away Dolls (R) 2:30-4:40 (R) 2:20
Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 12:00- Bob Marley: One Love (PG-13) Bob Marley: One Love (PG-13) Anyone But You: The Valentine
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Madame Web (PG-13) 11:50- 12:35-5:40-7:30-10:10 Argylle (PG-13) 8:50 Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no
3:30-6:40-9:50 Argylle (PG-13) CC: 6:45-10:00 Migration (PG) CC: 2:30
Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 12:30- Sundaram Master 3:25-9:40 Yaiba - To the Hashira Training
Dune: Part Two - The IMAX Expe- The Beekeeper (R) CC: 1:15 Madame Web (PG-13) CC: 3:00- 1:55-2:25-3:45-4:15-6:10-8:00- The Chosen: Season 4 Episodes (R) 11:20-5:20-8:30
rience (PG-13) 11:30-3:20-7:10 American Fiction (R) CC: 4:00- 5:45-8:30 8:30-9:20-9:55 7-8 (PG) 11:40AM
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BRIDGE

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NORTH
♠ 10 8 5
♥ K3
♦ A Q 10 5
♣ Q 10 9 4
WEST EAST
♠ AQ9 ♠ 7642
♥ Q9654 ♥ 10 8 7
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♠ KJ3
♥ AJ2
♦ 8743
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The bidding:
SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST
1 NT Pass 3 NT All Pass
Opening lead — ♥ 5

“A t least it was only a vul-

nerable game,” North
mourned. “Sometimes the
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man’s relentless pursuit of

overtricks costs a slam.”
Joe Overberry believes it’s
nobler to go down trying for
overtricks than to make what
he bid. His habit costs him —
and his unfortunate partners
— thousands of points.
Joe was declarer at today’s
3NT, and West led a heart, RHYMES WITH ORANGE HILARY PRICE MARK TRAIL JULES RIVERA
riding to the jack. Joe next
led a diamond: six, 10, jack.
East returned a heart to
dummy’s king.
Joe next led a club to his
hand and a second diamond
... and West threw a club.
Joe frowned, took dummy’s
ace and led a spade to his
jack. West took the queen,
led another heart to Joe’s
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ace, won the next spade and
cashed two hearts. Down
one.
“There goes another 700
points,” North grumbled.
Joe starts with four clubs,
three hearts and a diamond.
For one more sure trick, he
leads the king of spades at
Trick Two. If West wins and
leads another heart, Joe wins
and leads a second spade to HAGAR THE HORRIBLE CHRIS BROWNE BALDO HECTOR CANTU & CARLOS CASTELLANOS
set up his ninth trick.
DAILY QUESTION
You hold:
♠ 10 8 5 ♥ K 3
♦ A Q 10 5 ♣ Q 10 9 4
Your partner opens one
heart, you respond two clubs,
he bids two diamonds and
you raise to three diamonds.
Partner then bids three
hearts. What do you say?
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ANSWER: Your partner
would have stopped at three
diamonds with no game
interest. His three hearts
accepts your invitation and
suggests a six-card or strong
five-card heart suit. You can
afford to play at the cheaper
game: Raise to four hearts.
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BIRTHDAY | MARCH 5
You love adventure
and variety. You
are charming and
smooth, but privately,
you can be emotionally
tempestuous. You have a
sharp wit. This is a year of
learning and teaching. Make
time to pursue knowledge
formally or informally that you
want to acquire. Travel is also
likely.
HEART OF THE CITY STEENZ JUDGE PARKER FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO & MIKE MANLEY
Moon Alert: There are no
restrictions to shopping or
important decisions today.
The Moon is in Capricorn.
ARIES
(MARCH 21-APRIL 19).
This is an excellent day for
you to make your pitch to
bosses or ask permission from
parents or authority figures,
because the gods are smiling
on you.
TAURUS
(APRIL 20-MAY 20).
This is the perfect day to
FRAZZ JEF MALLETT CANDORVILLE DARRIN BELL explore opportunities in
publishing, the media or
anything related to medicine
and the law. You also might
sign up for a course or check
out new avenues in higher
education.
GEMINI
(MAY 21-JUNE 20).
Issues related to shared
property, taxes, debt and
inheritances are ideal areas to
explore for you today. You will
be pleased with the results.
Furthermore, bosses and
people in power will help you.
GARFIELD JIM DAVIS BARNEY AND CLYDE WEINGARTENS & CLARK Stand up for your rights and
develop a healthy self-interest.
CANCER
(JUNE 21-JULY 22).
Discussions with close friends,
spouses and partners will go
well today. It’s a good day to
discuss joint travel plans. You
also might explore legal or
medical matters or something
to do with publishing. Groups
and friends will likely help you.
LEO
(JULY 23-AUG. 22).
You will accomplish a lot today
because people are supportive
DUSTIN STEVE KELLEY & JEFF PARKER FLASH GORDON DAN SCHKADE to you. This is an excellent day
to ask for an increase in your
budget or better equipment
at work. Whatever you need
might come your way.
VIRGO
(AUG. 23-SEPT. 22).
Make sure you make time
to have fun today. This is a
playful day for you! Enjoy
social outings, the arts, the
entertainment world, sports
events and fun activities with
kids. Meet friends for happy
hour, coffee, lunch or dinner.

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PRICKLY CITY LOOSE PARTS (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22).
Although your focus is on
home and family today, you will
still make things happen. Life
is supportive to you today. Your
health feels more vigorous,
and people are willing to help
you financially or in practical
terms.
SCORPIO
(OCT. 23-NOV. 21).
Your creative vibes are hot
today, which is why this is a
great day to write, sell, market,
teach or act. You’re in a playful
frame of mind, and some of
NON SEQUITUR WILEY BABY BLUES RICK KIRKMAN & JERRY SCOTT you are also redecorating
and making improvements at
home.
SAGITTARIUS
(NOV. 22-DEC. 21).
Financial matters favor you
today. Go after what you want.
Think of ways to boost your
income or get a better job.
Similarly, you might be pleased
with some purchases that
you make today, which might
be related to home repairs or
helping a family member.
CAPRICORN
(DEC. 22-JAN. 19).
BIG NATE LINCOLN PEIRCE ON THE FASTRACK BILL HOLBROOK Today the Moon is in your sign,
which gives you an edge over
all the other signs. Therefore,
ask for what you want! Short
trips, conversations with
others and a chance to learn
something new will please you.
AQUARIUS
(JAN. 20-FEB. 18).
You might do things in a low-
key way today because you
feel the need for some privacy.
With Venus in your sign, you’re
charming, and Mars in your
sign makes you bold and
proactive. Nevertheless, this
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and figure out your job scene.
PISCES
(FEB. 19-MARCH 20).
Enjoy schmoozing with friends.
With Mercury in your sign,
you’re eager to share your
ideas, and the Sun in your
sign gives you confidence and
energy. Discuss your hopes for
the future with someone to get
their feedback.
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In Paris, Commes des
Garçons, Rick Owens
shows make us think
FASHIon from c1
trousers and day dresses and nice
coats. If this stuff is going to be so
out of reach, as I wrote about in
milan, shouldn’t it stun and thrill
us, make us think? In fashion
these days, you can have the
money to buy or the knowledge to
understand — consume the
clothes, or consume the ideas. (A
few people have money and
brains. Lucky, lucky!)
Demna, of Balenciaga, put it
best following his terrific Sunday
show. “I think that fashion has to
be radical,” he said. “It has to be
on the edge. otherwise it’s a scam.
It’s like, you know, we’re trying to
trap people to buy wallets, and
that’s not what I’m doing.”
As Demna’s collection (techni-
cally Winter 2024) demonstrated,
that doesn’t mean ridiculous and
escapist. Here, it meant sophisti-
cated, in a strange dance with the
past and the way people live
today. He began in conversation
with Cristóbal Balenciaga, the
mercurial founder of his house,
with gowns and dresses that were
deliberately stiffly crushed and
creased. There were even skirt
suits, like a full skirt and blousy
track jacket in python, and moved
into upcycled sweatshirts turned
into day dresses and suit linings
as floppy men’s suits. It made all
the wardrobe clothes of other
designers look mealy mouthed —
you can be pulled together but
not boring bourgeois.
overall, the clothes were more
formal. Cristóbal “used to do a lot
Monica Hesse
Are marriages destined to flail or flourish? Depends on the book.
HESSE from c1
running and career-squeezing
filled her with resentment.
Jamison’s book is more lyrical
than linear: she tells us vaguely
that her marriage ended because
her former husband started to be
very angry all the time. We don’t
know exactly what happened, but
the few paragraphs that address
the anger’s cause hint at personal
and professional jealousy: his
last book flopped, she writes,
while hers was a runaway
success, and he missed receiving
Jamison’s attention that now
went to the baby.
What banal endings. What
universal ones, too, to anyone
who has ever had to consider the
math of a relationship: what it
means to add up chores, hours,
patience, unwashed dishes,
career advancement, love — and
to then divide those things into
roughly equal parts where each
spouses gets and gives the same.
All of these treatises about
divorce are really, no surprise,
about marriage. Who benefits
from it? Who carries it? Who gets
to be the show pony and who has
to be the workhorse? What
should we make of the statistic
that Lenz offers us, that 70
percent of divorces are initiated
by wives, while their husbands
seem shocked to realize that
When stepsiblings are mean to one another, a parent feels guilty
Adapted from an
online discussion.
Dear carolyn: my
partner and I are
blending families.
Carolyn We each have two
Hax kids within the 5
to 10 range. It’s
going well for the
most part, but sometimes it feels
incredibly challenging. We are
doing all the right things
according to experts — aligning
routines and rules, spending
quality time, giving the kids space
— but sometimes it feels so hard.
The hardest part for me is when
one kid is being mean to the
others. I guess I start feeling guilty
that the kids are going through
this because of our (grown-up)
decision. If anyone has any words
of wisdom, advice or can share any
resources, we would be so
grateful!
— Blended
Blended: Kids are just mean to
one another sometimes. If you
didn’t blend the families, then
each set of two would be mean to
each other sometimes, and their
friends would come over and be
mean to them sometimes, and
they’d all get together on special
occasions and gang up on
someone.
If there’s a pattern to the
meanness — say, one kid is a
of two piece ensembles, like a
dress with a bolero. And I
thought, how can I do that? Be-
cause I will probably never do a
bolero in my life. So I thought,
maybe the tracksuit is my bolero,
and then I made it in python
leather. There is a chicness that I
wanted to do because it’s a bit the
direction I’m taking it from now
—” He stopped himself, maybe
wanting to leave room to change
his mind. “for now. I’m thinking
about the future of Balenciaga.”
Demna has not returned to
form, but leaped forward. This
collection had few sweatsuits and
sneakers, and his sense of chic, as
he put it — grotesque and elegant,
packed with personality and in-
telligence — is very contempo-
rary.
Underneath this new creativity
is an obsession with objects: what
value do things hold in a digital
world? What is luxury — is it an
emotional relationship with ob-
jects, craftsmanship, anything
that is intelligently designed?
Demna sent all of his guests
strange finds from eBay as invita-
tions — Vogue editor mark
Guiducci received a copy of Kate
moss’s first American Vogue cov-
er; Nordstrom’s rickie De Sole a
Paris snow globe; I, a dachshund
owner, got a dachshund figurine
— because he often does his re-
search on the auction platform.
He loves to see treasure in what
others see as junk — his finale
dress was a gown made of count-
less brassieres. It was strapless.
(Ha-ha!) I cackled as the model
things aren’t actually fine? She
cites research and anecdotes
pointing to the conundrum of
modern marriages: Wives may
have entered the workforce, but
husbands still haven’t entered
the kitchen to pick up the slack.
Can marriage be saved?
Coincidentally, “This American
Ex-Wife” came out one week
before another similarly titled
book that has also received a lot
of attention.
“American Woman” by New
York Times correspondent Katie
rogers, is subtitled “The
transformation of the modern
first lady, from Hillary Clinton to
Jill Biden.” In it, she explores how
five women have navigated one
of the oddest gigs in the United
States: being the professional
spouse to the leader of the free
world. The role is glamorous but
entirely unpaid. It is laden with
expectations and protocol but no
actual job description. A chipper
view of the first lady role is that
the job is about tackling a big
issue — physical fitness for
michelle obama, literacy for
Laura Bush — with lots of
funding and national attention. A
more dour view is that the job is
keeping one man on an even keel
so he doesn’t get funny with the
nuclear codes.
In this way, “American
Woman” is also a book about
regular source of it, or one is
regularly singled out for abuse, or
both, or if glancing meanness
escalates into cruelty — then you
need to get on that. Decisively and
now, with sustained supervision.
But that would have been just
as true with the original sibling
sets had you not introduced
stepsiblings. So while I
understand the extra sense of
responsibility if you, say, caused
the family remix that is causing
the pain at any given time, your
job nevertheless has been the
same throughout: to model
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A model walks the runway in a strapless gown made of countless
brassieres during the Balenciaga show on Sunday in Paris. “I think
that fashion has to be radical,” Balenciaga designer Demna said.
lurched down the runway. Laugh-
ing at fashion can really feel like a
release.
No one explored these ques-
tions of objects and value more
thrillingly than Jonathan Ander-
marriage, or more specifically,
how even the most rarefied
couples in the country find
themselves making the same
calculations that less-famous,
less-powerful married couples
are making everywhere on a
daily basis. Hillary Clinton
thought she could use her law
degree to help with policy in the
White House, but she ended up
feeling as if the public just
wanted her to “stay home and
bake cookies.” michelle obama
had made nearly $275,000 a year
at the University of Chicago
medical Center, but once Barack
won, she immediately did what
was expected of her and quit her
job. Her most important role, she
told late-night talk show hosts,
would be helping her family
adjust to White House life.
In the world of “This American
Ex-Wife,” marriage is what is
holding some women back. In
“American Woman,” marriage is
what’s holding the country
together: first lady after first lady
renouncing her own sense of self
in service to her country and to
the husband who must lead it.
Whatever you think of melania
Trump — I’m not a huge fan — I
frankly loved reading the
chapters in “American Woman”
that depict her not giving a crap
about the first lady role,
wandering around the residence
consistent, loving civility and
prioritize your kids’ emotional
health. Parents and stepparents
also need a flexible vision of what
that looks like with the kids they
have, vs. a bunch of shoulds and
supposed-tos.
Here’s a good thought from a
reader:
l I have no idea how to get your
kids to be nice to each other, but
the biggest thing I took away from
my blended family experience was
seeing how d--- hard my dad and
stepmom worked on it,
themselves, their marriage. I think
VICTor VIrGIle/GeTTy ImaGes
son at Loewe on friday. He took
the detritus of country house liv-
ing and exaggerated and caressed
it: scrollwork from the leg of a
Chippendale chair became deco-
ration for a lapel, those dogs that
wearing a bathrobe and
assembling photo albums of
home decor, and complaining to
a friend on the phone that she
didn’t want to deal with the
official White House Christmas
decorations.
Whatever you think of Jill
Biden — as the daughter of an
English professor, I’m a fan — I
also loved reading about the
behind-the-scenes back-and-
forth between Jill and Joe as they
debated whether she should keep
working as a professor at
Northern Virginia Community
College. In one scene, the
president asks how many courses
she’ll teach. only a handful,
right? “I’m teaching 15 credits,”
Dr. Biden responds. “It’s a full
course load.”
She was thrilled, of course,
that her husband had won the
presidency, and she would
support him in almost every way
she could. But she would expect
him to support her, too. Her
Instagram account would host
plenty of official first lady
content, and it would also show
her looping a briefcase over her
arm, standing on the NVCC
campus, ready for the first day of
school.
I think there is so much
marriage content right now
because the state of the union is
in flux. The way it worked for
nICk GalIfIanakIs for The WashInGTon PosT
because they let us know — in age-
appropriate ways — that it was
work, I had an excellent model of a
functional marriage in my life.
Their marriage and commitment
to their blended family have been
the lodestar to my life (I am mid-
40s now). You sound like you are
being thoughtful and doing the
right things. It will pay off!
Dear carolyn: I have two friends
who have to one-up me at every
turn, and I don’t know how to
respond. for instance, when I was
sick with covid, I emailed one
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appear as figurines or on needle-
point pillows were beaded onto
bags or exploded onto bulbous
dresses. Then there were the lean
and odd gowns, and beaded eve-
ning suits and with snakey long
tailcoats, exaggerated versions of
the required ensembles for those
“dress for dinner” nights at long
tables that look so frigid in films
like robert Altman’s “Gosford
Park” and Jane Austen adapta-
tions. You could practically see a
woman in the gown and another
in the tailcoat covered in beaded
caviar sitting at two ends of a
ridiculously lengthy table, slurp-
ing consommé and yelling
“WHAT?!” across the uselessly
vast, gleaming expanse.
“The idea of an aristocrat is a
foreign thing now,” he said after
the show. “It’s nearly nonexis-
tent.” And yet the obsession with
taste, status and objects has never
felt more present. TikTok is over-
stuffed with talking heads hold-
ing forth on what rich people
really do, and a corner of the
internet has developed a paraso-
cial relationship with Emerald
fennell’s film “Saltburn,” about a
lying middle class oxford student
who becomes so obsessed with a
classmate, and his extravagant
family and house, that he kills
them off one by one before taking
possession of their sprawling es-
tate. It was a profoundly medio-
cre film, but it resonated with the
old money TikTok crowd. Dare I
say that this Loewe collection is
like if “Saltburn” was good?
Like Demna, Anderson has left
a previous era, where he interro-
gated what clothing could be in
clean and unstyled looks, and
gone somewhere new. Trium-
phant.
Hermès designer Nadège Van-
hee also found a new space. Van-
hee is a classic Parisian cool wom-
an — statuesque, with a coy man-
ner and a talent for wearing red
decades doesn’t work for many
people anymore, and maybe it
never did. The way it will work in
the future is still being hashed
out — and it’s worth noting that
my rosy example, the high-
powered success story of Jill and
Joe, is facilitated by personal
chefs, maids, schedulers, the
Secret Service and Air force one.
for the rest of us, those of us
who aren’t married to presidents
or to gaslighters, the best we can
hope for is this:
The night before I started this
column, I emptied my daughter’s
diaper pail, and then I set the bag
on the front porch while I went
to grab the bathroom trash, too.
Then I got distracted by a phone
call, and I forgot all about my
chore, until three or four in the
morning when I woke up and
realized that the diaper trash was
still on the stoop, that it was now
pouring down rain, and that by
morning the bag would be
sodden and extra disgusting and
maybe picked apart by raccoons.
Instead, when I got up the next
morning the bag was gone. It was
already in the big trash can. It
turns out my husband had
spotted it after I’d gone to bed
and — because this is the kind of
marriage you get if you are lucky,
the give-and-take kind, the fill-in-
the-gaps kind — carried it out
himself.
friend about how miserable a
disease it is. I was really suffering.
She wrote back that she didn’t
have a hard time with it at all, it
was just a few days to catch up
with her favorite TV shows. No
mention of hoping I’d feel better
soon or could she help in any way.
What’s the best way to respond to
a one-upper?
— Friend
Friend: The obvious response is to
befriend better people. The
entertaining response is to offer
congratulations for any and all
ways they outperform you.
“Congratulations on living your
best covid! I have much to learn
from you.”
You probably don’t want
extremes, and that answer hits
both of them, but really, the
middle-of-the-road answer is the
same: Decide whether there’s a
friendship here worth having and,
if there is, decide how to behave
within it to maintain your
integrity and keep them from
snuffing out your last flicker of
joy.
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and orange. She is extraordinarily
intelligent and feels deeply —
things worth pointing out in a
fashion review because you want
a bit of her in the clothes. Her
collections at times have been
self-consciously cool, not quite
capturing the essence of her and
her house — the latter of which is
the most unconsciously cool
thing in Paris, and maybe even
the whole world. Every brand
wants to be Hermès (even Dem-
na’s hit bag, the rodeo, is a visual
pun on the Birkin), but no one can
replicate their particular wit nor
their desirability.
These clothes were cool be-
cause they foregrounded those
qualities — warmth of spirit and
desire. A rain shower took place
in the middle of the runway, and
models walked nonchalantly
around it. What’s a little rain to
her? And the clothes — leathers in
the most delectable butters, bor-
deaux and blacks, with big broad
shawl collars, worn with fitted
leggings and trousers that were
tight in the hottest way. The cloth-
ing was aggressive but complete-
ly composed — a killer combo.
You can’t talk about creativity
in Paris without talking about
rick owens, the only designer
daring to be sensitive, or perhaps
it’s that he’s sensitive enough to
be daring. The colors of his show
were staid, sad: sharp capes and
bodysuits in taupes and clay
browns, gowns in a faded pink,
like the color of an unreturned
kiss, and knits in the gentlest sigh
of blue-green. He showed the
collection in his Paris home, a
temple to preservation and the
beauty of decay. It was an extraor-
dinary act of gracious intimacy.
He is, without a doubt, our finest
living American designer, and
one of the best in Paris — a
madame Vionnet who, with em-
pathy, shows us another way to
live, to find ourselves, to feel.
CourTesy of Warner Bros. PICTures
Austin Butler as antagonist
Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen in
“Dune: Part Two.” Elvis has left
the building.
Butler was
‘possessed’
during
filming
PERSPEcTIvE from c1
with the Los Angeles Times that
he set a firmer boundary while
playing feyd, because allowing
character to bleed into his life
“would be unhealthy for my fam-
ily and friends.”
“When the camera was off, you
were still maybe 25 or 30 percent
feyd,” Villeneuve said in the
same interview. “Just enough to
still be present and focus[ed],
but removed enough that you
didn’t kill anybody on set.”
According to the director, But-
ler was “possessed” when the
camera was on. He found a new
voice as feyd, speaking in a low
growl designed to mimic Skars-
gard’s performance as his uncle
Baron Vladimir Harkkonen. But-
ler plays an obvious foil to Timo-
thée Chalamet’s Paul Atreides,
the heir to a rival house, who
spends much of “Dune: Part 2”
gazing at the desert to maintain
moral decency amid a holy war.
The more interesting compari-
son might be to a fellow Harkon-
nen: Dave Bautista’s Glossu rab-
ban, the former favorite of Uncle
Vladimir who murdered most of
the Atreides clan. feyd operates
in a more calculated manner
than his sloppy cousin, and
therefore poses a greater threat.
of all the cool kids who joined
Chalamet and Zendaya for
“Dune: Part Two” — new cast
members also include florence
Pugh and Anya Taylor-Joy —
Butler benefits most from his
role. Just as playing Elvis dis-
suaded audiences from pigeon-
holing him as a former Disney
Channel star, feyd prevents him
from falling into the biopic trap.
Butler is poised to keep surpris-
ing as he charts a path through
Hollywood, armed with leading-
man looks and character-actor
abilities. Let’s hope he leaves this
voice behind.
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SPORTS tuesday, march 5 , 2024 su D

Broncos
decide
to get rid
of Wilson
Nine-time Pro Bowl QB,
benched late in season,
will become free agent

BY M ARK M ASKE

The Denver Broncos are releas-

ing quarterback Russell Wilson,
ending their increasingly tempes-
tuous pairing after two seasons
and making the nine-time Pro
Bowl selection available to other
nFL teams next week as a free
agent.
The Broncos informed Wilson
of the move Monday, according to
a person familiar with the deliber-
ations. The team later confirmed
the decision, saying it will become
official next week after the start of
the new league year, which marks
the opening of free agency and the
resumption of trade activity.
“We spoke with Russell Wilson
today to inform him of his release
after the start of the league year,”
the Broncos wrote in a statement
attributed to General Manager
George Paton and Coach sean
Payton. “on behalf of the Broncos,
we thank Russell for his contribu-
tions and dedication to our team
and community while wishing
him the best as he continues his
career.”
The Broncos benched Wilson
with two games remaining in the
2023 season. According to Wilson
and the nFL Players Association,
the team had threatened in octo-
ber to bench him for the remain-
der of the season if he did not
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rIch sTorry/geTTy IMages

with an assist from fellow lefty Mackenzie Gore — his self-proclaimed “biggest fan” — Patrick corbin, above, has added a cutter to his arsenal. “It’s real,” Gore said.
analysis

Old cog learns a new trick This proposal

As the final year of his contract begins, 34-year-old Nats starter Corbin is trying out a cutter and having success
BY C HELSEA J ANES
WEST PalM BEaCH, Fla. — on a steamy sunday
morning in south Florida, two cameras and a
crowd of Washington nationals employees stood
around Patrick Corbin as he threw a meaningless
spring training bullpen session. He has thrown
hundreds of these sessions, many on this exact
mound, and they have long since ceased to be
appointment viewing. The 34-year-old has the
highest eRA of any qualified starter since the start
of the 2020 season. He is in the final season of a
six-year, $140 million contract, and he does not
seem likely to be a part of the brighter nationals
future to which he has served as a bridge.
But on sunday, nationals pitching coach Jim
Hickey was there, watching closely, sneaking glanc-
es at an iPad between pitches. new pitching strat-
egist sean Doolittle was there, analyzing alongside
catcher Riley Adams and starter MacKenzie Gore,
who mimicked grips and wrist pronation with his
water bottle each time Corbin threw his change-up
homeward. They are assembling around Corbin
this year not because they are trying any harder to
make improvements than they have before but
rather because they are trying something new.
Corbin spent the offseason working out in West
Palm Beach with Gore, his obsessively competitive
friend and fellow lefty. Gore has been a disciple of
pitch design and detailed mechanical analyses
since his days with the san Diego Padres. He makes
offseason pilgrimages to the Wake Forest Pitching
could be cure
for the NFL’s
kickoff woes
Lab to hone the intricacies of his mechanics and BY M ARK M ASKE
arsenal. This past offseason, Corbin followed Gore’s
lead, though Gore was careful not to put it that way. The nFL wanted to reimagine
“I don’t necessarily know if he listens to me,” the kickoff this offseason in per-
Gore said. “I think it was just him wanting to be haps its last, best attempt to keep
better.” the play in the game. The league’s
Gore said he watched Corbin focus on cleaning rulemakers are trying to make
up mechanics while trying to recapture what made the kickoff both safer and rel-
him a success in the past, unpacking the ways his evant, a balance they have been
pitches moved and played off each other. He unable to strike in previous ef-
watched Corbin rethink pitch design and put new forts.
emphasis on getting more creative with his pitch That part of the process is just
sequencing. about done. League representa-
“He’s always worked hard, but he just went into tives, members of the nFL com-
why things happen, really dove into his pitching. petition committee and special
see NatIoNalS on D3 teams coaches from several
teams are applying the finishing
touches to a proposal for an
XFL-style kickoff model that, if
approved, would take effect next
season.
now comes what could be the
trickiest step: selling the proposal
to the traditionalists among nFL

For women’s Finally, a homegrown star for D.C.? Fingers crossed. teams and their owners, who
generally are reluctant to accept

sports, much
anything they consider too gim-
micky.
When James The competition committee

more than just Wood of Rockville

was asked two
expects to present the finalized
proposal to the owners at the

a moment
IOWa CITY —
On Let’s take two
Basketball walks in two
chuck hemispheres.
culpepper The first comes
down Caxton
street in Brisbane toward
suncorp stadium in the world’s
utmost sports country,
Australia, on a saturday
afternoon in August 2023. This
walk has gotten loaded up with
frenzy and maybe even a few
other bloodstream elements.
The familiar gold of Australia
shirts has filled the pubs with
the occasional Australia green
sprinkled amid, and the air
feels like nothing else in the
world.
There’s a large sporting event
in the vicinity, a World Cup
quarterfinal between Australia
and France coming shortly, and
so outdoors in the winter sun the
see oN baSketball on D3
years ago, at 19,
what it felt like to
be traded to his
Kevin B. hometown
Blackistone Washington
nationals, he
called it a blessing.
But I’m haunted still by
Derrick Rose being drafted no. 1
by his hometown Chicago Bulls.
After being rookie of the year in
2009 and leading the Bulls to a
62-win season in his third season
— when, at 22, he became the
youngest player in nBA history to
win the MVP award — he later
crumpled to the court with a knee
injury and missed what should
have been his fifth nBA
campaign. He never recovered
fully in Chicago and wound up
shipped out of town in 2016. He
never recaptured his all-star
ability, either.
Closer to home, there is the
recency bias against building
around homegrown stars such as
Chase Young, from Prince
saul MarTInez for The WashIngTon PosT George’s County and DeMatha
Nationals prospect James wood, above, and USc quarterback caleb williams have D.c. dreaming. see blackIStoNe on D4
annual league meeting this
month in orlando. The measure
must receive at least 24 votes
among the 32 teams to be ratified,
potentially on a one-year trial
basis. If the approval process
becomes complicated, it could
spill over to the next owners’
meeting in May.
nFL leaders have called the
kickoff the sport’s most hazard-
ous play, with unacceptably high
see Nfl on D3
baseball
That long-standing $5
nationals ticket offer? The
team has attached some
strings this season. D2
on the web
last night’s Wizards game
in utah ended late for this
edition. for full coverage,
visit us at postsports.com.
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PRO FOOTBALL
Eagles’ Kelce retires
after 13 stellar seasons
Philadelphia Eagles center
Jason Kelce announced his
retirement Monday, ending a
13-year NFL career that almost
certainly will earn him a place in
the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
“I’ve been asked many times
what drew me to football, what
drew me to the game. And I
never had an answer that gets it
right,” Kelce said during an
emotional news conference. “The
best way to explain it is what
draws you to your favorite song,
favorite book. It’s what it makes
you feel — the seriousness of it,
the intensity of it. Stepping on
the field was the most alive and
free I have ever felt.”
Kelce, 36, blossomed into one
of the NFL’s top centers even
though he was a college walk-on
at Cincinnati and a sixth-round
draft pick by the Eagles in 2011.
He was an all-pro in six of his
final seven seasons and was a
seven-time Pro Bowl pick. Kelce
also was one of the league’s most
durable offensive linemen and
holds the Eagles’ record for
consecutive starts at 156.
— Matt Bonesteel
Wide receiver Mike Evans
agreed to a two-year, $52 million
contract to remain with the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Evans, 30, is the only player in
NFL history to begin his career
with 10 consecutive seasons with
1,000-plus receiving yards, and he
is Tampa Bay’s career leader in
receptions (762), receiving yards
(11,680) and touchdowns (94).
In 2023, he tied Miami’s
Tyreek Hill for the NFL lead in
touchdown catches with 13; he
had 79 receptions for
1,255 yards. . . .
The Kansas City Chiefs placed
the nonexclusive franchise tag
on cornerback L’Jarius Sneed.
The nonexclusive tag allows
Sneed to negotiate with other
teams, who then can approach
the Chiefs about a trade.
Sneed, a two-time Super Bowl
champion at 27, has
10 interceptions in 57 career
regular season games and one in
13 playoff games. If he were to
play the 2024 season for the
Chiefs under the tag, he would
be paid $19.8 million. . . .
The Minnesota Vikings
released running back
Alexander Mattison as they
continue to seek solutions for a
lagging rushing attack.
Mattison, 25, was coming off
an unremarkable first season as
the primary ballcarrier in which
he lost the starting job to Ty
Chandler for the final four
games. . . .
Former NFL wide receiver
Braylon Edwards saved the life
of an 80-year-old man who was
being attacked in the locker
room at a suburban Detroit
YMCA, police said.
“If it wasn’t for that
intervention, we could very
easily be talking about someone’s
death,” said Jeff King, the police
chief in Farmington Hills, Mich.
Authorities filed an attempted
murder charge against Malik Ali
Smith, 20, for Friday’s incident.
Edwards, 41, said he was “just
minding my business” when he
heard a dispute about loud
music.
“The noise escalates, and then
you can hear some pushing and
shoving, so you know what
fighting sounds like,” Edwards
told Detroit’s WDIV. “But once I
hear a thud, that’s when I got up
and turned around.”
Edwards stopped the assault
of the elderly man, who was in
critical but stable condition at a
hospital Monday.
Smith fled on foot before he
was captured. He appeared in
court Saturday and remains in
custody on $250,000 bond.
Edwards, a star at Michigan
who is a Detroit native, was
selected by the Cleveland
Browns with the third pick of the
2005 draft. He played eight
seasons in the NFL.
BASEBALL
Donaldson, AL MVP
in 2015, opts to retire
Josh Donaldson is retiring
after a 13-year career in which he
was the 2015 American League
MVP for the Toronto Blue Jays.
The 38-year-old was a three-
time all-star. He was a free agent
after splitting last season
between the New York Yankees
and Milwaukee.
Donaldson was among the top
third basemen in baseball from
2013 to 2017. He finished fourth
in AL MVP balloting with
Oakland in 2013 and won the
award with Toronto two years
later. During that 2015 season,
Donaldson hit .297 with 41 home
runs. He led the AL in total bases
(352) and topped the majors in
runs (122) while helping the Blue
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THE DAY IN SPORTS
PRO BASKETBALL
Cavaliers’ Mitchell
remains sidelined
All-star guard Donovan
Mitchell will miss at least three
more games after receiving
treatment for a bone bruise in
his left knee, the Cleveland
Cavaliers said.
Mitchell missed the past two
games with what the team called
knee soreness. The Cavaliers said
he received a platelet-rich
plasma injection and will be
reevaluated this weekend. . . .
Los Angeles Clippers guard
Russell Westbrook had surgery
on his fractured left hand, and
the team described his status as
“week-to-week.” Westbrook was
hurt Friday in the Clippers’
victory over Washington. . . .
Damian Lillard scored
41 points as the host Milwaukee
Bucks overcame the absence of
Giannis Antetokounmpo (left
Achilles’ tendinitis) to rally past
the Clippers, 113-106, for their
sixth straight victory.
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Howard men, women
extend winning runs
The Howard men got
ruI VIeIrA/AssoCIATed Press 24 points from Jordan Hairston
(Flint Hill) to post their fourth
Gunning for more straight win in an 85-66 victory
over Delaware State at Burr
Kai Havertz converted in the 25th minute as high-scoring Arsenal became the first English Premier League team to win three
Gymnasium.
consecutive league road games by at least five goals apiece, with Monday’s match finishing in a 6-0 rout of Sheffield United. Bryce Harris added 23 for the
Bison (15-15, 9-4 Mid-Eastern
Athletic Conference). Martaz
Robinson scored 20 for the
Hornets (13-16, 6-7). . . .
Tyana Walker had 17 points
as the Howard women rolled to a
SPOT LIGH T: B ASE BA LL 61-43 victory over visiting
Delaware State. The Bison (13-14,
10-3 MEAC) stretched their
Nats’ new $5 ticket deal is for D.C. fans only winning streak to five. The
Hornets fell to 8-18, 4-9. . . .
Jeremy Roach (Paul VI) had
21 points to help the No. 9 Duke
BY S COTT A LLEN of the promotion. to say ‘thank you’ to our neighbors for men beat North Carolina State,
All District Tickets, which range from their support throughout the years and 79-64, in Raleigh, N.C.
The Washington Nationals changed a $5 to $25 depending on the game, will be during the 2024 season” and added that
long-standing ticket offer, making it even delivered via the MLB Ballpark app, are more than 400 tickets were sold in the HOCKEY
easier for D.C. residents to score a dis- non-transferrable and cannot be resold. first two hours after District Tickets went
counted $5 seat at the ballpark this sea- The team’s previous $5 ticket offer, on sale Monday. In March, the Nationals Scuffling Devils sack
son. But non-city dwellers will have to which dated from the opening of Nation- Park box office is open weekdays from Ruff and turn to Green
spend a bit more than in past years. als Park in 2008, made roughly 400 day- 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The new program, called District Tick- of-game tickets in Sections 401 and 402 in Any District Tickets in Sections 401 The New Jersey Devils fired
ets, enables fans who present proof of D.C. the upper deck down the left field line and 402 that do not sell out in advance coach Lindy Ruff and named
residency to purchase up to four $5 tick- available for purchase two hours before will be available at the box office for D.C. assistant Travis Green as his
ets in Sections 401 and 402 per game at first pitch. Fans were limited to one ticket residents on game days, beginning with interim replacement.
the Nationals Park box office adjacent to per purchase and, in recent years, were the 2024 regular season home opener General Manager Tom
the center field gate. The offer is available required to have the MLB Ballpark app, April 1 vs. Pittsburgh. The cheapest tick- Fitzgerald made the move with
for all home games but is limited to D.C. but the offer was not exclusive to D.C. ets available to all fans are $9 for select less than 30 games left in the
residents, who may purchase tickets for residents. The ballpark is owned by the games. NHL season. The Devils have lost
up to four games per transaction. There is District. Washington averaged 23,292 fans at five of seven to tumble out of
no limit on the number of games for A Nationals spokesperson said the new Nationals Park in 2023, its lowest playoff contention. Ruff was in
which a D.C. resident may take advantage program “gives the Nationals the chance non-pandemic-affected total since 2010. his fourth season. . . .
Ryan Lomberg had the go-
ahead goal in the third period,
Sam Reinhart scored twice, and
T EL E VI SI O N A Nd R Ad I O the Florida Panthers beat the
host New York Rangers, 4-2, in a
matchup of first-place teams. . . .
NBA SOCCER Kevin Hayes had a goal
7:30 p.m. Boston at Cleveland » TNT 3 p.m. uEFA Champions League round of 16, second leg: against his former team before
10 p.m. Phoenix at denver » TNT Paris Saint-Germain at Real Sociedad » WusA (Ch. 9), WJZ (Ch. 13) the St. Louis Blues beat the host
5 p.m. Copa Sudamericana, first round: Coquimbo Philadelphia Flyers, 2-1, in a
mLB SPRING TRAINING at universidad Católica » beIN sports
1 p.m. New York Yankees vs. New York mets » esPN 5 p.m. Concacaf Champions Cup round of 16, first leg: Robinhood
shootout.
8 p.m. Los Angeles Angels vs. Los Angeles dodgers » MLB Network at Herediano » Fox sports 2
7 p.m. Concacaf Champions Cup round of 16, first leg: Pachuca IdITAROd
mEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL
7 p.m. Providence at Georgetown » Fox sports 1, WTeM (980 AM) 7:30 p.m.
at Philadelphia » Fox sports 2
Copa Libertadores third round, first leg: Palestino
After dog is injured,
7 p.m.
7 p.m.
Virginia Tech at Louisville » esPNu, WJFK (106.7 FM)
duquesne at VCu » MAsN
at Nacional Asunción » beIN sports musher kills moose
9 p.m. Concacaf Champions Cup round of 16, first leg: Tigres uANL
7 p.m. Alabama at Florida » esPN at Orlando City » Fox sports 2
7 p.m. Syracuse at Clemson » esPN2
A musher had to kill a moose
7 p.m. Notre dame at North Carolina » ACC Network TENNIS after it injured his dog shortly
7 p.m. mississippi at Georgia » seC Network 10:30 p.m. Eisenhower Cup » Tennis Channel after the start of this year’s
7 p.m. Ohio at Buffalo » CBs sports Network Iditarod, race officials said.
9 p.m. Kansas State at Kansas » esPN NBA G LEAGuE Dallas Seavey informed
9 p.m. Florida State at Pittsburgh » esPN2 11:30 a.m. motor City at Capital City » Monumental sports Network officials with the Iditarod Trail
9 p.m. dayton at Saint Louis » CBs sports Network
WOmEN’S COLLEGE GOLF
Sled Dog Race that he was forced
9 p.m. St. John’s at dePaul » Fox sports 1 to shoot the moose with a
9 p.m. Georgia Tech at Wake Forest » ACC Network 2:30 p.m. darius Rucker Intercollegiate, second round » Golf Channel
handgun in self-defense. This
9 p.m. Auburn at missouri » seC Network
11 p.m. San diego State at uNLV » CBs sports Network
came “after the moose became
11 p.m. Nevada at Boise State » Fox sports 1 entangled with the dogs and the
musher,” a statement from race
organizers said.
Seavey, who is tied for the
most Iditarod wins (five), said he
urged officials to get the moose
off the trail.
“It fell on my sled. It was
Jays reach the AL Championship On his new deal, the night when darkness stopped Cincinnati for $172,799 in sprawled on the trail,” Seavey
Series. 33-year-old’s salary will trail play. He was never caught. Back- general allocation money. told a television crew. “I gutted it
Donaldson earned three those of Los Angeles Dodgers to-back birdies on the 12th and Yedlin, 30, had nine assists in the best I could, but it was ugly.”
straight all-star appearances two-way star Shohei Ohtani 13th holes Monday protected his 65 matches and appeared in This year’s race started
from 2014 to 2016 and was fourth ($70 million), Texas pitcher Max lead, and a 12-footer for birdie on 82 games overall with Miami. He Sunday in Willow, about 75 miles
in AL MVP balloting in 2016. Scherzer ($43.3 million) and the par-4 16th pushed his edge to frequently was the team captain north of Anchorage. Seavey
After injuries limited him to Houston pitcher Justin three shots. before Lionel Messi’s arrival last encountered the moose just
113 games in 2017 and 52 games Verlander ($43.3 million). year. . . . before 2 a.m. Monday, 14 miles
in 2018, Donaldson signed a one- SOCCER MLS is going back to having outside the race checkpoint in
year contract with Atlanta and GOLF its All-Star Game feature the Skwentna, en route to the next
was 11th in National League Arsenal cruises again league’s top players facing the checkpoint 50 miles away at
MVP voting after batting .259 Eckroat stays steady at Sheffield United best of Mexico’s Liga MX. Finger Lake.
with a .379 on-base percentage for first PGA Tour win MLS said the July 24 game in Later Monday, Seavey arrived
and 37 homers. Visiting Arsenal delivered Columbus, Ohio, will feature the at Finger Lake, where he
He then signed a four-year Austin Eckroat waited a long another statement win in its format used in 2021 and 2022. dropped off the dog that was
with Minnesota at 34, but his time to become a PGA Tour English Premier League title Arsenal beat MLS, 5-0, in last injured. The dog was flown to
play tailed off. Minnesota dealt winner. Another day didn’t hurt. challenge by thrashing last-place year’s game at Audi Field. . . . Anchorage, where it was being
Donaldson to the Yankees ahead In Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., Sheffield United, 6-0. Australian star Sam Kerr evaluated by a veterinarian.
of the 2022 season. He was Eckroat got the first victory of Kai Havertz made it 4-0 in the pleaded not guilty to racially Race officials said every effort
released in August 2023, then his tour career, topping Erik van 25th minute, following strikes by aggravated harassment of a was being made to salvage the
finished his career with 17 games Rooyen and Min Woo Lee by Martin Odegaard and Gabriel police officer, prosecutors in meat. Race rules state that if a
for Milwaukee. . . . three shots to win the weather- Martinelli sandwiched around Britain said. big game animal such as a
Zack Wheeler and the delayed Cognizant Classic. an own goal by Jayden Bogle. The 30-year-old striker, who moose, caribou or buffalo is
Philadelphia Phillies agreed on a Among his prizes: $1.62 million, Declan Rice slotted home a plays her club soccer for Chelsea, killed in defense of life or
three-year, $126 million contract tour status for two years and a fifth in the 39th minute. That was charged with causing a property, the musher must gut
for 2025, 2026 and 2027, giving trip to the Masters for the first meant Arsenal had scored at police officer harassment, alarm the animal and report it to race
him the fourth-highest average time. least five goals in three straight or distress during an incident in officials at the next checkpoint.
salary in MLB history at Eckroat, a 25-year-old former road league games — after wins southwest London on Jan. 30, Race leader Jessie Holmes
$42 million. star at Oklahoma State, shot a at West Ham (6-0) and Burnley 2023, according to the Crown had a moose encounter as well:
The Phillies ace will receive 4-under-par 67 in the final round (5-0). Ben White finished off the Prosecution Service. The PA “I had to punch a moose in the
$23.5 million in 2024 during the to finish at 17 under. rout in the 58th minute. . . . news agency reported the nose out there,” he said.
final season of a five-year, Eckroat left PGA National U.S. defender DeAndre Yedlin incident involved a complaint — From news services
$118 million free agent contract. with a one-stroke lead Sunday was traded from Inter Miami to about taxi fare. and staff reports
tuesday, march 5 , 2024 . the washington post
analysis
A new NFL kickoff could be on the way
nFL from D1
injury rates. They have said the
play could be eliminated entirely
if it can’t be made safer. Last
offseason, the owners approved a
proposal to place the ball at the
25-yard line — in what amounted
to a touchback — on any fair catch
of a kickoff made inside the
25-yard line.
That did make the play safer.
Players suffered only eight con-
cussions on kickoffs last season,
down from 20 in 2022. But NfL
health and safety officials attrib-
uted that 60 percent decline al-
most entirely to a sharp reduction
in kickoff returns. Teams re-
turned only 22 percent of kickoffs
last season, down from about
38 percent the previous season. If
teams couldn’t use high kickoffs
just short of the end zone to try to
pin opponents deep in their own
territory — since the returning
team could just fair-catch those
kicks — they figured they might
as well just kick the ball through
the end zone and be done with it.
The kickoff became what Troy
Vincent, the NfL’s executive vice
president of football operations,
called a dead, ceremonial play.
That was particularly true during
Super Bowl LVIII last month in
Las Vegas, where the Kansas City
Chiefs and San francisco 49ers
combined for 13 touchbacks —
and no returns — on 13 kickoffs.
The NfL eventually could de-
cide simply to place the ball at the
25-yard line and be done with
kickoffs forever. But the league
wants to avoid that. NfL leaders
talk about wanting to “keep the
foot in the game” and point to
Chicago Bears kick-returning
great Devin Hester being elected
last month to the Pro football
Hall of fame.
That’s why league health and
safety officials studied the XfL
kickoff alignment and other pos-
sible remedies. It’s why special
teams coordinators John fassel
of the Dallas Cowboys, Darren
rizzi of the New orleans Saints
and richard Hightower of the
Bears worked with the competi-
tion committee last week in Indi-
anapolis on the pending kickoff
proposal.
The NfL probably won’t refer
to its proposal as the XfL kickoff.
But branding issues aside, the
measure expected to be put be-
fore the owners for a ratification
On BasKETBall
For women’s sports, it’s an organic boost
on bAsketbALL from D1
street fills curb-to-curb as the
whole big blob edges toward
the stadium. People chant and
sing and play instruments. At
one point they stop and kneel
and sway in unison and sing,
“Sha-la-la-la-la-la, we are the
green and gold . . .”
Inside, as the seats fill, the
great Sam Kerr of Australia’s
soccer matildas appears on the
giant screen — just her face,
sitting on a bench before the
game, nothing splashy — and a
large swell of cheering seems to
stir right out of the guts of
people who can’t even help it.
It’s organic, unforced.
The second walk comes
across Iowa City in the United
States on a warmish Sunday
morning in march 2024. It
starts smack out of a hotel
elevator and into a breakfast
lobby with middle-aged men at
three separate tables wearing
shirts reading “Clark,” “Clark”
and “Clark.” It continues across
town and the Iowa river
without much fanfare, but then
it reaches an arena concourse
on which so many of the people
seem to have the surname
Clark.
Sometimes you see a Clark
seated alone or standing in a
long concession line, but more
often you see a Clark with
another Clark, sometimes a
Clark and Clark holding hands
and then sometimes, if lucky, a
Clark, a Clark and a Clark, all
together. That doesn’t even
count the one photo you might
get of the stands, a single frame
with, seriously, a Clark and a
Clark on one row, a Clark, Clark
and Clark just in front of that,
and a Clark, Clark and Clark
just across the aisle.
Down lower, as the seats fill,
the great Caitlin Clark appears
on the giant screen — headed
out of the tunnel in a T-shirt
and white croc-ish shoes,
nothing splashy — and a large
swell of cheering stirs right out
of the guts of people who can’t
even help it. It’s organic,
unforced.
However you might define or
interpret the moment of
respect for the female athlete,
An XFL-style kickoff model, resembling a play from the line of scrimmage, could take effect next year.
vote will resemble the kickoff
model the XfL once used. The
kicker would line up alone on his
side of the field, probably around
the same spot — the 35-yard line
— as in the current NfL kickoff
rule. The other members of the
kicking team would line up far
down the field, five yards apart
from the blockers on the return-
ing team. That setup would elimi-
nate the issues that lead to such
violent collisions and produce
such high injury rates under the
traditional kickoff alignment.
The proposal might allow the
returning team to have as many
as two returners. It perhaps
would require the ball to land
between the goal line and the
25-yard line. There would be a
severe penalty for a kickoff into
the end zone or out of bounds,
with the ball perhaps being
placed at the 30- or 35-yard line
for a touchback. The idea, after
all, is to encourage returns.
once the returner catches the
ball, the play would resemble a
play from the line of scrimmage,
with similar blocking rules. The
setup might prompt coaching
creativity, with reverses or
across-the-field laterals. The
hope is the injury rate would
resemble that of plays from the
line of scrimmage — and that the
the planet has reached one
wowing juncture. It’s that point
at which for some sporting
events, you can’t really even tell
which gender of sporting
competition the people are
walking and stirring and
craving to see. The walks look
the same, feel the same, sound
the same, as if the buzzes have
merged ideally.
It can feel as if a new
generation has slid in quietly
but unmistakably, and it’s full
of people who lack the fear of
powerful women — even those
with some cheek, such as Clark,
cupping her ear to the crowd
after another picturesque
assist. It’s an era of people who
like sports, not just certain
sports. It’s the generation in
which male basketball stars
such as Paolo Banchero or
Victor Wembanyama start to
arrive with their basketball-star
mothers as first architects of
their games. It’s one in which a
magic-maker with three-point
audacity comes whirling out of
West Des moines, and soon
every-other-body seems to have
the name Clark — the very
young, the young, the middle-
aged, the old.
They have shared in some
fresh, unforeseeable
experience, and their voices
during games blare with their
want. It’s a time when Clark
heads for the Indiana fever
next season and Indianapolis
Star columnist Gregg Doyel
counts his blessings of future
civic energy and storylines and
texts, “I am sooooooooo lucky.”
He had nine “o’s” in there.
The great longtime
columnist mark Whicker, in
January on his Substack,
committed an act seldom seen
in the country’s chronic
squabbling, especially among
the killjoys: research. He
brought up numbers from
everywhere and everything in
women’s sports, including
hockey and including the
19,598 for the volleyball final
four in Tampa, the 59,042 at
Emirates Stadium in London
for Arsenal vs. Chelsea (later
outdone by the 60,160 for
Arsenal vs. manchester
United), the 200,000 fans for
return rate would skyrocket. Vin-
cent spoke last week of getting
the return rate back to 36 or
38 percent and putting thou-
sands of active plays per season
back into the game. others con-
nected to the process say they
could envision the return rate
being as high as 80 percent.
“It would feel like an NfL play”
from scrimmage, one person fa-
miliar with the deliberations
said. According to that person,
the revised format probably
would lead to teams putting
smaller players on the field for
kickoffs and could result in
changes to roster construction.
The proposal must address on-
side kicks. one possibility would
be to require the kicking team to
declare its intention, at which
point the alignment would revert
to the traditional kickoff setup.
Another approach could be to
allow the kicking team to attempt
to convert a fourth-and-15 (or
fourth-and-20) offensive play to
try to retain possession of the
ball.
That’s where the gimmick as-
pect comes in. Proposals in previ-
ous years for the fourth-and-15 or
fourth-and-20 alternative to the
onside kick have gotten nowhere
with the owners. There is a
chance that this kickoff proposal
both Iowa and the dynastic
South Carolina women’s
basketball in 2022-23, the
9.9 million average viewers for
the LSU-Iowa national final.
“There is no such thing as a
series of outliers,” he wrote.
“The world of women’s sports is
not just having a moment. It is
living the life that it created.”
He saw the gathering good
business sense and concluded:
“Call it a moment if you must.
It’s not momentary.”
After the moment Sunday in
Iowa City, Coach Lisa Bluder
said: “And next week, are you
kidding? It’s going to be an
amazing Big Ten tournament.”
That, too, is sold out — for
the first time, in its case.
And as the firsts go around
on their apparent way toward
becoming seconds and thirds
and fourths and routines,
another state chimed in
Sunday. Some 11,975 turned up
in Charlottesville to see
Virginia topple No. 5 Virginia
Tech, 80-75, the largest women’s
basketball crowd to date in the
commonwealth.
Somebody asked Virginia
Tech Coach Kenny Brooks
about that, and Brooks, long
since in the running for coolest
guy on Earth, went on a calm-
voiced rant, if such a thing
exists. “And I watch the
women’s game get
disrespected,” he told reporters,
“by people who have no idea
how much work these kids put
in. And for it finally to be
recognized for what it should
be as a beautiful sport, kids
who work their asses off, kids
who have so much pride in
what they do, and then you get
jerks sometimes on social
media trying to downplay the
women’s game. makes me
angry. And I saw something the
other day, and Carmelo
Anthony was talking about the
women’s game, and he talked
about the women’s game as the
purest in its form because they
play it the right way. And when
you’ve got one of the greatest of
all time telling you that, it
makes fools on Twitter look
silly.”
If only they could go for a
walk . . .
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could face similar opposition.
“You’re always going to have
people that are traditionalists
and therefore immediately have
their guard up,” rich mcKay, the
Atlanta falcons’ chief executive
and the competition committee
chairman, said last week in Indi-
anapolis. “We just have to be
open-minded enough to say: Can
we bring plays back in the game
that have gone out of the game?
And if we can in a creative way, we
should consider it. It doesn’t
mean you’re going to get 24 votes.
But it means that we’ve got to get
it on the table and consider it.”
NfL Commissioner roger
Goodell attended last week’s
meetings in Indianapolis. Good-
ell said during Super Bowl week
that the league needs to “inno-
vate” to “find a way to keep the
kickoff in the game.”
The participating special
teams coaches were scheduled to
meet over the weekend. The com-
petition committee has a set of
meetings in florida before the
league meeting in orlando. Vin-
cent said last week he expected
the proposal to be completed this
week, and he is hopeful it will be
approved.
“Everyone was just encour-
aged,” Vincent said, “that there
are some alternatives coming.”
Patrick Corbin said he hopes his cutter, which sat around 88 mph in his last outing, will gain velocity.
Nats’ Corbin is trying something new
nAtionALs from D1
He’s gotten to see it from a differ-
ent perspective,” Gore said. “It’s
just been fun to watch him. Every-
one knows I’m his biggest fan.”
The most visible result of Corb-
in’s efforts is a new cutter, some-
thing he tried under max Scher-
zer’s tutelage in 2021 but never
managed to craft into a trustwor-
thy weapon. He threw it several
times last week against the
St. Louis Cardinals and even got
annual mVP candidate Nolan Are-
nado to swing through it for strike
three.
“It’s real,” said Gore, echoing
reviews from other members of
the Nationals’ pitching develop-
ment staff who cautioned that
Corbin is still very new to the
pitch.
If it is real, Corbin hopes the
pitch will help offer a complement
to the fastball/slider combination
teams have come to know so well
that he sometimes struggles to
fool them. maybe he can throw it
instead of a fastball in the usual
fastball counts. or maybe he can
use that instead of a slider to move
in on a righty.
“maybe throw them one less
slider where I can get a chase on
Broncos are releasing Wilson,
changing quarterback market
wiLson from D1
agree to adjust his contract and
address an injury guarantee tied
to a $37 million offseason pay-
ment.
Lloyd Howell, the NfLPA’s ex-
ecutive director, said during Su-
per Bowl week that the union
believed the Broncos “mistreat-
ed” Wilson. The NfLPA told the
Broncos and the NfL’s manage-
ment council in a Nov. 4 letter
from attorney Jeffrey Kessler that
the team’s threat to bench Wilson
if he did not agree to adjust his
contract was illegal and violated
the collective bargaining agree-
ment between the NfL and the
NfLPA, creating the possibility
the union would initiate an arbi-
tration proceeding or litigation
against the team and the league.
Howell declined to specify
what steps the NfLPA had taken,
if any, to follow up on the letter.
Wilson thanked “Broncos
Country” in a statement posted
monday to social media.
“over these last two years, you
have welcomed my family and me
with open arms and have em-
braced us as members of the Den-
ver community,” Wilson wrote.
“This city will always hold a spe-
cial place in my heart. our family
grew here, we made countless
memories and friendships, and
formed relationships that will last
a lifetime.”
Wilson expressed his gratitude
to Broncos players, other mem-
bers of the organization and caf-
eteria workers, without mention-
ing those in the team’s leadership.
“To my teammates, thank you
for going to battle together and
for being there through it all,”
Wilson wrote. “There are so many
moments I cherish because of you
and I am blessed for the impact
you have made on my life. I am
beyond grateful for all of you and
to have been able to run out as
your teammate was an honor.”
Wilson’s contract will count
about $85 million against the
Broncos’ salary cap, although the
team could spread that amount
over more than one season. The
Broncos avoid paying Wilson the
$37 million payment that would
have become fully guaranteed lat-
er this month. It was guaranteed
only against injury.
The NfL salary cap will in-
crease to $255.4 million per team
next season. The record
$30.6 million-per-team jump will
that slider down in the dirt be-
cause that’s what I rely on and I
know every hitter knows that,”
Corbin said. “Just give them some-
thing else, maybe get them off that
[slider].”
Corbin said he hopes the cut-
ter, which sat around 88 mph in
his last outing, will gain a few
more mph as he gets more com-
fortable with it. He is also trying,
as he has in years past, to hone his
change-up, another pitch that
could help push hitters off his
more familiar combinations.
Hickey said the change-ups Corb-
in threw in his most recent outing
might have been some of the
better ones he has seen him
throw. Corbin said he, Hickey and
Doolittle plan to try out some
new pitch sequences in his spring
training outings to set up the
change-up better.
“He’s just exhausting the other
avenues to get hitters out,” Hickey
said. “His career, even in 2019, was
successful because of the slider
swing-and-miss. Teams have be-
come more familiar with him, so
they see the ball low and let it go.
So the change-up and especially
the cutter plays along with sink.
He’s down with the two-seam, and
now he has something coming
D3
make the Broncos’ move with Wil-
son slightly more manageable
from a salary cap perspective.
The Broncos possess the 12th
pick in April’s draft and could use
it to select Wilson’s replacement.
If they opt for a veteran quarter-
back, the minnesota Vikings’ Kirk
Cousins and the Tampa Bay Buc-
caneers’ Baker mayfield could be
available next week as unrestrict-
ed free agents. The Chicago Bears
could trade Justin fields if they
opt to retain the top choice in the
draft.
Jarrett Stidham started the
Broncos’ final two games last sea-
son in place of Wilson. They fin-
ished 8-9 and missed the playoffs
in Payton’s first season as the
team’s coach.
“As we move forward, we are
focused on building the strongest
team possible for the 2024 season
and beyond,” the Broncos said in
their statement monday. “We are
excited to improve this offseason
and will have the flexibility to get
better through the draft and free
agency.”
Paton said last week at the NfL
scouting combine in Indianapolis
that the Broncos had “moved for-
ward” from the issues involving
Wilson’s contract, adding: “Every-
thing we did was above board.”
Wilson, 35, was the NfL’s
eighth-rated passer this season.
He will seek his third NfL team
after 10 seasons with the Seattle
Seahawks and two with the Bron-
cos. He reached two Super Bowls
with the Seahawks, winning one
of them, and was selected to the
Pro Bowl in all but one of his
seasons in Seattle.
The Broncos traded for Wilson
in march 2022 by sending a pack-
age of players and draft choices —
including two first-round picks —
to the Seahawks. Wilson signed a
five-year, $245 million extension
with the Broncos that September.
That deal was to run through the
2028 season.
Instead, Wilson moves on, and
the Broncos will have to pay him
$39 million for next season (mi-
nus any salary amount from a
prospective new team). The list of
quarterback-needy teams in-
cludes the Atlanta falcons, the
Las Vegas raiders, the Washing-
ton Commanders, the New Eng-
land Patriots and perhaps the
Pittsburgh Steelers and the New
York Giants. The Vikings and Buc-
caneers could join that list once
the reshuffling begins next week.
saul MarTinez for The WashingTon PosT
into right-handers. That will
help.”
Just how much it will help
Corbin remains to be seen. Spring
training is always awash in opti-
mism. Expecting Corbin — one of
the most consistent starting
pitchers of the past four years, for
better, in terms of eating innings,
and worse, in terms of allowing
runs — to suddenly reemerge as
an ace would be like hoping for a
florida spring training without
rain. It’s possible, sure. But it isn’t
exactly a safe bet. Besides, Gore,
Hickey and Nationals manager
Dave martinez made clear that
Corbin hasn’t suddenly flipped
some switch.
“His mentality has always been
outstanding. He’s always been
willing to do anything you ask of
him,” Hickey said. “He definitely
did a little tinkering. maybe
there’s a little bit more edge there;
it’s possible it’s because of the
contract that’s expiring. But that’s
also unfair because he’s not trying
any harder now than he was in
2021 or 2022.”
He is, however, trying some-
thing different. And the people
who know him and his arsenal
best seem to think that is worth
watching.
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Could Wood or Williams finally give the Washington area a homegrown star?
blackistone from D1 fortune with Cal ripken Jr. playing professionally where he’s come back. That’s just my thought pressure, of course. A different his book, “Sixty-one: Life Lessons
But here we are around the from. “It’s hometown, as process behind it. It had nothing sort of pressure than what almost from Papa, on and off the Court,”
High, drafted second by the nation’s capital, staring at the everybody knows. It’d be really to do with basketball, the fans, every player faces anywhere through the Povich Center Book
Commanders in 2020 out of ohio potential of hometown kid Wood, cool to be back there and the city.” except home. Club at maryland that he has a
State, where his talent was so now a 6-foot-6, 240-pound experience that.” Commanders two-time Pro maybe the greatest to ever do new solitude in a condo in the San
undeniable he was the rare slugger who is clobbering the for us, it would pretty much be Bowl defensive tackle Jonathan it, James, said to be successful francisco area, where he is
defensive player named a baseball in spring training like a first. Allen did play at Stone Bridge hometown sports stars, athletes playing this season for the Golden
Heisman Trophy finalist. He was the superstar, franchise-changing We’ve never really had the High in Ashburn. But he was born must focus on the reason they are State Warriors. His family is still
named the NfL’s defensive rookie talent scouts have projected. I hometown star work out for one in Alabama, and Loudoun County there over simply being there. At in the Los Angeles area, where
of the year, too. But then he was mean, if he keeps hitting like this, of our pro teams. Despite all the was his last stop as a kid after least that’s what his short-time they relocated during his Clippers
sidelined and slowed by injury, maybe the Nationals should great basketball talent produced many. teammate Patrick Beverley said. years. But he has never played for
through no fault of his own, and consider bringing back the in and around Washington, none The Washington mystics in “I talked to LeBron, who’s my big the Charlotte Hornets, near his
last season he was traded to the generational talent, Juan Soto, of the Hall of famers played here. 2022 used the third pick in the brother,” Beverley said after hometown of Winston-Salem,
San francisco 49ers. And, of they traded for Wood just to Not Elgin Baylor. Not Dave Bing. WNBA draft to select center joining his hometown Bulls. “I N.C.
course, there’s the tragedy of protect him in the lineup! Not Adrian Dantley. And not Shakira Austin from maryland asked him a lot of questions — Given the bad luck or no luck
Dwayne Haskins, another And the Commanders’ fingers Kevin Durant, a future Hall of and riverdale Baptist High. And ‘How was it playing at home?’ The that has befallen so many
Washington first-round pick. are crossed that somehow, fame inductee, who spurned in her second season, she suffered biggest thing he told me was to superstars who have played
Truth is that coming home for someway, the hapless Chicago arrangements from the Wizards a torn labrum in her hip that prioritize the job, which is playing where they’re from, I guess he has
sports stars has often been more Bears don’t nab Southern to return them to prominence. required surgical repair and will basketball, and have everything been better off.
of a curse than a blessing, though California’s Caleb Williams, “I really just didn’t want to play sideline her for four to six else come after that.” Trying to be the hometown star
not always. LeBron James had considered the best quarterback at home,” Durant told The months, long enough to leave her Players who come home talk isn’t something I wish for star
two stints in Cleveland, about prospect in several years, with the Washington Post in 2017. “I was availability at the start of this about the stress of satisfying athletes. But selfishly, here in
30 miles from his hometown of top pick in next month’s NfL like, I’m trying to build a second coming season in doubt. family and friends with tickets to D.C., I wish it for us. At least this
Akron, after the Cavaliers drafted draft and instead allow Williams part of my life as a man living in a But I’m talking about see them play and rarely having once.
him out of high school No. 1 — from Bowie and Gonzaga different part of the country, just superstars here. The players who the downtime or private time
overall in 2003. In his first run College High in the shadow of the trying to do different things. I did can change a narrative like James they get playing and living Kevin B. Blackistone, ESPN panelist
there, he led the team to the NBA Capitol — to be brought here with everything I was supposed to do and Durant — like Wood and elsewhere. Point guard Chris and professor at the Philip Merrill
finals. In his second run, he won the second pick. in the D.C.-maryland-Virginia Williams are said to have the Paul, another future Hall of fame College of Journalism at the University
Cleveland a championship. And “It’s familiar,” Williams said area, I felt. Now it’s time to do potential to do. inductee, recently told several of Maryland, writes sports
the Baltimore orioles found last week at the NfL combine of something new. I didn’t want to Playing at home is a lot of local high school classes that read commentary for The Washington Post.

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NbA Timberwolves 119, NHL bruins 4, maple Leafs 1 NCAA men NCAA wOmeN’S AP TOP 25
EAsTERN CONfERENCE Trail blazers 114 ATLANTIC gp w L OT pts gf gA
BOsTON ................................... 2 1 1 — 4 mONDAY’s REsULTs The top 25 teams in the Associated Press’ women’s
TORONTO ................................ 0 0 1 — 1 EAsT college basketball poll, with first-place votes in paren-
Florida......................... 62 42 16 4 88 206 147
ATLANTIC w L pct gB pORTLAND ......................... 26 22 34 32 — 114 fIRsT pERIOD theses and total points based on 25 points for a
Boston ........................ 63 36 13 14 86 212 175 Howard 85, Delaware State 66
y-Boston..................................... 48 12 .800 — mINNEsOTA ...................... 28 27 33 31 — 119 first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote
Toronto ....................... 61 35 18 8 78 225 194 scoring: 1, Boston, Geekie 14 (Lohrei, Pastrnak), 9:43. 2, Morgan State 88, North Carolina Central 79
New York .................................... 36 25 .590 121/2 and previous ranking.
pORTLAND: Banton 7-20 3-5 18, Walker 2-9 0-0 4, Reath Detroit ........................ 61 33 22 6 72 216 195 Boston, Zacha 13 (Pastrnak, DeBrusk), 12:42 (pp). South Carolina State 61, Coppin State 58
Philadelphia................................ 35 25 .583 13 Tampa Bay.................. 63 33 24 6 72 214 213
Brooklyn ..................................... 24 37 .393 241/2 10-14 1-2 26, Murray 6-11 1-1 14, Simons 13-26 3-3 34, sOUTH RECORD pTs pVs
Minaya 1-3 0-0 3, Brown 1-1 0-0 2, Hagans 0-1 0-0 0, Buffalo........................ 62 29 29 4 62 183 187 sECOND pERIOD
Toronto....................................... 23 38 .377 251/2 Duke 79, North Carolina State 64 1. South Carolina (35) 29-0 875 1
Rupert 5-7 0-0 13. Totals 45-92 8-11 114. Montreal..................... 61 23 28 10 56 173 219
scoring: 3, Boston, DeBrusk 14 (Coyle, Marchand), 5:07. Jacksonville 92, Kennesaw State 86 2. Stanford 26-4 822 4
Ottawa........................ 59 25 31 3 53 195 212
sOUTHEAsT w L pct gB mINNEsOTA: McDaniels 3-7 3-6 9, Towns 5-12 4-6 14, Norfolk State 69, Maryland Eastern Shore 50 3. Iowa 26-4 786 6
Gobert 9-10 7-7 25, Alexander-Walker 4-6 2-2 13, Conley
THIRD pERIOD Queens (N.C.) 69, Florida Gulf Coast 63 4. Ohio State 25-4 761 2
Orlando....................................... 35 26 .574 — mETROpOLITAN gp w L OT pts gf gA
Miami ......................................... 34 26 .567 1/
2 6-13 5-5 19, Anderson 3-8 2-2 9, Reid 4-5 0-2 12, Edwards scoring: 4, Toronto, Tavares 19 (Lyubushkin, Rielly), sOUTHwEsT 5. Southern California 23-5 699 7
N.Y. Rangers............... 62 40 18 4 84 206 172 6. Texas 27-4 687 3
Atlanta ....................................... 26 34 .433 81/
2 4-10 4-6 13, Morris 2-8 1-1 5. Totals 40-79 28-37 119. 3:52. 5, Boston, Zacha 14 (Heinen, Pastrnak), 10:35. Lamar 70, Texas A&M Commerce 53
Carolina....................... 61 36 19 6 78 201 172 7. UCLA 24-5 673 8
Charlotte .................................... 15 46 .246 20 Three-point goals: Portland 16-39 (Reath 5-6, Simons Philadelphia................ 63 32 23 8 72 190 186 Southeastern Louisiana 73, Incarnate Word 56
Washington.................................. 9 52 .148 26 sHOTs ON gOAL 8. LSU 26-4 638 9
5-13, Rupert 3-3, Minaya 1-3, Murray 1-5, Banton 1-6, N.Y. Islanders ............. 60 26 20 14 66 180 201 Texas A&M Corpus Christi 73, New Orleans 60 9. Connecticut 26-5 566 10
Walker 0-3), Minnesota 11-28 (Reid 4-4, Alexander- BOsTON ................................. 13 7 10 — 30
Washington ................ 60 28 23 9 65 160 193 wEsT 10. North Carolina State 25-5 526 12
CENTRAL w L pct gB Walker 3-5, Conley 2-6, Anderson 1-2, Edwards 1-3, TORONTO .............................. 10 13 10 — 33
New Jersey ................. 61 30 27 4 64 202 214 Montana 79, Idaho State 65 11. Virginia Tech 23-6 513 5
Milwaukee.................................. 41 21 .661 — Morris 0-2, McDaniels 0-3, Towns 0-3). fouled Out: Pittsburgh .................. 59 27 24 8 62 174 166 power-play opportunities: Boston 1 of 2; Toronto 0 of 4.
Montana State 76, Weber State 64 12. Indiana 24-4 499 14
Cleveland.................................... 39 21 .650 1 Portland None, Minnesota 1 (Gobert). Rebounds: Port- Columbus.................... 61 21 30 10 52 184 223 goalies: Boston, Swayman 20-6-8 (33 shots-32 saves).
Northern Colorado 82, Northern Arizona 74 13. Oregon State 23-6 472 11
Indiana........................................ 34 28 .548 7 land 41 (Walker 8), Minnesota 40 (Gobert 16). Assists: Toronto, Woll 9-6-1 (30-26). A: 18,911 (18,819). T: 2:24.
14. Notre Dame 23-6 470 17
x-Chicago.................................... 28 32 .467 12 Portland 28 (Simons 14), Minnesota 28 (Conley, Morris CENTRAL gp w L OT pts gf gA 15. Gonzaga 29-2 399 16
Detroit .......................................... 9 51 .150 31 7). Total fouls: Portland 26, Minnesota 17. A: 18,024 16. Kansas State 24-6 288 15
Winnipeg .................... 60 39 16 5 83 187 144
wEsTERN CONfERENCE
(19,356) Dallas.......................... 63 37 17 9 83 225 190 bA SebA LL No. 9 duke 79, 17. Baylor 23-6 273 21

sOUTHwEsT w L pct gB
x-Colorado .................. 62 37 20 5 79 227 194 North Carolina State 64 18.
19.
Colorado
Oklahoma
21-8
21-8
259
239
13
20
Nashville..................... 62 35 25 2 72 199 190
New Orleans............................... 36 25 .590 — St. Louis...................... 61 32 26 3 67 176 187 mLb spring training Duke (24-6) 20. Syracuse 23-6 210 19
Dallas.......................................... 34 27 .557 2 Grizzlies 106, Nets 102 Minnesota .................. 62 29 27 6 64 194 208
sUNDAY’s REsULTs
Mitchell 2-7 1-2 5, Filipowski 4-6 0-0 9, McCain 6-14 1-1 21. Creighton 24-4 199 23
Houston...................................... 26 34 .433 91/2 Arizona ....................... 61 25 31 5 55 180 201 16, Proctor 4-10 0-0 11, Roach 9-17 2-3 21, Stewart 5-7 2-3 22. Utah 21-9 172 18
Memphis..................................... 21 41 .339 151/2 mEmpHIs ........................... 29 24 27 26 — 106 x-Chicago .................... 61 15 41 5 35 125 218 Washington vs. Miami (ss) at West Palm Beach, Fla., ccd. 12, Young 1-2 0-0 2, Power 1-5 0-0 3. Totals 32-68 6-9 79. 23. UNLV 26-2 113 24
San Antonio................................ 13 48 .213 23 BROOKLYN ......................... 31 21 25 25 — 102 Baltimore 5, Pittsburgh 2 North Carolina state (17-13) 24. Louisville 23-8 108 22
Boston 3, Toronto 1 Burns 12-19 3-5 27, Diarra 4-8 1-2 10, Horne 4-8 0-0 8, 25. Fairfield 26-1 60 -
mEmpHIs: Aldama 5-11 0-0 12, Williams Jr. 4-11 2-2 11, pACIfIC gp w L OT pts gf gA Detroit 7, N.Y. Yankees 2
NORTHwEsT w L pct gB Vancouver................... 63 39 17 7 85 224 176 Morsell 4-10 1-2 9, O’Connell 1-3 0-0 3, Taylor 0-1 2-2 2,
Jemison 5-6 0-0 10, Kennard 8-11 3-3 25, Konchar 2-3 4-4 Tampa Bay 4, Minnesota 4 Others receiving votes: Princeton 24, Michigan State 12,
x-Oklahoma City......................... 42 18 .700 — Edmonton ................... 59 37 20 2 76 212 172 Atlanta 3, Philadelphia 2 Pass 1-3 0-0 3, Middlebrooks 1-1 0-1 2, Parker 0-2 0-2 0,
9, Hurt 2-7 0-0 5, Jackson 2-9 2-2 7, LaRavia 4-12 6-8 14, Nunnally 0-1 0-0 0, Ross 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 27-56 7-14 64. West Virginia 9, Mississippi 9, Duke 3, Columbia 3, North
Minnesota .................................. 43 19 .694 — Stevens 6-12 1-3 13. Totals 38-82 18-22 106. Vegas .......................... 62 33 22 7 73 201 185 St. Louis vs. Miami (ss) at Jupiter, Fla., ccd. Carolina 3, Richmond 1, Kansas 1, Toledo 1, Jackson
Denver ........................................ 42 19 .689 1/
Los Angeles ................ 60 31 19 10 72 188 162 Houston 5, N.Y. Mets 2 (6) Halftime: Duke 33-30. Three-point goals: Duke 9-30
2 State 1, Iowa State 1.
Utah............................................ 28 34 .452 15 BROOKLYN: C.Johnson 6-15 3-4 18, Finney-Smith 3-8 x-Calgary .................... 60 30 25 5 65 189 187 Oakland 5, Texas 2 (Proctor 3-8, McCain 3-9, Filipowski 1-2, Power 1-3,
Portland...................................... 17 43 .283 25 0-0 9, Claxton 8-10 5-8 21, Bridges 4-14 4-9 14, Schroder x-Seattle..................... 60 26 23 11 63 166 171 Kansas City 7, Cincinnati 3 Roach 1-7, Mitchell 0-1), North Carolina State 3-9
5-13 1-3 13, Wilson 1-1 2-2 5, Sharpe 1-3 2-4 4, Smith Jr. Chi. Cubs 5, Cleveland (ss) 3 (O’Connell 1-1, Diarra 1-2, Pass 1-2, Horne 0-1, Nunnally
2-5 0-0 5, Walker IV 5-10 0-0 13. Totals 35-79 17-30 102.
Anaheim ..................... 61
San Jose ..................... 60
22
15
36
39
3 47 162 216
6 36 129 235 San Francisco 6, Cleveland (ss) 5 0-1, Morsell 0-2). Rebounds: Duke 32 (Mitchell 6), North big Ten women’s tournament
pACIfIC w L pct gB L.A. Dodgers 7, Colorado 4 Carolina State 28 (Diarra 7). Assists: Duke 12 (Proctor
L.A. Clippers ............................... 39 21 .650 — Three-point goals: Memphis 12-37 (Kennard 6-9, Al- L.A. Angels 3, Chi. White Sox 1 4), North Carolina State 12 (Burns 4). Total fouls: Duke
x-Sacramento............................. 34 25 .576 41/2 dama 2-6, Konchar 1-1, Jackson 1-4, Williams Jr. 1-4, x-Late game wEDNEsDAY’s gAmEs
San Diego 12, Seattle 4 14, North Carolina State 7. A: 19,500 (19,772). fIRsT ROUND
Phoenix....................................... 35 26 .574 41/2 Hurt 1-6, Stevens 0-3, LaRavia 0-4), Brooklyn 15-42 sUNDAY’s REsULTs Milwaukee 10, Arizona 4
Golden State .............................. 32 28 .533 7 (Finney-Smith 3-6, Walker IV 3-6, C.Johnson 3-10, Game 1: Purdue vs. Northwestern, 6:30
Schroder 2-7, Bridges 2-8, Wilson 1-1, Smith Jr. 1-3, Arizona 5, at Washington 2 mONDAY’s REsULTs Game 2: Minnesota vs. Rutgers, 9
x-L.A. Lakers .............................. 33 29 .532 7
Sharpe 0-1). fouled Out: Memphis 1 (Jemison), Brooklyn at Los Angeles 5, New Jersey 1 Washington 1, St. Louis 0 NCAA meN’S TOP 25
x-Late game; y-Clinched playoff spot None. Rebounds: Memphis 50 (LaRavia 10), Brooklyn 33 at Minnesota 4, San Jose 3 Minnesota (ss) 7, Baltimore 2 THURsDAY’s gAmEs
The top 25 teams in the Associated Press’ college
(Claxton 6). Assists: Memphis 26 (Kennard 7), Brooklyn Winnipeg 5, at Buffalo 2 Minnesota (ss) 4, Atlanta 3 basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses
sECOND ROUND
sUNDAY’s REsULTs 27 (Schroder 9). Total fouls: Memphis 22, Brooklyn 20. Pittsburgh 7, Tampa Bay 3 and total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote Game 3: Maryland vs. Illinois, 12:30
Vancouver 2, at Anaheim 1
Philadelphia 120, at Dallas 116 A: 15,847 (17,732) Detroit 2, Boston 1 through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous Game 4: Nebraska vs. Purdue-Northwestern winner, 3
at Edmonton 6, Pittsburgh 1 Toronto 5, Philadelphia 2
at Boston 140, Golden State 88 ranking. Game 5: Penn State vs. Wisconsin, 6:30
mONDAY’s REsULTs L.A. Angels 3, Texas 2 Game 6: Michigan vs. Minnesota-Rutgers winner, 9
L.A. Clippers 89, at Minnesota 88 Chi. White Sox 5, Arizona 2
Boston 4, at Toronto 1 RECORD pTs pVs
at Toronto 111, Charlotte 106 Cincinnati 15, Oakland 8 fRIDAY’s gAmEs
1. Houston (52) 26-3 1539 1
at Orlando 113, Detroit 91 Florida 4, at N.Y. Rangers 2 San Diego 2, Chi. Cubs 1 2. Connecticut (6) 26-3 1462 3 QUARTERfINALs
Colorado 12, San Francisco 10
at San Antonio 117, Indiana 105
New York 107, at Cleveland 98
bucks 113, Clippers 106 at Columbus 6, Vegas 3
St. Louis 2, at Philadelphia 1 (SO) N.Y. Yankees 3, Miami 2
3. Purdue (4) 26-3 1459 2 Game 7: Ohio State vs. Maryland-Illinois winner, 12:30
Game 8: Michigan State vs. Nebraska—Purdue-North-
4. Tennessee 23-6 1364 4
Oklahoma City 118, at Phoenix 110 L.A. CLIppERs .................... 35 20 26 25 — 106 Chicago at Colorado, late TUEsDAY’s gAmEs 5. Arizona 23-6 1252 6 western winner, 3
mILwAUKEE ...................... 25 23 25 40 — 113 Seattle at Calgary, late Philadelphia vs. Baltimore, 1 6. Iowa State 23-6 1212 8 Game 9: Iowa vs. Penn State-Wisconsin winner, 6:30
mONDAY’s REsULTs 7. North Carolina 23-6 1201 9 Game 10: Indiana vs. Michigan—Minnesota-Rutgers
Atlanta vs. Detroit, 1
at Utah 127, Washington 115 L.A. CLIppERs: George 10-17 3-7 29, Leonard 6-19 2-3 TUEsDAY’s gAmEs Boston vs. Tampa Bay, 1 8. Marquette 22-7 1056 5 winner, 9
at Minnesota 119, Portland 114 16, Zubac 2-4 2-2 6, Harden 9-16 6-9 29, Mann 1-4 2-2 4, Columbus at Pittsburgh, 7 Houston vs. Miami, 1 9. Duke 23-6 1051 10
Theis 3-6 0-0 7, Coffey 2-6 0-0 4, Hyland 2-4 0-0 5, Powell Pittsburgh vs. Toronto, 1 10. Creighton 22-8 983 12 sATURDAY’s gAmEs
Memphis 106, at Brooklyn 102 Florida at New Jersey, 7 sEmIfINALs
2-8 1-2 6. Totals 37-84 16-25 106. St. Louis vs. Minnesota, 1 11. Baylor 21-8 901 15
at Milwaukee 113, L.A. Clippers 106 Edmonton at Boston, 7:30 Game 11: Game 7 winner vs. Game 8 winner, 2
mILwAUKEE: Beasley 2-11 0-0 5, Crowder 1-4 0-0 3, N.Y. Mets vs. N.Y. Yankees, 1:10 12. Illinois 22-7 834 13
Chicago at Sacramento, late St. Louis at N.Y. Islanders, 7:30 Cleveland vs. Seattle (ss), 3 Game 12: ame 9 winner vs. Game 10 winner, 4:30
Lopez 1-4 3-6 6, Beverley 4-10 1-1 12, Lillard 12-22 13-13 13. Auburn 22-7 746 11
Oklahoma City at L.A. Lakers, late Montreal at Nashville, 8 San Francisco vs. Milwaukee, 3 14. Kansas 21-8 723 7
41, Connaughton 2-3 3-4 8, Gallinari 1-2 2-2 4, Portis Seattle at Winnipeg, 8 Seattle (ss) vs. Texas, 3:10 sUNDAY’s gAmE
TUEsDAY’s gAmEs 12-18 2-2 28, Green 2-4 0-0 6. Totals 37-78 24-28 113. 15. Kentucky 21-8 711 16
Chicago at Arizona, 9 Arizona vs. San Diego, 3:10 16. Alabama 20-9 592 14
CHAmpIONsHIp
Orlando at Charlotte, 7 Three-point goals: L.A. Clippers 16-40 (George 6-10, Dallas at San Jose, 10:30 Kansas City vs. Chi. Cubs, 8 17. South Carolina 24-5 579 18 Game 13: Game 11 winner vs. Game 12 winner, noon
Atlanta at New York, 7:30 Harden 5-10, Leonard 2-8, Hyland 1-2, Theis 1-2, Powell L.A. Dodgers vs. L.A. Angels, 8
Vancouver at Los Angeles, 10:30 18. Washington State 23-7 484 19
Boston at Cleveland, 7:30 1-6, Coffey 0-2), Milwaukee 15-39 (Lillard 4-9, Beverley wEDNEsDAY’s gAmEs 19. Gonzaga 24-6 396 23
3-7, Green 2-4, Portis 2-4, Connaughton 1-2, Lopez 1-2, wEDNEsDAY’s gAmEs
Detroit at Miami, 7:30
Crowder 1-3, Beasley 1-7, Gallinari 0-1). fouled Out: Buffalo at Toronto, 7
Miami vs. Washington, 1:10 20.
21.
BYU
San Diego State
21-8
22-7
343
338
-
20
ACC women’s tournament
New Orleans at Toronto, 7:30 Baltimore vs. Pittsburgh, 6
None. Rebounds: L.A. Clippers 38 (Zubac 11), Milwaukee Detroit at Colorado, 9:30 Houston vs. N.Y. Mets, 1 22. Utah State 24-5 285 22
Philadelphia at Brooklyn, 7:30
46 (Portis 16). Assists: L.A. Clippers 25 (Harden 8), Minnesota vs. Boston, 1 23. St. Mary's (Calif.) 24-7 268 17 wEDNEsDAY’s gAmEs
San Antonio at Houston, 8 Milwaukee 20 (Lillard 4). Total fouls: L.A. Clippers 21, Ottawa at Anaheim, 10 fIRsT ROUND
N.Y. Yankees vs. Tampa Bay, 1 24. South Florida 22-5 154 25
Indiana at Dallas, 8:30 Milwaukee 20. A: 17,875 (17,500) Game 1: Boston College vs. Clemson, 1
Chi. Cubs vs. L.A. Angels (ss), 3 25. Dayton 22-6 50 21
Phoenix at Denver, 10 Chi. White Sox vs. L.A. Dodgers, 3 Game 2: Pittsburgh vs. Georgia Tech, 3:30
wEDNEsDAY’s gAmEs Panthers 4, Rangers 2 Kansas City vs. Seattle, 3 Others receiving votes: Nevada 42, Florida 39, Boise Game 3: Wake Forest vs. Virginia, 6:30
Cincinnati (ss) vs. Milwaukee (ss), 3 State 26, Texas 10, Texas Tech 10, Indiana Stat 9,
Orlando at Washington, 7 fLORIDA .................................. 0 2 2 — 4 Colorado vs. Texas, 3:10 Appalachian State 6, New Mexico 5, Florida Atlantic 4, THURsDAY’s gAmEs
N.Y. RANgERs ......................... 1 1 0 — 2 James Madison 4, Princeton 3, Michigan State 2, sECOND ROUND
Cleveland at Atlanta, 7:30
L.A. Clippers at Houston, 7:30
SOC CeR L.A. Angels (ss) vs. Oakland, 3:10
Milwaukee (ss) vs. Cleveland, 3:10 Villanova 2, Colorado State 2, McNeese State 2, Rich- Game 4: Boston College-Clemson winner vs. Louisville,
fIRsT pERIOD
Memphis at Philadelphia, 7:30 San Diego vs. Cincinnati (ss), 3:10 mond 1. 11 a.m.
scoring: 1, N.Y. Rangers, Cuylle 11 (Trouba, Miller),
Chicago at Utah, 9 mLS 16:39 (pp).
Game 5: Miami vs. North Carolina, 1:30
Game 6: Pittsburgh-Georgia Tech winner vs. Duke, 5
Milwaukee at Golden State, 10
Oklahoma City at Portland, 10 EAsT w L T pts gf gA sECOND pERIOD Nationals 1, Cardinals 0 NCAA meN’S Game 7: Wake Forest-Virginia winner vs. Florida State,
7:30
Sacramento at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 Inter Miami CF ..................2
D.C. United ........................1
0
0
1
1
7
4
8
5
1
3
scoring: 2, Florida, Reinhart 43 (Verhaeghe, Barkov), sT. LOUIs AB R H BI wAsHINgTON AB R H BI TOP 25 COACHeS’ POLL
10:11 (pp). 3, Florida, Reinhart 44 (Forsling, Barkov), Donovan dh 3 0 0 0 Thomas rf 2 1 0 0 The USA TODAY Sports Top 25 men’s basketball poll,
fRIDAY’s gAmEs
CF Montréal ......................1 0 1 4 2 1 QUARTERfINALs
12:56. 4, N.Y. Rangers, Kreider 31 (Panarin, Trocheck), Rivas ph-dh 1 0 0 0 Hassell rf 1 0 0 0 with first-place votes received in parenthesis, team’s
Charlotte FC ......................1 0 1 4 2 1
15:26 (pp). Game 8: Boston College-Clemson—Louisville winner vs.
wiz ARd S’ Ne x T T H Ree Columbus ..........................1 0 1 4 2 1 Walker rf
Koperniak rf
2
1
0
0
0
1
0
0
Wood lf
Jac.Young lf
3
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
records, total points based on 25 for first place through
one point for 25th and ranking in last week’s poll: Notre Dame, 11 a.m.
Cincinnati ..........................1 0 1 4 2 1 THIRD pERIOD
New York...........................1 0 1 4 2 1 Gorman 2b 3 0 0 0 Winker dh 2 0 0 0 Game 9: Miami-North Carolina winner vs. Virginia Tech,
RECORD pTs pVs 1:30
vs. Orlando magic Toronto FC ........................1 0 1 4 1 0 scoring: 5, Florida, Lomberg 5 (Forsling), 6:11. 6, Florida,
Lundell 9 (Ekman-Larsson), 19:01 (en).
Gamboa 2b 1 0 0 0 Green ph-dh 1 0 0 0
1. Houston (28) 26-3 795 1 Game 10: Pittsburgh-Georgia Tech winner vs. North
Philadelphia ......................0 0 2 2 3 3 Arenado 3b 3 0 1 0 Meneses 1b 3 0 1 0
Nashville ...........................0 0 2 2 1 1 Fermín 3b 1 0 0 0 Díaz pr-1b 1 0 0 0 2. Connecticut (3) 26-3 757 2 Carolina State, 5
Wednesday 7 Monumental Chicago..............................0 1 1 1 3 4
sHOTs ON gOAL Contreras c 2 0 1 0 Ruiz c 2 0 1 1 3. Purdue (1) 26-3 745 3 Game 11: Wake Forest-Virginia—Florida State winner
Orlando City ......................0 1 1 1 0 5 fLORIDA .................................. 7 10 12 — 29 Raposo c 2 0 1 0 Millas pr-c 0 0 0 0 4. Tennessee 23-6 705 4 vs. Syracuse, 7:30
Atlanta..............................0 1 0 0 0 1 N.Y. RANgERs ....................... 10 12 6 — 28 Carpenter 1b 3 0 0 0 Senzel 3b 3 0 0 0 5. Arizona 23-6 644 7
sATURDAY’s gAmEs
vs. Charlotte Hornets New England .....................0 2 0 0 1 4 power-play opportunities: Florida 1 of 3; N.Y. Rangers 2 L.Baker 1b 1 0 1 0 House 3b 0 0 0 0 6.
7.
Iowa State
North Carolina
23-6
23-6
629
628
6
8 sEmIfINALs
New York City FC ..............0 2 0 0 0 3 of 4. goalies: Florida, Bobrovsky 31-11-2 (28 shots-26 Prieto pr 0 0 0 0 García 2b 3 0 1 0
saves). N.Y. Rangers, Shesterkin 26-13-2 (28-25). A: Burleson lf 3 0 0 0 D.Baker 2b 0 0 0 0 8. Duke 23-6 541 10 Game 12: Game 8 winner vs. Game 9 winner, noon
Friday 7 Monumental 18,006 (18,006). T: 2:30. Gómez lf 1 0 0 0 Vargas ss 3 0 1 0 9. Marquette 22-7 531 5 Game 13: Game 10 winner vs. Game 11 winner, 2:30
wEsT w L T pts gf gA 10. Creighton 22-8 487 12
Winn ss 3 0 0 0 Nunez ss 0 0 0 0 sUNDAY’s gAmE
Portland ............................1 0 1 4 6 3 11. Baylor 21-8 452 14
Saggese ss 0 0 0 0 Robles cf 3 0 0 0
at miami Heat LA Galaxy ..........................1 0 1 4 4 2
Scott cf 3 0 1 0 Crews cf 0 0 0 0 12. Illinois 22-7 423 16 CHAmpIONsHIp
St Louis City......................1
Real Salt Lake ...................1
0
1
1
1
4
4
3
4
1
3
blue Jackets 6, Siani cf 0 0 0 0 13. Kentucky 21-8 396 15 Game 14: Game 12 winner vs. Game 13 winner, 1
14. Auburn 22-7 376 11
Sunday 6 Monumental Minnesota United .............1 0 1 4 3 2 Golden knights 3 TOTALs 33 0 6 0 TOTALs 27 1 5 1
15. Kansas 21-8 366 9
FC Dallas ...........................1 1 0 3 3 3
Los Angeles FC..................1 1 0 3 2 4
VEgAs ..................................... 2 0 1 — 3 sT. LOUIs 000 000 000 — 0 16.
17.
South Carolina
Alabama
24-5
20-9
298
289
18
13
GOLF
COLUmBUs .............................. 2 1 3 — 6
Radio: WTEM (980 AM) Sporting KC .......................0 0 2 2 2 2 wAsHINgTON 000 100 00x — 1
18. Gonzaga 24-6 215 22
Vancouver .........................0 0 1 1 1 1 fIRsT pERIOD E: Contreras (1), Winn (1), Ruiz (1), Crews (1). Dp: St. 19. San Diego State 22-7 194 19
Houston ............................0 1 1 1 2 3 Louis 2, Washington 0. LOB: St. Louis 7, Washington 6. 20. Washington State 23-7 182 21 PGA Tour
scoring: 1, Columbus, Danforth 10 (Werenski, Kuraly),
Jazz 127, wizards 115 Austin FC ..........................0
Seattle ..............................0
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
2 6:16. 2, Columbus, Nylander 2 (Provorov, Texier), 13:11.
2B: Contreras (1). sB: Thomas (1), Jac.Young (1). sf:
Ruiz (1).
21. St. Mary's (Calif.) 24-7 175 17 COgNIZANT CLAssIC
3, Vegas, Morelli 3 (Froese), 17:19. 4, Vegas, Karlsson 22 22. Utah State 24-5 151 23 At PGA National Golf Club Champion Course
washington ........................ 41 34 26 14 — 115 Colorado ............................0 1 1 1 2 5 sT. LOUIs Ip H R ER BB sO 23. BYU 21-8 140 NR
Utah .................................... 35 39 28 25 — 127 San Jose............................0 2 0 0 2 5 (Hague, Stephenson), 18:01. In Palm Beach Gardens, Fla
S.Gray 12/3 1 0 0 0 1 24. South Florida 22-5 88 25 purse: $9 million; Yardage: 7,147; par: 71
wAsHINgTON mIN fg fT O-T A pf pTs sECOND pERIOD Leahy 1/
3 0 0 0 0 1 25. Florida 20-9 42 24
sUNDAY, fEB. 25 fINAL ROUND
Avdija 35:03 6-18 4-4 5-11 2 2 16 scoring: 5, Columbus, Gudbranson 4 (Jenner, Gaudreau), Matz 1 0 0 0 0 2 Dropped out: No. 20 Dayton (22-6).
Toronto FC 0, at Cincinnati 0 Romero (L,0-1) 1 1 1 1 2 2 Others receiving votes: Dayton (22-6) 31, Texas Tech $1,620,000
Kuzma 35:22 7-18 7-11 0-5 8 3 23 17:21.
Bagley III 23:04 2-7 2-2 2-9 4 0 6 New York 0, at Nashville 0 Gallegos 1 1 0 0 0 2 (20-9) 24, Nevada (24-6) 24, Boise State (21-8) 16, Austin Eckroat (500) ............... 65 67 68 67 — 267 -17
Coulibaly 33:13 2-7 2-2 1-4 1 3 7 Miami 1, at LA Galaxy 1 THIRD pERIOD Hence 2 2 0 0 0 2 Appalachian State (26-5) 13, James Madison (28-3) 10, $801,000
Jones 30:00 8-11 0-0 1-5 6 1 21 scoring: 6, Columbus, Nylander 3 (Sillinger), 3:23. 7, Loutos 1 0 0 0 1 1 Oklahoma (19-10) 8, Northwestern (20-9) 7, Clemson Min Woo Lee (245) .................. 67 70 66 67 — 270 -14
sATURDAY’s REsULTs (20-9) 5, Indiana State (26-5) 5, TCU (19-10) 4, Wake
Poole 28:52 11-18 4-4 0-1 2 2 32 Vegas, Stephenson 14 (Theodore, Amadio), 10:16. 8, wAsHINgTON Ip H R ER BB sO Erik Van Rooyen (245) ............. 66 71 70 63 — 270 -14
Shamet 17:48 1-2 0-0 0-1 0 1 2 D.C. United 2, at Portland 2 Columbus, Chinakhov 16 (Marchenko, Bean), 11:20. 9, Forest (18-11) 3, Nebraska (21-9) 1.
Columbus 1, at Minnesota 1 Williams 2 1 0 0 0 3 $344,250
Kispert 16:07 2-9 0-0 0-4 1 1 5 Columbus, Nylander 4 (Texier), 18:49 (en). Jake Knapp (104) ..................... 68 66 71 66 — 271 -13
Holmes 9:18 0-3 0-0 1-2 0 1 0 at Real Salt Lake 3, Los Angeles FC 0 Rainey 1 1 0 0 1 2
Kyoung-Hoon Lee (104) ........... 69 66 70 66 — 271 -13
Davis 7:35 1-1 0-0 0-1 1 0 3 at Miami 5, Orlando City 0 sHOTs ON gOAL Law (W,1-0)
Bleier
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
0
NCAA women Shane Lowry (104) ................... 67 67 66 71 — 271 -13
Omoruyi 3:37 0-0 0-0 0-0 1 1 0 Charlotte FC 1, at Vancouver 1 VEgAs ................................... 11 13 16 — 40 David Skinns (104) ................... 65 69 66 71 — 271 -13
Gsellman 1 0 0 0 0 1 mONDAY’s REsULTs
TOTALs 240 40-94 19-23 10-43 26 15 115 Cincinnati 2, at Chicago 1 COLUmBUs ............................ 11 13 9 — 33 Barnes 1 1 0 0 0 1 Cameron Young (104) .............. 65 69 71 66 — 271 -13
power-play opportunities: Vegas 0 of 1; Columbus 0 of 2.
sOUTH
CF Montréal 2, at FC Dallas 1 Perdomo 1 1 0 0 0 0 $210,536
percentages: FG .426, FT .826. 3-point goals: 16-38, .421 goalies: Vegas, Hill 15-7-2 (32 shots-27 saves). Colum- Coppin State 65, South Carolina State 33
(Poole 6-10, Jones 5-8, Kuzma 2-6, Davis 1-1, Coulibaly New York 2, at Houston 1 La Sorsa (S,1-1) 1 1 0 0 0 0 Grambling State 64, Bethune Cookman 54 Billy Horschel (66) ................... 66 71 69 66 — 272 -12
Philadelphia 1, at Sporting KC 1 bus, Tarasov 5-8-2 (40-37). A: 17,338 (18,500). T: 2:31. Martin Laird (66) ..................... 68 69 66 69 — 272 -12
1-2, Kispert 1-6, Shamet 0-1, Avdija 0-4). Team Rebounds: wp: Rainey. Umpires: Home, CB Bucknor; First, Lance Howard 61, Delaware State 43
11. Team Turnovers: None. Blocked shots: 3 (Coulibaly, at St. Louis City 2, New York City FC 0 Barksdale; Second, Ramon De Jesus; Third, Jen Pawol. North Carolina Central 63, Morgan State 58 Peter Malnati (66) ................... 68 68 69 67 — 272 -12
Holmes, Poole). Turnovers: 15 (Avdija 5, Kispert 3, Poole Nashville 1, at Colorado 1 T: 2:15. A: 2,694 (6,500). Norfolk State 52, Maryland Eastern Shore 40 Keith Mitchell (66) ................... 68 70 69 65 — 272 -12
3, Bagley III 2, Kuzma, Shamet). steals: 6 (Poole 2, Avdija, LA Galaxy 3, at San Jose 1 Southern U. 67, Florida A&M 61 Alex Noren (66) ........................ 67 70 68 67 — 272 -12
Bagley III, Holmes, Jones). Technical fouls: None. Austin FC 0, at Seattle 0 blues 2, Flyers 1 (SO) sOUTHwEsT
Andrew Novak (66) .................. 65 69 70 68 — 272 -12
Kevin Yu (66) ........................... 66 67 70 69 — 272 -12
UTAH mIN fg fT O-T A pf pTs sUNDAY’s REsULT
sT. LOUIs ........................... 0
pHILADELpHIA .................. 1
1
0
0
0
1 — 2
0 — 1
TRA N S AC TiON S Jackson State 75, Prairie View 65
$137,250
Hendricks 14:13 3-3 0-0 0-2 1 3 8 Texas Southern 71, Alcorn State 63
Toronto FC 1, at New England 0 Tyson Alexander (49) .............. 68 70 69 66 — 273 -11
Samanic 23:01 2-9 0-0 0-2 2 0 5 sT. LOUIs wON sHOOTOUT 2-1 wEsT Doug Ghim (49) ........................ 68 72 67 66 — 273 -11
Collins 34:36 7-11 2-2 3-15 1 5 17 sATURDAY’s mATCHEs fIRsT pERIOD NfL Garrick Higgo (49) .................... 67 65 73 68 — 273 -11
Eastern Washington 72, Sacramento State 59
George 5:46 0-2 0-0 0-1 1 0 0 Portland at New York City FC, 2 Detroit Lions: Re-signed TE Shane Zylstra to a new Idaho 60, Portland State 44 Victor Perez (49) ...................... 67 66 70 70 — 273 -11
Sexton 33:46 11-19 3-3 2-3 7 2 29 scoring: 1, Philadelphia, Laughton 10 (Poehling, San-
Charlotte FC at Toronto FC, 2 heim), 18:52. contract. Montana 67, Idaho State 65 Ben Silverman (49) .................. 68 71 66 68 — 273 -11
Clarkson 36:19 13-26 8-9 2-10 7 1 38 Kansas City Chiefs: Officially placed the franchise tag on Montana State 67, Weber State 65
Dunn 27:53 2-5 0-0 1-5 4 2 4 New England at Atlanta, 7:30 $87,750
sECOND pERIOD CB L’Jarius Sneed. Northern Arizona 67, Northern Colorado 61 Byeong Hun An (37) ................. 67 71 71 65 — 274 -10
Sensabaugh 20:58 3-9 0-0 0-2 2 1 7 Chicago at Columbus, 7:30 Tampa Bay Buccaneers: Signed WR Mike Evans to a
Juzang 20:09 4-8 0-0 1-4 1 1 10 FC Dallas at New York, 7:30 scoring: 2, St. Louis, Hayes 11 (Kapanen), 15:47. Bud Cauley (37) ........................ 66 65 74 69 — 274 -10
two-year contract extension. Nicolas Echavarria (37) ........... 67 69 69 69 — 274 -10
Horton-Tucker 15:28 4-9 0-1 0-1 3 0 9 Minnesota at Orlando City, 7:30 sHOOTOUT
Yurtseven 7:51 0-0 0-0 2-6 0 1 0 Seattle at Philadelphia, 7:30 mLB HiGH S CHO O LS Matt Fitzpatrick (37) ............... 70 67 70 67
Zach Johnson (37) ................... 71 68 69 66
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Buchnevich G), Philadelphia 1 (Couturier NG, Foerster Rory McIlroy (37) ..................... 67 67 72 68 — 274 -10
Colorado at Real Salt Lake, 9:30 Angeles Dodgers.
percentages: FG .485, FT .867. 3-point goals: 16-40, .400 NG, Frost G, Tippett NG). Sam Ryder (37) ........................ 66 68 74 66 — 274 -10
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(Sexton 4-7, Clarkson 4-9, Hendricks 2-2, Juzang 2-5, Sporting KC at Los Angeles FC, 10:30 $59,014
to a minor league contract. BAsEBALL
Collins 1-2, Horton-Tucker 1-3, Samanic 1-5, Sensa- Vancouver at San Jose, 10:30 sHOTs ON gOAL Atlanta Braves: Optioned RHPs Allan Winans, Darius Jacob Bridgeman (27) .............. 70 68 65 72 — 275 -9
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baugh 1-5, Dunn 0-2). Team Rebounds: 7. Team Turn- sT. LOUIs ........................... 6 13 5 1 — 25 Vines, Ian Anderson, Daysbel Hernandez and LHP Dylan Tom Hoge (27) ......................... 70 69 68 68 — 275 -9
sUNDAY’s mATCHEs Severn School 9, Riverdale Baptist 3 Beau Hossler (27) .................... 69 70 71 65 — 275 -9
overs: 2. Blocked shots: 9 (Collins 6, Samanic 2, Dunn). pHILADELpHIA ................ 11 10 14 6 — 41 Dodd to Gwinnett (IL).
Turnovers: 11 (Collins 3, Dunn 3, Clarkson, George, D.C. United at Cincinnati, 3 power-play opportunities: St. Louis 0 of 3; Philadelphia 0 Los Angeles Dodgers: Placed LHP Clayton Kershaw on BOYs’ TENNIs Chan Kim (27) .......................... 69 71 68 67 — 275 -9
Sensabaugh, Sexton, Yurtseven). steals: 6 (Dunn 2, LA Galaxy at Nashville, 3 of 2. goalies: St. Louis, Binnington 22-16-3 (41 shots-40 the 60-day injured list. pRIVATE Chris Kirk (27) .......................... 67 70 73 65 — 275 -9
Sexton 2, Clarkson, Samanic). Technical fouls: None. CF Montréal at Miami, 5 saves). Philadelphia, Ersson 17-12-5 (26-25). A: 18,728 philadelphia phillies: Agreed to terms on a three-year Bishop Ireton 9, Fairfax Christian 0 C.T. Pan (27) ............................. 66 68 70 71 — 275 -9
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g ir ls’ to p 2 0
1. st. John’s (26-5)
last ranked: 2
the Cadets toppled sidwell friends
in the dCsaa title game, with
sophomore Morgan stewart’s and-
one being the clincher.
2. sidwell Friends (25-6)
lr: 1
the Quakers lost to st. John’s by
three in their final game this season.
3. bishop Mcnamara
(24-5) lr: 3
the Mustangs take the top seed in
the Maryland Private school state
Basketball tournament.
4. bishop ireton (24-9)
lr: 5
the Cardinals snapped Paul Vi’s
16-year Virginia independent
schools athletic association title
streak with a 56-52 win behind
junior nyla Brooks’s 17 points.
5. Woodgrove (28-1)
lr: 4
the Wolverines play hampton in the
Virginia Class 4 final friday with a
chance to win their first state title.
6. osbourn park (24-4)
lr: 6
the Yellow Jackets exceeded all
expectations this season, with their
winter ending in a three-point loss to
national power thomas dale.
7. Hammond (23-0) lr: 7
the golden Bears’ path to the
Maryland Class 2a state semifinals
must go through southern and the
winner of francis scott Key-
Middletown this week.
8. bullis (22-7) lr: 9
the Bulldogs are the no. 2 seed in
the Maryland private tournament.
9. paul Vi (19-15) lr: 8
the Panthers’ streak of 16 Visaa
titles came to an end against Bishop
ireton.
10. Mount Zion prep
(21-15) lr: 10
the Warriors will be the no. 5 seed
in the Maryland private tournament.
11. briar Woods (25-2)
lr: 11
the falcons’ dream season came to
an end in the Virginia Class 5 state
quarterfinals with a 36-35 loss to
Patrick henry.
12. bethesda-Chevy
Chase (23-2) lr: 12
the Barons will play Whitman for the
region title Wednesday. a win would
send them to the Maryland Class 4a
state quarterfinals.
13. good Counsel
(14-11) lr: 13
the falcons’ season ended in the
WCaC quarterfinals.
14. elizabeth seton
(17-10) lr: 14
the roadrunners earned a spot in
the Maryland private tournament.
15. Archbishop Carroll
(20-10) lr: 15
the Lions nearly stunned
top-seeded sidwell in the dCsaa
tournament but fell in the
semifinals, 44-40.
16. robinson (26-3)
lr: 16
the rams fell to thomas dale in the
state quarterfinals, 64-39.
17. severna park (21-2)
lr: 17
a threat in the Maryland Class 3a
tournament, the falcons will play
south river in the region final
Wednesday.
18. south river (21-2)
lr: 18
the seahawks, meanwhile, will
have a chance to avenge an earlier
loss to severna Park.
19. gwynn park (21-5)
lr: 19
the Yellow Jackets have yet to lose
at the Class 2a level, but getting
past Largo on Wednesday won’t be
easy.
20. C.H. Flowers (19-2)
lr: 20
the Jaguars are the favorite to reach
the Maryland Class 4a state
semifinals from their quadrant.
Dropped out: none
on the bubble: Clarksburg,
georgetown day, Meridian, north
Point, oxon hill
. the washington post
The Sidwell Friends boys took down St. John’s, 47-37, at George Washington University on Sunday for their third straight DCSAA title.
notes
Barbour relishes his taste of winning
Senior transfer leads
Patriot to Class 6 final
against South Lakes
F ROM STAFF REPORTS
Patriot boys’ basketball coach
Sherman Rivers tells his No. 8
Pioneers they will remember the
journey, not the wins. A bit
cliché, sure. And yes, maybe it
resonates less for the players who
have been to three straight state
semifinals and are headed to
their second straight Virginia
Class 6 title game Saturday in
Richmond.
But for senior Tey Barbour,
you can tell this feels a bit
different. At this point in years
past, the Harvard commit was
preparing for the AAU season,
having never played on a team
with a winning record before
transferring from Osbourn be-
fore the season. He’s giddy.
“You see a different level of
bounce in his step,” Rivers said.
“It’s funny. I say he’s enjoying the
ride; really, you could say that
he’s possibly driving the bus.”
What Rivers is referencing:
Barbour has been one of the two
best players in Northern Virginia
this year, alongside Jordan Scott
of No. 7 South Lakes, which
Patriot will play Saturday. Both
teams are eying their first state
championship.
Early in the season, Barbour
had to find his way as a leader on
a new team. In spurts, that meant
he deferred too often. The staff
quickly course-corrected, telling
Barbour he had to “be who he is”
rather than try to placate others.
He would find a way to fit into
the up-tempo, ball-sharing, de-
fensive-minded culture while
still getting shots off.
Since the new year, he hasn’t
missed a beat, often asking for
the top defensive assignment
while shooting over 80 percent
from the free throw line, over
60 percent from inside the arc
and nearly 40 percent from
three. And he has had a big smile
throughout.
“I’m not saying that the other
guys don’t enjoy it; it’s kind of
like a ‘been there, done that’ sort
of vibe compared to ‘Man, this is
high school basketball
exciting,’ ” Rivers said. “You usu-
ally see that in your young guys.
It’s really refreshing to see from
an older kid that is finally getting
an opportunity to show his out-
standing basketball ability from
the biggest stage in the state.”
— Spencer Nusbaum
Md. girls get chance to shine
Last winter, four local media
members put together a new
postseason tournament for pri-
vate schools in Maryland. In its
first year, the Maryland Private
School State Basketball Tourna-
ment was a success, crowning
Mount Zion Prep as its cham-
pion.
As part of the setup process for
that tournament, one of the
founders, Marc Stern, had sev-
eral discussions with Bullis Ath-
letic Director Justin Leith about
using the Potomac school as a
venue. During one of those con-
versations, Leith — also the
school’s girls’ basketball coach —
raise the idea of a girls’ event.
Stern liked it right away.
“I had already been thinking
about the girls’ side of things,”
Stern said. “But that conversa-
tion really made it a priority.”
Stern knew the first thing he
needed to do was familiarize
himself with the local girls’ land-
scape. As the founder of Capitol
Hoops, he had mostly covered
boys’ games over the years. So he
connected with several coaches
and organizers around the area,
including Meredith Davis, coor-
dinator of the She Got Game
Classic series. Together, they
built an eight-team tournament.
It’s the first time in a while
there will be an event to crown a
Maryland state private school
champion.
“Most coaches we talked to
seemed pretty eager for an op-
portunity like this,” Stern said.
The top two seeds in the
tournament are Bishop McNa-
mara and Bullis. The semifinal
games will be played Wednesday
at Elizabeth Seton, and the
championship will be Friday
night at Eleanor Roosevelt.
“We want to give these teams
something else to play for at the
end of the year,” Stern said.
— Michael Errigo
Clarksburg rebounds
The Clarksburg girls entered
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the Maryland state playoffs in
perhaps the worst way possible.
On Feb. 23, the Coyotes looked
as if they would coast to a
Montgomery County champion-
ship, holding a commanding
halftime lead over Bethesda-
Chevy Chase. It all fell apart: The
Barons marched back, and the
would-be victors trudged home.
Clarksburg’s players said little
after the game, Coach Sissy Nato-
li recalled, but they showed their
desire to improve with a spirited
week of practice. Exactly a week
later, the Coyotes were the
ones who came back, taking
down local rival Seneca Valley,
50-46, in front of a packed home
crowd.
“It was pretty loud in the gym.
Sometimes it was so loud you’re
just trying to call a couple
offensive sets and you have to
rely on your fingers more so
than your voice,” Natoli said.
“. . . It was just like Friday night
lights: great basketball at the
right time.”
The three Turner sisters
scored 92 percent of the team’s
points. Senior Trinity, junior
London and freshman Destiny
had 13, 18 and 15 points, respec-
tively.
The county championship loss
made Clarksburg hungry for vic-
tory, Natoli said, but the Coyotes
still fell behind early. The Eagles’
fast-paced attack left them just
trying to catch their breath. A
few timeouts slowed the pace.
Seneca Valley took a four-
point lead into the final quarter,
when Clarksburg outscored it by
eight to advance to Wednesday’s
region final — where the Coyotes’
postseason journey ended last
year — at Frederick.
— Varun Shankar
Flowers learns from late loss
The day after his girls’ team
lost, 52-51, to Gwynn Park in the
Prince George’s County champi-
onship game Feb. 23, C.H. Flow-
ers Coach Roderick Hairston sat
down the Jaguars to reflect.
“In that conversation, they
revealed that they underestimat-
ed Gwynn Park, and they don’t
want to do that again,” Hairston
said.
No loss is a good loss, Hairston
said, especially to a Yellow Jack-
ets team that Flowers beat by
18 points early in the season. But
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players of the week
Jordan brown, broadneck: the
senior scored 35 points as the
Bruins took down Leonardtown,
70-60, in thursday’s Maryland
Class 4a east ii region semifinals.
he also scored his 1,000th career
point last week.
elizabeth Friesen, Meridian: the
junior had six threes (and
21 points) in a 59-53 win over Lake
taylor to lift the Mustangs to the
Class 3 state championship game.
Jalen rougier-roane, sidwell
Friends: the junior scored
15 points and earned game MVP
honors as the Quakers completed
a d.C. state athletic association
three-peat.
Madisyn Moore-nicholson,
georgetown Day: the lone senior
on the hoppers led her team to a
dCsaa Class a title over Jackson-
reed on sunday at george
Washington with 23 points.
games to watch
river Hill boys at long reach,
tuesday at 6 p.m.
gwynn park girls at largo,
Wednesday at 6 p.m.
Maryland private schools state
tournament girls’ and boys’
finals, friday at 6 and 7:30 p.m.,
at eleanor roosevelt
Virginia girls’ and boys’ state
finals, friday and saturday,
at VCu’s siegel Center in richmond
if there’s any consolation, the
county championship defeat
served as a learning experience
for a young unit with little post-
season familiarity.
“It made us better,” Hairston
said. “I told them it’s like a
mulligan in golf, where you get
another crack at it without pen-
alty.”
The Jaguars, who earned a
first-round bye in the Maryland
Class 4A playoffs after an 18-2
regular season, seemed to have
learned their lesson.
At home Friday, Flowers domi-
nated Wise, 67-38, to advance to
the region final against Eleanor
Roosevelt on Wednesday. The
Jaguars beat the Raiders by at
least 30 points in both of their
regular season meetings.
— Noah Ferguson
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1. paul Vi (33-2)
last ranked: 1
the Panthers won a Visaa title for
a fourth consecutive season.
2. sidwell Friends
(27-4) lr: 5
Junior guard acaden Lewis led the
Quakers with 16 points in
sunday’s championship victory.
3. bullis (25-2) lr: 4
the Bulldogs, fresh off an
interstate athletic Conference
tournament title, have the top
seed in the Maryland Private
schools state Basketball
tournament.
4. gonzaga (28-6) lr: 2
the eagles came up just short in
the dCsaa semifinals, losing to
sidwell friends by one.
5. st. John’s (25-8)
lr: 10
the Cadets fell one win short of a
dCsaa title.
6. Jackson-reed (33-3)
lr: 3
the d.C. interscholastic athletic
association champs fell to
st. John’s in the dCsaa semifinals.
7. south lakes (25-2)
lr: 8
senior Brian Kennedy scored
18 points as the seahawks topped
hayfield in the Virginia Class 6
semis.
8. patriot (24-4) lr: 9
the Pioneers will return to VCu on
saturday to play in the Virginia
Class 6 final for a second
consecutive year.
9. georgetown prep
(22-5) lr: 6
the hoyas earned a double bye
in the Maryland private
tournament.
10. Clinton grace
Christian (27-6) lr: 11
the eagles will play in the
Maryland private quarterfinals
tuesday.
11. bishop o’Connell
(23-9) lr: 7
the Knights were knocked out of
the Visaa division i tournament by
st. Christopher’s.
12. gwynn park (24-1)
lr: 12
after a tight win over douglass,
the Yellowjackets will play a highly
anticipated playoff game against
Largo on tuesday.
13. largo (21-2) lr: 13
the Lions will face gwynn Park
in a Maryland Class 2a region
final.
14. Mount Zion prep
(26-8) lr: 14
the Warriors bested Lanham
Christian in the Maryland private
second round saturday.
15. rock Creek
Christian White (22-8)
lr: 15
the eagles have a quarterfinal
meeting with Bullis after topping
Bishop Mcnamara in the
Maryland private second round
saturday.
16. Archbishop
spalding (22-10) lr: 19
the Cavaliers finished as
runners-up in the Baltimore
Catholic League tournament.
17. DeMatha (21-12)
lr: 17
the stags will face Clinton grace
Christian in tuesday’s Maryland
private quarterfinals.
18. tuscarora (25-3)
lr: nr
the huskies will play hampton on
friday for the Virginia Class 4
championship.
19. potomac Falls
(26-1) lr: 16
the Panthers’ perfect season
came to an end with a loss to
albemarle in the Virginia Class 5
quarterfinals.
20. blake (19-5) lr: nr
the Bengals will face Wootton on
tuesday in a region final.
Dropped out: no. 18 friendship
tech, no. 20 Potomac (Va.)
on the bubble: fairfax Christian,
hayfield, river hill, st. andrew’s,
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OF REAL PROPERTY OF REAL PROPERTY OF REAL PROPERTY OF REAL PROPERTY
1. Rezoning #REZ2023-00010, Casey’s Corner: This is a request to
rezone from B-1, General Business to M-1, Heavy Industrial District to
3528 Park Place, NW Unit 2 at 3526 Park Place, NW 5923 Clay Street, NE 1815 8th Street, NW
allow the continuation of the existing uses and provide for option of Washington, DC 20010 Washington, DC 20010 Washington, DC 20019 Washington, DC 20001
redevelopment under the M-1 standards. The property is located on
the east side of Balls ford Road at its intersection with Merrifield Gar-
Lot 0118 in Square 3036 Lot 2031 in Square 3036 Lot 0038 in Square 5273 Lot 0806 in Square 0417
den Way. The property address is 13039 Balls Ford Rd; and is identified
on County maps as GPIN 7496-99-5193 on approximately ±6.15 acres;
is zoned B-1, General Business and is designated I-4, Industrial (Heavy
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of
Industrial) in the Comprehensive Plan; and is located within the Data (“Deed of Trust”) dated September 14, 2023 and recorded (“Deed of Trust”) dated September 14, 2023 and recorded (“Deed of Trust”) dated February 18, 2022 and recorded Trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated June 30, 2022 and recorded
Center Opportunity Overlay District and Airport Safety Overlay District.
Brentsville Magisterial District
on September 25, 2023 as Instrument No. 2023082513 on September 25, 2023 as Instrument No. 2023082359 from on February 23, 2022 as Instrument No. 2022021053 from on July 5, 2022 as Instrument No. 2022071434 from
from PARK PLACE PARCEL LLC, as grantor, to RUSSELL S. PARK PLACE PARCEL LLC, as grantor, to RUSSELL S. DRAZIN 5923 CLAY ST L.L.C., as grantor, to RUSSELL S. DRAZIN, as Aligned Development LLC, as grantor, to Russell S. Drazin
2. Proffer Amendment #REZ2023-00011, Casey’s Corner PRA:
This is a request to amend the proffers associated with Rezoning
DRAZIN, as trustee, for the benefit of WCP FUND I LLC, as (“Trustee”), as trustee, for the benefit of WCP FUND I LLC, as trustee, for the benefit of WCP FUND I LLC, as beneficiary, (“Trustee”), as trustee, for the benefit of WCP Fund I LLC,
#PLN2014-00095 to the Sheetz portion of the property to reduce the beneficiary, securing that certain Commercial Deed of Trust beneficiary, securing that certain Commercial Deed of Trust securing that certain Commercial Deed of Trust Note dated as beneficiary, securing that certain Commercial Deed of
area subject to approved proffers. The property is located on the
east side of Balls ford Road at its intersection with Merrifield Garden
Note dated September 14, 2023 in the principal amount of Note dated September 14, 2023 in the principal amount of February 18, 2022 in the principal amount of $307,200.00 Trust Note dated June 30, 2022 in the principal amount of
Way. The property address is 13039 Balls Ford Rd; and is identified on $975,000.00 made by PARK PLACE PARCEL LLC, as maker, $555,750.00 made by PARK PLACE PARCEL LLC, as maker, made by 5923 CLAY ST L.L.C., as maker, payable to the order $1,098,000.00 made by Aligned Development LLC, as maker,
County maps as GPIN 7496-99-5193 on approximately ±6.15 acres; is payable to the order of WCP FUND I LLC, as payee, default payable to the order of WCP FUND I LLC, as payee, default of WCP FUND I LLC, as payee, default having occurred under payable to the order of WCP Fund I LLC, as payee, default
zoned B-1, General Business and is designated I-4, Industrial (Heavy
Industrial) in the Comprehensive Plan; and is located within the Data having occurred under the terms thereof, and following the having occurred under the terms thereof, and following the the terms thereof, and following the mailing and recordation having occurred under the terms thereof, and following the
Center Opportunity Overlay District and Airport Safety Overlay District. mailing and recordation of an Affidavit of Non-Residential mailing and recordation of an Affidavit of Non-Residential of an Affidavit of Non-Residential Mortgage Foreclosure mailing and recordation of an Affidavit of Non-Residential
Brentsville Magisterial District.
Mortgage Foreclosure and a Notice of Foreclosure Sale of Mortgage Foreclosure and a Notice of Foreclosure Sale of and a Notice of Foreclosure Sale of Real Property or Mortgage Foreclosure and a Notice of Foreclosure Sale of
3. Special Use Permit #SUP2023-00002, Hope Hill Church: This is Real Property or Condominium Unit, at the request of the Real Property or Condominium Unit, at the request of the Condominium Unit, at the request of the current noteholder, Real Property or Condominium Unit, at the request of the
a special use permit request to allow for a religious institution with
a freestanding electronic message board. The property is located on current noteholder, Trustee will sell at public auction at current noteholder, Trustee will sell at public auction at Trustee will sell at public auction at the office of Harvey West current noteholder, Trustee will sell at public auction at
the southern side of Dumfries Road and ±670 ft southeast from the the office of Harvey West Auctioneers, Inc., 5335 Wisconsin the office of Harvey West Auctioneers, Inc., 5335 Wisconsin Auctioneers, Inc., 5335 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, Suite 440, the office of Harvey West Auctioneers, Inc., 5335 Wisconsin
center point of the intersection of Dumfries Road and Minnieville Road;
is identified on County maps as GPIN 7991-42-7263 and is addressed Avenue, NW, Suite 440, Washington, DC 20015, on Avenue, NW, Suite 440, Washington, DC 20015, on Washington, DC 20015, on Avenue, NW, Suite 440, Washington, DC 20015, on
as 15024 Dumfries Road. The site is zoned A-1, Agriculture, and is des-
ignated POS, Parks and Open Space, in the Comprehensive Plan, and
it is within the Dumfries Road (Route 234) Highway Corridor Overlay MARCH 19, 2024 AT 2:20 PM MARCH 19, 2024 AT 2:15 PM MARCH 19, 2024 AT 2:10 PM MARCH 7, 2024 AT 2:05 PM
District. Potomac Magisterial District.
7:30 p.m. ALL THAT LOT OF GROUND AND THE IMPROVEMENTS ALL THAT LOT OF GROUND AND THE IMPROVEMENTS ALL THAT LOT OF GROUND AND THE IMPROVEMENTS ALL THAT LOT OF GROUND AND THE IMPROVEMENTS
THEREON (if any) situated in the City of Washington, THEREON (if any) situated in the City of Washington, THEREON (if any) situated in the City of Washington, District THEREON (if any) situated in the City of Washington,
4. Rezoning #REZ2017-00008, Purcell Road Rezoning: To rezone
±56.35 acres from A-1, Agricultural, to SR-1, Semi-Rural Residential, for District of Columbia, known as 3528 Park Place, NW, District of Columbia, known as Unit 2 at 3526 Park Place, of Columbia, known as 5923 Clay Street, NE, Washington, District of Columbia, known as 1815 8th Street, NW,
the development of up to 22 lots for single-family detached dwellings, Washington, DC 20010 (Lot 0118 in Square 3036), and more NW, Washington, DC 20010 (Lot 2031 in Square 3036), and DC 20019 (Lot 0038 in Square 5273), and more fully Washington, DC 20001 (Lot 0806 in Square 0417), and more
with a 1-acre minimum lot area, or approximately 1 dwelling unit per
2.56 acres. The subject site is located to the west of Purcell Rd., ap- fully described in the Deed of Trust. more fully described in the Deed of Trust. described in the Deed of Trust. fully described in the Deed of Trust.
proximately 300 feet south of the intersection of Purcell Rd. and Hunt-
ers Grove Rd., southeast of the terminus of Silent Wolf Dr., is currently
addressed as 12504 Purcell Rd., and is identified on County maps as The property will be sold in an “AS IS” condition, with no The property will be sold in an “AS IS” condition, with no The property will be sold in an “AS IS” condition, with no The property will be sold in an “AS IS” condition, with no
GPIN 7993-42-5999. The site is designated ORPA, Occoquan Reservoir warranty of any kind, and subject to conditions, restrictions, warranty of any kind, and subject to conditions, restrictions, warranty of any kind, and subject to conditions, restrictions, warranty of any kind, and subject to conditions, restrictions,
Protection Area, with a Transect 1A, which recommends a density of 1
dwelling unit per 5 acres in areas with sensitive environmental features agreements, liens, and encumbrances of record affecting agreements, liens, and encumbrances of record affecting agreements, liens, and encumbrances of record affecting agreements, liens, and encumbrances of record affecting
in the Comprehensive Plan; is partially located within the Environmen- the same – except those encumbrances of record that are the same – except those encumbrances of record that are the same – except those encumbrances of record that are the same – except those encumbrances of record that are
tal Resource Protection Overlay; and is located within the Domestic
Fowl Overlay District and Agritourism and Arts Overlay District. Occo- extinguished by operation of District of Columbia law by extinguished by operation of District of Columbia law by extinguished by operation of District of Columbia law by extinguished by operation of District of Columbia law by
quan Magisterial District virtue of the foreclosure of the Deed of Trust. virtue of the foreclosure of the Deed of Trust. virtue of the foreclosure of the Deed of Trust. virtue of the foreclosure of the Deed of Trust.
5. Proffer Amendment #REZ2023-00028, Parsons Business Park:
To amend the proffers associated with #REZ2018-00018 to allow an Purchaser will take title to the property subject to all taxes, Purchaser will take title to the property subject to all taxes, Purchaser will take title to the property subject to all taxes, Purchaser will take title to the property subject to all taxes,
increase in the maximum height for data center buildings in Land Bays
1, 2, and 3 up to 85 feet (inclusive of rooftop equipment) and for data
water and sewer charges, and other utility charges, if water and sewer charges, and other utility charges, if water and sewer charges, and other utility charges, if water and sewer charges, and other utility charges, if
center buildings in Land Bay 4 up to 80 feet (exclusive of rooftop equip- any. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or damage to the any. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or damage to the any. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or damage to the any. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or damage to the
ment); to change the base zoning designation in Land Bay 2 to allow
B-1 (General Business) / M-1 (Heavy Industrial) uses; and with other
property from the date of sale forward. Purchaser shall property from the date of sale forward. Purchaser shall property from the date of sale forward. Purchaser shall property from the date of sale forward. Purchaser shall
associated development waivers and modifications. The subject prop- be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
erty is located on the east/north side of Dumfries Rd. (Rt. 234); east of
its intersection with Independent Hill Dr.; southeast of the intersection
property. property. property. property.
of Dumfries Rd. (Rt. 234) and Six Towers Rd.; is currently addressed
as 14237 and 14209 Dumfries Rd.; and is identified on County maps
as GPINs 7891-69-0322 and 7892-40-6524, respectively. The ±90.88-
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $40,000.00 by cashier’s check TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $40,000.00 by cashier’s check TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $25,000.00 by cashier’s check TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $70,000.00 by cashier’s check
acre property is zoned PBD, Planned Business District; is designated will be required of purchaser at the time and place of sale. will be required of purchaser at the time and place of sale. will be required of purchaser at the time and place of sale. will be required of purchaser at the time and place of sale.
I-3, Technology/Flex Industrial, with a T-3 Transect, which recommends
a range of 0.23 to 0.57 FAR; and is located within the Independent
Purchaser shall settle within thirty (30) days of sale. TIME Purchaser shall settle within thirty (30) days of sale. TIME Purchaser shall settle within thirty (30) days of sale. TIME Purchaser shall settle within thirty (30) days of sale. TIME
Hill Small Area Plan special planning area and partially located within SHALL BE OF THE ESSENCE WITH RESPECT TO SETTLEMENT SHALL BE OF THE ESSENCE WITH RESPECT TO SETTLEMENT SHALL BE OF THE ESSENCE WITH RESPECT TO SETTLEMENT SHALL BE OF THE ESSENCE WITH RESPECT TO SETTLEMENT
the Environmental Resource Protection Overlay of the Comprehensive
Plan. The site is also located within the Data Center Opportunity Zone
BY PURCHASER. Balance of the purchase price to be paid BY PURCHASER. Balance of the purchase price to be paid BY PURCHASER. Balance of the purchase price to be paid BY PURCHASER. Balance of the purchase price to be paid
Overlay District and is partially within the Route 234 (Dumfries Road) in cash or certified funds at settlement. Interest to be paid in cash or certified funds at settlement. Interest to be paid in cash or certified funds at settlement. Interest to be paid in cash or certified funds at settlement. Interest to be paid
Highway Corridor Overlay District. Coles Magisterial District on the unpaid purchase money from the date of sale to the on the unpaid purchase money from the date of sale to the on the unpaid purchase money from the date of sale to the on the unpaid purchase money from the date of sale to the
6. Rezoning #REZ2023-00005, Abel Property: This is a request to date of settlement at the applicable interest rate set forth in date of settlement at the applicable interest rate set forth in date of settlement at the applicable interest rate set forth in date of settlement at the applicable interest rate set forth in
rezone ±6.00 acres from A-1, Agricultural, to PBD, Planned Business
District, and with associated development waivers and modifications,
the debt instrument secured by the Deed of Trust. Purchaser the debt instrument secured by the Deed of Trust. Purchaser the debt instrument secured by the Deed of Trust. Purchaser the debt instrument secured by the Deed of Trust. Purchaser
to include an increase in the maximum height for data center buildings shall be responsible for payment of all settlement costs. shall be responsible for payment of all settlement costs. shall be responsible for payment of all settlement costs. shall be responsible for payment of all settlement costs.
up to 80 feet and use modifications to allow Industrial/Transportation
(M/T) uses. The subject property is located at the terminus and south
of Six Towers Rd.; ±1,110 feet east of Dumfries Rd. (Rt. 234); is identified The noteholder and its affiliates, if a bidder, shall not be The noteholder and its affiliates, if a bidder, shall not be The noteholder and its affiliates, if a bidder, shall not be The noteholder and its affiliates, if a bidder, shall not be
on County maps as GPIN 7892-50-9839; and is currently addressed as
7901 Six Towers Rd. The site is designated I-3, Technology/Flex Indus-
required to post a deposit or to pay interest. required to post a deposit or to pay interest. required to post a deposit or to pay interest. required to post a deposit or to pay interest.
trial, with a T-3 Transect that recommends a range of 0.23 to 0.57 FAR
in the Comprehensive Plan; and is located within the Independent Hill
Small Area Plan special planning area and within the Data Center Op-
In the event that purchaser does not settle as required In the event that purchaser does not settle as required In the event that purchaser does not settle as required In the event that purchaser does not settle as required
portunity Zone Overlay District. Coles Magisterial District for any reason, purchaser shall be in default. Upon such for any reason, purchaser shall be in default. Upon such for any reason, purchaser shall be in default. Upon such for any reason, purchaser shall be in default. Upon such
For additional information regarding the Board meeting, please contact
default, the deposit shall be forfeited to Trustee and default, the deposit shall be forfeited to Trustee and default, the deposit shall be forfeited to Trustee and default, the deposit shall be forfeited to Trustee and
the Clerk to the Board at (703) 792-6600. All meeting materials are all of the expenses of this sale (including legal fees and all of the expenses of this sale (including legal fees and all of the expenses of this sale (including legal fees and all of the expenses of this sale (including legal fees and
posted online when the agenda is published, and at that time, a copy of
all staff reports, proposed resolutions and ordinances, and other doc-
costs, and full commission on the gross sale price) shall costs, and full commission on the gross sale price) shall costs, and full commission on the gross sale price) shall costs, and full commission on the gross sale price) shall
umentation will be available for review by the public in the office of be charged against and paid out of the forfeited deposit. be charged against and paid out of the forfeited deposit. be charged against and paid out of the forfeited deposit. be charged against and paid out of the forfeited deposit.
the Clerk of the Board at One County Complex Court, Prince William, Trustee may resell the property at the risk and expense of the Trustee may resell the property at the risk and expense of the Trustee may resell the property at the risk and expense of the Trustee may resell the property at the risk and expense of the
Virginia, 22192.
defaulting purchaser. The defaulting purchaser shall not be defaulting purchaser. The defaulting purchaser shall not be defaulting purchaser. The defaulting purchaser shall not be defaulting purchaser. The defaulting purchaser shall not be
Members of the public may appear at the Board of County Supervisors’ entitled to any surplus proceeds or profits resulting from any entitled to any surplus proceeds or profits resulting from any entitled to any surplus proceeds or profits resulting from any entitled to any surplus proceeds or profits resulting from any
Chamber in the McCoart Building, One County Complex Court, Prince
William, Virginia, at the designated time to express their views. resale of the property. Defaulting purchaser shall be liable resale of the property. Defaulting purchaser shall be liable resale of the property. Defaulting purchaser shall be liable resale of the property. Defaulting purchaser shall be liable
to Trustee for legal fees and costs incurred by Trustee in to Trustee for legal fees and costs incurred by Trustee in to Trustee for legal fees and costs incurred by Trustee in to Trustee for legal fees and costs incurred by Trustee in
ACCESSIBILITY TO PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES: The hearings are be-
ing held at a public facility believed to be accessible to persons with connection with such default. connection with such default. connection with such default. connection with such default.
disabilities. Anyone with questions on the accessibility of the facility
should contact the Clerk to the Board at One County Complex Court,
Prince William, Virginia, or by telephone at (703) 792-6600 or TDD (703) If Trustee is unable to settle as set forth herein, purchaser’s If Trustee is unable to settle as set forth herein, purchaser’s If Trustee is unable to settle as set forth herein, purchaser’s If Trustee is unable to settle as set forth herein, purchaser’s
792-6295. Persons needing translation or interpreter services must sole remedy at law and in equity shall be limited to a refund sole remedy at law and in equity shall be limited to a refund sole remedy at law and in equity shall be limited to a refund sole remedy at law and in equity shall be limited to a refund
notify the Clerk to the Board no later than 12:00 p.m. on Tuesday, March
12, 2024. of the deposit and the sale shall be considered null and void of the deposit and the sale shall be considered null and void of the deposit and the sale shall be considered null and void of the deposit and the sale shall be considered null and void
and of no effect whatsoever. and of no effect whatsoever. and of no effect whatsoever. and of no effect whatsoever.

PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY

Trustee reserves the right, in Trustee’s sole discretion, to Trustee reserves the right, in Trustee’s sole discretion, to Trustee reserves the right, in Trustee’s sole discretion, to Trustee reserves the right, in Trustee’s sole discretion, to
BOARD OF COUNTY SUPERVISORS reject any and all bids, to withdraw the property from sale reject any and all bids, to withdraw the property from sale reject any and all bids, to withdraw the property from sale reject any and all bids, to withdraw the property from sale
ONE COUNTY COMPLEX COURT at any time before or at the auction, to extend the time to at any time before or at the auction, to extend the time to at any time before or at the auction, to extend the time to at any time before or at the auction, to extend the time to
PRINCE WILLIAM, VA 22192
receive bids, to waive or modify the deposit requirement, to receive bids, to waive or modify the deposit requirement, to receive bids, to waive or modify the deposit requirement, to receive bids, to waive or modify the deposit requirement, to
waive or modify the requirement that interest be paid on the waive or modify the requirement that interest be paid on the waive or modify the requirement that interest be paid on the waive or modify the requirement that interest be paid on the
March 12, 2024 unpaid purchase money, and/or to extend the period of time unpaid purchase money, and/or to extend the period of time unpaid purchase money, and/or to extend the period of time unpaid purchase money, and/or to extend the period of time
Public Hearings for settlement. for settlement. for settlement. for settlement.
2:00 p.m.
Additional terms may be announced at the sale. The Additional terms may be announced at the sale. The Additional terms may be announced at the sale. The Additional terms may be announced at the sale. The
1. Zoning Text Amendment #DPA2024-00001, 2023 State Man-
dated Changes: To amend Part 100 definitions, Secs. 32-280.35, successful bidder will be required to execute and deliver successful bidder will be required to execute and deliver successful bidder will be required to execute and deliver successful bidder will be required to execute and deliver
32-300.06, 32-300.13, 32-304.21, 32-305.05, 32-400.25, 32-506.07, 32- to Trustee a memorandum or contract of the sale at the to Trustee a memorandum or contract of the sale at the to Trustee a memorandum or contract of the sale at the to Trustee a memorandum or contract of the sale at the
700.60 and 32-700.61 to incorporate state mandated changes. The
amendments include replacing the term “handicapped” or some varia- conclusion of bidding. conclusion of bidding. conclusion of bidding. conclusion of bidding.
tion thereof with “individuals with disabilities” and amending language
around the notification requirements for public hearings. Countywide
Russell S. Drazin, Trustee Russell S. Drazin, Trustee Russell S. Drazin, Trustee Russell S. Drazin, Trustee
2. Special Use Permit #SUP2022-00029, Sheetz Hillendale: This is a
request to allow a motor vehicle fuel station (retail), quick service food
store/restaurant with carryout- drive-through facility, and signage mod-
ifications in association with a by-right convenience store. The existing
facility and gas canopy configuration will be completely removed and
rebuilt with new design features. The subject property is ±3.24-acre
and located on the southeast corner of the Prince William Parkway and
Hillendale Drive intersection, is currently addressed as 4021 Prince Wil-
liam Parkway, and is identified on County maps as GPIN 8192-67-1073.
The site is zoned RPC, Residential Planned Community (Commercial);
is designated RPC, Residential Planned Community, in the Comprehen- Mar 5,7,11,13,15 2024 0012452253 Mar 5,7,11,13,15 2024 0012452252 Mar 5,7,11,13,15 2024 0012451815 Feb 22,26,28,Mar 1,5 2024 0012450683
sive Plan; and is located within the Prince William Parkway Highway
820 850 851 851 851 853 610 610
Corridor Overlay District and the Dale City Small Area Plan (Parkway
Node) Special Planning Area. Neabsco Magisterial District Official Notices Montgomery County Prince Georges County Prince Georges County Prince Georges County Calvert County Dogs for Sale Dogs for Sale
ABC LICENSE: Amazon Retail IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR AKITA SOUTH AFRICAN BOERBOEL MASTIFF
7:30 p.m. LLC trading as Amazon Fresh MONTGOMERY COUNTY, PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, CALVERT COUNTY, MARYLAND 1 female puppy for sale, PUPPIES- 10 wks old, AKC reg, ARBA
3801 Richmond Highway Alex- MARYLAND MARYLAND MARYLAND MARYLAND 15 weeks old, avail now. $200. reg. Peibald and traditional colors
3. Rezoning #REZ2021-00006, Bristow Corner: To rezone ± 7.71 andria, Virginia 22305. The above KEITH YACKO, et al, Call 301-633-7372 Cliff avail. Serious inq only 540-522-7106
acres from A-1, Agricultural, to PMR, Planned Mixed Residential to al- establishment is applying to the CARRIE M. WARD, et al. CARRIE M. WARD, et al. Diane S. Rosenberg, et al KEITH YACKO, et al, Substitute Trustee,
low for the development of 63 single family detached and single family VIRGINIA ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE 6003 Executive Blvd, Suite 101 6003 Executive Blvd, Suite 101 4340 East West Highway, Substitute Trustee, Plaintiff, CAVALIER KING CHARLES PUPPIES
attached homes and a community clubhouse and playground area. CONTROL (ABC) AUTHORITY Rockville, MD 20852 Rockville, MD 20852 Suite 600 Plaintiff, $1850
The subject site involves 2 parcels located in the northwest quadrant of WEST HIGHLAND TERRIER PUPS,
for a Gourmet Shop Wine and Substitute Trustees/Plaintiffs, Substitute Trustees/Plaintiffs, Bethesda, MD 20814 v. Call or text 540-550-5360 hybrid, male and female, white and
the intersection of Nokesville Road and Vint Hill Road and is identified Beer Off-Premises license to Substitute Trustee v.
on County maps as GPINs 7594-28-8497 and 7594-38-1791. The site GOLDENDOODLES F1 STANDARD blacks, shots and wormed, $600.
sell or manufacture alcoholic vs. vs. Plaintiff(s) JOSEPH T. ROBERSON AND 540-645-1962
is designated MU-3, Neighborhood Mixed Use, recommends a density beverages. Cristina Lane, Sec- PATRICIA DELOATCH, et al, ELIZABETH N. ROBERSON, 8 weeks old. Companion, therapy
of 4 to 12 dwelling units per acre in the Comprehensive Plan; and is lo- retary. NOTE: Objections to the ERNEST A. REGENTHAL ROSE MARIE JONES V. Defendants. et al, and family friendly. Low to nonshed.
cated within the Bristow Activity Center, and is partially located within issuance of this license must (DECEASED) (DECEASED) Defendants. Call 301-478-5557
the Nokesville Road (Route 28) Highway Corridor Overlay District and is be submitted to ABC no later DIANA H. REGENTHAL 7617 Fontainebleau Drive Minnie D. Moore Case No. C-16-CV-23-004208
located within the Airport Safety Overlay District and Agritourism and than 30 days from the publishing (DECEASED) Unit 2141 14925 Ashford Court Case No. C-04-CV-23-000464 GOLDEN RET AKC & GOLDEN /
Arts Overlay District. Brentsville Magisterial District date of the first of two required 7802 Fairborn Court New Carrollton, MD 20784 Laurel, MD 20707 NOTICE LAB RET CROSS PUPS & ADULTS
newspaper legal notices. Ob- Derwood, MD 20855 Defendant(s). Defendant(s) NOTICE 8 weeks - 5 yrs. Vet checked, parents
4. Rezoning #REZ2023-00022, Bristow Crossing: To rezone ± 27.78 jections should be registered at Defendant(s). Notice is hereby issued this 13th on prem, health guar. 240-620-2013
acres from A-1, Agricultural, to PMR, Planned Mixed Residential to www.abc.virginia.gov or (800) Case No.C-16-CV-23-004675 Case No. CAEF20-01901 day of February, 2024, that the Notice is hereby issued this 13th W www.VictoriasPups.com W
allow for the development of 187 single family detached and single 552- 3200. Case No.C-15-CV-22-003307 sale of the property in this case, day of February, 2024, that the
family attached homes, a religious institution, and nonresidential NOTICE NOTICE 13202 SUNTUM CT, ACCOKEEK, sale of the property inthis case, GOLDEN RETRIEVER PUPPIES
events and activities consistent with the Agritourism and Arts Overlay NOTICE MD 20607, reported by Jennifer 12958 OTTAWA DR LUSBY, AKC, vet checked, 1st shots,
850
District and community events overseen by the homeowner’s asso-
ciation. The Property is located on the west side of Nokesville Road, Montgomery County Notice is hereby given this 15
Notice is hereby given this 14th
day of February, 2024, by the
Notice is hereby given this 13
day of February, 2024 by the
Deardorff, Attorney for the Sub-
stitute Trustee, be ratified and
MD 20657, reported by Jenni-
fer Deardorff, Attorney for the
both parents on site. $650.
Call 540-383-9443
+/- 0.25 miles south of its intersection with Linton Hall Road. The day of February, 2024, by the Circuit Court for Prince George’s Circuit Court for Prince George’s confirmed, unless cause to the Substitute Trustee, be ratified
property address is 11707 Fitzgerald Way, and 11712, 11722, 11718, Circuit Court for Montgomery County, Maryland, that the sale County, Maryland, that the contrary be shown on or before and confirmed, unless cause LAB MIXED PUPPIES
11804, 11808, 11812, and 11904 Nokesville Road. The site is identified
on County maps as GPINs 7595-40-1776, 7595-40-1358, 7595-30-8354,
County, Maryland, that the sale
of the property mentioned in
of the property mentioned in
these proceedings and described
sale of 14925 Ashford Court,
Laurel, MD 20707, made and
the 13th day of March 2024,
provided a copy of this Notice
to the contrary be shown on or
before the 14th day of March,
Black and chocolate. $100. INSURANCE
7595-40-1138, 7595-30-8937, 7595-30-7217, 7594-39-5894, and 7594-
39-3155 is zoned A-1, Agricultural; and is classified as MU-3, Mixed Use,
these proceedings and de-
scribed as 7802 Fairborn Court,
as 7617 Fontainebleau Drive,
Unit 2141, New Carrollton,
reported, will be ratified and
confirmed, unless cause to the
be inserted in Washington Post, a
newspaper published in PRINCE
2024, provided a copy of this
Notice be inserted in Washing-
Ready now. 540-908-5931
SERVICES
which recommends a density of 4 to 12 dwelling units per acre in the LABRADOR RETRIEVER PUPS - Yellow DENTAL INSURANCE from Physicians
Derwood, MD 20855, made MD 20784, made and reported contrary thereof be shown on or GEORGE’S County, Maryland, ton Post, a newspaper published F, AKC, Champ bloodlines, vaccinat-
Comprehensive Plan; and is located within the Bristow Activity Center, and reported by the Substitute by the Substitute Trustee, will before the 13th day of March, once in each of three (3) succes- in CALVERT County, Maryland, Mutual Insurance Company. Cover-
Highway Corridor Overlay District, and Airport Safety Overlay District. ed, dewormed, health tested parents. age for 350 plus procedures. Real
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR Trustee, will be RATIFIED AND be RATIFIED AND CONFIRMED, 2024, provided a copy of this sive weeks on or before the 13th once in each of three (3) suc- Manchester MD. $2800. 717-476-9397
Brentsville Magisterial District MONTGOMERY COUNTY, CONFIRMED, unless cause to the unless cause to the contrary notice be inserted in The Wash- day of March 2024. The report cessive weeks on or before dental insurance – NOT just a dis-
MARYLAND contrary thereof be shown on thereof be shown on or before ington Post a daily newspaper states the amount of sale to be the 14th day of March, 2024. count plan. Do not wait! Call now!
5. Rezoning and Proffer Amendment #REZ2022-00024, Route 29 or before the 15 day of March, the 14th day of March, 2024, printed in said County, once in $500,000.00. The report states the amount MINI GOLDEN DOODLES F1B - Farm Get your FREE Dental Information Kit
Commercial Center: To rezone ±3.13 acres from A-1, Agricultural, CARRIE M. WARD, et al. 2024, provided a copy of this provided a copy of this NOTICE each of three successive weeks of sale to be $197,938.30. raised, mother on site. 5 females, with all the details! 1-855-337-5228
to B-1, General Business, and to amend the proffers associated with 6003 Executive Blvd, Suite 101 NOTICE be inserted in some daily be inserted in some daily news- before the 13th, day of March, Mahasin El Amin 3 males. Ready March 13. $2,000. dental50plus.com/MDDC#6258
#REZ2020-00003 on ±1.10 acres, to allow for the development of a new Rockville, MD 20852 newspaper printed in said Coun- paper printed in said County, 2024. The Report of Sale states Clerk Kathy P. Smith Call or text 304-483-1631
commercial/retail center at a proposed floor area ratio (FAR) of ±0.09, Substitute Trustees/Plaintiffs, ty, once in each of three succes- once in each of three successive the amount of the foreclosure Clerk
to include 2 commercial buildings, a drive-through facility associated sive weeks before the 15 day of weeks before the 14th day of sale price to be $365,534.19.
Feb 20,27,Mar 5 2024 0012452233
with a restaurant, and associated signage modifications. The ±4.23- vs. March, 2024. The report states March, 2024. The report states
Feb 20,27,Mar 5 2024 0012452490
acre site is located south of Lee Highway (Rt. 29), ±500 feet west of the purchase price at the Fore- the purchase price at the Fore- Mahasin El Amin
the Lee Highway and Baltusrol Blvd. intersection, and opposite/south GLADYS E. BOODHOO closure sale to be $359,000.00. closure sale to be $86,000.00. Clerk of the Circuit Court DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
of the intersection with Carver Rd. The project area is identified on
County maps as GPINs 7297-91-9580, 7397-01-0983, and 7397-01-
(DECEASED)
14241 Kings Crossing Karen A Bushell Mahasin El Amin
Prince George’s County,
Maryland
Roommates
2696; and is currently addressed as 14825, 14813, and 14809 Lee
bo ks?

Boulevard Clerk, Circuit Court for Clerk, Circuit Court for

Highway, respectively. The site is currently zoned A-1, Agricultural, and Unit 205 Montgomery County, Maryland Prince George’s County, Feb 20,27,Mar 5 2024 0012452228
B-1, General Business; is designated RN-2, Residential Neighborhood, Boyds, MD 20841 Maryland IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR SE DC - Room for rent. No smoking,
with Transect 2, which recommends a range of 0.05 to 0.23 FAR in the Defendant(s). BWW#MD-348841 PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, good bus, subway route.
Comprehensive Plan for non-residential development; and is located BWW#MD-364218 MARYLAND Call Ms. Owens 202-534-7881
within the Lee Highway (Route 29) Highway Corridor Overlay District. Feb 20,27,Mar 5 2024 0012452463
Brentsville Magisterial District
Case No.C-15-CV-23-000804 Feb 20,27,Mar 5 2024 0012452412
KEITH YACKO, et al,
MARYLAND
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
For additional information regarding the Board meeting, please contact
NOTICE 851
Prince Georges County PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY,
MARYLAND
Substitute Trustee,
Plaintiff,
Roommates
the Clerk to the Board at (703) 792-6600. All meeting materials are Notice is hereby given this 15
posted online when the agenda is published, and at that time, a copy of day of February, 2024, by the v.
all staff reports, proposed resolutions and ordinances, and other doc- ROBERT A. JONES, et al CLINTON, MD - 1 BR bsmt apt, $1300,
Circuit Court for Montgomery Plaintiffs, Substitute Trustees all utils incl. Close to metro,
umentation will be available for review by the public in the office of County, Maryland, that the sale THOMAS J. KOKOLIS,
the Clerk of the Board at One County Complex Court, Prince William, 240-571-6161 for more info
of the property mentioned in v. PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE
Virginia, 22192. these proceedings and described IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR OF THE ESTATE OF
as 14241 Kings Crossing Bou- THE COUNTY OF ESTATE OF LINDA D. SMITH, et al,
Members of the public may appear at the Board of County Supervisors’ PRINCE GEORGE’S COLLEGE PARK/LANHAM - 2BR
levard, Unit 205, Boyds, MD JAMES D. WILLIAMS Defendants. bsmt $1200. House to shr. All util
Chamber in the McCoart Building, One County Complex Court, Prince 20841, made and reported by MARYLAND
William, Virginia, at the designated time to express their views. Defendant(s) inc. N/S. Male Pref. 240-423-7923
the Substitute Trustee, will be IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR Case No. C-16-CV-23-004752
RATIFIED AND CONFIRMED, un- WILLIAM M. SAVAGE, et al. PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, Civil Action No.
ACCESSIBILITY TO PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES: The hearings are be- less cause to the contrary there- Trustee(s) MARYLAND NOTICE
ing held at a public facility believed to be accessible to persons with C-16-CV-23-000865
of be shown on or before the 15 Plaintiff(s)
disabilities. Anyone with questions on the accessibility of the facility day of March, 2024, provided a CARRIE M. WARD, et al. Notice is hereby issued this 14th
should contact the Clerk to the Board at One County Complex Court, NOTICE
copy of this NOTICE be inserted vs. 6003 Executive Blvd, Suite 101 day of February, 2024, that the FORT WASHINGTON - Lg house to
Prince William, Virginia, or by telephone at (703) 792-6600 or TDD (703) in some daily newspaper printed Rockville, MD 20852 sale of the property in this case,
792-6295. Persons needing translation or interpreter services must Notice is hereby given this 12th share. Free cable. Close to MGM.
in said County, once in each of JESTON T SWANN Substitute Trustees/Plaintiffs, day of February, 2024 by the 4909 70TH AVENUE HYATTS- W/D. $150/wk. 240-882-8973
notify the Clerk to the Board no later than 12:00 p.m. on Tuesday, March three successive weeks before ROMAINE C. THOMPSON VILLE, MD 20784, reported by
5, 2024. Circuit Court for Prince George’s
the 15 day of March, 2024. The Defendant(s) vs. County, Maryland, that the sale Jennifer Deardorff, Attorney for
report states the purchase price Mortgagor(s) of the property mentioned in the Substitute Trustee, be rati-
1405
Cars 815
Legal Notices at the Foreclosure sale to be
$198,000.00. CIVIL NO: C16CV23000492
ZAHRAH L. STEELE-SMITH
6901 Mumford Street
these proceedings and described
as 7806 Drum Point Lane, Clin-
fied and confirmed, unless cause
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Trustees Sale - DC Trustees Sale - DC
Pardo & Drazin, LLC
Russell S. Drazin, Attorney
4400 Jenifer Street, NW, Suite 2
Washington, DC 20015
202-223-7900
TRUSTEE’S SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY
1505 A Street, SE
Washington, DC 20003
Lot 0039 in Square 1072
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
(“Deed of Trust”) dated September 28, 2022 and recorded
on November 10, 2022 as Instrument No. 2022112310 from
LOS NIETOS GROUP L.L.C., as grantor, to RUSSELL S. DRAZIN
(“Trustee”), as trustee, for the benefit of WCP FUND I LLC, as
beneficiary, securing that certain Commercial Deed of Trust
Note dated September 28, 2022 in the principal amount of
$572,180.00 made by LOS NIETOS GROUP L.L.C., as maker,
payable to the order of WCP FUND I LLC, as payee, default
having occurred under the terms thereof, and following the
mailing and recordation of an Affidavit of Non-Residential
Mortgage Foreclosure and a Notice of Foreclosure Sale of
Real Property or Condominium Unit, at the request of the
current noteholder, Trustee will sell at public auction at
the office of Harvey West Auctioneers, Inc., 5335 Wisconsin
Avenue, NW, Suite 440, Washington, DC 20015, on
MARCH 19, 2024 AT 2:05 PM
ALL THAT LOT OF GROUND AND THE IMPROVEMENTS
THEREON (if any) situated in the City of Washington, District
of Columbia, known as 1505 A Street, SE, Washington, DC
20003 (Lot 0039 in Square 1072), and more fully described
in the Deed of Trust.
The property will be sold in an “AS IS” condition, with no
warranty of any kind, and subject to conditions, restrictions,
agreements, liens, and encumbrances of record affecting
the same – except those encumbrances of record that are
extinguished by operation of District of Columbia law by
virtue of the foreclosure of the Deed of Trust.
Purchaser will take title to the property subject to all taxes,
water and sewer charges, and other utility charges, if
any. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or damage to the
property from the date of sale forward. Purchaser shall
be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
property.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $65,000.00 by cashier’s check
will be required of purchaser at the time and place of sale.
Purchaser shall settle within thirty (30) days of sale. TIME
SHALL BE OF THE ESSENCE WITH RESPECT TO SETTLEMENT
BY PURCHASER. Balance of the purchase price to be paid
in cash or certified funds at settlement. Interest to be paid
on the unpaid purchase money from the date of sale to the
date of settlement at the applicable interest rate set forth in
the debt instrument secured by the Deed of Trust. Purchaser
shall be responsible for payment of all settlement costs.
The noteholder and its affiliates, if a bidder, shall not be
required to post a deposit or to pay interest.
In the event that purchaser does not settle as required
for any reason, purchaser shall be in default. Upon such
default, the deposit shall be forfeited to Trustee and
all of the expenses of this sale (including legal fees and
costs, and full commission on the gross sale price) shall
be charged against and paid out of the forfeited deposit.
Trustee may resell the property at the risk and expense of the
defaulting purchaser. The defaulting purchaser shall not be
entitled to any surplus proceeds or profits resulting from any
resale of the property. Defaulting purchaser shall be liable
to Trustee for legal fees and costs incurred by Trustee in
connection with such default.
If Trustee is unable to settle as set forth herein, purchaser’s
sole remedy at law and in equity shall be limited to a refund
of the deposit and the sale shall be considered null and void
and of no effect whatsoever.
Trustee reserves the right, in Trustee’s sole discretion, to
reject any and all bids, to withdraw the property from sale
at any time before or at the auction, to extend the time to
receive bids, to waive or modify the deposit requirement, to
waive or modify the requirement that interest be paid on the
unpaid purchase money, and/or to extend the period of time
for settlement.
Additional terms may be announced at the sale. The
successful bidder will be required to execute and deliver
to Trustee a memorandum or contract of the sale at the
conclusion of bidding.
Russell S. Drazin, Trustee
Mar 5,7,11,13,15 2024 0012451805
850 850
Montgomery County Montgomery County
BWW Law Group, LLC
6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY
IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
13505 SHEARWATER PL.
GERMANTOWN, MD 20874
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of
Trust dated April 6, 2006, recorded in Liber 32202, Folio
753 among the Land Records of Montgomery County,
MD, with an original principal balance of $468,000.00,
default having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub.
Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for
Montgomery County, at the Court House Door, 50 Maryland
Ave., Rockville, MD 20850, on
MARCH 22, 2024 AT 3:31 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any
buildings or improvements thereon located in Montgomery
County, MD and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed
of Trust.
The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in
an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions
and agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and
with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $33,000 in the form of certified
check, cashier’s check or money order will be required of
the purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the
purchase price, together with interest on the unpaid
purchase money at the current rate contained in the Deed
of Trust Note, or any modifications thereto, from the date
of sale to the date funds are received by the Sub. Trustees,
payable in cash within ten days of final ratification of the
sale by the Circuit Court. There will be no abatement of
interest due to the purchaser in the event additional funds
are tendered before settlement. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE
FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of all real property
taxes, including agricultural taxes, if applicable, and any
and all public and/or private charges or assessments, to
the extent such amounts survive foreclosure sale, including
water/sewer and front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted
to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser.
Purchaser is responsible for any recapture of homestead
tax credit. All transfer taxes and recordation taxes shall be
paid by Purchaser. Condominium fees and/or homeowners
association dues, if any, shall be assumed by the
purchaser from the date of sale. Purchaser is responsible
for obtaining physical possession of the property, and
assumes risk of loss or damage to the property from the
date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit of the
status of the loan with the loan servicer including, but not
limited to, determination of whether the borrower entered
into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off the
loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale shall be
null and void, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy, in law or
equity, shall be the return of the deposit without interest.
If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of ratification,
subject to order of court, purchaser agrees that property
will be resold and entire deposit retained by Sub. Trustees
as liquidated damages for all losses occasioned by the
purchaser’s default and purchaser shall have no further
liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any
papers filed in connection with its failure to settle within ten
days of ratification and expressly agrees to accept service
by first class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser
as identified on the Memorandum of Sale. The defaulted
purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds
resulting from said resale even if such surplus results from
improvements to the property by said defaulted purchaser.
Sub. Trustees will convey either marketable or insurable
title. If they cannot deliver one or the other, or if ratification
of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the
Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the
deposit without interest. (Matter No. 125001-1)
Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al.,
Substitute Trustees
Mar 5,12,19 2024 0012453371
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Pardo & Drazin, LLC
Russell S. Drazin, Attorney
4400 Jenifer Street, NW, Suite 2
Washington, DC 20015
202-223-7900
TRUSTEE’S SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY
1833 L Street, NE
Washington, DC 20002
Lot 0119 in Square 4474
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
(“Deed of Trust”) dated April 7, 2022 and recorded on April
8, 2022 as Instrument No. 2022039082 from LOS NIETOS
GROUP L.L.C., as grantor, to RUSSELL S. DRAZIN (“Trustee”),
as trustee, for the benefit of WCP FUND I LLC, as beneficiary,
securing that certain Commercial Deed of Trust Note dated
April 7, 2022 in the principal amount of $404,000.00 made
by LOS NIETOS GROUP L.L.C., as maker, payable to the order
of WCP FUND I LLC, as payee, default having occurred under
the terms thereof, and following the mailing and recordation
of an Affidavit of Non-Residential Mortgage Foreclosure
and a Notice of Foreclosure Sale of Real Property or
Condominium Unit, at the request of the current noteholder,
Trustee will sell at public auction at the office of Harvey West
Auctioneers, Inc., 5335 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, Suite 440,
Washington, DC 20015, on
MARCH 19, 2024 AT 2:00 PM
ALL THAT LOT OF GROUND AND THE IMPROVEMENTS
THEREON (if any) situated in the City of Washington, District
of Columbia, known as 1833 L Street, NE, Washington, DC
20002 (Lot 0119 in Square 4474), and more fully described
in the Deed of Trust.
The property will be sold in an “AS IS” condition, with no
warranty of any kind, and subject to conditions, restrictions,
agreements, liens, and encumbrances of record affecting
the same — except those encumbrances of record that
are extinguished by operation of District of Columbia law by
virtue of the foreclosure of the Deed of Trust.
Purchaser will take title to the property subject to all taxes,
water and sewer charges, and other utility charges, if
any. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or damage to the
property from the date of sale forward. Purchaser shall
be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
property.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $40,000.00 by cashier’s check
will be required of purchaser at the time and place of sale.
Purchaser shall settle within thirty (30) days of sale. TIME
SHALL BE OF THE ESSENCE WITH RESPECT TO SETTLEMENT
BY PURCHASER. Balance of the purchase price to be paid
in cash or certified funds at settlement. Interest to be paid
on the unpaid purchase money from the date of sale to the
date of settlement at the applicable interest rate set forth in
the debt instrument secured by the Deed of Trust. Purchaser
shall be responsible for payment of all settlement costs.
The noteholder and its affiliates, if a bidder, shall not be
required to post a deposit or to pay interest.
In the event that purchaser does not settle as required
for any reason, purchaser shall be in default. Upon such
default, the deposit shall be forfeited to Trustee and
all of the expenses of this sale (including legal fees and
costs, and full commission on the gross sale price) shall
be charged against and paid out of the forfeited deposit.
Trustee may resell the property at the risk and expense of the
defaulting purchaser. The defaulting purchaser shall not be
entitled to any surplus proceeds or profits resulting from any
resale of the property. Defaulting purchaser shall be liable
to Trustee for legal fees and costs incurred by Trustee in
connection with such default.
If Trustee is unable to settle as set forth herein, purchaser’s
sole remedy at law and in equity shall be limited to a refund
of the deposit and the sale shall be considered null and void
and of no effect whatsoever.
Trustee reserves the right, in Trustee’s sole discretion, to
reject any and all bids, to withdraw the property from sale
at any time before or at the auction, to extend the time to
receive bids, to waive or modify the deposit requirement, to
waive or modify the requirement that interest be paid on the
unpaid purchase money, and/or to extend the period of time
for settlement.
Additional terms may be announced at the sale. The
successful bidder will be required to execute and deliver
to Trustee a memorandum or contract of the sale at the
conclusion of bidding.
Russell S. Drazin, Trustee
Mar 5,7,11,13,15 2024 0012451798
850 850
Montgomery County Montgomery County
BWW Law Group, LLC
6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY
IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
3305 CAMDEN ST.
SILVER SPRING, MD 20902
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
dated February 9, 2005, recorded in Liber 29298, Folio
317 among the Land Records of Montgomery County,
MD, with an original principal balance of $342,000.00,
default having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub.
Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for
Montgomery County, at the Court House Door, 50 Maryland
Ave., Rockville, MD 20850, on
MARCH 22, 2024 AT 3:29 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any
buildings or improvements thereon located in Montgomery
County, MD and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed
of Trust.
The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in
an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions
and agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and
with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $35,000 in the form of certified
check, cashier’s check or money order will be required of
the purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the
purchase price, together with interest on the unpaid
purchase money at the current rate contained in the Deed
of Trust Note, or any modifications thereto, from the date
of sale to the date funds are received by the Sub. Trustees,
payable in cash within ten days of final ratification of the
sale by the Circuit Court. There will be no abatement of
interest due to the purchaser in the event additional funds
are tendered before settlement. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE
FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of all real property
taxes, including agricultural taxes, if applicable, and any
and all public and/or private charges or assessments, to
the extent such amounts survive foreclosure sale, including
water/sewer and front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted
to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser.
Purchaser is responsible for any recapture of homestead
tax credit. All transfer taxes and recordation taxes shall be
paid by Purchaser. Condominium fees and/or homeowners
association dues, if any, shall be assumed by the
purchaser from the date of sale. Purchaser is responsible
for obtaining physical possession of the property, and
assumes risk of loss or damage to the property from the
date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit of the
status of the loan with the loan servicer including, but not
limited to, determination of whether the borrower entered
into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off the
loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale shall be
null and void, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy, in law or
equity, shall be the return of the deposit without interest.
If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of ratification,
subject to order of court, purchaser agrees that property
will be resold and entire deposit retained by Sub. Trustees
as liquidated damages for all losses occasioned by the
purchaser’s default and purchaser shall have no further
liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any
papers filed in connection with its failure to settle within ten
days of ratification and expressly agrees to accept service
by first class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser
as identified on the Memorandum of Sale. The defaulted
purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds
resulting from said resale even if such surplus results from
improvements to the property by said defaulted purchaser.
Sub. Trustees will convey either marketable or insurable
title. If they cannot deliver one or the other, or if ratification
of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the
Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the
deposit without interest. (Matter No. 355316-1)
Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al.,
Substitute Trustees
Mar 5,12,19 2024 0012453370
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Russell S. Drazin, Attorney
4400 Jenifer Street, NW, Suite 2
Washington, DC 20015
202-223-7900
TRUSTEE’S SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY
Unit 1 at 429 20th Street, NE
Washington, DC 20002
Lot 2040 in Square 4550
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
(“Deed of Trust”) dated April 6, 2023 and recorded on April
10, 2023 as Instrument No. 2023029212 from 42920 NE,
LLC, as grantor, to Russell S. Drazin (“Trustee”), as trustee,
for the benefit of WCP Fund I LLC, as beneficiary, securing
that certain Commercial Deed of Trust Note dated April
6, 2023 in the principal amount of $375,000.00 made by
42920 NE, LLC, as maker, payable to the order of WCP Fund
I LLC, as payee, default having occurred under the terms
thereof, and following the mailing and recordation of an
Affidavit of Non-Residential Mortgage Foreclosure and a
Notice of Foreclosure Sale of Real Property or Condominium
Unit, at the request of the current noteholder, Trustee
will sell at public auction at the office of Harvey West
Auctioneers, Inc., 5335 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, Suite 440,
Washington, DC 20015, on
MARCH 7, 2024 AT 2:15 PM
ALL THAT LOT OF GROUND AND THE IMPROVEMENTS
THEREON (if any) situated in the City of Washington,
District of Columbia, known as Unit 1 at 429 20th Street,
NE, Washington, DC 20002 (Lot 2040 in Square 4550), and
more fully described in the Deed of Trust.
The property will be sold in an “AS IS” condition, with no
warranty of any kind, and subject to conditions, restrictions,
agreements, liens, and encumbrances of record affecting
the same – except those encumbrances of record that are
extinguished by operation of District of Columbia law by
virtue of the foreclosure of the Deed of Trust.
Purchaser will take title to the property subject to all taxes,
water and sewer charges, and other utility charges, if
any. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or damage to the
property from the date of sale forward. Purchaser shall
be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
property.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $25,000.00 by cashier’s check
will be required of purchaser at the time and place of sale.
Purchaser shall settle within thirty (30) days of sale. TIME
SHALL BE OF THE ESSENCE WITH RESPECT TO SETTLEMENT
BY PURCHASER. Balance of the purchase price to be paid
in cash or certified funds at settlement. Interest to be paid
on the unpaid purchase money from the date of sale to the
date of settlement at the applicable interest rate set forth in
the debt instrument secured by the Deed of Trust. Purchaser
shall be responsible for payment of all settlement costs.
The noteholder and its affiliates, if a bidder, shall not be
required to post a deposit or to pay interest.
In the event that purchaser does not settle as required
for any reason, purchaser shall be in default. Upon such
default, the deposit shall be forfeited to Trustee and
all of the expenses of this sale (including legal fees and
costs, and full commission on the gross sale price) shall
be charged against and paid out of the forfeited deposit.
Trustee may resell the property at the risk and expense of the
defaulting purchaser. The defaulting purchaser shall not be
entitled to any surplus proceeds or profits resulting from any
resale of the property. Defaulting purchaser shall be liable
to Trustee for legal fees and costs incurred by Trustee in
connection with such default.
If Trustee is unable to settle as set forth herein, purchaser’s
sole remedy at law and in equity shall be limited to a refund
of the deposit and the sale shall be considered null and void
and of no effect whatsoever.
Trustee reserves the right, in Trustee’s sole discretion, to
reject any and all bids, to withdraw the property from sale
at any time before or at the auction, to extend the time to
receive bids, to waive or modify the deposit requirement, to
waive or modify the requirement that interest be paid on the
unpaid purchase money, and/or to extend the period of time
for settlement.
Additional terms may be announced at the sale. The
successful bidder will be required to execute and deliver
to Trustee a memorandum or contract of the sale at the
conclusion of bidding.
Russell S. Drazin, Trustee
Feb 22,26,28,Mar 1,5 2024 0012451301
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Pardo & Drazin, LLC
Russell S. Drazin, Attorney
4400 Jenifer Street, NW, Suite 2
Washington, DC 20015
202-223-7900
TRUSTEE’S SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY
400 15th Street, NE
Washington, DC 20002
Lot 0090 in Square 1053
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
(“Deed of Trust”) dated March 22, 2023 and recorded on
June 28, 2023 as Instrument No. 2023054274 from 1452
D ST NE LLC, as grantor, to RUSSELL S. DRAZIN (“Trustee”),
as trustee, for the benefit of WCP FUND I LLC, as beneficiary,
securing that certain Commercial Deed of Trust Note dated
March 22, 2023 in the principal amount of $882,000.00
made by 1452 D ST NE LLC, as maker, payable to the order
of WCP FUND I LLC, as payee, default having occurred under
the terms thereof, and following the mailing and recordation
of an Affidavit of Non-Residential Mortgage Foreclosure
and a Notice of Foreclosure Sale of Real Property or
Condominium Unit, at the request of the current noteholder,
Trustee will sell at public auction at the office of Harvey West
Auctioneers, Inc., 5335 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, Suite 440,
Washington, DC 20015, on
MARCH 7, 2024 AT 2:10 PM
ALL THAT LOT OF GROUND AND THE IMPROVEMENTS
THEREON (if any) situated in the City of Washington, District
of Columbia, known as 400 15th Street, NE, Washington, DC
20002 (Lot 0090 in Square 1053), and more fully described
in the Deed of Trust.
The property will be sold in an “AS IS” condition, with no
warranty of any kind, and subject to conditions, restrictions,
agreements, liens, and encumbrances of record affecting
the same – except those encumbrances of record that are
extinguished by operation of District of Columbia law by
virtue of the foreclosure of the Deed of Trust.
Purchaser will take title to the property subject to all taxes,
water and sewer charges, and other utility charges, if
any. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or damage to the
property from the date of sale forward. Purchaser shall
be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
property.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $50,000.00 by cashier’s check
will be required of purchaser at the time and place of sale.
Purchaser shall settle within thirty (30) days of sale. TIME
SHALL BE OF THE ESSENCE WITH RESPECT TO SETTLEMENT
BY PURCHASER. Balance of the purchase price to be paid
in cash or certified funds at settlement. Interest to be paid
on the unpaid purchase money from the date of sale to the
date of settlement at the applicable interest rate set forth in
the debt instrument secured by the Deed of Trust. Purchaser
shall be responsible for payment of all settlement costs.
The noteholder and its affiliates, if a bidder, shall not be
required to post a deposit or to pay interest.
In the event that purchaser does not settle as required
for any reason, purchaser shall be in default. Upon such
default, the deposit shall be forfeited to Trustee and
all of the expenses of this sale (including legal fees and
costs, and full commission on the gross sale price) shall
be charged against and paid out of the forfeited deposit.
Trustee may resell the property at the risk and expense of the
defaulting purchaser. The defaulting purchaser shall not be
entitled to any surplus proceeds or profits resulting from any
resale of the property. Defaulting purchaser shall be liable
to Trustee for legal fees and costs incurred by Trustee in
connection with such default.
If Trustee is unable to settle as set forth herein, purchaser’s
sole remedy at law and in equity shall be limited to a refund
of the deposit and the sale shall be considered null and void
and of no effect whatsoever.
Trustee reserves the right, in Trustee’s sole discretion, to
reject any and all bids, to withdraw the property from sale
at any time before or at the auction, to extend the time to
receive bids, to waive or modify the deposit requirement, to
waive or modify the requirement that interest be paid on the
unpaid purchase money, and/or to extend the period of time
for settlement.
Additional terms may be announced at the sale. The
successful bidder will be required to execute and deliver
to Trustee a memorandum or contract of the sale at the
conclusion of bidding.
Russell S. Drazin, Trustee
Feb 22,26,28,Mar 1,5 2024 0012450684
850 850
Montgomery County Montgomery County
Friedman Vartolo LLP
1325 Franklin Avenue Suite
Garden City, NY 11530
212-471-5100
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
11005 EARLSGATE LN.
ROCKVILLE, MD 20852
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
from Michele B. Kraft and Michele B. Kraft as Trustee for the
Michele Kraft Revocable Trust, dated August 16, 2007 and
recorded in Liber 34832, folio 512 among the Land Records
of Montgomery County, MD, default having occurred under
the terms thereof and at the request of the parties secured
thereby, the undersigned Substitute Trustees will offer for
sale at public auction at the Circuit Court for Montgomery
County, at the Court House Door, 50 Maryland Ave., Rockville,
MD 20850, on
MARCH 22, 2024 AT 3:57 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND AND THE
IMPROVEMENTS THEREON situated in Montgomery County,
Maryland and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of
Trust. The property is improved by a dwelling.
Property Address (for Informational Purposes): 11005
Earlsgate Ln., Rockville MD 20852
Tax ID Number: 04-01828730
The foreclosure sale advertised herein has been docketed in
the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, Maryland, as Case
No. C-15-CV-22-003167
The property, will be sold in an “as is” condition and subject
to conditions, restrictions, easements, encumbrances and
agreements of record affecting the subject property, if any,
and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit in the form of cashier’s or certified
check, or in such other form as the Substitute Trustees may
determine, at their sole discretion, for $59,000 at the time
of sale. If the noteholder and/or servicer is the successful
bidder, the deposit requirement is waived. Balance of
the purchase price is to be paid within fifteen (15) days
of the final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court for
Montgomery County, Maryland. Interest is to be paid on the
unpaid purchase price at the rate of 4.75000% per annum
from date of sale to the date the funds are received in the
office of the Substitute Trustees, if the property is purchased
by an entity other than the noteholder and/or servicer. If
payment of the balance does not occur within fifteen
days of ratification, the deposit will be forfeited and the
property will be resold at the risk and cost of the defaulting
purchaser. There will be no abatement of interest due
from the purchaser in the event settlement is delayed for
any reason. Taxes, water rent, and all other public charges
and assessments payable on an annual basis, including
sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges to be adjusted
for the current year to the date of sale, and assumed
thereafter by the purchaser. Condominium fees and/or
homeowners association dues, if any, shall be assumed by
the purchaser from the date of sale. The purchaser shall
be responsible for the payment of the ground rent escrow,
if required. Cost of all documentary stamps, transfer taxes
(including agricultural transfer taxes, if applicable), and
all settlement charges shall be borne by the purchaser.
If the Substitute Trustees are unable to convey good and
marketable title, the purchaser’s sole remedy in law or
equity shall be limited to the refund of the deposit to the
purchaser. Upon refund of the deposit, the sale shall be
void and of no effect, and the purchaser shall have no
further claim against the Substitute Trustees. Purchaser
shall be responsible for obtaining physical possession of
the property. The purchaser at the foreclosure sale shall
assume the risk of loss for the property immediately after
the sale.
Adam Friedman, Ralph Vartolo, Catherine Aponte,
Rachel Kiefer, Substitute Trustees
Mar 5,12,19 2024 0012453361
CLASSIFIED D7
850 850
Montgomery County Montgomery County
BWW Law Group, LLC
6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY
IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
3 PICKERING CT., UNIT #102
GERMANTOWN, MD 20874
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of
Trust dated May 30, 2006, recorded in Liber 32448, Folio
543 among the Land Records of Montgomery County,
MD, with an original principal balance of $192,800.00,
default having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub.
Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for
Montgomery County, at the Court House Door, 50 Maryland
Ave., Rockville, MD 20850, on
MARCH 22, 2024 AT 3:27 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any
buildings or improvements thereon located in Montgomery
County, MD and described as Unit 3-102 in building
numbered 7 in Phase No. 9, in an expendable condominium
regime known as “Esprit, A Condominium” and more fully
described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust.
The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in
an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions
and agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and
with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $9,000 in the form of certified
check, cashier’s check or money order will be required of
the purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the
purchase price, together with interest on the unpaid
purchase money at the current rate contained in the Deed
of Trust Note, or any modifications thereto, from the date
of sale to the date funds are received by the Sub. Trustees,
payable in cash within ten days of final ratification of the
sale by the Circuit Court. There will be no abatement of
interest due to the purchaser in the event additional funds
are tendered before settlement. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE
FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of all real property
taxes, including agricultural taxes, if applicable, and any
and all public and/or private charges or assessments, to
the extent such amounts survive foreclosure sale, including
water/sewer and front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted
to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser.
Purchaser is responsible for any recapture of homestead
tax credit. All transfer taxes and recordation taxes shall be
paid by Purchaser. Condominium fees and/or homeowners
association dues, if any, shall be assumed by the
purchaser from the date of sale. Purchaser is responsible
for obtaining physical possession of the property, and
assumes risk of loss or damage to the property from the
date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit of the
status of the loan with the loan servicer including, but not
limited to, determination of whether the borrower entered
into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off the
loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale shall be
null and void, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy, in law or
equity, shall be the return of the deposit without interest.
If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of ratification,
subject to order of court, purchaser agrees that property
will be resold and entire deposit retained by Sub. Trustees
as liquidated damages for all losses occasioned by the
purchaser’s default and purchaser shall have no further
liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any
papers filed in connection with its failure to settle within ten
days of ratification and expressly agrees to accept service
by first class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser
as identified on the Memorandum of Sale. The defaulted
purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds
resulting from said resale even if such surplus results from
improvements to the property by said defaulted purchaser.
Sub. Trustees will convey either marketable or insurable
title. If they cannot deliver one or the other, or if ratification
of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the
Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the
deposit without interest. (Matter No. 350177-3)
Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al.,
Substitute Trustees
Mar 5,12,19 2024 0012453369
McCabe, Weisberg & Conway, LLC
312 Marshall Avenue, Suite 800
Laurel, MD 20707
www.mwc-law.com
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
4215 CROSSWOOD DR.
BURTONSVILLE, MD 20866
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
from Stephen Matin Gilliam-Achamou, dated April 29, 2016
and recorded in Liber 52307, folio 467 among the Land
Records of Montgomery County, MD, default having occurred
under the terms thereof and at the request of the parties
secured thereby, the undersigned Substitute Trustees will
offer for sale at public auction at the Circuit Court for
Montgomery County, at the Court House Door, 50 Maryland
Ave., Rockville, MD 20850, on
MARCH 22, 2024 AT 3:43 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND AND THE
IMPROVEMENTS THEREON situated in Montgomery County,
Maryland and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of
Trust. The property is improved by a dwelling.
The property, will be sold in an “as is” condition and subject
to conditions, restrictions, easements, encumbrances and
agreements of record affecting the subject property, if any,
and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit in the form of cashier’s or certified
check, or in such other form as the Substitute Trustees may
determine, at their sole discretion, for $26,000 at the time
of sale. If the noteholder and/or servicer is the successful
bidder, the deposit requirement is waived. Balance of the
purchase price is to be paid within ten (10) days of the final
ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court for Montgomery
County, Maryland. Interest is to be paid on the unpaid
purchase price at the rate of 5% per annum from date
of sale to the date the funds are received in the office of
the Substitute Trustees, if the property is purchased by
an entity other than the noteholder and/or servicer. If
payment of the balance does not occur within ten (10) days
of ratification, the deposit will be forfeited as liquidated
damages. The purchaser agrees that the property may
be resold pursuant to an order of court, waives personal
service upon themselves and/or any principal or corporate
designee of any documents filed regarding the failure to pay
the purchase price within ten (10) days of ratification and
expressly agrees to accept service by first class mail of said
documents at the address provided by the purchaser in the
Memorandum of Sale. The purchaser will not be entitled to
any surplus or profits arising from the resale even if they are
the result of improvements made by the purchaser. There
will be no abatement of interest due from the purchaser in
the event settlement is delayed for any reason. Taxes, water
rent, and all other public charges and assessments payable
on an annual basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan
district charges to be adjusted for the current year to the
date of sale, and assumed thereafter by the purchaser.
Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if
any, shall be assumed by the purchaser from the date of
sale. The purchaser shall be responsible for the payment of
the ground rent escrow, if required. Cost of all documentary
stamps, transfer taxes (including agricultural transfer
taxes, if applicable), and all settlement charges shall be
borne by the purchaser. The sale is subject to a post sale
audit of the loan, including but not limited to an analysis
of whether the borrower entered into a loan modification
agreement, filed bankruptcy, reinstated or paid off the loan
prior to the sale. The Substitute Trustees will convey either
insurable or marketable title. If the Substitute Trustees are
unable to convey insurable or marketable title or, the post
sale audit concludes that the sale should not have occurred,
or the sale is not ratified by the court for any reason, the
purchaser’s sole remedy in law or equity shall be limited
to the refund of the deposit without interest even if the
purchaser has made improvements to the property. Upon
refund of the deposit, the sale shall be void and of no effect,
and the purchaser shall have no further claim against
the Substitute Trustees. Purchaser shall be responsible
for obtaining physical possession of the property. The
purchaser at the foreclosure sale shall assume the risk of
loss for the property immediately after the sale. (Matter
#18-601415).
Laura H. G. O’Sullivan, et al., Substitute Trustees
Mar 5,12,19 2024 0012453364
 EZ
D8 CLASSIFIED
850 850
Montgomery County Montgomery County
BWW Law Group, LLC
6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY
IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
886 BAYRIDGE DR.
GAITHERSBURG, MD 20878
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of
Trust dated March 3, 2003, recorded in Liber 24228, Folio
776 among the Land Records of Montgomery County,
MD, with an original principal balance of $147,000.00,
default having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub.
Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for
Montgomery County, at the Court House Door, 50 Maryland
Ave., Rockville, MD 20850, on
MARCH 15, 2024 AT 3:32 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any
buildings or improvements thereon located in Montgomery
County, MD and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed
of Trust.
The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in
an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions
and agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and
with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $7,000 in the form of certified
check, cashier’s check or money order will be required of
the purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the
purchase price, together with interest on the unpaid
purchase money at the current rate contained in the Deed
of Trust Note, or any modifications thereto, from the date
of sale to the date funds are received by the Sub. Trustees,
payable in cash within ten days of final ratification of the
sale by the Circuit Court. There will be no abatement of
interest due to the purchaser in the event additional funds
are tendered before settlement. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE
FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of all real property
taxes, including agricultural taxes, if applicable, and any
and all public and/or private charges or assessments, to
the extent such amounts survive foreclosure sale, including
water/sewer and front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted
to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser.
Purchaser is responsible for any recapture of homestead
tax credit. All transfer taxes and recordation taxes shall be
paid by Purchaser. Condominium fees and/or homeowners
association dues, if any, shall be assumed by the
purchaser from the date of sale. Purchaser is responsible
for obtaining physical possession of the property, and
assumes risk of loss or damage to the property from the
date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit of the
status of the loan with the loan servicer including, but not
limited to, determination of whether the borrower entered
into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off the
loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale shall be
null and void, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy, in law or
equity, shall be the return of the deposit without interest.
If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of ratification,
subject to order of court, purchaser agrees that property
will be resold and entire deposit retained by Sub. Trustees
as liquidated damages for all losses occasioned by the
purchaser’s default and purchaser shall have no further
liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any
papers filed in connection with its failure to settle within ten
days of ratification and expressly agrees to accept service
by first class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser
as identified on the Memorandum of Sale. The defaulted
purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds
resulting from said resale even if such surplus results from
improvements to the property by said defaulted purchaser.
Sub. Trustees will convey either marketable or insurable
title. If they cannot deliver one or the other, or if ratification
of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the
Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the
deposit without interest. (Matter No. 155007-2)
Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al.,
Substitute Trustees
Feb 27,Mar 5,12 2024 0012452745
McCabe, Weisberg & Conway, LLC
312 Marshall Avenue, Suite 800
Laurel, MD 20707
www.mwc-law.com
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
3009 PIANO LN., UNIT #36
SILVER SPRING, MD 20904
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
from Ellen M. Aubee, dated October 6, 2006 and recorded
in Liber 33542, folio 363 among the Land Records of
Montgomery County, MD, default having occurred under
the terms thereof and at the request of the parties secured
thereby, the undersigned Substitute Trustees will offer for
sale at public auction at the Circuit Court for Montgomery
County, at the Court House Door, 50 Maryland Ave., Rockville,
MD 20850, on
MARCH 22, 2024 AT 3:41 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND AND THE
IMPROVEMENTS THEREON situated in Montgomery County,
Maryland and described as Unit Numbered Thirty-Six (36),
Building Three (3), Phase Two (2) of a plat of condominium
entitled “Stockbridge at Tanglewood, a Condominium” and
more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. The
property is improved by a dwelling.
The property, will be sold in an “as is” condition and subject
to conditions, restrictions, easements, encumbrances and
agreements of record affecting the subject property, if any,
and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit in the form of cashier’s or certified
check, or in such other form as the Substitute Trustees may
determine, at their sole discretion, for $5,000 at the time
of sale. If the noteholder and/or servicer is the successful
bidder, the deposit requirement is waived. Balance of the
purchase price is to be paid within ten (10) days of the final
ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court for Montgomery
County, Maryland. Interest is to be paid on the unpaid
purchase price at the rate of 5.5% per annum from date
of sale to the date the funds are received in the office of
the Substitute Trustees, if the property is purchased by
an entity other than the noteholder and/or servicer. If
payment of the balance does not occur within ten (10) days
of ratification, the deposit will be forfeited as liquidated
damages. The purchaser agrees that the property may
be resold pursuant to an order of court, waives personal
service upon themselves and/or any principal or corporate
designee of any documents filed regarding the failure to pay
the purchase price within ten (10) days of ratification and
expressly agrees to accept service by first class mail of said
documents at the address provided by the purchaser in the
Memorandum of Sale. The purchaser will not be entitled to
any surplus or profits arising from the resale even if they are
the result of improvements made by the purchaser. There
will be no abatement of interest due from the purchaser in
the event settlement is delayed for any reason. Taxes, water
rent, and all other public charges and assessments payable
on an annual basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan
district charges to be adjusted for the current year to the
date of sale, and assumed thereafter by the purchaser.
Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if
any, shall be assumed by the purchaser from the date of
sale. The purchaser shall be responsible for the payment of
the ground rent escrow, if required. Cost of all documentary
stamps, transfer taxes (including agricultural transfer
taxes, if applicable), and all settlement charges shall be
borne by the purchaser. The sale is subject to a post sale
audit of the loan, including but not limited to an analysis
of whether the borrower entered into a loan modification
agreement, filed bankruptcy, reinstated or paid off the loan
prior to the sale. The Substitute Trustees will convey either
insurable or marketable title. If the Substitute Trustees are
unable to convey insurable or marketable title or, the post
sale audit concludes that the sale should not have occurred,
or the sale is not ratified by the court for any reason, the
purchaser’s sole remedy in law or equity shall be limited
to the refund of the deposit without interest even if the
purchaser has made improvements to the property. Upon
refund of the deposit, the sale shall be void and of no effect,
and the purchaser shall have no further claim against
the Substitute Trustees. Purchaser shall be responsible
for obtaining physical possession of the property. The
purchaser at the foreclosure sale shall assume the risk of
loss for the property immediately after the sale. (Matter
#23-600856).
Laura H. G. O’Sullivan, et al., Substitute Trustees
Mar 5,12,19 2024 0012453362
850 850
Montgomery County Montgomery County
McCabe, Weisberg & Conway, LLC
312 Marshall Avenue, Suite 800
Laurel, MD 20707
www.mwc-law.com
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
14210 AUTUMN CREST RD.
BOYDS, MD 20841
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
from Carlos A. Paquete and Alcina B. Paquete, dated
December 12, 2005 and recorded in Liber 32417, folio 718
among the Land Records of Montgomery County, MD, default
having occurred under the terms thereof and at the request
of the parties secured thereby, the undersigned Substitute
Trustees will offer for sale at public auction at the Circuit
Court for Montgomery County, at the Court House Door, 50
Maryland Ave., Rockville, MD 20850, on
MARCH 22, 2024 AT 3:47 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND AND THE
IMPROVEMENTS THEREON situated in Montgomery County,
Maryland and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of
Trust. The property is improved by a dwelling.
The property, will be sold in an “as is” condition and subject
to conditions, restrictions, easements, encumbrances and
agreements of record affecting the subject property, if any,
and with no warranty of any kind. The property is subject to
a front foot benefit.
Terms of Sale: A deposit in the form of cashier’s or certified
check, or in such other form as the Substitute Trustees may
determine, at their sole discretion, for $65,000 at the time
of sale. If the noteholder and/or servicer is the successful
bidder, the deposit requirement is waived. Balance of the
purchase price is to be paid within ten (10) days of the final
ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court for Montgomery
County, Maryland. Interest is to be paid on the unpaid
purchase price at the rate of 5% per annum from date
of sale to the date the funds are received in the office of
the Substitute Trustees, if the property is purchased by
an entity other than the noteholder and/or servicer. If
payment of the balance does not occur within ten (10) days
of ratification, the deposit will be forfeited as liquidated
damages. The purchaser agrees that the property may
be resold pursuant to an order of court, waives personal
service upon themselves and/or any principal or corporate
designee of any documents filed regarding the failure to pay
the purchase price within ten (10) days of ratification and
expressly agrees to accept service by first class mail of said
documents at the address provided by the purchaser in the
Memorandum of Sale. The purchaser will not be entitled to
any surplus or profits arising from the resale even if they are
the result of improvements made by the purchaser. There
will be no abatement of interest due from the purchaser in
the event settlement is delayed for any reason. Taxes, water
rent, and all other public charges and assessments payable
on an annual basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan
district charges to be adjusted for the current year to the
date of sale, and assumed thereafter by the purchaser.
Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if
any, shall be assumed by the purchaser from the date of
sale. The purchaser shall be responsible for the payment of
the ground rent escrow, if required. Cost of all documentary
stamps, transfer taxes (including agricultural transfer
taxes, if applicable), and all settlement charges shall be
borne by the purchaser. The sale is subject to a post sale
audit of the loan, including but not limited to an analysis
of whether the borrower entered into a loan modification
agreement, filed bankruptcy, reinstated or paid off the loan
prior to the sale. The Substitute Trustees will convey either
insurable or marketable title. If the Substitute Trustees are
unable to convey insurable or marketable title or, the post
sale audit concludes that the sale should not have occurred,
or the sale is not ratified by the court for any reason, the
purchaser’s sole remedy in law or equity shall be limited
to the refund of the deposit without interest even if the
purchaser has made improvements to the property. Upon
refund of the deposit, the sale shall be void and of no effect,
and the purchaser shall have no further claim against
the Substitute Trustees. Purchaser shall be responsible
for obtaining physical possession of the property. The
purchaser at the foreclosure sale shall assume the risk of
loss for the property immediately after the sale. (Matter
#2011-15196).
The property will be sold subject to a 120 day right of
redemption by the Internal Revenue Service.
Laura H. G. O’Sullivan, et al., Substitute Trustees
Mar 5,12,19 2024 0012453060
Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid & Crane, LLC
11350 McCormick Road, EP 1, Suite 302
Hunt Valley, MD 21031
470-321-7112
TRUSTEES’ SALE OF
VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY
KNOWN AS
11204 MIDVALE ROAD
KENSINGTON, MD 20895
Under a power of sale contained in that Deed of Trust
dated September 20, 2004, and recorded in Liber 28411,
folio 353, of the land records of MONTGOMERY COUNTY ,
with an original principal balance of $240,000.00, default
having occurred under the terms thereof, the appointed
Substitute Trustees will offer for sale at public auction at
THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT 50
MARYLAND AVENUE, ROCKVILLE, MD 20850 ON,
MARCH 6, 2024 at 1:00 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND together with
any buildings or improvements thereon situated in
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MD, located at the above address
and more fully described in the aforementioned Deed of
Trust.
TAX-ID# - 13-01027072
The property and improvements will be sold in an “AS
IS” physical condition without warranty of any kind and
subject to all conditions, restrictions and agreements of
record affecting the same, including any condominium or
homeowners association assessments pursuant to MD Real
Property Article §11-110 and §11B-117.
TERMS OF SALE: A non-refundable bidder’s deposit of
$17,500.00 by cashier’s/certified check or such other form
as the Substitute Trustee may determine, in their sole
discretion, required at time of sale except for the party
secured by the Deed of Trust. Risk of loss on purchaser
from date and time of auction. The balance of the purchase
price together with interest thereon at 6.125% per annum
from date of sale to receipt of purchase price by Substitute
Trustees must be paid by cashier’s check within 10 days
after final ratification of sale. The noteholder shall not be
obligated to pay interest if it is the purchaser. There will be
no abatement of interest due from the purchaser in the event
that additional funds are tendered before settlement or if
settlement is delayed for any reason. All real estate taxes
and other public charges and/or assessments to be adjusted
as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser.
If applicable, any condominium and/or homeowners
association dues and assessments that may become due
after the date of sale shall be purchaser’s responsibility.
Purchaser shall pay all transfer, documentary and recording
taxes/fees and all other settlement costs. Purchaser is
responsible for obtaining possession of the property. Time
is of the essence for the purchaser. If purchaser defaults,
deposit will be forfeited and property resold at the risk and
cost of the defaulting purchaser who shall be liable for any
deficiency in the purchase price and all costs, expenses and
attorney’s fees of both sales. If Substitute Trustees do not
convey title for any reason, purchaser’s sole remedy is return
of deposit without interest. This sale is subject to post-sale
audit of the status of the loan secured by the Deed of Trust
including but not limited to determining whether prior to
sale a bankruptcy was filed; forbearance, repayment or
other agreement was entered into; or loan was reinstated
or paid off. In any such even this sale shall be null and
void and purchaser’s sole remedy shall be return of deposit
without interest. File No. (20-047027)
Keith Yacko, David Williamson,
Bryson Stephen, Thomas Gartner,
Substitute Trustees
Feb 20,27,Mar 5 2024 0012449562
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Montgomery County Montgomery County
Law Offices of
Gebhardt & Smith LLP
One South Street, Suite 2200
Baltimore, Maryland 21202
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF
VALUABLE RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY
LOCATED AT
5908 BRADLEY BOULEVARD, BETHESDA, MARYLAND 20814
Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in
the Deed of Trust, Assignment of Leases and Rents, and
Security Agreement dated June 14, 2023 from Thornbear
Holdings, LLC (“Grantor”) to the trustees named therein
and recorded among the Land Records of Montgomery
County, Maryland (“Land Records”) on June 22, 2023 at
Book 67125, page 408 (“Deed of Trust”), the current holder
of the indebtedness secured by said Deed of Trust, Avatar
REIT I LLC (“Noteholder”), having subsequently appointed
David V. Fontana and Richard A. DuBose, III as Substitute
Trustees (“Trustees”) under the Deed of Trust by a Deed of
Appointment of Substitute Trustees dated December 4, 2023
executed by the Noteholder and recorded among the Land
Records at Book 67602, page 308, default having occurred
under the terms of the Deed of Trust and at the request of
the Noteholder secured by the Deed of Trust, the Trustees
will offer for sale to the highest qualified bidder at a public
auction to be held in front of the main entrance of the
Circuit Court for Montgomery County located at 50 Maryland
Avenue, Rockville, Maryland 20850 on:
Friday, March 15, 2024
at 3:00 p.m.
All of the Grantor’s right, title and interest in that certain
lot, piece or parcel of land situate, lying and being in
Montgomery County, Maryland and being more particularly
described as follows, together with all buildings, structures,
improvements and fixtures affixed or attached thereto (the
“Property”):
Lot Numbered Thirty-One (31) in Block Numbered Four (4) in
the subdivision known as “BRADLEY WOODS,” as per Plat
recorded in Plat Book 186 at Plat No. 20552 among the Land
Records of Montgomery County, Maryland.
The Property has an address of 5908 Bradley Boulevard,
Bethesda, Maryland 20814 and a tax account identification
number of 07-03207195.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit (“Deposit”) in the amount of
Seventy-Five Thousand Dollars ($75,000.00), payable to the
Trustees by cashier’s check or certified check will be required
from the purchaser of the Property (the “purchaser”) at
the time and place of sale. The purchaser will be required
to increase the Deposit to ten percent (10%) of the bid
amount by the close of business on the third business day
following the date of sale by delivering certified funds or a
wire transfer to the Trustees. The Deposit will be held by the
Trustees in a non-interest bearing escrow account and will
be applied to the purchase price at the time of settlement.
The balance of the purchase price, together with interest
thereon at the rate of six percent (6%) per annum from the
date of sale to the date of settlement, shall be due from
the purchaser by cashier’s check or wire transfer within
thirty (30) days following final ratification of the sale by
the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, Maryland. Time
is of the essence. If ratification of the sale or settlement
is delayed for any reason, there shall be no abatement of
interest. Settlement shall be held at the offices of Gebhardt
& Smith LLP, One South Street, Suite 2200, Baltimore,
Maryland 21202, or such other place as may be agreed to by
the Trustees. If the Noteholder, or an affiliate or subsidiary
thereof, is the successful bidder at the sale, such party will
not be required to make a deposit or to pay interest on the
unpaid purchase price. The Trustees and the Noteholder
reserve the right, in their sole and absolute discretion, to
reject any and all bids at the sale, to withdraw the Property
from sale prior to or at the time of the public auction, to
cancel or postpone the foreclosure sale of the Property and
to extend the time for settlement.
The Property is being sold subject to: (a) all existing zoning,
building, housing, fire and safety code violations; (b) all
critical area and wetland violations; (c) all environmental
problems, conditions, encroachments and other violations
which may exist on or with respect to the Property; (d)
all senior liens, encumbrances, easements, conditions,
restrictions, agreements, declarations and covenants which
are not extinguished as a matter of law by the foreclosure
sale; (e) any rights of redemption; and (f) such state of
facts that an accurate survey or physical inspection of
the Property might disclose. All liens, encumbrances,
leases, easements, conditions, restrictions, agreements,
declarations and covenants against the Property that are
subordinate or junior to the Deed of Trust will be extinguished
by the foreclosure sale of the Property. The Property is being
sold in an “AS IS” condition and without any warranties
or representations of any kind or nature, either express or
implied, as to the condition, fitness for a particular purpose,
use or value of the Property or the improvements thereon.
The purchaser shall be responsible for conducting its own
due diligence regarding the Property.
All real estate taxes, water and sewer charges and other
municipal assessments by Montgomery County that were
assessed against the Property prior to the foreclosure sale
and which are not extinguished by the foreclosure sale shall
be prorated between the purchaser and seller as of the date
of the foreclosure sale and such amounts for which the
purchaser is responsible shall be paid by the purchaser at
settlement. All real estate taxes, water and sewer charges
and other municipal assessments by Montgomery County
that are assessed against the Property after the date of
the foreclosure sale shall be the sole responsibility of the
purchaser and shall be paid by the purchaser. The cost of
all recordation taxes, transfer taxes, recording fees and
other costs associated with conveying the Property to the
purchaser shall be the sole responsibility of the purchaser
and shall be paid for by the purchaser at settlement.
The purchaser shall assume the risk of loss for the Property
immediately after the foreclosure sale takes place. The
purchaser shall be responsible for insuring its interest
in the Property after the foreclosure sale. It shall be the
purchaser’s sole responsibility to obtain possession of
the Property following final ratification of the sale by the
Circuit Court for Montgomery County, Maryland in Case No.
C-15-CV-24-000008 and conveyance of the Property by the
Trustees to the purchaser.
In the event the purchaser fails to go to settlement as
required or fails to deliver the entire Deposit to the Trustees
as required herein, in addition to any other legal or equitable
remedies available to the Trustees, the purchaser shall
forfeit the entire Deposit and the Trustees may, subject
to further order of the court, resell the Property at the
purchaser’s sole risk and expense and retain and apply the
Deposit to any deficiency in the purchase price sustained by
the Trustees and/or the Noteholder, all costs and expenses
of both sales, reasonable attorneys’ fees, and any other
damages sustained by the Trustees and/or the Noteholder
as a result of the purchaser’s default, including, without
limitation, all incidental damages. In the event a resale
of the Property results in a sale in excess of the amount
originally bid by the defaulting purchaser, the defaulting
purchaser waives any and all claims, rights and interest
to any such excess amount and shall not be entitled to
any distribution whatsoever from the sale proceeds. If the
Trustees are unable to convey the Property to the purchaser
as described above for any reason, the purchaser’s sole
remedy at law or in equity shall be limited to a refund of
the Deposit, without interest thereon. Upon refund of the
Deposit to the purchaser, the sale shall be void and of
no effect, and the purchaser shall have no further claim
against the Trustees, the Noteholder or the Auctioneer
conducting the foreclosure sale. The parties’ respective
rights and obligations regarding the terms of sale and the
conduct of the sale shall be governed by and interpreted
according to the laws of the State of Maryland.
David V. Fontana and Richard A. DuBose, III,
Substitute Trustees
For further information, please contact:
David V. Fontana, Substitute Trustee
Tel: 410-385-5053
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Montgomery County Montgomery County
BWW Law Group, LLC
6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY
IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
1 SEVEN LOCKS CT.
BETHESDA, MD 20817
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
dated November 4, 2019, recorded in Liber 58497, Folio
247 among the Land Records of Montgomery County,
MD, with an original principal balance of $731,000.00,
default having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub.
Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for
Montgomery County, at the Court House Door, 50 Maryland
Ave., Rockville, MD 20850, on
MARCH 15, 2024 AT 3:34 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any
buildings or improvements thereon located in Montgomery
County, MD and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed
of Trust.
The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in
an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions
and agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and
with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $73,000 in the form of certified
check, cashier’s check or money order will be required of
the purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the
purchase price, together with interest on the unpaid
purchase money at the current rate contained in the Deed
of Trust Note, or any modifications thereto, from the date
of sale to the date funds are received by the Sub. Trustees,
payable in cash within ten days of final ratification of the
sale by the Circuit Court. There will be no abatement of
interest due to the purchaser in the event additional funds
are tendered before settlement. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE
FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of all real property
taxes, including agricultural taxes, if applicable, and any
and all public and/or private charges or assessments, to
the extent such amounts survive foreclosure sale, including
water/sewer and front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted
to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser.
Purchaser is responsible for any recapture of homestead
tax credit. All transfer taxes and recordation taxes shall be
paid by Purchaser. Condominium fees and/or homeowners
association dues, if any, shall be assumed by the
purchaser from the date of sale. Purchaser is responsible
for obtaining physical possession of the property, and
assumes risk of loss or damage to the property from the
date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit of the
status of the loan with the loan servicer including, but not
limited to, determination of whether the borrower entered
into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off the
loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale shall be
null and void, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy, in law or
equity, shall be the return of the deposit without interest.
If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of ratification,
subject to order of court, purchaser agrees that property
will be resold and entire deposit retained by Sub. Trustees
as liquidated damages for all losses occasioned by the
purchaser’s default and purchaser shall have no further
liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any
papers filed in connection with its failure to settle within ten
days of ratification and expressly agrees to accept service
by first class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser
as identified on the Memorandum of Sale. The defaulted
purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds
resulting from said resale even if such surplus results from
improvements to the property by said defaulted purchaser.
Sub. Trustees will convey either marketable or insurable
title. If they cannot deliver one or the other, or if ratification
of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the
Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the
deposit without interest. (Matter No. 355441-1)
Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al.,
Substitute Trustees
Feb 27,Mar 5,12 2024 0012452746
McCabe, Weisberg & Conway, LLC
312 Marshall Avenue, Suite 800
Laurel, MD 20707
www.mwc-law.com
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
19352 SANDY LAKE DR.
GAITHERSBURG, MD 20879
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
from Marvin A. Mejia and Rodolfo J. Mejia, dated March 1,
2006 and recorded in Liber 32060, folio 67 among the Land
Records of Montgomery County, MD, default having occurred
under the terms thereof and at the request of the parties
secured thereby, the undersigned Substitute Trustees will
offer for sale at public auction at the Circuit Court for
Montgomery County, at the Court House Door, 50 Maryland
Ave., Rockville, MD 20850, on
MARCH 22, 2024 AT 3:45 PM
ALL THAT FEESIMPLE LOT OF GROUND AND THE
IMPROVEMENTS THEREON situated in Montgomery County,
Maryland and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of
Trust. The property is improved by a dwelling.
The property, will be sold in an “as is” condition and subject
to conditions, restrictions, easements, encumbrances and
agreements of record affecting the subject property, if any,
and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit in the form of cashier’s or certified
check, or in such other form as the Substitute Trustees may
determine, at their sole discretion, for $6,000 at the time
of sale. If the noteholder and/or servicer is the successful
bidder, the deposit requirement is waived. Balance of the
purchase price is to be paid within ten (10) days of the final
ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court for Montgomery
County, Maryland. Interest is to be paid on the unpaid
purchase price at the rate of 5% per annum from date
of sale to the date the funds are received in the office of
the Substitute Trustees, if the property is purchased by
an entity other than the noteholder and/or servicer. If
payment of the balance does not occur within ten (10) days
of ratification, the deposit will be forfeited as liquidated
damages. The purchaser agrees that the property may
be resold pursuant to an order of court, waives personal
service upon themselves and/or any principal or corporate
designee of any documents filed regarding the failure to pay
the purchase price within ten (10) days of ratification and
expressly agrees to accept service by first class mail of said
documents at the address provided by the purchaser in the
Memorandum of Sale. The purchaser will not be entitled to
any surplus or profits arising from the resale even if they are
the result of improvements made by the purchaser. There
will be no abatement of interest due from the purchaser in
the event settlement is delayed for any reason. Taxes, water
rent, and all other public charges and assessments payable
on an annual basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan
district charges to be adjusted for the current year to the
date of sale, and assumed thereafter by the purchaser.
Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if
any, shall be assumed by the purchaser from the date of
sale. The purchaser shall be responsible for the payment of
the ground rent escrow, if required. Cost of all documentary
stamps, transfer taxes (including agricultural transfer
taxes, if applicable), and all settlement charges shall be
borne by the purchaser. The sale is subject to a post sale
audit of the loan, including but not limited to an analysis
of whether the borrower entered into a loan modification
agreement, filed bankruptcy, reinstated or paid off the loan
prior to the sale. The Substitute Trustees will convey either
insurable or marketable title. If the Substitute Trustees are
unable to convey insurable or marketable title or, the post
sale audit concludes that the sale should not have occurred,
or the sale is not ratified by the court for any reason, the
purchaser’s sole remedy in law or equity shall be limited
to the refund of the deposit without interest even if the
purchaser has made improvements to the property. Upon
refund of the deposit, the sale shall be void and of no effect,
and the purchaser shall have no further claim against
the Substitute Trustees. Purchaser shall be responsible
for obtaining physical possession of the property. The
purchaser at the foreclosure sale shall assume the risk of
loss for the property immediately after the sale. (Matter
#23-600636).
The property will be sold subject to a 120 day right of
redemption by the Internal Revenue Service.
Laura H. G. O’Sullivan, et al., Substitute Trustees
Mar 5,12,19 2024 0012452703
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850 850
Montgomery County Montgomery County
BWW Law Group, LLC
6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
115 ELMCROFT BLVD.
ROCKVILLE, MD 20850
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
dated October 8, 2003, recorded in Liber 25872, Folio
615 among the Land Records of Montgomery County,
MD, with an original principal balance of $250,000.00,
default having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub.
Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for
Montgomery County, at the Court House Door, 50 Maryland
Ave., Rockville, MD 20850, on
MARCH 8, 2024 AT 1:02 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any
buildings or improvements thereon located in Montgomery
County, MD and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed
of Trust.
The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in
an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions
and agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and
with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $23,000 in the form of certified
check, cashier’s check or money order will be required of
the purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the
purchase price, together with interest on the unpaid
purchase money at the current rate contained in the Deed
of Trust Note, or any modifications thereto, from the date
of sale to the date funds are received by the Sub. Trustees,
payable in cash within ten days of final ratification of the
sale by the Circuit Court. There will be no abatement of
interest due to the purchaser in the event additional funds
are tendered before settlement. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE
FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of all real property
taxes, including agricultural taxes, if applicable, and any
and all public and/or private charges or assessments, to
the extent such amounts survive foreclosure sale, including
water/sewer and front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted
to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser.
Purchaser is responsible for any recapture of homestead
tax credit. All transfer taxes and recordation taxes shall be
paid by Purchaser. Condominium fees and/or homeowners
association dues, if any, shall be assumed by the
purchaser from the date of sale. Purchaser is responsible
for obtaining physical possession of the property, and
assumes risk of loss or damage to the property from the
date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit of the
status of the loan with the loan servicer including, but not
limited to, determination of whether the borrower entered
into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off the
loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale shall be
null and void, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy, in law or
equity, shall be the return of the deposit without interest.
If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of ratification,
subject to order of court, purchaser agrees that property
will be resold and entire deposit retained by Sub. Trustees
as liquidated damages for all losses occasioned by the
purchaser’s default and purchaser shall have no further
liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any
papers filed in connection with its failure to settle within ten
days of ratification and expressly agrees to accept service
by first class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser
as identified on the Memorandum of Sale. The defaulted
purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds
resulting from said resale even if such surplus results from
improvements to the property by said defaulted purchaser.
Sub. Trustees will convey either marketable or insurable
title. If they cannot deliver one or the other, or if ratification
of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the
Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the
deposit without interest. (Matter No. 347936-1)
Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al.,
Substitute Trustees
Feb 20,27,Mar 5 2024 0012451812
BWW Law Group, LLC
6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY
IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
404 GIRARD ST., UNIT #201
GAITHERSBURG, MD 20877
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
dated January 19, 2006, recorded in Liber 31687, Folio
372 among the Land Records of Montgomery County,
MD, with an original principal balance of $173,500.00,
default having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub.
Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for
Montgomery County, at the Court House Door, 50 Maryland
Ave., Rockville, MD 20850, on
MARCH 15, 2024 AT 3:30 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any
buildings or improvements thereon located in Montgomery
County, MD and described as Unit No. 20, Section 1, in “The
Villa Ridge Condominium” and more fully described in the
aforesaid Deed of Trust.
The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in
an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions
and agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and
with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $9,000 in the form of certified
check, cashier’s check or money order will be required of
the purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the
purchase price, together with interest on the unpaid
purchase money at the current rate contained in the Deed
of Trust Note, or any modifications thereto, from the date
of sale to the date funds are received by the Sub. Trustees,
payable in cash within ten days of final ratification of the
sale by the Circuit Court. There will be no abatement of
interest due to the purchaser in the event additional funds
are tendered before settlement. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE
FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of all real property
taxes, including agricultural taxes, if applicable, and any
and all public and/or private charges or assessments, to
the extent such amounts survive foreclosure sale, including
water/sewer and front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted
to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser.
Purchaser is responsible for any recapture of homestead
tax credit. All transfer taxes and recordation taxes shall be
paid by Purchaser. Condominium fees and/or homeowners
association dues, if any, shall be assumed by the
purchaser from the date of sale. Purchaser is responsible
for obtaining physical possession of the property, and
assumes risk of loss or damage to the property from the
date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit of the
status of the loan with the loan servicer including, but not
limited to, determination of whether the borrower entered
into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off the
loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale shall be
null and void, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy, in law or
equity, shall be the return of the deposit without interest.
If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of ratification,
subject to order of court, purchaser agrees that property
will be resold and entire deposit retained by Sub. Trustees
as liquidated damages for all losses occasioned by the
purchaser’s default and purchaser shall have no further
liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any
papers filed in connection with its failure to settle within ten
days of ratification and expressly agrees to accept service
by first class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser
as identified on the Memorandum of Sale. The defaulted
purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds
resulting from said resale even if such surplus results from
improvements to the property by said defaulted purchaser.
Sub. Trustees will convey either marketable or insurable
title. If they cannot deliver one or the other, or if ratification
of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the
Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the
deposit without interest. (Matter No. 355891-2)
Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al.,
Substitute Trustees
Feb 27,Mar 5,12 2024 0012452742
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850 850
Montgomery County Montgomery County
BWW Law Group, LLC
6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
9955 BELLISON RD.
DAMASCUS, MD 20872
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of
Trust dated July 26, 2007, recorded in Liber 34659, Folio
405 among the Land Records of Montgomery County,
MD, with an original principal balance of $960,000.00,
default having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub.
Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for
Montgomery County, at the Court House Door, 50 Maryland
Ave., Rockville, MD 20850, on
MARCH 8, 2024 AT 1:00 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any
buildings or improvements thereon located in Montgomery
County, MD and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed
of Trust. Tax ID #12-00942048 and #12-01680014.
The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in
an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions
and agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and
with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $69,000 in the form of certified
check, cashier’s check or money order will be required of
the purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the
purchase price, together with interest on the unpaid
purchase money at the current rate contained in the Deed
of Trust Note, or any modifications thereto, from the date
of sale to the date funds are received by the Sub. Trustees,
payable in cash within ten days of final ratification of the
sale by the Circuit Court. There will be no abatement of
interest due to the purchaser in the event additional funds
are tendered before settlement. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE
FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of all real property
taxes, including agricultural taxes, if applicable, and any
and all public and/or private charges or assessments, to
the extent such amounts survive foreclosure sale, including
water/sewer and front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted
to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser.
Purchaser is responsible for any recapture of homestead
tax credit. All transfer taxes and recordation taxes shall be
paid by Purchaser. Condominium fees and/or homeowners
association dues, if any, shall be assumed by the
purchaser from the date of sale. Purchaser is responsible
for obtaining physical possession of the property, and
assumes risk of loss or damage to the property from the
date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit of the
status of the loan with the loan servicer including, but not
limited to, determination of whether the borrower entered
into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off the
loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale shall be
null and void, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy, in law or
equity, shall be the return of the deposit without interest.
If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of ratification,
subject to order of court, purchaser agrees that property
will be resold and entire deposit retained by Sub. Trustees
as liquidated damages for all losses occasioned by the
purchaser’s default and purchaser shall have no further
liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any
papers filed in connection with its failure to settle within ten
days of ratification and expressly agrees to accept service
by first class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser
as identified on the Memorandum of Sale. The defaulted
purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds
resulting from said resale even if such surplus results from
improvements to the property by said defaulted purchaser.
Sub. Trustees will convey either marketable or insurable
title. If they cannot deliver one or the other, or if ratification
of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the
Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the
deposit without interest. (Matter No. 361097-1)
Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al.,
Substitute Trustees
Feb 20,27,Mar 5 2024 0012451811
Rosenberg & Associates, LLC
4340 East West Highway, Suite 600
Bethesda, MD 20814
(301) 907-8000
www.rosenberg-assoc.com
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
11832 HUGGINS DR.
SILVER SPRING, MD 20902
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
from Leticia A. Malondras, Eugenio Toralballa and Esther
D. Bacagan dated August 22, 2007 and recorded in Liber
34798, folio 492 among the Land Records of Montgomery
County, MD, default having occurred under the terms
thereof, the Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit
Court for Montgomery County, at the Court House Door, 50
Maryland Ave., Rockville, MD 20850, on
MARCH 15, 2024 AT 3:20 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with
the buildings and improvements thereon situated in
Montgomery County, MD and more fully described in the
aforesaid Deed of Trust. Tax ID #13-01247623.
The property, which is improved by a dwelling, will be sold in
an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions
and agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and
with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $35,000 in the form of certified
check, cashier’s check or money order will be required of
the purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the
purchase price to be paid in cash within ten days of final
ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for Montgomery
County. Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase money
at the rate pursuant to the Deed of Trust Note from the
date of sale to the date funds are received in the office
of the Trustees. There will be no abatement of interest in
the event additional funds are tendered before settlement
or if settlement is delayed for any reason. The noteholder
shall not be obligated to pay interest if it is the purchaser.
TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. There will
be no reduction of interest due to overpayment of deposit.
Adjustment of all real property taxes (excluding recapture
of previously reduced or exempt taxes) and any other
public charges or assessments, to the extent such amount
survive foreclosure sale, including water/sewer charges,
and ground rent to be adjusted to date of sale and paid at
execution of the deed, except where the secured party is the
purchaser, and thereafter assumed by the purchaser. All
due and/or unpaid private utility, water and sewer facilities
charges, condo/HOA assessments and Columbia Assoc.
assessments, to the extent such amount survive foreclosure
sale, are payable by the purchaser without adjustment.
Cost of all documentary stamps, transfer taxes, recaptured
taxes (including but not limited to agricultural taxes),
and settlement expenses shall be borne by the purchaser.
Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining physical
possession of the property. Purchaser assumes the risk of
loss or damage to the property from the date of sale forward.
Additional terms to be announced at the time of sale.
If the Trustees are unable to convey good and marketable
title, the purchaser’s sole remedy in law and equity shall
be limited to a refund of the deposit without interest. If
the purchaser fails to go to settlement, the deposit shall
be forfeited, to the Trustees for application against all
expenses, attorney’s fees and the full commission on the sale
price of the above-scheduled foreclosure sale. In the event
of default, all expenses of this sale (including attorney’s
fees and the full commission on the gross sale price of this
sale) shall be charged against and paid out of the forfeited
deposit. The Trustees may then re-advertise and resell the
property at the risk and expense of the defaulting purchaser
or may avail themselves of any legal or equitable remedies
against the defaulting purchaser without reselling the
property. In the event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser
shall not be entitled to receive the surplus, if any, even if such
surplus results from improvements to the property by said
defaulting purchaser and the defaulting purchaser shall
be liable to the Trustees and secured party for reasonable
attorney’s fees and expenses incurred in connection with
all litigation involving the Property or the proceeds of the
resale. Defaulting purchaser waives personal service of any
document filed in connection with such a motion on him/
herself and/or any principal or corporate designee, and
expressly agrees to accept service of any such document
by regular mail directed to the address provided by said
purchaser at the time of the foreclosure auction. Trustees’
file number 22-002673-MD-F-1.
Diane S. Rosenberg, Mark D. Meyer, et al., Trustees
Feb 27,Mar 5,12 2024 0012452794
850 850
Montgomery County Montgomery County
BWW Law Group, LLC
6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY
IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
2309 GREENERY LN., UNIT #102
SILVER SPRING, MD 20906
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
dated November 1, 2012, recorded in Liber 45923, Folio
167 among the Land Records of Montgomery County,
MD, with an original principal balance of $163,271.00,
default having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub.
Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for
Montgomery County, at the Court House Door, 50 Maryland
Ave., Rockville, MD 20850, on
MARCH 22, 2024 AT 3:25 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any
buildings or improvements thereon located in Montgomery
County, MD and described as Unit number 102-1, Building
number 1, in Regime lettered A, in “Glen Waye Gardens
Condominium” and more fully described in the aforesaid
Deed of Trust.
The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in
an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions
and agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and
with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $13,000 in the form of certified
check, cashier’s check or money order will be required of
the purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the
purchase price, together with interest on the unpaid
purchase money at the current rate contained in the Deed
of Trust Note, or any modifications thereto, from the date
of sale to the date funds are received by the Sub. Trustees,
payable in cash within ten days of final ratification of the
sale by the Circuit Court. There will be no abatement of
interest due to the purchaser in the event additional funds
are tendered before settlement. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE
FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of all real property
taxes, including agricultural taxes, if applicable, and any
and all public and/or private charges or assessments, to
the extent such amounts survive foreclosure sale, including
water/sewer and front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted
to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser.
Purchaser is responsible for any recapture of homestead
tax credit. All transfer taxes and recordation taxes shall be
paid by Purchaser. Condominium fees and/or homeowners
association dues, if any, shall be assumed by the
purchaser from the date of sale. Purchaser is responsible
for obtaining physical possession of the property, and
assumes risk of loss or damage to the property from the
date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit of the
status of the loan with the loan servicer including, but not
limited to, determination of whether the borrower entered
into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off the
loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale shall be
null and void, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy, in law or
equity, shall be the return of the deposit without interest.
If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of ratification,
subject to order of court, purchaser agrees that property
will be resold and entire deposit retained by Sub. Trustees
as liquidated damages for all losses occasioned by the
purchaser’s default and purchaser shall have no further
liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any
papers filed in connection with its failure to settle within ten
days of ratification and expressly agrees to accept service
by first class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser
as identified on the Memorandum of Sale. The defaulted
purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds
resulting from said resale even if such surplus results from
improvements to the property by said defaulted purchaser.
Sub. Trustees will convey either marketable or insurable
title. If they cannot deliver one or the other, or if ratification
of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the
Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the
deposit without interest. (Matter No. 362355-2)
Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al.,
Substitute Trustees
Mar 5,12,19 2024 0012453368
Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid & Crane, LLC
11350 McCormick Road, EP 1, Suite 302
Hunt Valley, MD 21031
470-321-7112
TRUSTEES’ SALE OF
VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY
KNOWN AS
5823 FOLKSTONE RD
BETHESDA, MD 20817
Under a power of sale contained in that Deed of Trust dated
May 11, 2007, and recorded in Liber 34343, folio 347, of the
land records of MONTGOMERY COUNTY , with an original
principal balance of $417,000.00, default having occurred
under the terms thereof, the appointed Substitute Trustees
will offer for sale at public auction at THE MONTGOMERY
COUNTY COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT 50 MARYLAND AVENUE,
ROCKVILLE, MD 20850 ON,
MARCH 6, 2024 at 1:00 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND together with
any buildings or improvements thereon situated in
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MD, located at the above address
and more fully described in the aforementioned Deed of
Trust.
TAX-ID# - 07-00584612
The property and improvements will be sold in an “AS
IS” physical condition without warranty of any kind and
subject to all conditions, restrictions and agreements of
record affecting the same, including any condominium or
homeowners association assessments pursuant to MD Real
Property Article §11-110 and §11B-117.
TERMS OF SALE: A non-refundable bidder’s deposit of
$33,500.00 by cashier’s/certified check or such other form
as the Substitute Trustee may determine, in their sole
discretion, required at time of sale except for the party
secured by the Deed of Trust. Risk of loss on purchaser
from date and time of auction. The balance of the purchase
price together with interest thereon at 6.250% per annum
from date of sale to receipt of purchase price by Substitute
Trustees must be paid by cashier’s check within 10 days
after final ratification of sale. The noteholder shall not be
obligated to pay interest if it is the purchaser. There will be
no abatement of interest due from the purchaser in the event
that additional funds are tendered before settlement or if
settlement is delayed for any reason. All real estate taxes
and other public charges and/or assessments to be adjusted
as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser.
If applicable, any condominium and/or homeowners
association dues and assessments that may become due
after the date of sale shall be purchaser’s responsibility.
Purchaser shall pay all transfer, documentary and recording
taxes/fees and all other settlement costs. Purchaser is
responsible for obtaining possession of the property. Time
is of the essence for the purchaser. If purchaser defaults,
deposit will be forfeited and property resold at the risk and
cost of the defaulting purchaser who shall be liable for any
deficiency in the purchase price and all costs, expenses and
attorney’s fees of both sales. If Substitute Trustees do not
convey title for any reason, purchaser’s sole remedy is return
of deposit without interest. This sale is subject to post-sale
audit of the status of the loan secured by the Deed of Trust
including but not limited to determining whether prior to
sale a bankruptcy was filed; forbearance, repayment or
other agreement was entered into; or loan was reinstated
or paid off. In any such even this sale shall be null and
void and purchaser’s sole remedy shall be return of deposit
without interest. File No. (21-116226)
Keith Yacko, David Williamson,
Bryson Stephen, Thomas Gartner,
Substitute Trustees
Feb 20,27,Mar 5 2024 0012449558
CLASSIFIED zone EZ | 2024-3-5 | D 9 | BLACK
OPQRS
851 851
Prince Georges County Prince Georges County
GREENSPOON MARDER, LLP
201 International Circle, Suite 230
Hunt Valley, MD 21030
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
KNOWN AS
11705 CHEVIOT COURT
Upper Marlboro, MD 20772
By virtue of a power of sale contained in a Deed of Trust
from APRIL U. OWENS, dated August 15, 2016 and
recorded in book 38987 , page 215 among the Land
Records of PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, Maryland, default
having occurred thereunder (Foreclosure Case docketed
as Case No. C-16-CV-23-003799; Tax ID No. 15-1762210)
the Substitute Trustee will sell at public auction PRINCE
GEORGE’S COUNTY courthouse located at FRONT OF THE
DUVAL WING OF THE COURTHOUSE COMPLEX 14735 MAIN
ST, UPPER MARLBORO, MD 20772 .
MARCH 14, 2024 at 2:00 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
thereon situated in PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD and
more fully described in above referenced Deed of Trust.
The property will be sold in an “as is” condition and
subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of record
affecting the same, if any and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $ 27,000.00 will be required at
the time of sale, such deposit to be in CERTIFIED CHECK
OR BY CASHIER’S CHECK, CASH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.
Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within
ten days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY. Time is of the essence as to the
purchaser. If the purchaser defaults, the deposit shall be
forfeited and the property shall be resold at the purchaser’s
risk and expense. The purchaser waives personal service
and accepts service by first class mail and certified mail
addressed to the address provided by said Purchaser as
identified on the Memorandum of Sale for any Motion or
Show Cause Order incident to this sale including a Motion
to Default Purchaser and for Resale of the Property. In the
event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser shall not be
entitled to receive any benefit from the resale, including,
but not limited to, additional proceeds or surplus which may
arise therefrom. Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase
money at five percent (5%) from the date of sale to the date
funds are received by the Substitute Trustee. There will be
no abatement of interest in the event additional funds are
tendered at the time of sale or any time prior to settlement or
if the settlement is delayed for any reason. In the event that
the Secured Party executes a forbearance agreement with the
borrower(s) described in the above-mentioned Deed of Trust,
or allows the borrower(s) to execute their right to reinstate
or payoff the subject loan, prior to the sale, with or without
the Substitute Trustee’s prior knowledge, this Contract shall
be null and void and of no effect, and the Purchaser’s sole
remedy shall be the return of the deposit without interest.
Purchaser shall pay for documentary stamps, transfer taxes
and settlement expenses. Taxes, ground rent, water rent,
condominium fees and/or homeowner association dues, all
public charges/assessments payable on an annual basis,
including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges,
if applicable, shall be adjusted to the date of sale and
assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall
be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or damage to
the property from the date of sale forward. If the Substitute
Trustee is unable to convey insurable title for any reason, the
Purchaser’s sole remedy in law or equity shall be limited to a
refund of the aforementioned deposit without interest. In the
event the sale is not ratified for any reason, the Purchaser’s
sole remedy, at law or equity, is the return of the deposit
without interest. (File # 23-001145-01)
SYDNEY E. ROBERSON, MARC L. MEDEL, NICOLE LIPINSKI,
Substitute Trustee (s)
Feb 27,Mar 5,12 2024 0012450668
Samuel I. White, P.C.
448 VIKING DRIVE, SUITE 350
VIRIGINA BEACH, VA 23452
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF
VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY
KNOWN AS
6902 Mackson Drive
Temple Hills, MD 20748
Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a
certain Deed of Trust to CAPITOL TITLE INSURANCE AGENCY,
INC. , Trustee(s), dated April 21, 2015, and recorded among
the Land Records of PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND
in Liber 36978, folio 142, the holder of the indebtedness
secured by this Deed of Trust having appointed the
undersigned Substitute Trustees, by instrument duly
recorded among the aforesaid Land Records, default having
occurred under the terms thereof, and at the request of the
party secured thereby, the undersigned Substitute Trustee
will offer for sale at public auction at THE PRINCE GEORGE’S
COUNTY COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT FRONT OF THE DUVAL
WING OF THE COURTHOUSE COMPLEX 14735 MAIN ST,
UPPER MARLBORO, MD 20772 ON,
MARCH 7, 2024 at 2:30 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
thereon situated in PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD and
described as follows:
LOT TWO (2), BLOCK H, SECTION TWO (2), “CAMP SPRINGS
FOREST”, AS PER PLAT RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK WWW 57
PLAT 98, AMONG THE LAND RECORDS OF PRINCE GEORGE’S
COUNTY, MARYLAND.
The property will be sold in an “AS IS WHERE IS”
condition without either express or implied warranty or
representation, including but not limited to the description,
fitness for a particular purpose or use, structural integrity,
physical condition, construction, extent of construction,
workmanship, materials, liability, zoning, subdivision,
environmental condition, merchantability, compliance
with building or housing codes or other laws, ordinances
or regulations, or other similar matters, and subject to
easements, agreements and restrictions of record which
affect the same, if any. The property will be sold subject to
all conditions, liens, restrictions and agreements of record
affecting same including any condominium and of HOA
assessments pursuant to Md Real Property Article 11-110.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $20,000.00 PAYABLE ONLY BY
certified funds, shall be required at the time of sale. CASH
WILL NOT BE AN ACCEPTABLE FORM OF DEPOSIT. The balance
of the purchase price with interest at 3.375% per annum from
the date of sale to the date of payment will be paid within
TEN DAYS after the final ratification of the sale. There will be
no abatement of interest for any reason. Adjustments on all
taxes, public charges and special or regular assessments
will be made as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed
by purchaser. There will be no abatement of taxes, public
charges and special or regular assessments for any reason.
If applicable, condominium and/or homeowner association
dues and assessments that may become due after the
time of sale will be the responsibility of the purchaser.
Title examination, conveyancing, state revenue stamps,
transfer taxes, title insurance, and all other costs incident
to settlement are to be paid by the purchaser. Time is of
the essence for the purchaser, otherwise the deposit will be
forfeited, and the property may be resold at risk and costs
of the defaulting purchaser and the purchaser agrees to
pay reasonable attorneys’ fees for the Substitute trustees,
plus all cost incurred, if the Substitute Trustee’s have filed
the appropriate motion with the Court to resell the property.
The purchasers waives personal service of any papers filed
in connection with such a motion and expressly agrees to
The purchaser agrees to accept service by first class mail
at the address provided by the Purchaser as identified on
the Memorandum of Sale. If the sale is not ratified or if the
Substitute Trustees are unable to convey marketable title in
accord with these terms of sale, the purchaser’s only remedy
is return of the deposit.
The sale is subject to post-sale confirmation and audit
of the status of the loan with the loan servicer including,
but not limited to, determination of whether the borrower
entered into a repayment agreement, reinstated, or paid
off the loan prior to sale. In any such event, this sale shall
be null and void, and the Purchaser’s sol remedy, in law or
equity, shall be the return of the deposit without interest.
Trustee’s File No. (60605)
John E. Driscoll, III, et al SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES
Feb 20,27,Mar 5 2024 0012450525
D 9 | EZ
851 851
Prince Georges County Prince Georges County
GREENSPOON MARDER, LLP
201 International Circle, Suite 230
Hunt Valley, MD 21030
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
KNOWN AS
12120 CHIP SHOT LANE
Upper Marlboro, MD 20772
By virtue of a power of sale contained in a Deed of Trust
from OLIVIA TAYLOR PULLER, dated December 30, 2014
and recorded in book 37145 , page 353 among the Land
Records of PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, Maryland, default
having occurred thereunder (Foreclosure Case docketed
as Case No. C-16-CV-23-003916; Tax ID No. 15-3459534)
the Substitute Trustee will sell at public auction PRINCE
GEORGE’S COUNTY courthouse located at FRONT OF THE
DUVAL WING OF THE COURTHOUSE COMPLEX 14735 MAIN
ST, UPPER MARLBORO, MD 20772 .
MARCH 7, 2024 at 2:00 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
thereon situated in PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD and
more fully described in above referenced Deed of Trust.
The property will be sold in an “as is” condition and
subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of record
affecting the same, if any and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $ 55,000.00 will be required at
the time of sale, such deposit to be in CERTIFIED CHECK
OR BY CASHIER’S CHECK, CASH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.
Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within
ten days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY. Time is of the essence as to the
purchaser. If the purchaser defaults, the deposit shall be
forfeited and the property shall be resold at the purchaser’s
risk and expense. The purchaser waives personal service
and accepts service by first class mail and certified mail
addressed to the address provided by said Purchaser as
identified on the Memorandum of Sale for any Motion or
Show Cause Order incident to this sale including a Motion
to Default Purchaser and for Resale of the Property. In the
event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser shall not be
entitled to receive any benefit from the resale, including,
but not limited to, additional proceeds or surplus which may
arise therefrom. Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase
money at five percent (5%) from the date of sale to the date
funds are received by the Substitute Trustee. There will be
no abatement of interest in the event additional funds are
tendered at the time of sale or any time prior to settlement or
if the settlement is delayed for any reason. In the event that
the Secured Party executes a forbearance agreement with the
borrower(s) described in the above-mentioned Deed of Trust,
or allows the borrower(s) to execute their right to reinstate
or payoff the subject loan, prior to the sale, with or without
the Substitute Trustee’s prior knowledge, this Contract shall
be null and void and of no effect, and the Purchaser’s sole
remedy shall be the return of the deposit without interest.
Purchaser shall pay for documentary stamps, transfer taxes
and settlement expenses. Taxes, ground rent, water rent,
condominium fees and/or homeowner association dues, all
public charges/assessments payable on an annual basis,
including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges,
if applicable, shall be adjusted to the date of sale and
assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall
be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or damage to
the property from the date of sale forward. If the Substitute
Trustee is unable to convey insurable title for any reason, the
Purchaser’s sole remedy in law or equity shall be limited to a
refund of the aforementioned deposit without interest. In the
event the sale is not ratified for any reason, the Purchaser’s
sole remedy, at law or equity, is the return of the deposit
without interest. (File # 23-000865)
SYDNEY E. ROBERSON, NICOLE LIPINSKI, MARC MEDEL,
Substitute Trustee (s)
Feb 20,27,Mar 5 2024 0012449722
Samuel I. White, P.C.
448 VIKING DRIVE, SUITE 350
VIRIGINA BEACH, VA 23452
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF
VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY
KNOWN AS
4633 Eastern Ave
Mount Rainier, MD 20712
Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a
certain Deed of Trust to MICHAEL LYON, Trustee(s), dated
June 26, 2017, and recorded among the Land Records of
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND in Liber 39826,
folio 449, the holder of the indebtedness secured by
this Deed of Trust having appointed the undersigned
Substitute Trustees, by instrument duly recorded among
the aforesaid Land Records, default having occurred under
the terms thereof, and at the request of the party secured
thereby, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for
sale at public auction at THE PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY
COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT FRONT OF THE DUVAL WING
OF THE COURTHOUSE COMPLEX 14735 MAIN ST, UPPER
MARLBORO, MD 20772 ON,
MARCH 7, 2024 at 2:30 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
thereon situated in PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD and
described as follows:
LAND SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF PRINCE GEORGES IN THE
STATE OF MD LOT NUMBERED SIX (6) IN THE SUBDIVISION
KNOWN AS “NORTH WOODRIDGE”, AS PER PLAT RECORDS IN
PLAT BOOK 4 FOLIO 17; ONE OF THE LAND RECORDS OF SAID
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND.
The property will be sold in an “AS IS WHERE IS”
condition without either express or implied warranty or
representation, including but not limited to the description,
fitness for a particular purpose or use, structural integrity,
physical condition, construction, extent of construction,
workmanship, materials, liability, zoning, subdivision,
environmental condition, merchantability, compliance
with building or housing codes or other laws, ordinances
or regulations, or other similar matters, and subject to
easements, agreements and restrictions of record which
affect the same, if any. The property will be sold subject to
all conditions, liens, restrictions and agreements of record
affecting same including any condominium and of HOA
assessments pursuant to Md Real Property Article 11-110.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $20,000.00 PAYABLE ONLY BY
certified funds, shall be required at the time of sale. CASH
WILL NOT BE AN ACCEPTABLE FORM OF DEPOSIT. The balance
of the purchase price with interest at 4.625% per annum from
the date of sale to the date of payment will be paid within
TEN DAYS after the final ratification of the sale. There will be
no abatement of interest for any reason. Adjustments on all
taxes, public charges and special or regular assessments
will be made as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed
by purchaser. There will be no abatement of taxes, public
charges and special or regular assessments for any reason.
If applicable, condominium and/or homeowner association
dues and assessments that may become due after the
time of sale will be the responsibility of the purchaser.
Title examination, conveyancing, state revenue stamps,
transfer taxes, title insurance, and all other costs incident
to settlement are to be paid by the purchaser. Time is of
the essence for the purchaser, otherwise the deposit will be
forfeited, and the property may be resold at risk and costs
of the defaulting purchaser and the purchaser agrees to
pay reasonable attorneys’ fees for the Substitute trustees,
plus all cost incurred, if the Substitute Trustee’s have filed
the appropriate motion with the Court to resell the property.
The purchasers waives personal service of any papers filed
in connection with such a motion and expressly agrees to
The purchaser agrees to accept service by first class mail
at the address provided by the Purchaser as identified on
the Memorandum of Sale. If the sale is not ratified or if the
Substitute Trustees are unable to convey marketable title in
accord with these terms of sale, the purchaser’s only remedy
is return of the deposit.
The sale is subject to post-sale confirmation and audit
of the status of the loan with the loan servicer including,
but not limited to, determination of whether the borrower
entered into a repayment agreement, reinstated, or paid
off the loan prior to sale. In any such event, this sale shall
be null and void, and the Purchaser’s sol remedy, in law or
equity, shall be the return of the deposit without interest.
Trustee’s File No. (82169)
Robert A. Jones, et al SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES
Feb 20,27,Mar 5 2024 0012450523
CLASSIFIED D9
851 851
Prince Georges County Prince Georges County
GREENSPOON MARDER, LLP
201 International Circle, Suite 230
Hunt Valley, MD 21030
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
KNOWN AS
5101 UPSHUR STREET
Bladensburg, MD 20710
By virtue of a power of sale contained in a Deed of Trust
from GEORGE WASHINGTON TRAINUM III AND WILLIAM
TODD TRAINUM, dated May 4, 2007 and recorded in book
27906 , page 335 among the Land Records of PRINCE
GEORGE’S COUNTY, Maryland, default having occurred
thereunder (Foreclosure Case docketed as Case No. C-16-
CV-23-003709; Tax ID No. 02-0114686) the Substitute
Trustee will sell at public auction PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY
courthouse located at FRONT OF THE DUVAL WING OF THE
COURTHOUSE COMPLEX 14735 MAIN ST, UPPER MARLBORO,
MD 20772 .
MARCH 7, 2024 at 2:00 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
thereon situated in PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD and
more fully described in above referenced Deed of Trust.
The property will be sold in an “as is” condition and
subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of record
affecting the same, if any and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $ 36,000.00 will be required at
the time of sale, such deposit to be in CERTIFIED CHECK
OR BY CASHIER’S CHECK, CASH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.
Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within
ten days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY. Time is of the essence as to the
purchaser. If the purchaser defaults, the deposit shall be
forfeited and the property shall be resold at the purchaser’s
risk and expense. The purchaser waives personal service
and accepts service by first class mail and certified mail
addressed to the address provided by said Purchaser as
identified on the Memorandum of Sale for any Motion or
Show Cause Order incident to this sale including a Motion
to Default Purchaser and for Resale of the Property. In the
event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser shall not be
entitled to receive any benefit from the resale, including,
but not limited to, additional proceeds or surplus which may
arise therefrom. Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase
money at five percent (5%) from the date of sale to the date
funds are received by the Substitute Trustee. There will be
no abatement of interest in the event additional funds are
tendered at the time of sale or any time prior to settlement or
if the settlement is delayed for any reason. In the event that
the Secured Party executes a forbearance agreement with the
borrower(s) described in the above-mentioned Deed of Trust,
or allows the borrower(s) to execute their right to reinstate
or payoff the subject loan, prior to the sale, with or without
the Substitute Trustee’s prior knowledge, this Contract shall
be null and void and of no effect, and the Purchaser’s sole
remedy shall be the return of the deposit without interest.
Purchaser shall pay for documentary stamps, transfer taxes
and settlement expenses. Taxes, ground rent, water rent,
condominium fees and/or homeowner association dues, all
public charges/assessments payable on an annual basis,
including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges,
if applicable, shall be adjusted to the date of sale and
assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall
be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or damage to
the property from the date of sale forward. If the Substitute
Trustee is unable to convey insurable title for any reason, the
Purchaser’s sole remedy in law or equity shall be limited to a
refund of the aforementioned deposit without interest. In the
event the sale is not ratified for any reason, the Purchaser’s
sole remedy, at law or equity, is the return of the deposit
without interest. (File # 68612.0100)
SYDNEY E. ROBERSON, NICOLE LIPINSKI, MARC MEDEL,
Substitute Trustee (s)
Feb 20,27,Mar 5 2024 0012451058
Samuel I. White, P.C.
448 VIKING DRIVE, SUITE 350
VIRIGINA BEACH, VA 23452
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF
VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY
KNOWN AS
9000 Clear Stream Lane
Upper Marlboro, MD 20772
Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a
certain Deed of Trust to MICHAEL BAYNES, Trustee(s),
dated November 16, 2020, and recorded among the Land
Records of PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND in Liber
45044, folio 227, the holder of the indebtedness secured
by this Deed of Trust having appointed the undersigned
Substitute Trustees, by instrument duly recorded among
the aforesaid Land Records, default having occurred under
the terms thereof, and at the request of the party secured
thereby, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for
sale at public auction at THE PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY
COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT FRONT OF THE DUVAL WING
OF THE COURTHOUSE COMPLEX 14735 MAIN ST, UPPER
MARLBORO, MD 20772 ON,
MARCH 7, 2024 at 2:30 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
thereon situated in PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD and
described as follows:
LOT NUMBERED EIGHTY-TWO (82), IN BLOCK LETTERED
“N” THE SUBDIVISION KNOWN AS SMITH HOME FARM, PER
PLAT THEREOF TITLED “PLAT NINETEEN, SECTION 2, SMITH
HOMEFARM” AND DULY RECORDED AMONG THE LAND
RECORDS OF PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND IN
PLAT BOOK SJH 248, AT PLAT NO. 72.
The property will be sold in an “AS IS WHERE IS”
condition without either express or implied warranty or
representation, including but not limited to the description,
fitness for a particular purpose or use, structural integrity,
physical condition, construction, extent of construction,
workmanship, materials, liability, zoning, subdivision,
environmental condition, merchantability, compliance
with building or housing codes or other laws, ordinances
or regulations, or other similar matters, and subject to
easements, agreements and restrictions of record which
affect the same, if any. The property will be sold subject to
all conditions, liens, restrictions and agreements of record
affecting same including any condominium and of HOA
assessments pursuant to Md Real Property Article 11-110.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $20,000.00 PAYABLE ONLY BY
certified funds, shall be required at the time of sale. CASH
WILL NOT BE AN ACCEPTABLE FORM OF DEPOSIT. The balance
of the purchase price with interest at 4.625% per annum from
the date of sale to the date of payment will be paid within
TEN DAYS after the final ratification of the sale. There will be
no abatement of interest for any reason. Adjustments on all
taxes, public charges and special or regular assessments
will be made as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed
by purchaser. There will be no abatement of taxes, public
charges and special or regular assessments for any reason.
If applicable, condominium and/or homeowner association
dues and assessments that may become due after the
time of sale will be the responsibility of the purchaser.
Title examination, conveyancing, state revenue stamps,
transfer taxes, title insurance, and all other costs incident
to settlement are to be paid by the purchaser. Time is of
the essence for the purchaser, otherwise the deposit will be
forfeited, and the property may be resold at risk and costs
of the defaulting purchaser and the purchaser agrees to
pay reasonable attorneys’ fees for the Substitute trustees,
plus all cost incurred, if the Substitute Trustee’s have filed
the appropriate motion with the Court to resell the property.
The purchasers waives personal service of any papers filed
in connection with such a motion and expressly agrees to
The purchaser agrees to accept service by first class mail
at the address provided by the Purchaser as identified on
the Memorandum of Sale. If the sale is not ratified or if the
Substitute Trustees are unable to convey marketable title in
accord with these terms of sale, the purchaser’s only remedy
is return of the deposit.
The sale is subject to post-sale confirmation and audit
of the status of the loan with the loan servicer including,
but not limited to, determination of whether the borrower
entered into a repayment agreement, reinstated, or paid
off the loan prior to sale. In any such event, this sale shall
be null and void, and the Purchaser’s sol remedy, in law or
equity, shall be the return of the deposit without interest.
Trustee’s File No. (83621)
Robert A. Jones, et al SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES
Feb 20,27,Mar 5 2024 0012450522
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851 851
Prince Georges County Prince Georges County
Samuel I. White, P.C.
448 VIKING DRIVE, SUITE 350
VIRIGINA BEACH, VA 23452
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF
VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY
KNOWN AS
15715 Chadsey Lane
Brandywine, MD 20613
Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a
certain Deed of Trust to HERITAGE TITLE LTD., Trustee(s),
dated December 30, 2020, and recorded among the Land
Records of PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND in Liber
44709, folio 69, the holder of the indebtedness secured
by this Deed of Trust having appointed the undersigned
Substitute Trustees, by instrument duly recorded among
the aforesaid Land Records, default having occurred under
the terms thereof, and at the request of the party secured
thereby, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for
sale at public auction at THE PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY
COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT FRONT OF THE DUVAL WING
OF THE COURTHOUSE COMPLEX 14735 MAIN ST, UPPER
MARLBORO, MD 20772 ON,
MARCH 7, 2024 at 2:30 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
thereon situated in PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD and
described as follows:
LOT 30 IN BLOCK C, IN A SUBDIVISION KNOWN AS
“CHADDSFORD” AS SHOWN ON THE PLAT ENTITLED “PLAT
TWO, LOTS 15 AND 16 BLOCK A LOTS 1 THRU 11 AND PARCEL
C BLOCK B AND LOTS 16 THRU 34 BLOCK C (RESUBDIVISION
OF OUT LOT 4, BRANDYWINE VILLAGE P.B. VJ 186 P. NUMBER
64) CHADDSFORD, SECTION 1”, RECORDED AMONG THE
LAND RECORDS OF PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY PLAT BOOK
REP 211 AT PLAT NUMBER 70. SUBJECT TO DECLARATION
OF DEFERRED WATER AND SEWER FACILITIES CHARGES
RECORDED IN LIBER 25950 FOLIO 364 AND 25950/364.
The property will be sold in an “AS IS WHERE IS”
condition without either express or implied warranty or
representation, including but not limited to the description,
fitness for a particular purpose or use, structural integrity,
physical condition, construction, extent of construction,
workmanship, materials, liability, zoning, subdivision,
environmental condition, merchantability, compliance
with building or housing codes or other laws, ordinances
or regulations, or other similar matters, and subject to
easements, agreements and restrictions of record which
affect the same, if any. The property will be sold subject to
all conditions, liens, restrictions and agreements of record
affecting same including any condominium and of HOA
assessments pursuant to Md Real Property Article 11-110.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $20,000.00 PAYABLE ONLY BY
certified funds, shall be required at the time of sale. CASH
WILL NOT BE AN ACCEPTABLE FORM OF DEPOSIT. The balance
of the purchase price with interest at 3.125% per annum from
the date of sale to the date of payment will be paid within
TEN DAYS after the final ratification of the sale. There will be
no abatement of interest for any reason. Adjustments on all
taxes, public charges and special or regular assessments
will be made as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed
by purchaser. There will be no abatement of taxes, public
charges and special or regular assessments for any reason.
If applicable, condominium and/or homeowner association
dues and assessments that may become due after the
time of sale will be the responsibility of the purchaser.
Title examination, conveyancing, state revenue stamps,
transfer taxes, title insurance, and all other costs incident
to settlement are to be paid by the purchaser. Time is of
the essence for the purchaser, otherwise the deposit will be
forfeited, and the property may be resold at risk and costs
of the defaulting purchaser and the purchaser agrees to
pay reasonable attorneys’ fees for the Substitute trustees,
plus all cost incurred, if the Substitute Trustee’s have filed
the appropriate motion with the Court to resell the property.
The purchasers waives personal service of any papers filed
in connection with such a motion and expressly agrees to
The purchaser agrees to accept service by first class mail
at the address provided by the Purchaser as identified on
the Memorandum of Sale. If the sale is not ratified or if the
Substitute Trustees are unable to convey marketable title in
accord with these terms of sale, the purchaser’s only remedy
is return of the deposit.
The sale is subject to post-sale confirmation and audit
of the status of the loan with the loan servicer including,
but not limited to, determination of whether the borrower
entered into a repayment agreement, reinstated, or paid
off the loan prior to sale. In any such event, this sale shall
be null and void, and the Purchaser’s sol remedy, in law or
equity, shall be the return of the deposit without interest.
Trustee’s File No. (84678)
Robert A. Jones, et al SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES
Feb 20,27,Mar 5 2024 0012450520
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851 851
Prince Georges County Prince Georges County
Samuel I. White, P.C.
448 VIKING DRIVE, SUITE 350
VIRIGINA BEACH, VA 23452
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF
VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY
KNOWN AS
4012 Payne Drive
Fort Washington, MD 20744
Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a
certain Deed of Trust to WILLIAM J. PETRINA, Trustee(s),
dated September 23, 2014, and recorded among the Land
Records of PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND in Liber
36560, folio 524, the holder of the indebtedness secured
by this Deed of Trust having appointed the undersigned
Substitute Trustees, by instrument duly recorded among
the aforesaid Land Records, default having occurred under
the terms thereof, and at the request of the party secured
thereby, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for
sale at public auction at THE PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY
COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT FRONT OF THE DUVAL WING
OF THE COURTHOUSE COMPLEX 14735 MAIN ST, UPPER
MARLBORO, MD 20772 ON,
MARCH 7, 2024 at 2:30 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
thereon situated in PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD and
described as follows:
ALL THAT PROPERTY SITUATE IN PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY,
STATE OF MARYLAND, DESCRIBED AS: LOT NUMBERED
ONE (1), IN BLOCK LETTERED “F”, IN THE SUBDIVISION
KNOWN AS “PLAT ONE, SECTION TWO, STONEGATE”, AS PER
PLAT RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK NLP 103 AT PLAT NO. 98,
AMONG THE LAND RECORDS OF PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY,
MARYLAND. BEING IN THE 12TH ELECTION DISTRICT OF SAID
COUNTY.
The property will be sold in an “AS IS WHERE IS”
condition without either express or implied warranty or
representation, including but not limited to the description,
fitness for a particular purpose or use, structural integrity,
physical condition, construction, extent of construction,
workmanship, materials, liability, zoning, subdivision,
environmental condition, merchantability, compliance
with building or housing codes or other laws, ordinances
or regulations, or other similar matters, and subject to
easements, agreements and restrictions of record which
affect the same, if any. The property will be sold subject to
all conditions, liens, restrictions and agreements of record
affecting same including any condominium and of HOA
assessments pursuant to Md Real Property Article 11-110.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $20,000.00 PAYABLE ONLY BY
certified funds, shall be required at the time of sale. CASH
WILL NOT BE AN ACCEPTABLE FORM OF DEPOSIT. The balance
of the purchase price with interest at 5.4% per annum from
the date of sale to the date of payment will be paid within
TEN DAYS after the final ratification of the sale. There will be
no abatement of interest for any reason. Adjustments on all
taxes, public charges and special or regular assessments
will be made as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed
by purchaser. There will be no abatement of taxes, public
charges and special or regular assessments for any reason.
If applicable, condominium and/or homeowner association
dues and assessments that may become due after the
time of sale will be the responsibility of the purchaser.
Title examination, conveyancing, state revenue stamps,
transfer taxes, title insurance, and all other costs incident
to settlement are to be paid by the purchaser. Time is of
the essence for the purchaser, otherwise the deposit will be
forfeited, and the property may be resold at risk and costs
of the defaulting purchaser and the purchaser agrees to
pay reasonable attorneys’ fees for the Substitute trustees,
plus all cost incurred, if the Substitute Trustee’s have filed
the appropriate motion with the Court to resell the property.
The purchasers waives personal service of any papers filed
in connection with such a motion and expressly agrees to
The purchaser agrees to accept service by first class mail
at the address provided by the Purchaser as identified on
the Memorandum of Sale. If the sale is not ratified or if the
Substitute Trustees are unable to convey marketable title in
accord with these terms of sale, the purchaser’s only remedy
is return of the deposit.
The sale is subject to post-sale confirmation and audit
of the status of the loan with the loan servicer including,
but not limited to, determination of whether the borrower
entered into a repayment agreement, reinstated, or paid
off the loan prior to sale. In any such event, this sale shall
be null and void, and the Purchaser’s sol remedy, in law or
equity, shall be the return of the deposit without interest.
Trustee’s File No. (85894)
Robert A. Jones, et al SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES
Feb 20,27,Mar 5 2024 0012450518
856 856
Frederick County Frederick County
Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid & Crane, LLC
11350 McCormick Road, EP 1, Suite 302
Hunt Valley, MD 21031
470-321-7112
TRUSTEES’ SALE OF
VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY
KNOWN AS
1603 BERRY ROSE CT UNIT C
FREDERICK, MD 21701
Under a power of sale contained in that Deed of Trust dated
August 29, 2007, and recorded in Liber 6801, folio 0072, of
the land records of FREDERICK COUNTY , with an original
principal balance of $318,000.00, default having occurred
under the terms thereof, the appointed Substitute Trustees
will offer for sale at public auction at THE FREDERICK
COUNTY COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT 100 W. PATRICK ST,
FREDERICK, MD 21701 ON,
MARCH 20, 2024 at 9:30 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND together with any
buildings or improvements thereon situated in FREDERICK
COUNTY, MD, located at the above address and more fully
described in the aforementioned Deed of Trust.
TAX ID# - 02-192756
The property and improvements will be sold in an “AS
IS” physical condition without warranty of any kind and
subject to all conditions, restrictions and agreements of
record affecting the same, including any condominium or
homeowners association assessments pursuant to MD Real
Property Article § 11-110 and § 11B-117 .
TERMS OF SALE: A non-refundable bidder’s deposit of
$25,500.00 by cashier’s/certified check or such other form
as the Substitute Trustee may determine, in their sole
discretion, required at time of sale except for the party
secured by the Deed of Trust. Risk of loss on purchaser
from date and time of auction. The balance of the purchase
price together with interest thereon at 5.2200% per annum
from date of sale to receipt of purchase price by Substitute
Trustees must be paid by cashier’s check within 10 days
after final ratification of sale. The noteholder shall not be
obligated to pay interest if it is the purchaser. There will be
no abatement of interest due from the purchaser in the event
that additional funds are tendered before settlement or if
settlement is delayed for any reason. All real estate taxes
and other public charges and/or assessments to be adjusted
as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser.
If applicable, any condominium and/or homeowners
association dues and assessments that may become due
after the date of sale shall be purchaser’s responsibility.
Purchaser shall pay all transfer, documentary and recording
taxes/fees and all other settlement costs. Purchaser is
responsible for obtaining possession of the property. Time
is of the essence for the purchaser. If purchaser defaults,
deposit will be forfeited and property resold at the risk and
cost of the defaulting purchaser who shall be liable for any
deficiency in the purchase price and all costs, expenses and
attorney’s fees of both sales. If Substitute Trustees do not
convey title for any reason, purchaser’s sole remedy is return
of deposit without interest. This sale is subject to post-sale
audit of the status of the loan secured by the Deed of Trust
including but not limited to determining whether prior to
sale a bankruptcy was filed; forbearance, repayment or
other agreement was entered into; or loan was reinstated
or paid off. In any such event this sale shall be null and
void and purchaser’s sole remedy shall be return of deposit
without interest. File No. (23-150732)
KEITH YACKO, DAVID WILLIAMSON,
BRYSON STEPHEN, THOMAS GARTNER,
Substitute Trustees
Mar 5,12,19 2024 0012451632
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OPQRS
856 856
Frederick County Frederick County
BWW Law Group, LLC
6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY
IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
6524 LAKEVIEW CT.
NEW MARKET, MD 21774
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
dated June 21, 2006, recorded in Liber 6105, Folio 1 among
the Land Records of Frederick County, MD, with an original
principal balance of $75,000.00, default having occurred
under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public
auction at the Circuit Court for Frederick County, at the
Court House Door, 100 W. Patrick St., Frederick, MD 21701,
on
MARCH 22, 2024 AT 12:30 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any
buildings or improvements thereon located in Frederick
County, MD and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed
of Trust.
The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in
an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions
and agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and
with no warranty of any kind. The property will be sold
subject to a prior mortgage, the amount to be announced
at the time of sale, if made available to the Substitute
Trustees.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $6,000 in the form of certified
check, cashier’s check or money order will be required of the
purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the purchase
price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money
at the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note, or
any modifications thereto, from the date of sale to the date
funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash
within ten days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit
Court. There will be no abatement of interest due to the
purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before
settlement. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER.
Adjustment of all real property taxes, including agricultural
taxes, if applicable, and any and all public and/or private
charges or assessments, to the extent such amounts survive
foreclosure sale, including water/sewer, ground rent and
front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted to date of sale and
thereafter assumed by purchaser. Purchaser is responsible
for any recapture of homestead tax credit. All transfer
taxes and recordation taxes shall be paid by Purchaser.
The purchaser shall be responsible for the payment of the
ground rent escrow, if required. Condominium fees and/
or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be assumed
by the purchaser from the date of sale. Purchaser is
responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
property, and assumes risk of loss or damage to the property
from the date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit
of the status of the loan with the loan servicer including,
but not limited to, determination of whether the borrower
entered into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid
off the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale
shall be null and void, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy,
in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without
interest. If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of
ratification, subject to order of court, purchaser agrees that
property will be resold and entire deposit retained by Sub.
Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses occasioned by
the purchaser’s default and purchaser shall have no further
liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any
papers filed in connection with its failure to settle within ten
days of ratification and expressly agrees to accept service
by first class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser
as identified on the Memorandum of Sale. The defaulted
purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds
resulting from said resale even if such surplus results from
improvements to the property by said defaulted purchaser.
Sub. Trustees will convey either marketable or insurable
title. If they cannot deliver one or the other, or if ratification
of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the
Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the
deposit without interest. (Matter No. 363573-1)
Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al.,
Substitute Trustees
Mar 5,12,19 2024 0012453367
BWW Law Group, LLC
6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY
IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
8770 BEACON CIR.
WALKERSVILLE, MD 21793
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
dated May 9, 2022, recorded in Liber 15933, Folio 416
among the Land Records of Frederick County, MD, with an
original principal balance of $210,520.00, default having
occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell
at public auction at the Circuit Court for Frederick County,
at the Court House Door, 100 W. Patrick St., Frederick, MD
21701, on
MARCH 15, 2024 AT 12:40 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any
buildings or improvements thereon located in Frederick
County, MD and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed
of Trust.
The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in
an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions
and agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and
with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $21,000 in the form of certified
check, cashier’s check or money order will be required of the
purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the purchase
price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money
at the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note, or
any modifications thereto, from the date of sale to the date
funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash
within ten days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit
Court. There will be no abatement of interest due to the
purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before
settlement. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER.
Adjustment of all real property taxes, including agricultural
taxes, if applicable, and any and all public and/or private
charges or assessments, to the extent such amounts survive
foreclosure sale, including water/sewer, ground rent and
front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted to date of sale and
thereafter assumed by purchaser. Purchaser is responsible
for any recapture of homestead tax credit. All transfer
taxes and recordation taxes shall be paid by Purchaser.
The purchaser shall be responsible for the payment of the
ground rent escrow, if required. Condominium fees and/
or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be assumed
by the purchaser from the date of sale. Purchaser is
responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
property, and assumes risk of loss or damage to the property
from the date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit
of the status of the loan with the loan servicer including,
but not limited to, determination of whether the borrower
entered into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid
off the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale
shall be null and void, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy,
in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without
interest. If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of
ratification, subject to order of court, purchaser agrees that
property will be resold and entire deposit retained by Sub.
Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses occasioned by
the purchaser’s default and purchaser shall have no further
liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any
papers filed in connection with its failure to settle within ten
days of ratification and expressly agrees to accept service
by first class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser
as identified on the Memorandum of Sale. The defaulted
purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds
resulting from said resale even if such surplus results from
improvements to the property by said defaulted purchaser.
Sub. Trustees will convey either marketable or insurable
title. If they cannot deliver one or the other, or if ratification
of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the
Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the
deposit without interest. (Matter No. 365926-1)
Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al.,
Substitute Trustees
Feb 27,Mar 5,12 2024 0012452740
D 10 | EZ
856 856
Frederick County Frederick County
BWW Law Group, LLC
6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
11523 HANDBOARD RD.
UNION BRIDGE, MD 21791
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
dated August 8, 2003, recorded in Liber 4188, Folio 279 among
the Land Records of Frederick County, MD, with an original
principal balance of $184,950.00, default having occurred
under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public
auction at the Circuit Court for Frederick County, at the Court
House Door, 100 W. Patrick St., Frederick, MD 21701, on
MARCH 8, 2024 AT 9:25 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any
buildings or improvements thereon located in Frederick County,
MD and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust.
The property, and any improvements thereon, will be
sold in an “as is” condition and subject to conditions,
restrictions and agreements of record affecting
the same, if any, and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $14,000 in the form of certified
check, cashier’s check or money order will be required of the
purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the purchase
price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money
at the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note, or
any modifications thereto, from the date of sale to the date
funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash
within ten days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit
Court. There will be no abatement of interest due to the
purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before
settlement. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER.
Adjustment of all real property taxes, including agricultural
taxes, if applicable, and any and all public and/or private
charges or assessments, to the extent such amounts survive
foreclosure sale, including water/sewer, ground rent and
front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted to date of sale and
thereafter assumed by purchaser. Purchaser is responsible
for any recapture of homestead tax credit. All transfer
taxes and recordation taxes shall be paid by Purchaser.
The purchaser shall be responsible for the payment of the
ground rent escrow, if required. Condominium fees and/or
homeowners association dues, if any, shall be assumed by
the purchaser from the date of sale. Purchaser is responsible
for obtaining physical possession of the property, and
assumes risk of loss or damage to the property from the
date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit of the
status of the loan with the loan servicer including, but not
limited to, determination of whether the borrower entered
into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off the
loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale shall be
null and void, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy, in law or
equity, shall be the return of the deposit without interest.
If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of ratification,
subject to order of court, purchaser agrees that property
will be resold and entire deposit retained by Sub. Trustees
as liquidated damages for all losses occasioned by the
purchaser’s default and purchaser shall have no further
liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any
papers filed in connection with its failure to settle within ten
days of ratification and expressly agrees to accept service
by first class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser
as identified on the Memorandum of Sale. The defaulted
purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds
resulting from said resale even if such surplus results from
improvements to the property by said defaulted purchaser.
Sub. Trustees will convey either marketable or insurable
title. If they cannot deliver one or the other, or if ratification
of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason,
the Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is return
of the deposit without interest. (Matter No. 305020-4)
Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al.,
Substitute Trustees
Feb 20,27,Mar 5 2024 0012451808
McCabe, Weisberg & Conway, LLC
312 Marshall Avenue, Suite 800
Laurel, MD 20707
www.mwc-law.com
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
615 HIMES AVE., UNIT #112
FREDERICK, MD 21703
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
from Kaybria Moore a/k/a Kaybria Alexa Moore, dated March
21, 2019 and recorded in Liber 12892, folio 471 among the
Land Records of Frederick County, MD, default having
occurred under the terms thereof and at the request of
the parties secured thereby, the undersigned Substitute
Trustees will offer for sale at public auction at the Circuit
Court for Frederick County, at the Court House Door, 100 W.
Patrick St., Frederick, MD 21701, on
MARCH 8, 2024 AT 9:20 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND AND THE
IMPROVEMENTS THEREON situated in Frederick County,
Maryland and described as Unit No. VII-112, Phase VII
“Overlook Condominium” and more fully described in the
aforesaid Deed of Trust. The property is improved by a
dwelling.
The property, will be sold in an “as is” condition and subject
to conditions, restrictions, easements, encumbrances and
agreements of record affecting the subject property, if any,
and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit in the form of cashier’s or certified
check, or in such other form as the Substitute Trustees may
determine, at their sole discretion, for $14,000 at the time
of sale. If the noteholder and/or servicer is the successful
bidder, the deposit requirement is waived. Balance of
the purchase price is to be paid within ten (10) days of
the final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court for
Frederick County, Maryland. Interest is to be paid on the
unpaid purchase price at the rate of 5% per annum from
date of sale to the date the funds are received in the office
of the Substitute Trustees, if the property is purchased
by an entity other than the noteholder and/or servicer. If
payment of the balance does not occur within ten (10) days
of ratification, the deposit will be forfeited as liquidated
damages. The purchaser agrees that the property may
be resold pursuant to an order of court, waives personal
service upon themselves and/or any principal or corporate
designee of any documents filed regarding the failure to pay
the purchase price within ten (10) days of ratification and
expressly agrees to accept service by first class mail of said
documents at the address provided by the purchaser in the
Memorandum of Sale. The purchaser will not be entitled to
any surplus or profits arising from the resale even if they are
the result of improvements made by the purchaser. There
will be no abatement of interest due from the purchaser
in the event settlement is delayed for any reason. Taxes,
ground rent, water rent, and all other public charges and
assessments payable on an annual basis, including sanitary
and/or metropolitan district charges, and front foot benefit
charges, if applicable, to be adjusted for the current year to
the date of sale, and assumed thereafter by the purchaser.
Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if
any, shall be assumed by the purchaser from the date of
sale. The purchaser shall be responsible for the payment of
the ground rent escrow, if required. Cost of all documentary
stamps, transfer taxes (including agricultural transfer
taxes, if applicable), and all settlement charges shall be
borne by the purchaser. The sale is subject to a post sale
audit of the loan, including but not limited to an analysis
of whether the borrower entered into a loan modification
agreement, filed bankruptcy, reinstated or paid off the loan
prior to the sale. The Substitute Trustees will convey either
insurable or marketable title. If the Substitute Trustees are
unable to convey insurable or marketable title or, the post
sale audit concludes that the sale should not have occurred,
or the sale is not ratified by the court for any reason, the
purchaser’s sole remedy in law or equity shall be limited
to the refund of the deposit without interest even if the
purchaser has made improvements to the property. Upon
refund of the deposit, the sale shall be void and of no effect,
and the purchaser shall have no further claim against
the Substitute Trustees. Purchaser shall be responsible
for obtaining physical possession of the property. The
purchaser at the foreclosure sale shall assume the risk of
loss for the property immediately after the sale. (Matter
#23-600500).
Laura H. G. O’Sullivan, et al., Substitute Trustees
Feb 20,27,Mar 5 2024 0012451814
EZ TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 2024
856 856
Frederick County Frederick County
BWW Law Group, LLC
6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY
IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
3531 WINTHROP LN.
FREDERICK, MD 21704
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
dated January 19, 2007, recorded in Liber 6436, Folio 519
among the Land Records of Frederick County, MD, with an
original principal balance of $358,200.00, default having
occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell
at public auction at the Circuit Court for Frederick County,
at the Court House Door, 100 W. Patrick St., Frederick, MD
21701, on
MARCH 22, 2024 AT 12:28 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any
buildings or improvements thereon located in Frederick
County, MD and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed
of Trust.
The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in
an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions
and agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and
with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $33,000 in the form of certified
check, cashier’s check or money order will be required of the
purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the purchase
price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money
at the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note, or
any modifications thereto, from the date of sale to the date
funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash
within ten days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit
Court. There will be no abatement of interest due to the
purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before
settlement. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER.
Adjustment of all real property taxes, including agricultural
taxes, if applicable, and any and all public and/or private
charges or assessments, to the extent such amounts survive
foreclosure sale, including water/sewer, ground rent and
front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted to date of sale and
thereafter assumed by purchaser. Purchaser is responsible
for any recapture of homestead tax credit. All transfer
taxes and recordation taxes shall be paid by Purchaser.
The purchaser shall be responsible for the payment of the
ground rent escrow, if required. Condominium fees and/
or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be assumed
by the purchaser from the date of sale. Purchaser is
responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
property, and assumes risk of loss or damage to the property
from the date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit
of the status of the loan with the loan servicer including,
but not limited to, determination of whether the borrower
entered into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid
off the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale
shall be null and void, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy,
in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without
interest. If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of
ratification, subject to order of court, purchaser agrees that
property will be resold and entire deposit retained by Sub.
Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses occasioned by
the purchaser’s default and purchaser shall have no further
liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any
papers filed in connection with its failure to settle within ten
days of ratification and expressly agrees to accept service
by first class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser
as identified on the Memorandum of Sale. The defaulted
purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds
resulting from said resale even if such surplus results from
improvements to the property by said defaulted purchaser.
Sub. Trustees will convey either marketable or insurable
title. If they cannot deliver one or the other, or if ratification
of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the
Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the
deposit without interest. (Matter No. 356315-1)
Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al.,
Substitute Trustees
Mar 5,12,19 2024 0012453366
857
Howard County 857
Howard County
Rosenberg & Associates, LLC
4340 East West Highway, Suite 600
Bethesda, MD 20814
(301) 907-8000
www.rosenberg-assoc.com
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
14266 BURNTWOODS RD.
GLENWOOD, MD 21738
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
from Brett Arnold and Marcy L. Arnold a/k/a Marcy L. Hackett
dated March 14, 2002 and recorded in Liber 6095, folio 606
among the Land Records of Howard County, MD, default
having occurred under the terms thereof, the Trustees will
sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for Howard County,
at the Court House Door, 9250 Judicial Way, Ellicott City, MD
21043, on
MARCH 15, 2024 AT 9:15 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with the
buildings and improvements thereon situated in Howard
County, MD and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed
of Trust. Tax ID #04-343727.
The property, which is improved by a dwelling, will be sold in
an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions
and agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and
with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $10,000 in the form of certified
check, cashier’s check or money order will be required of the
purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the purchase
price to be paid in cash within ten days of final ratification
of sale by the Circuit Court for Howard County. Interest to
be paid on the unpaid purchase money at the rate pursuant
to the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date
funds are received in the office of the Trustees. There will
be no abatement of interest in the event additional funds
are tendered before settlement or if settlement is delayed
for any reason. The noteholder shall not be obligated to pay
interest if it is the purchaser. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR
THE PURCHASER. There will be no reduction of interest due
to overpayment of deposit. Adjustment of all real property
taxes (excluding recapture of previously reduced or exempt
taxes) and any other public charges or assessments, to
the extent such amount survive foreclosure sale, including
water/sewer charges, and ground rent to be adjusted
to date of sale and paid at execution of the deed, except
where the secured party is the purchaser, and thereafter
assumed by the purchaser. All due and/or unpaid private
utility, water and sewer facilities charges, condo/HOA
assessments and Columbia Assoc. assessments, to the
extent such amount survive foreclosure sale, are payable by
the purchaser without adjustment. Cost of all documentary
stamps, transfer taxes, recaptured taxes (including but not
limited to agricultural taxes), and settlement expenses shall
be borne by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible
for obtaining physical possession of the property. Purchaser
assumes the risk of loss or damage to the property from the
date of sale forward. Additional terms to be announced at
the time of sale.
If the Trustees are unable to convey good and marketable
title, the purchaser’s sole remedy in law and equity shall
be limited to a refund of the deposit without interest. If
the purchaser fails to go to settlement, the deposit shall
be forfeited, to the Trustees for application against all
expenses, attorney’s fees and the full commission on the sale
price of the above-scheduled foreclosure sale. In the event
of default, all expenses of this sale (including attorney’s
fees and the full commission on the gross sale price of this
sale) shall be charged against and paid out of the forfeited
deposit. The Trustees may then re-advertise and resell the
property at the risk and expense of the defaulting purchaser
or may avail themselves of any legal or equitable remedies
against the defaulting purchaser without reselling the
property. In the event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser
shall not be entitled to receive the surplus, if any, even if such
surplus results from improvements to the property by said
defaulting purchaser and the defaulting purchaser shall
be liable to the Trustees and secured party for reasonable
attorney’s fees and expenses incurred in connection with
all litigation involving the Property or the proceeds of the
resale. Defaulting purchaser waives personal service of any
document filed in connection with such a motion on him/
herself and/or any principal or corporate designee, and
expressly agrees to accept service of any such document
by regular mail directed to the address provided by said
purchaser at the time of the foreclosure auction. Trustees’
file number 22-001864-MD-F-1.
Diane S. Rosenberg, Mark D. Meyer, et al., Trustees
Feb 27,Mar 5,12 2024 0012452793
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Exhausted
parents
hire sleep
coaches
BY M EERI K IM

since becoming a mother, Jenn Wong

rachel wISnIewSkI FOr the waShIngtOn POSt
had followed all the usual baby sleep
advice for her son. she kept his room
pitch-black and ran a loud white-sound
machine. she made sure her son had a
consistent bedtime routine. she even
successfully sleep-trained him — a proc-
ess to help babies learn how to fall asleep
by themselves — at 9 months old.
But at 18 months old, after he started
day care, it all fell apart. He woke up
many times a night, sometimes every one
to two hours, and wouldn’t go back to
sleep without her. “I was back at work at
that point and ready to try anything to
get him sleeping longer stretches,” said
Wong, 35, of Ottawa, and it wasn’t work-
ing. “My husband and I were at our wits’
end.”
so they hired a sleep consultant with a
large following on Instagram who
charged $500 for two weeks of virtual
support, including an “individualized”
sleep-training plan they hoped would get
things back on track.
Kasia Donohue paid a sleep coach to
help her when her son was 4 months old.
His many nighttime awakenings did
stop, but only temporarily.
“I bragged to everyone my kid slept
through the night … until he didn’t,” said
Donohue, 46, of saugerties, N.Y. “The
sleep-training process as far as the con-
sultant experience was very positive, but
the results weren’t.”
sleep consultants, or sleep coaches,
are an unlicensed provider group that
offers education, advice and support
services to help improve a child’s sleep —

When it’s not J

and the parents’. “I don’t want to say it
onel Dershem first noticed problems with her memory in 2016 after cures postpartum depression, but get-
her breast cancer surgery. she was only 50 and at first blamed the ting some sleep makes an enormous
lapses on chemotherapy, and then on her busy, stressful life. difference in your life as a mom,” said

just normal
so did her husband and friends — and doctor. sleep consultant Mary Vaughn. “Once
“I kept blowing it off,” said Dershem, an obstetrician from you have your kids sleeping, it’s such a
Voorhees, N.J., whose challenges began with little things like leaving magical thing — and you want to share it
a faucet running and progressed to trouble finishing routine tasks. “I was with everybody else.”
our family’s primary breadwinner. I didn’t want there to be any serious Vaughn sleep-trained her son at 6

forgetfulness
Cognitive impairment diagnoses are
scary, but early intervention may help
problems.” months old using the Ferber method,
In December 2022, nearly seven years after her memory loss began, which instructs parents to let their ba-
Dershem was diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Her bies cry alone for a short, predetermined
delayed diagnosis wasn’t unusual, but experts say that needs to change. period of time before going in briefly to
More than occasional forgetfulness, MCI causes problems that disrupt comfort them. Both Vaughn’s and her
daily life but don’t make it impossible to function, said Ronald Petersen, baby’s sleep improved dramatically with-
director of the Mayo Clinic Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and the
Mayo Clinic study of Aging. It is often but not always a precursor to
in three nights.
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dementia, he added. see cognitivE ON E6

BY K ATHERINE E LLISON
Jonel Dershem, left, is shown with her son Bryce in February. Jonel
Dershem was diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment in 2022. Co≠ee may
significantly
reduce risk
of diabetes
More than 100 Decades ago, many
scientists believed that
drinking coffee was bad

potential new for your health. But

coffee has experienced a
remarkable turnaround.

species found
Eating Lab study after study has
anahad found that enjoying a
o’Connor daily cup or two of Joe —

o≠ Chile coast either caffeinated or

BY D INO G RANDONI
Dr. seuss couldn’t dream this stuff up.
Forests of ancient corals. Clusters of
undersea urchins with cactuslike spikes,
as if a desert had been inundated. Gar-
dens of glassy sponges, clinging to the
slopes of an underwater mountain range
soaring up thousands of feet from the
seafloor.
Deep-sea explorers searching below
the waves off the coast of Chile may have
found more than 100 species completely
new to science.
The potential discovery of the new
creatures across 10 seamounts in the
southeast Pacific does more than just add
to the depth of understanding of the
sheer diversity of ocean life. For the
researchers, it shows how ocean protec-
tions put in place by the Chilean govern-
ment are working to bolster biodiversity,
an encouraging sign for other countries
looking to safeguard their marine waters.
“every single seamount had a different
type of ecosystem on it,” said Hannah
see DEEp SEa ON E2
AnimAls
a study found a higher cancer
rate in some dogs exposed to
secondhand smoke. e2
Scientists aboard a Schmidt ocean institute expedition may have found more than 100 new species, including this squat
lobster, in seamounts off chile’s coast. the finds signal that chile’s ocean protections are working to bolster biodiversity.
pAin
expert share tips for easing
chronic backaches, and many
don’t involve medication. e3
your move
exercise plays a role in keeping
weight off after quitting new
weight-loss drugs. e4
rOV SuBaStIan/SchmIdt Ocean InStItute
viAgrA
why the erectile dysfunction
medication has been linked to
better brain health. e5
decaffeinated — may
lengthen your life span and lower risk
for chronic disease.
One of the most striking findings is
that coffee drinkers are less prone to
developing Type 2 diabetes. Many large
studies have found that people who
drink three to four cups of coffee daily
have about a 25 percent lower risk of
the disease compared with people who
drink little or no coffee. Your likelihood
of developing diabetes decreases about
6 percent for each cup of coffee you
consume daily — but only up to about
six cups.
Many of the studies on coffee and
health come with an important caveat.
They are usually large observational
studies, which show correlations — not
cause and effect. This means that it’s
possible that something else could
explain the findings. Perhaps coffee
drinkers also are more likely to exercise
more, drink less alcohol, eat healthier
diets or engage in other habits that
boost their health.
But there are other reasons to believe
that the findings are not a mirage.
Coffee’s protective effect against
diabetes persists even when scientists
take these other lifestyle behaviors into
account. The effect has been found in
dozens of studies involving more than a
million participants across europe,
North America and Asia. It’s been found
in women and men, in young and old
people, in smokers and nonsmokers,
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ScieNce N e w S

The gene that could explain our lack of tails:

roV suBAstIAn/schmIdt oceAn InstItute
Researchers find clue in a Darwinian mystery
B Y C HRISTINA L ARSON
our very ancient animal ances-
tors had tails. Why don’t we?
Somewhere around 20 million
or 25 million years ago, when apes
diverged from monkeys, our
branch of the tree of life shed its
tail. from Darwin’s time, scien-
tists have wondered why — and
how — this happened.
Now, researchers have identi-
fied at least one of the key genetic
tweaks that led to this change.
“We found a single mutation in
a very important gene,” said Bo
Xia, a geneticist at the Broad
Institute and co-author of a study
published recently in the journal
Nature.
The researchers compared the
genomes of six species of apes,
including humans, and 15 species
of monkeys with tails to pinpoint
key differences between the
groups. once they identified a
significant mutation, they tested
their theory by using the gene-ed-
iting tool CrISPr to tweak the
same spot in mouse embryos.
that thrived for other reasons?
“It could be random chance,
but it could have brought a big
evolutionary advantage,” said
miriam Konkel, an evolutionary
geneticist at Clemson University,
who was not involved in the study.
As to why having no tails may
have helped, there are many tan-
talizing theories — including
some that link being tailless to
humans eventually learning to
walk upright.
rick Potts, who directs the
Smithsonian Institution’s Human
origins Project and was not in-
volved in the research, suggests
being tailless may have been a
first step toward some apes
adopting a vertical body posture,
even before they left the trees.
Not all apes live on the ground
today. orangutans and gibbons
are tailless apes that still live in
trees. But Potts notes that they
move very differently than mon-
keys, who scamper along the tops
of branches, using their tails for
balance. Those apes hang below
branches, swinging between

Species Those mice were born without

tails.
Xia cautioned that other genet-
them while hanging largely up-
right.
New York University biologist

might be
ic changes may also play a role in
losing tails.
Another mystery: Did having
no tails actually help these ape
Itai Yanai, a co-author of the
study, said losing our tails was
clearly a major transition. But the
only way to certainly know the

new to ancestors — and eventually, hu-

mans — survive? or was it just a
chance mutation in a population
reason “would be to invent a time
machine,” he said.
— Associated Press

science
DEEP sEa from E1

Nolan, an expedition and com-

munity outreach specialist for
the Schmidt ocean Institute, an
oceanographic research non-
profit that undertook the expedi-
tion.
14,000 feet under the sea
Deploying an underwater ro- Alex InGle/schmIdt oceAn InstItute

bot that can descend more than
14,000 feet, the research team
worked from Jan. 8 to feb. 11 to
bring specimens from the depths
to the surface. The southeast
Pacific, a geologically active re-
gion, is littered with hydrother-
FROM TOP: Chaunacops, a genus of bony fish in the sea toad family Chaunacidae, is among more than
100 potentially new species that explorers found across 10 seamounts near Chile. The research team
used an underwater robot to retrieve the species, including this urchin, for analysis in a lab on land.
known as Easter Island, was a addition to corals, urchins, sea tains in international waters
jackpot for sea sponges, said stars and sea lilies. from overfishing and deep-sea
Javier Sellanes, a scientist at the The team explored two marine mining by establishing a new oded BAlIlty/AP

mal vents that help sustain a
wide array of life.
only after analyzing the ani-
mals’ body structure and genes at
a lab on land will the scientists be
able to determine whether these
creatures are truly new species.
The trip along the seamounts
that stretch from the coast of
South America to rapa Nui, also
Skywatch
Universidad Católica del Norte
who led the research. “only two
species were previously properly
reported for the area and now we
found about 40 different spe-
cies,” he said.
Among the potentially new-to-
science marine life are ghostly
white sponges and lobsters with
beady eyes and barbed legs, in
parks — Juan fernández and
Nazca-Desventuradas — where
Chile has restricted fishing. But
they also searched areas outside
the country’s national waters — a
part of the ocean called the high
seas where no one government
has jurisdiction.
ocean advocates want to safe-
guard those submarine moun-
marine protected area under a skeletons of a human and a monkey await installation at the
United Nations treaty signed last steinhardt Museum of Natural History in Tel aviv on Feb 19, 2018.
year. Around the world, nations
are aiming to protect 30 percent
of the planet’s oceans by the end
of the decade to stem the loss of ScieNc e ScaN
Earth’s remaining wild plants
and animals to extinction.
To see more of the species, go veteriNary ScieNce
to wapo.st/deepsea.
For some dogs, secondhand smoke is linked to
significantly higher risk of developing cancer
BY E RIN B LAKEMORE association between cigarette
smoke exposure and urinary

The days grow longer Scottish terriers exposed to

cigarette smoke at home were six
times as likely to develop bladder
bladder cancer in Scottish
terriers in a cohort study

and the stars get dimmer

the Veterinary Journal
cancer as their counterparts in
nonsmoking homes, a recent
analysis found.

as vernal equinox nears The long-term study, pub-

BY G EOFF C HESTER
march is the month when we
emerge from the winter dol-
drums and welcome the arrival of
spring. The days lengthen at their
fastest pace and the bright stars
of winter retreat. Importantly, for
sky watchers, the astronomical
beginning of spring occurs with
the vernal equinox, which falls on
march 19 at 11:06 p.m. Eastern
time.
At that moment, the center of
the sun’s disk crosses the celestial
equator into the sky’s northern
hemisphere. This marked the tra-
ditional beginning of a new year
in many cultures until roman
times, and today it sets the dates
of important feasts and fasts in
many religions.
The point in the sky that de-
fines the equinox is sometimes
referred to as the “first point of
Aries,” a term still widely used in
astrology. The constellation of
Aries, the ram, was the location
of the equinox back in Babylonian
times, when the basic tenets of
astrological practice were estab-
lished.
Today, the equinox actually lies
some 30 degrees westward in the
constellation of Pisces, the fish,
thanks to the 26,000-year cycle
called “precession of the equinox-
es.” In 3,000 years, the equinox
will lie among the stars of Aquari-
us; it will return to Aries some-
where around the year 23,000.
The term “equinox” implies the
concept of “equal night,” when
day and night are exactly 12 hours
in duration. In reality, the upper
limb of the sun pokes above the
horizon a few days before the
equinox. The actual date for 12
hours of daylight and darkness in
D.C. this year is march 16, when
old Sol rises at 7:17 a.m. Eastern
time and sets at 7:17 p.m.
Remember that alarm
The new moon falls on the
10th. Luna waxes in the evening
sky, reaching the full phase on the
25th. The traditional name for
the march full moon is the Worm
moon, because the ground is soft
enough for earthworms to find
their way to the surface, provid-
ing a food source for birds and
animals. other traditional names
are the Crow moon and Sap
moon.
If you want to be on time for
any engagements on Sunday
morning on the 10th, you will
need to set your clocks ahead by
one hour before going to bed
Saturday night. Unless you live in
Arizona or Hawaii, U.S. Code dic-
tates that we all switch from
standard to daylight time at 2
a.m. march 10. In my many years
at the U.S. Naval observatory, I
have fielded hundreds of queries
as to why this happens every year,
but the rule is not ours to enforce.
In the United States, civil time
is governed by congressional au-
thority through the Transporta-
tion Department. The observa-
tory maintains a single reference
time scale, UTC. We leave it up to
others to figure out what to do
with it.
From Big Dipper to arcturus
You can find the winter con-
stellations that have helped us
through the long winter nights in
the western sky by mid-evening.
By the end of the month, they’ll
set by midnight. If you enjoy
looking at orion and its bright
stellar companions, this is the last
month to get a good view until
late autumn.
After march, a somewhat more
subdued set of constellations will
rise to take the night. The most
recognizable pattern among
them is the group of stars known
to most of us as the Big Dipper.
These seven stars form a dis-
tinctive pattern that outlines a
respectable soup ladle, and it is
usually one of the first asterisms
The March full moon, seen in 2023, is also called the Worm Moon.
that novice stargazers learn to
recognize. It is also known as the
Plough (plow) in Britain and Ire-
land, and the Wain (wagon) in
other parts of Europe. The seven
stars are part of the larger con-
stellation of Ursa major, the Great
Bear. The two stars at the end of
the Dipper’s “bowl” point north-
ward to the star Polaris, which
marks the north celestial pole.
follow the “pointers” to the
south and you will encounter the
constellation of Leo, the Lion,
which consists of two distinct star
groups. Leo’s brightest star, regu-
lus, sits below a semicircle of
second-magnitude stars outlin-
ing the Lion’s head. To the east of
regulus, you’ll find a right trian-
gle of stars that mark Leo’s hind-
quarters.
Going back to the Big Dipper, if
you follow the arc made by its
“handle,” you will encounter the
signature star of spring, Arcturus.
It’s hard to miss as it is the
brightest star in the northern sky
and the fourth brightest overall
thanks to its relatively nearby 37
light-year distance and its lumi-
nosity, which is about 170 times
that of the sun. Its rosy tint
reminds me of the colorful
blooms that will follow as march
Geoff chester
passes to April.
a glimpse of Mercury
march may be something of a
letdown for planet watchers. The
only bright member of the solar
system that’s easy to spot is Jupi-
ter, which dominates the western
sky during the evening hours. In
early march, the giant planet sets
between 11 p.m. and 10:30 p.m.,
but after we switch to daylight
saving time, you should have no
trouble spotting Jupiter shortly
after sunset.
once Jupiter sets, though, the
rest of the night lacks any bright
planets to look for. Just before
dawn, you may be able to spot
Venus in the gathering twilight
glow, but it will be very low in the
southeastern sky.
Toward the end of the month,
though, we get a chance to see
that most elusive of the planets,
mercury. The best time to look for
mercury will be 30 to 45 minutes
after sunset on the evenings of
march 17 through march 31, when
it will be about 10 degrees above
the western horizon. If you have
them, use binoculars to look for it
in the twilight glow. once you’ve
found it, you should be able to
spot it with the naked eye.
lished in the Veterinary Journal,
followed 120 Scottie dogs over
“If we were to do this study
with mixed breeds of dogs, it
would take hundreds and hun-
three years. The breed is known dreds of dogs to uncover this
for its high rates of bladder can- same risk, which is probably
cer: Scottish terriers have 20 there, just more difficult to dis-
times the risk of most other cern because those dogs are not
breeds, and most dogs that do get already inclined genetically to get
bladder cancer have the most bladder cancer,” she added.
invasive form of the disease. Knapp said dog owners can
researchers used surveys from reduce their dogs’ smoke expo-
dog owners and analyzed the sure — and potential cancer risk
dogs’ urine to look for a nicotine — by quitting smoking or smok-
metabolite that indicates expo- ing outside, and changing out of
sure to cigarette smoke. During smoky clothing before spending
the study period, 32 dogs devel- up-close time with their pets.
oped bladder cancer. The study was partially funded
Scottish terriers that lived in by a grant from the Scottish
homes with smokers were six Terrier Club of America. Because
times as likely to develop cancer of their high rates of bladder
than controls, with seven of the cancer and their sharing many of
32 dogs with bladder cancer liv- their owners’ environmental ex-
ing with smokers. Urinalysis re- posures, Scottish terriers are con-
vealed that the dogs living with sidered a model species for study-
smokers were exposed to an aver- ing the effectiveness of potential
age of 10 years’ worth of pack-a- cancer detection and interven-
day smoking, compared with tions for both dogs and humans.
1.5 years’ worth of pack-a-day
smoking for dogs that didn’t get
cancer.
Another significant risk was
living within a mile of a marsh or
wetland — areas that can trap
pollutants or be treated with
insecticides. Dogs that lived near
marshy land were 21.23 times as
likely to develop bladder cancer
than controls. older age and a
history of past urinary tract infec-
tions were also associated with
higher cancer risk.
“We know that Scotties’ genet-
ics play a huge role in making
them vulnerable to cancer,” Debo-
rah Knapp, a veterinarian at Pur-
Istock
due University who led the re-
search, said in a news release. a scottish terrier.
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How to soothe a chronically achy back

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The mortality rate for U.S. women with breast
cancer fell an estimated 58 percent from 1975 to
2019, according to research published in JAMA
that credits the decline to advances in screening
and treatments. Nearly half (47 percent) of the BY H ALLIE L EVINE walking and light stretching.
reduction was attributed to earlier and more “The biggest mistake that people
effective treatment of those with Stage 1, 2 or 3 Does your back often hurt? make is going on bed rest,” says
percent breast cancer. (With staging, generally the
lower the number, the less the cancer has
Some 39 percent of adults and
45 percent of people ages 65 and
Charnoff. “You’ll recover faster if
you stay active. Move in whatever
spread.) In addition, about 25 percent of the drop was attributed to up reported having had back pain way is comfortable, and take slow
improved mammography screening and about 29 percent to better in the previous three months, steps to increase activity you can
treatment of metastatic breast cancer, meaning cancer that has according to a 2021 report from tolerate.”
spread. The findings used analysis of observational and clinical trial the National Center for Health Try heat. You can place a
data from four models within the federally funded Cancer Statistics. heating pad or wrap on the af-
Intervention and Surveillance Modeling Network that track breast And a systematic review pub- fected area. Apply it for 15 to 20
cancer screenings and treatments. Using modeling, the researchers lished in 2022 in the Journal of minutes at a time, several times
were able to take into account changes in breast cancer incidence over Pain found that about 36 percent daily.
time. The 58 percent reduction figure represents “what the mortality of adults ages 60 and up had Take this med as needed. Ac-
would have been estimated to be in 2019 if no improvements [in chronic lower back pain (mean- etaminophen (Tylenol and gener-
screenings and treatments] had been made” in the 44 years examined, ing it continued for at least ic) is generally fine to use for
said Jennifer Caswell-Jin, the study’s lead author and an assistant 12 weeks). three to five days, following pack-
professor of oncology at Stanford Medicine. Without modeling, data “Back pain is ubiquitous in our age directions on dosing.
shows that the mortality rate declined by 44 percent from 1975 to society, especially among older iStock Position yourself for sleep
2019, from 48 deaths per 100,000 women in 1975 to 27 per 100,000 adults,” says Peter Whang, an comfort. Try to sleep on your side
women in 2019. An editorial accompanying the research noted that, associate professor of orthope- treatments, unlike active treat- Arthritis Pain and generic), an with an upper knee bent and a
despite the “overall progress in reducing breast cancer mortality, dics and rehabilitation at the Yale ments like physical therapy, OTC anti-inflammatory cream, pillow between your knees. This
reductions have not been equally distributed across all patient School of Medicine in New Ha- which teach you ways to stretch can also provide relief. (But this puts the least amount of stress on
populations,” adding that rural, Black and uninsured patients are still ven, Conn. “It’s usually due to the out your back and keep your core and other anti-inflammatories your spine.
“at greatest risk of dying from breast cancer.” The American Cancer degenerative changes we develop strong.” might not be appropriate for peo-
Society ranks breast cancer as the most common cancer among U.S. as we age, like osteoarthritis or For massage in particular, a ple who are taking blood thin- When to call a doctor
women (aside from skin cancers) and the second-leading cause of worn-out spinal disks.” 2015 Cochrane review of research ners.) Let your doctor know if your
cancer deaths among women, following lung cancer. That said, there are effective concluded that while it helped Another option may be an OTC discomfort is getting in the way
— Linda Searing treatments for the pain, and most improve back pain, the quality of patch that contains lidocaine, a of daily activities. Do the same if
don’t require medication, says the evidence was low. It also numbing agent. For all of the severe back pain lingers for more
Hamza Khalid, a spine specialist found that massage didn’t neces- above, ask your doctor how often than four weeks with little im-
at the Cleveland Clinic. Consider sarily help with overall back func- and for how long you can use provement despite taking some
h eAl t h n ew S these steps: tion. In addition, be aware that them. of the steps above.
the therapies above aren’t always If you see no improvement Call a doctor right away if you
Stay active covered by insurance and can be after treatments like PT or medi- have back pain even while lying
CDC officials say this winter’s flu shots are While exercise might not be expensive. cations like those mentioned down, or if pain spreads into your
appealing when your back hurts, above, the ACP recommends the lower legs or is accompanied by a
around 40 percent effective at preventing flu staying active can actually help prescription antidepressant du- fever, leg weakness, or bowel or
B Y M IKE S TOBBE Another draws on outpatient reduce pain and prevent it in the loxetine (Cymbalta and generic), bladder incontinence. The same
data from urgent care clinics and future. “Movement increases There are effective so check with your doctor. applies if you have a history of
Early estimates suggest flu hospital emergency departments. blood flow to your spinal tissues Prescription muscle relaxants cancer or osteoporosis, or if your
shots are performing okay in the Estimates from four different and joints, which will help them treatments for the pain, such as cyclobenzaprine (Flexeril back pain is due to a fall or an
current U.S. winter flu season. surveillance systems were pre- feel better,” says Colleen Louw, a and generic) can lead to drowsi- accident. These symptoms and
The vaccines were around sented at Wednesday’s meeting of physical therapist and co-founder and most don’t require ness and increase fall risk, so situations may signal a potential-
40 percent effective in prevent- a committee that advises the CDC of Evidence in Motion in San discuss your situation with your ly serious problem, such as a
ing adults from getting sick on vaccines. The findings were Antonio. medication. doctor. Avoid prescription opi- fracture or cauda equina syn-
enough from the flu that they had reported as ranges. A good place to start is with oids, which can lead to depend- drome, where nerves at the base
to go to a doctor’s office, clinic or The adult effectiveness esti- pool aerobics or simply walking ency. They’re no more effective of the spine are compressed. Your
hospital, health officials said dur- mate is similar to what the CDC in a pool, Louw says. These are Use medications wisely than a placebo for short-term doctor may want to see you im-
ing a Centers for Disease Control initially reported for last flu sea- easy on your joints and builds If you sometimes need more low-back pain, according to a mediately or may advise you to
and Prevention vaccines meeting son. The shots proved less effec- strength as well as confidence. relief, over-the-counter anti-in- 2023 study in the Lancet, and can see a specialist.
last Wednesday. Children who tive in some other recent seasons, “Once people realize they can be flammatories such as ibuprofen lead to side effects like constipa-
were vaccinated were roughly 60 the results influenced by what active without pain, it gives them (Advil and generic) can be the tion and dizziness, which can be
percent less likely to get treat- virus strain was dominating and confidence to do things when first choice, according to ACP more pronounced in older
ment at a doctor’s office or hospi- how well the vaccines were they’re out of the water,” she says. guidelines. But they often aren’t adults, Charnoff says.
tal, CDC officials said. matched to it. Other options include gentle yoga appropriate for older adults, who consumer Reports is an
Officials generally are pleased One committee member ex- and the slow, gentle movements may be at a higher risk of side Relieving acute flare-ups independent, nonprofit organization
if a flu vaccine is 40 to 60 percent pressed disappointment at recent of the mind-body practice of tai effects such as gastrointestinal For those times when discom- that works side by side with
effective. effectiveness findings. chi. “They help to stretch and bleeding, says Jesse Charnoff, a fort ramps up, these four strate- consumers to create a fairer, safer,
The shots tend to do better “There seems to be diminish- strengthen back muscles, as well physiatrist at the Hospital for gies may help you feel better, and healthier world. cR does not
when they are well matched ing returns for annual influenza as make you feel more comfort- Special Surgery in New York. according to doctors: endorse products or services, and
against the circulating flu strains. immunization,” said Sarah Long able with movement.” Acetaminophen (Tylenol and Move, but do it gently. When does not accept advertising. cR has
Officials say that’s what’s hap- of Drexel University. You can also ask your doctor if generic) may be a safer bet if you you’re in significant pain, it’s no financial relationship with
pened during this — relatively Long asked whether repeated seeing a physical therapist is ap- stay under 3,000 mg daily, he important to still try to do some advertisers in this publication. Read
typical — flu season. vaccinations, year after year, propriate for you. A PT can pro- says. Diclofenac topical (Voltaren low-stress activities, such as more at ConsumerReports.org.
Annual flu vaccines are recom- might be leading to lower im- vide an individualized program
mended for everyone 6 months mune system responses. A CDC of exercises and help you figure
and older in the United States. official said some researchers out ways to move with less pain.
About half of eligible kids and just have been exploring that ques- “Older adults tend to take
under half of adults got flu shots tion, so far without conclusive shorter steps because their center
in the past several months, ac- results. of gravity has changed,” Louw
cording to CDC data. “One thing that does seem to says. “But short, narrow steps can
The CDC uses several systems arise consistently from these worsen back pain. We can work
to track the vaccines. One is a things is that in general you are with them to make them more
network of hospitals that offer better off if you got vaccinated comfortable taking bigger steps,
information on how well the vac- than if you didn’t,” said the CDC’s which will increase blood flow to
cines prevent flu-related illnesses Lisa Grohskopf. their spine area.”
bad enough to require admission. — Associated Press A physical therapist may also
be able to teach you “nerve
glides,” Louw says, which are gen-
tle exercises to stretch and soothe
h eAl t h S CA n irritated nerves in your back.
Use the power of your mind
ARtIfICIAl IntellIgenCe Some doctors may recommend
talk therapies to help change your
Study indicates that ChatGPT isn’t ready to reaction to pain and encourage
recommend complete exercise programs yet you to set and work toward activi-
ty goals.

There’s a perfect place for

BY E RIN B LAKEMORE
You might be tempted to enlist
artificial intelligence for help
with designing an exercise regi-
men, but tools like ChatGPT
Comprehensiveness, Accuracy,
and Readability of exercise
Recommendations provided by
an AI-based Chatbot: mixed
methods Study
JMiR Medical Education
A small 2021 study in the jour-
nal Pain Reports, for example,
looked at psychophysiologic
symptom relief therapy, which
addresses the stress that may
contribute to pain. At the end of
your mom or dad.

And we’ll help you find it.

might lead you astray, a recent
analysis suggests.
When researchers examined
ChatGPT’s workout recommen-
dations, they found that the tool
didn’t reflect the guidelines con-
sidered standard among medical
professionals, according to an
analysis published in the journal
JMIR Medical Education. The
researchers used AI to generate
personalized exercise recom-
mendations, then evaluated the
recommended regimens for
comprehension, accuracy and
readability.
A researcher prompted Chat-
GPT to provide exercise recom-
mendations for 26 populations
identified in the American Col-
lege of Sports Medicine’s Guide-
lines for Exercise Testing and
Prescription, which is consid-
ered the gold standard within
the field. Populations included
healthy adults, children and
teens, older adults, people with
cardiovascular disease, and peo-
ple with obesity, among others.
Most of the ChatGPT recom-
mendations were factually cor-
rect, with a 90.7 percent accuracy
rate when compared with “a
gold-standard reference source.”
But the researchers write that
the recommendations weren’t
comprehensive enough, covering
only 41.2 percent of the guide-
lines.
The tool also generated misin-
formation when it came to exer-
cise for people with hyperten-
sion, fibromyalgia, cancer and
other conditions. The answers
were least accurate for people
with hypertension, even recom-
mending against the vigorous
exercise that’s appropriate for
most within that group.
The AI-generated answers
also misinformed readers about
whether they should exercise at
all, prompting them to get medi-
cal clearance before exercising
53 percent of the time, even
when the population in question
didn’t need to ask a doctor before
starting a workout regimen. This
could discourage people from
working out, the researchers
warn, triggering undue concern
and unnecessary doctor’s visits.
Nor were the recommenda-
tions as readable as they should
have been, the researchers say:
On average, they were consid-
ered “difficult to read” and were
written at a college level.
Overall, the researchers con-
clude, health-care providers and
patients alike should use caution
when relying solely on AI for
exercise recommendations, and
future studies should focus on
measuring “appropriateness,
costs, feasibility” and other fac-
tors.
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six months of such therapy, near-
ly 64 percent of patients reported
being completely pain-free.
“Therapy is a good option for
patients who have tried other
conservative therapies, such as
physical therapy, but haven’t
been able to find relief,” Khalid
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Don’t rely on massage alone
Several complementary treat-
ments are sometimes used for
chronic low back pain. They in-
clude massage, spinal manipula-
tion (where a chiropractor moves
your spinal joints beyond their
normal range of motion) and
acupuncture (where very fine
needles are inserted into specific
points on the body).
Do they work? For short-term
back pain, the American College
of Physicians (ACP) recommends
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spinal manipulation. But “I don’t
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Why the long-term success of new weight-loss drugs could depend on exercise
The new weight-
loss drugs that
suppress appetite
and reduce food
cravings can be
quite effective at
Your Move helping people
GRetchen drop pounds,
Reynolds with many losing
at least 10 or 20
percent of their
body weight while they take the
medications.
But in the real world and
despite the drugs’ effectiveness,
as many as half of users quit the
drugs within a year, studies
show, because of their expense,
side effects or for other reasons.
Afterward, the pounds almost
invariably creep back, and,
almost as worrying, the weight
people regain tends to be almost
exclusively fat, with little
muscle. The result is that they
are often metabolically less
healthy than before they’d begun
the drugs.
But an important, new, long-
term study of people who used
and then quit one of the weight-
loss drugs suggests there may be
a simple, accessible way to stave
off unhealthy weight regain after
stopping the drugs: exercise.
In the study, people who
exercised while using a weight-
loss drug kept off far more of
their weight after quitting the
typically return almost as
quickly.
But is this rebound inevitable?
Torekov and her colleagues
devised a multiyear,
multipronged effort to find out.
It began with 195 Danish
adults with obesity but no other
major illnesses. They were put on
an extremely low-calorie diet,
under the supervision of the
scientists, to rapidly lose about
30 pounds. Since this was to be a
weight-maintenance study, the
scientists wanted them to drop
pounds fast, and then move to
the maintenance phase.
for that phase, the researchers
assigned some of the volunteers
to start taking Saxenda, known
generically as liraglutide, an early
GLP-1 medication, to see if the
drug would help them maintain
and even augment their dieting
weight loss. Saxenda is made by
Novo Nordisk, the company that
also makes two similar drugs —
the diabetes drug ozempic and
the weight-loss drug Wegovy.
(The study was funded in part
by the Novo Nordisk foundation,
a charitable organization
affiliated with Saxenda’s maker.
The pharmaceutical company
itself had no oversight of the
study or its results, a company
spokesperson said.)
A separate group of volunteers
started the same drug, but also a isToCk

medication than people who
didn’t work out, and they
maintained more muscle.
Signe Sørensen Torekov, a
professor of biomedical sciences
at the University of Copenhagen
in Denmark and senior author of
the new study, said the results
strongly indicate that people
using the drugs may be able to
“preserve a healthy weight,” even
after they quit the medication.
“But they do need to do
exercise.”
Weight loss, with a catch
most obesity experts agree
that the holy grail of healthy,
long-term weight loss is
maintenance. Shedding pounds
is possible for many people, in
the short term. Keeping it off
can seem almost impossible.
The new class of GLP-1
diabetes or weight-loss drugs,
with brand names such as
ozempic, Wegovy, Zepbound
and mounjaro, seem to be
intensifying that dynamic. GLP-1
is short for glucagon-like peptide
1 agonist; these drugs mimic the
effects of the substance GLP-1.
most people lose substantial
weight rapidly on these drugs.
But if they stop, the pounds
supervised exercise program,
with twice-weekly, half-hour
group spinning classes and 15
minutes of high-intensity, full-
body resistance training, along
with two at-home jogs or similar
workouts. The exercise was
mostly vigorous, meaning
strenuous enough that people
could barely talk while they were
working out.
A control group didn’t exercise
and received a placebo, instead of
liraglutide. (Although the
prescribing information for
Saxenda says it should be used in
conjunction with a low-calorie
diet and increased physical
activity, that recommendation is
often ignored.)
After a year, almost everyone
who took the drug had
maintained the lower weight or
lost more weight.
Those combining the drug and
exercise had lost the most,
though. They’d dropped about six
pounds more than those on the
drug alone, and more of those
pounds consisted of fat, instead
of muscle.
What happened when they
stopped the drug
The researchers published
In a study, people who exercised while using a weight-loss drug kept off more weight after quitting the medication than others.
those results in 2021 in the New
England Journal of medicine.
Then they began the most
revelatory aspect of their study.
They ended the medications and
exercise sessions for everyone,
leaving people to maintain — or
regain — their weight-loss
completely on their own.
After a year passed, the
researchers invited all the
volunteers back to the lab. one
hundred and nine returned and
researchers checked their body
weight, body composition and
current exercise habits.
for some, the year had been
discouraging. Those who’d
earlier taken the weight-loss
drug without exercise regained
about 70 percent or more of all
the weight they’d lost since the
start of the study. most of these
regained pounds were in the
form of fat, not muscle, so they
wound up with relatively higher
percentages of body fat than
before starting the drug.
“They’d gained weight in an
unhealthy manner,” Torekov
said.
But those who’d exercised
while taking the drug had
maintained considerably more
of their weight-loss during this
phase. many remained at least
10 percent lighter than at the
study’s start, and at least some
of the weight they’d regained
was muscle, leaving them with a
healthier body composition
than the other groups.
exercising just two hours a
week
It’s easy to understand why
the exercisers added fewer
pounds after stopping the drug,
Torekov said. “They were still
exercising,” even without
supervision or nudging from the
scientists. According to
questionnaires and activity
trackers, they generally
continued to work out for
several hours a week,
voluntarily.
These findings suggest “about
two hours a week of vigorous
exercise,” may be a good goal for
staving off weight regain after
ceasing a weight-loss drug, she
continued. mixing aerobic and
resistance exercise is probably
best.
meanwhile, those who’d
taken the drug without exercise
were almost completely
sedentary now, averaging fewer
than 30 minutes of exercise a
week.
“more of the ones who had
not exercised while medicated
had complained of fatigue”
during treatment and
afterward, Torekov said, which
may have contributed to their
inactivity now.
overall, the results make a
strong case for “the importance
of adding exercise to a regimen
that includes a GLP-1
medication,” said Daniel
Drucker, a diabetes expert and
senior investigator at the
Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum research
Institute in Toronto, whose
research helped pave the way
for the GLP-1 drugs. He wasn’t
involved with the new study.
“The results are very
encouraging,” agreed robert
Kushner, an endocrinologist and
professor at Northwestern
University feinberg School of
medicine, who specializes in
weight loss. “But further studies
will need to be performed to see
if a less intense exercise routine”
has similar effects on weight
maintenance when people stop
a GLP-1 drug.
The study has other
limitations. It used liraglutide,
which is not as potent as more-
recent obesity drugs. But “I
would expect the results to be
directionally similar with the
newer GLP-1 drugs,” Drucker
said.
It also involved relatively
healthy Danes, who may not be
typical of other people hoping to
lose weight. And the study’s
exercise routine wasn’t merely
vigorous, which can be
challenging. It was also free and
closely supervised during the
first year, a luxury unavailable
to many of us.
Still, for now, the study tells
us that to stave off weight regain
and hold onto muscle during
and after treatment with an
obesity drug, “it’s really
important you have an exercise
program,” Torekov said.
Do you have a fitness question?
email YourMove@washpost.com and
we may answer your question in a
future column.

Eating Lab

Study after study shows

coffee drinkers are less
likely to develop diabetes
coffee from e1
and in people with and without
obesity.
researchers have also shown
that the risk rises and falls with
changes in coffee consumption.
In studies that tracked
thousands of men and women
over two decades, scientists
found that when coffee drinkers
increased their coffee intake by
an extra cup or two a day, their
risk of diabetes fell 11 percent.
But when people decreased their
coffee intake by roughly the
same amount, their likelihood of
developing diabetes rose by 17
percent. Scientists did not see
the same effect when they
looked at changes in tea
consumption.
Why coffee got a bad rap
Experts say that coffee is
more than just a delivery system
for caffeine. It has hundreds of
other compounds that can have
surprising effects on our
metabolism. In the short term,
when you drink coffee —
especially if you don’t drink it
regularly — the caffeine it
contains triggers the fight-or-
flight response. This stimulates
“One helping of
vegetables is a small
cup of coffee if you
effects,” said van Dam, who is
also an adjunct professor of compare the amounts
nutrition at the Harvard T.H.
Chan School of Public Health. of polyphenols they
Is coffee a liquid vegetable? contain.”
But as any longtime coffee
Hubert Kolb, visiting scientist
drinker can attest, when you
at the West-German Center of
consume coffee long enough,
Diabetes and Health in Düsseldorf
you build up a tolerance to its
stimulating effects. The jittery,
unpleasant and seemingly
detrimental physiological
response becomes less
pronounced.
“Within a week these
responses are largely gone,” said
van Dam. “You don’t have a big
stress response anymore, and
you don’t see the effects on
blood pressure or glucose
levels.”
At the same time, coffee’s
other properties begin to work
their magic. Coffee is a rich
source of polyphenols —
compounds in fruits, vegetables,
whole grains and other plants
that are known to confer health
benefits.
A cup of coffee contains about
double the concentration of
polyphenols contained in a cup
of green or black tea. “There are
hundreds of phytochemicals in linnea Bullion for THe WasHinGTon PosT

higher adrenaline levels, coffee,” said van Dam.

increased blood pressure and
blood sugar levels, and a
reduction in your insulin
sensitivity.
“You get a stress response,”
said rob van Dam, an expert on
coffee’s health effects and a
professor at the milken Institute
School of Public Health at
George Washington University.
These physiological changes
are why scientists believed
decades ago that drinking coffee
was generally harmful.
“At the time, what was mostly
available were these trials where
you give people just coffee or
just caffeine and you look at
them over a couple hours and
you see these clear detrimental
A cup of coffee also contains
fiber — up to 1.8 grams, or
roughly half the amount you’d
find in one serving of broccoli.
Coffee in many ways is akin to
a liquid vegetable, said Hubert
Kolb, a visiting scientist at the
West-German Center of Diabetes
and Health in Düsseldorf who
studies coffee’s health effects.
“one helping of vegetables is
a small cup of coffee if you
compare the amounts of
polyphenols they contain,” he
added.
The benefits of chlorogenic
acid
one of the most potent and
abundant polyphenols in coffee
is chlorogenic acid, which has
been shown in some studies to
improve insulin sensitivity and
blood sugar control. Chlorogenic
acid and other polyphenols in
coffee help to reduce
inflammation and increase the
production of proteins involved
in repairing and protecting cells
and their DNA.
Studies indicate that these
effects occur in organs
throughout the body, but in
particular in the liver and in the
beta cells of the pancreas, which
produce insulin and play a
critical role in the development
of Type 2 diabetes. According to
Kolb and his colleagues,
habitually drinking coffee
probably lowers the risk of
diabetes because it helps to
prevent the deterioration of liver
and beta cell function.
Avoid too much of a good
thing
According to van Dam at
George Washington University,
while there are clear health
benefits to drinking coffee, they
are not enough to suggest that
every adult should start
drinking coffee or increase the
number of cups they consume.
Coffee certainly has its
downsides. Depending on how
much you consume, it can
disrupt sleep, worsen anxiety
and cause headaches, nausea
and other side effects. Drinking
more than two cups of coffee a
day can also increase the risk of
complications in pregnant
women.
for these reasons, health
authorities generally
recommend that healthy adults
consume no more than about
400 mgs of caffeine daily, which
is equivalent to four or five cups
of brewed coffee. Coincidentally,
studies show that two to five
cups daily is the range in which
people are most likely to see
health benefits such as a
reduced risk of diabetes, heart
disease and some cancers, said
van Dam.
But even that may be too
much for some people. Doctors
may recommend cutting back on
coffee if you have a sleep
disorder, cardiac issues or
glaucoma.
If you don’t drink coffee and
don’t particularly enjoy it, then
don’t feel pressure to start. But
for those who do drink it daily,
it’s nice to know that your
morning coffee — in addition to
tasting delicious and providing a
pick-me-up — may be doing
more for your health.
Do you have a question about
healthy eating? email
eatinglab@washpost.com and we
may answer your question in a future
column.
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Why Viagra has been linked with better brain health
BY T EDDY A MENABAR
Viagra can be a wonder drug
for men with erectile dysfunc-
tion, helping them maintain
their sex lives as they age. Now
new research suggests the little
blue pill may also be beneficial to
aging brains.
The findings are based on a
massive study of nearly 270,000
middle-aged men in Britain. Re-
searchers at University College
London used electronic medical
records to track the health of the
men, who were all 40 or older
and had been diagnosed with
erectile dysfunction between
2000 and 2017. Each man’s
health and prescriptions were
tracked for at least a year, al-
though the median follow-up
time was 5.1 years.
During the study, 1,119 men in
the cohort were diagnosed with
Alzheimer’s disease.
The researchers noticed a dis-
tinctive pattern. The men who
were prescribed Viagra or a simi-
lar drug had an 18 percent lower
risk of developing Alzheimer’s
disease, compared with men
who weren’t given the medica-
tion.
The researchers also found an
even larger difference in men
who appeared to use Viagra
more often. Among the highest
users, based on total prescrip-
tions, the risk of being diagnosed
with Alzheimer’s was 44 percent
lower. (Men with erectile dys-
function are instructed to take
Viagra only before sex, and no
more than once a day.)
“I’m excited by the findings
but more excited because I feel
this could lead to further, high-
quality studies in a disease area
that needs more work,” said Ruth
Brauer, a lecturer in pharma-
coepidemiology at the University
College London School of Phar-
macy and the principal investi-
gator of the study.
There’s a limit to how much
we can conclude from the study
results. The findings show an
association between lower Al-
zheimer’s risk and Viagra use,
but don’t prove cause and effect.
For instance, it may be that
Viagra use is a marker for better
overall health, and that men who
have more sex also are more
physically active as well. Physi-
cal activity is independently as-
sociated with a lower risk of
Alzheimer’s disease, Brauer said.
On Your
Mind
During times of
stress, we often
sense our heart
Jenny taitz racing, jaw
tightening or
stomach churning
— feelings that
end up heightening our negative
emotions. Soon, it becomes a
vicious cycle where your body
and your thoughts magnify each
other.
The good news is that you
don’t have to let that happen. By
tapping into your body’s innate
ability to calm itself, often within
minutes, you can improve how
you feel and get better at warding
off stress symptoms before they
strike.
As a clinical psychologist, I
work with many patients who
struggle with panic and other
anxiety disorders. I teach them
some of my favorite strategies for
easing the physical signs of stress
so they can face challenging
situations more effectively. Here
are five to try:
Relax your face with a half-
smile
If stressful moments trigger
tension in your face and jaw, you
may be used to clenching your
facial muscles when you feel
stressed. Your facial expression
can also influence your
emotional experience. For
instance, studies have shown
that Botox injections, which
erase stressed brow and forehead
lines, ease tension headaches
and help blunt negative
emotions.
In lieu of Botox, try a
technique known as half-smiling,
often used in dialectical
behavioral therapy, which
improves people’s ability to
accept and cope with distress.
Raise the upper corners of your
lips slightly, which automatically
releases tension in the brows.
Mindfully relaxing your face
and adopting a serene expression
brings on calm from the outside
in, paving the way for accepting
what you are facing.
Comfort yourself with touch
From the moment we are
born, touch is a source of
comfort, for instance, holding
the hand of a loved one. You can
replicate that ease by placing
your right hand above your heart
The findings show an association between lower Alzheimer’s risk and Viagra use,
Why Viagra may be linked
with a lower risk of dementia
Sildenafil, the generic name for
Viagra, was never supposed to be
a sex drug. Pfizer had developed
the drug as a cardiovascular med-
ication to treat hypertension and
chest pain called angina. The
company had been conducting
clinical trials using sildenafil as a
heart medication when some pa-
tients reported an unexpected
side-effect — erections.
Viagra is part of a class of drugs
known as phosphodiesterase
Type 5 Inhibitors, or PDE-5 drugs.
The drugs work by dilating blood
vessels and increasing blood flow
throughout the body, including to
the penis. Since its discovery as an
5 ways to reduce the physical signs of stress
and your left hand on your belly,
which reduces levels of cortisol,
your body’s main stress
hormone.
In one study, participants who
used the hand-on-heart
technique after giving a short
speech or counting backward
from 2,043 in increments of 17,
both stressful situations, showed
a faster reduction in cortisol than
those who didn’t use the strategy.
Psychologically, this subtle self-
compassionate gesture is also a
nice reminder to bring kindness
to yourself in hard moments.
Expand your gaze
When the body’s fight-or-flight
response to stress kicks in, your
well+being
but don’t prove cause and effect.
erectile dysfunction treatment,
sildenafil also has been used to
treat pulmonary arterial hyper-
tension for both men and women.
The link between heart health
and sexual health is strong. Erec-
tile dysfunction can be an early
warning sign of coronary artery
disease. And an unhealthy vascu-
lar system is one of the reasons
men start having problems with
erections.
Vascular risk factors have also
been linked to certain types of
dementia, including Alzheimer’s
disease, so researchers have been
intrigued about whether erectile
dysfunction treatments can affect
brain health as well.
Animal studies of PDE-5 inhib-
pupils dilate, narrowing your
field of vision and making it hard
to find perspective, literally and
figuratively. But if you can
intentionally adopt a more
panoramic view, for instance, by
noticing three sights in the
distance, it’s easier to feel less
sucked into what seems
challenging.
Improving your point of view,
among other reasons, may
explain why brief walks in nature
can boost your mood. Looking
beyond your stress (or your
phone) to find a broader view
can also free you from
ruminating on all that’s wrong
and even pave the way for more
gratitude for what is in front of
eZ ee
itors have shown the drug may
help prevent cognitive impair-
ment by, in part, increasing blood
flow in the brain, but researchers
who conducted a review of the
available research say the efficacy
of the class of drugs “remains
unclear.” And Brauer said the
findings in animals are only “pos-
sible mechanisms” in humans.
“There is an idea that if we can
help with improving blood flow in
the brain, maybe we can also
reduce the risk for Alzheimer’s
disease,” said Sevil Yasar, an asso-
ciate professor of medicine at
Johns Hopkins University and the
co-author of an editorial that
accompanied the study in Neurol-
ogy.
IllustratIon by celIa Jacobs for the WashIngton Post
you and your senses. One study
found that brief visual
distractions such as looking at
colorful slides can free people
from getting stuck in distressing
mental loops.
Breathe through your nose
Gently closing your lips to
breathe through your nose has
surprisingly rich physiological
benefits. While stress is
associated with high blood
pressure, nasal breathing lowers
blood pressure and improves
heart rate variability.
When you breathe through
your nose, your lungs extract
oxygen more efficiently so you
can take deeper breaths. Your
george Wylesol for the WashIngton Post
Other reasons for the effect
Stanton Honig, a professor of
urology at Yale School of Medi-
cine, said the newest study is far
from definitive. “You can’t draw
any conclusions” from the study
because “there are so many other
factors” at play besides whether
a man takes a pill for erectile
dysfunction.
“Someone who is more likely
to take a pill like that at 70,
they’re probably more active,
they’re more likely involved with
their partners, things like that,”
Honig said. “There’s too many
confounding variables to make a
definitive statement that it’s the
pills or it’s the patients that are
taking the pills that are less
nose is also a powerful filter,
purifying the air you are
ingesting, which can lead to
better immunity. Breathing
though your nose also improves
sleep apnea and sleep quality, a
boon since fatigue makes
everything feel more stressful.
If you need extra help
remembering to nose-breathe,
James Nestor, author of “Breath:
The New Science of a Lost Art,”
recommends applying a postage
stamp-size square of surgical
tape to the center of your lips as a
reminder, whether by day or
when going to bed at night.
Practice welcoming panic
Instead of succumbing to
E5
likely to be neurologically im-
paired.”
Brauer said the average “pack”
per prescription is four tablets.
But it’s not clear if the men took
all the tablets prescribed and, if
so, how often.
“We do not know if people
used the prescribed drugs as
intended nor could we measure
sexual activity or physical activi-
ty levels,” Brauer said. “We need
further studies to show if our
results would hold up in a group
of men without erectile dysfunc-
tion and — even better — it
would be better to run our study
in a group of men and women.”
Previous studies on different
populations have come to some-
what contradictory conclusions.
A Cleveland Clinic study found a
significantly reduced risk of Al-
zheimer’s disease among those
using sildenafil, said Feixiong
Cheng, the director of the Cleve-
land Clinic Genome Center and
the principal investigator of the
study. But a study by researchers
at Harvard Medical School and
the National Institute on Aging
found “no association” between
the use of sildenafil, or other
PDE-5 inhibitors, and the risk of
Alzheimer’s disease, said Rishi
Desai, an associate professor at
Harvard Medical School.
More study is needed
Rebecca Edelmayer, the senior
director of scientific engagement
for the Alzheimer’s Association,
said in an email that it remains
unclear whether Viagra and sim-
ilar drugs have an effect on
Alzheimer’s risk. “Further re-
search and specifically designed,
randomized clinical trials are a
necessary step,” she said.
For now, the findings don’t
suggest that men should start
taking Viagra if they don’t need
it. But we do know that Viagra is
an effective treatment for erec-
tile dysfunction, and men who
are experiencing the problem
should see a doctor and discuss
both their sexual health and
cardiovascular health.
“You should not take Viagra to
reduce your risk,” Yasar said.
“You should eat healthy. You
should exercise. There’s plenty of
evidence for that.”
Do you have a question about
human behavior or neuroscience?
email brainMatters@washpost.com
and we may answer it in a future col
stress-fueled symptoms, you can
prepare for challenging
situations in advance and reduce
stress.
Take a few minutes to
brainstorm the most common
sensations you feel when you are
stressed — butterflies before a
work presentation,
breathlessness when you are
flying or shakiness because you
are overwhelmed. Then try re-
creating some of these sensations
when you are in a safe
environment. For instance, you
might bring on sensations of
breathlessness and panic by
slowly spinning in a circle for a
minute, then intentionally
hyperventilating, rapidly
inhaling and exhaling for a
minute. Let yourself feel the
sensations for a few minutes,
then repeat the next day for
several days in a row.
By intentionally re-creating
your body’s usual stress
response, you will come to see
that even unpleasant sensations,
while distressing, are temporary,
which robs them of their power
to rattle you. Then, when
physical symptoms of stress
show up in higher-stakes
situations, you will find it easier
to uncouple them from
catastrophic interpretations.
This technique is formally
known as interoceptive
exposure, and if it feels daunting
to create ways to reenact your
panic, try working with an expert
in cognitive behavioral therapy.
Many of my patients who have
struggled with stressful
sensations have found that, with
the right strategies and some
practice, they can approach their
life with more courage than they
imagined.
If you know how to lean on it,
your body can be your best
pharmacy.
Jenny Taitz, PsyD, ABPP, is a
clinical psychologist and an
assistant clinical professor in
psychiatry at the University of
California at Los Angeles. She is
the author of “Stress Resets: How
to Soothe Your Body and Mind in
Minutes,” “How to be Single and
Happy” and “End Emotional
Eating.”
We welcome your comments on this
column at onyourMind@
washpost.com.
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cOgnitiVE from E1

“It’s a subtle condition,” said

Petersen, who in 1999 led the first
study differentiating patients
with mCI from healthy subjects
and those with dementia. If you
miss a golf date once, no worries,
he said, but if “that happened a
couple of times last week and
people in your family are starting
to worry about you — well, that
may be mCI.”
“With mCI, people can still
drive, pay their bills and do their
taxes — they just do so less effi-
ciently,” Petersen said.
A 2022 study in the journal
Alzheimer’s & Dementia project-
ed that 14.4 million people in the
United States would have mCI in
2025, and 19.3 million in 2050. An
American Academy of Neurology
subcommittee estimated that
about 1 in 10 people ages 70 to 74
had mCI, and 1 in 4 ages 80 to 84 in
2018.
Denial about potentially wors-
ening symptoms may be tempt-
ing, but it’s dangerous, experts
said. Dershem, who grew increas-
ingly worried about her condition,
said she raised the issue three
times with her primary care doc-
tor and saw two neurologists be-
fore she was diagnosed with mCI.
Both patients and physicians
need to be aware of the symptoms
of cognitive decline, said Soeren
mattke, director of the Brain
Health observatory at the Univer-
sity of Southern California’s Dorn-
sife Center for Economic and So-
cial research. “If you wait until
someone’s obviously symptomatic
— like they can’t find the door to
the physician’s office — you’re go-
ing to be too late.”
‘time is brain’
If you notice a significant de-
cline in memory, reduced ability to
absorb new information or under-
stand social cues (like getting an-
gry about a joke that wouldn’t have
been upsetting in the past), or an
uptick in clumsiness in yourself or
someone close to you, it may be
time to talk to a doctor.
research published last year
suggests approximately 92 per-
cent of people with mCI are undi-
agnosed. After analyzing data
from 40 million medicare recipi-
ents aged 65 and older, the authors
of the study in the journal Al-
zheimer’s research & Therapy
found that only about 600,000 of
the expected 8 million affected by
mCI had been identified.
“We expected it to be bad, but
not this bad,” said mattke, the
study’s lead author. Detection
rates are even lower for historical-
ly disadvantaged groups, such as
Black and Hispanic Americans.
By the time of her diagnosis,
Dershem had quit performing sur-
gery. She retired from her medical
Catch MCI early to delay progression
practice in January 2023.
“The advantage of catching mCI
early is that we can delay progres-
sion. Later on, less,” said David
Weisman, director of clinical re-
search at Abington Neurological
Associates in Abington, Pa., and
Dershem’s current doctor. “In neu-
rology we learn the same lessons
again and again: Time is brain.”
Since february 2023, Weisman
has been treating Dershem with
lecanemab (brand name Leqem-
bi), which federal regulators ap-
proved last year to treat mCI and
early Alzheimer’s disease.
Lecanemab reduces the buildup of
amyloid beta, a protein in the
brain that is a hallmark of Al-
zheimer’s. Clinical trials have
shown it can modestly slow de-
mentia’s progress but can’t stop
the decline or make up for lost
ground.
Diagnosis is also valuable be-
cause, in a minority of cases, some-
thing other than Alzheimer’s dis-
ease — or a related incurable disor-
der such as Lewy body dementia —
is causing mCI symptoms. But that
doesn’t mean it’s not potentially
serious, said Petersen. The poten-
tial culprits range from a brain
tumor to medication side effects.
many doctors are now buoyed
by the emergence of amyloid-
fighting medications such as
lecanemab and donanemab, the
latter of which has yet to be ap-
proved by the food and Drug Ad-
ministration. The caveat is that the
drugs help only when the disease
is caught early. Additionally, the
medications can come with dan-
gerous side effects. Leqembi car-
ries a warning that it can cause
brain swelling and bleeding.
Make memory a priority
Some deterioration in memory
and processing speed is an inevi-
table part of getting older, al-
though the pace and degree vary
from person to person.
Brain volume shrinks on aver-
age by about 5 percent per decade
after age 40, with the rate possibly
accelerating after age 70. (microb-
leeds in the brain due to declining
vascular health may also affect
brain function.) If you find your-
self having a little more trouble
keeping up with conversations,
losing the keys or temporarily for-
getting the name of that guy you
worked with for six years in the
1980s, that’s just part of the jour-
ney.
But if you’re noticing more wor-
risome cognitive gaps, talk to your
doctor and make it clear that get-
ting answers is a priority. “If you go
PhOTOs by Rachel wisniewski FOR The washingTOn POsT
LEFt: Anthony Sandone, who was diagnosed with early-onset
Alzheimer’s last year, and his wife, Karen. ABOVE: Bryce Dershem
helps his mother, Jonel, schedule a medical appointment. Jonel
Dershem was diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment in 2022.
in and say, ‘I have the following 20
problems, and memory loss is
number seven,’ it’s just not going to
work,” Weisman said. If you feel
your doctor isn’t taking your wor-
ries seriously, consider consulting
a geriatric psychiatrist or neurolo-
gist, he added.
preparing for an evaluation
You can help your doctor and
get a preview of your condition by
taking an online test before your
appointment and bringing in the
results. The gold standard is the
downloadable Self-Administered
Gerocognitive Exam (SAGE). (Be-
ware of others that may be covers
for ads.)
Your doctor may conduct a
more thorough test or a battery of
neuropsychological assays before
moving on to blood tests or an mrI
to look for possible physical prob-
lems. If other causes are ruled out,
a PET scan or spinal tap may be
used to search for signs of Al-
zheimer’s disease or Lewy body
dementia, the second-most-com-
mon cause of dementia. New
blood tests promise to make diag-
nosis easier in time.
Those experiencing serious cog-
nitive decline often won’t be the
first to notice, mattke pointed out.
This makes it all the more impor-
tant that you bring a personal “his-
torian” to your appointment, said
Weisman: A spouse or friend who
may have a better idea than you do
about the onset and pace of your
decline.
Dershem’s son, Bryce, now a
junior in college, offered her that
support, raising concerns about
her memory loss during an ap-
pointment with the first neurolo-
gist she saw, when his mother was
still wondering whether she might
have ADHD or even Parkinson’s
disease.
“more and more I saw she need-
ed help, like she’d be stuck in the
middle of making a big dinner and
get lost not knowing what the next
step was,” he recalled. His mother
had also begun to have trouble
typing up her notes from work,
something she’d done routinely
without effort for years.
If possible, bring someone with
you to all medical appointments, a
lesson Karen Sandone, in Doyle-
stown, Pa., learned the hard way.
She noticed that her husband, An-
thony, a 55-year-old sales manager
for a chemical company, was hav-
ing memory issues in spring 2022.
“He would forget what he was
saying in the middle of a sentence,”
she recalled.
That April, Anthony Sandone
saw a neurologist for a neuropsy-
chological evaluation. About a
month later he returned, alone, to
hear how he did, his wife said.
“When he came back home, he
said everything was fine,” Karen
Sandone recalled. “But he kept
getting worse.”
In october 2022, Karen San-
done looked over the evaluation
herself — “and I was like, ‘oh my
goodness, how could he say every-
thing was okay?’ I didn’t realize
that Anthony couldn’t understand
or remember what she was say-
ing.” Anthony Sandone was diag-
nosed with early-onset Alzheim-
er’s disease in october 2023. The
couple has since joined the Al-
zheimer’s Association in advocat-
ing for a cure.
if Mci is confirmed
following an mCI diagnosis, it’s
especially important to take care
of your brain, no matter how old
you are, said Petersen. That in-
cludes carefully managing any
other illnesses, such as diabetes,
and adhering to National Institute
of Aging guidelines on exercising
regularly, getting sufficient sleep,
limiting alcohol and stress, and
maintaining an engaging social
life.
Diet is also important. re-
searchers have found that trading
saturated and trans fats (in foods
like beef ribs, sausage, butter, and
commercially baked cookies and
cakes) for unsaturated fats (think
seafood, walnuts and olive oil) is
associated with slower cognitive
decline and decreased risk of onset
of Alzheimer’s disease.
A 2019 pilot study found that a
six-week classroom program of
memory training may help slow
decline. It’s also a good idea to
fortify your memory-support
tools, such as calendars and notes
and daily routines, and to put your
keys, phone and glasses in the
same place each day.
Eventually, a diagnosis of mCI
that’s on track to dementia should
inspire some hard thinking about
the future, including considering
alternative arrangements for driv-
ing, designating a surrogate deci-
sion-maker for health care and
financial affairs, and executing a
will.
it’s not all bad news
Gloomy as all this sounds,
there’s also some positive news
about aging brains. In recent
years, dementia rates around the
world have been falling, driven
mainly by improvements in car-
diovascular health. researchers
and policymakers are paying more
attention to the problem, reducing
the stigma and producing new
treatments.
“my guess is that within five to
10 years from now, we will have
better biomarkers for what’s caus-
ing mCI and dementia — and com-
bination therapies to treat them in
each patient,” said Petersen.
Dershem has already gotten
some good news. During her first
11 months of treatment for mCI,
she saw no further evidence of
mental decline. The twice-month-
ly infusions may not be the only
reason, Dershem and Weisman
agreed.
“Being retired helps — there’s a
lot less stress,” said Dershem, add-
ing that she was also exercising
more consistently, watching her
diet and spending more time with
her two children. “I’m just trying
to do everything I can.”

Are pricey hours of lactation-specific clini-

cal experience and pass a four-
hour certification exam. Consul-

baby sleep tants also must be recertified

every five years to maintain their
credential.

consultants “In the lactation world, which I

always think of as a similar area
[to sleep coaching], the lactation

worth it? consultants have done this amaz-

SLEEp from E1
The experience inspired
Vaughn, now a mother of four, to
become certified as a sleep con-
sultant and start her own busi-
ness, mother Together, in 2019.
She has worked with hundreds of
clients, typically charging $400 to
$500 for two weeks of text and
email support.
In the last decade, Vaughn says,
the baby sleep consultant indus-
try “has just exploded. . . . It’s a lot
of, like, ‘I’m going back to work, I
desperately need a schedule, and
I need to know that my kid is
going to sleep,’” she said.
The rise of baby sleep consul-
tants can be partly attributed to
parents seeking expertise in an
area that pediatricians report of-
ten knowing little about. Since
2007, the American Board of Pedi-
atrics has certified 251 sleep sub-
specialists, and the American
Board of family medicine, 138.
That’s out of more than 100,000
general pediatricians and more
than 75,000 general family practi-
tioners.
Pediatric sleep centers accred-
ited by the American Academy of
Sleep medicine exist, but are
mostly in large metropolitan ar-
eas and may require a specialty
referral.
“Pediatricians are not well-
trained in sleep, so parents are
left with this vastness of not really
having a great resource to go to,”
said Jodi mindell, associate direc-
tor of the Sleep Center at Chil-
dren’s Hospital of Philadelphia,
who specializes in pediatric sleep
disorders.
“But sleep consultants run the
gamut — from licensed providers
to people who may not even have
a high school education — so
parents have to be really careful,”
she said. There is no universally
accepted definition of “sleep con-
sultant” or “sleep coach,” nor are
there clear guidelines on training
requirements or scope of prac-
tice.
Physicians, psychologists,
nurses and other licensed health
professionals are not allowed to
provide services in states other
than where they are licensed.
Sleep consulting does not require
state licensing, and with no na-
tional or international regula-
tions on who can practice, the
majority of sleep consultants
serve clients outside their home
state or country.
“The other concern with sleep
consultants is they’re [mostly]
not taking insurance,” said mind-
ell. “So they’re unaffordable for
the majority of families, versus a
sleep center or licensed provider
who insurance may cover.”
Gemma Stern, a clinical psy-
chologist at Columbia University
Irving medical Center, surveyed
100 sleep coaches across the
country for her 2023 dissertation
research for her doctor of psy-
chology degree. most clients were
wealthy, White, married hetero-
sexual couples who live in a sub-
urb or large city. She also found
that, on average, the consultants
charged $213 an hour for an
in-person consultation, $138 an
hour for a phone or virtual con-
sultation, and $650 for an over-
night package.
In 2016, mindell and her col-
leagues surveyed 142 sleep coach-
es around the world to better
understand the landscape of
sleep consulting services. Half of
respondents had completed a
bachelor’s degree as their highest
level of education, with the most
common major being psychology.
A quarter of the coaches’ un-
dergraduate degrees were in ma-
jors such as marketing, architec-
ture, political science or Ameri-
can studies. And 12 percent had
illusTRaTiOn by elizabeTh vOn Oehsen/The washingTOn POsT
only a high school degree. A third consider, according to Pennestri
of those surveyed had no health- and mindell: How long has the
care experience before becoming person been practicing as a sleep
a sleep coach. coach? How many families has
A 2015 study looked at the the person served? What is the
websites of more than 100 sleep person’s sleep coaching philoso-
coaches in the United States for phy? What happens if the plan
data on training. All respondents does not seem to be working?
cited a certification or training Both Vaughn and mindell said
program, but the requirements they hope sleep consulting will
for each varied considerably. take a similar path toward profes-
Some demand months of online sionalism as lactation consulting.
coursework, while others require In the 1970s and ’80s, lactation
only a few days of training. consultation emerged as a profes-
marie-Hélène Pennestri, direc- sion in response to growing de-
tor of the Pediatric Sleep Labora- mand by mothers for specialized
tory at mcGill University, said breastfeeding support and care.
parents seeking a sleep consul- The International Board of Lacta-
tant should find out whether they tion Consultant Examiners
have any professional training: (IBLCE) was founded in 1985 to
“my advice to parents would be to bring standards to the field.
clarify, what is their training? Is To become a lactation consul-
this individual a licensed psychol- tant certified by the board, indi-
ogist? Is this person part of an viduals must complete both
order?” health sciences and lactation-spe-
other important questions to cific education, gain 300 to 1,000
ing job,” said mindell. “They have
an organization and accredita-
tion system that is independent
of any training. There isn’t for
sleep consultants, but I and many
others would love to see the field
go in that direction.”
As a health-care professional —
a clinical dietitian who works at a
hospital — Wong said she felt
uneasy about some of the sleep
consultant’s recommendations
for her son. for example, the
consultant told her to check in at
15-minute intervals, even when
her son was sick with one of his
many day-care illnesses.
“Kids cry because they are un-
comfortable or want more love
and affection, but their advice
was, ‘Give them the medication
and continue with the plan,’” said
Wong, who tried her best to stick
to the routine. “That advice did
not sit so well with me, knowing
that they’re not a health profes-
sional.”
Her son, now 3, finally started
sleeping through the night at 2
years old, after two more months
of staying consistent with sleep
training. It took an additional
eight to nine months before he
stopped crying himself to sleep.
But Wong is not sure whether it
was the sleep consultant’s plan
kicking in or a developmental
skill that would have happened
around 2 years old anyway.
In Donohue’s case, even
though the first consultation
didn’t produce the results she was
desperate for, she still believes in
the value of bringing in an expert
to help exhausted parents. But
she is convinced that some kids
are “just not good sleepers,” in the
same way that many adults have
trouble with sleep.
“for so long, I’ve beat myself up
for not sticking with the program
or being strict enough with the
rules of sleep training,” said
Donohue, whose child is now 2.
“But now I know that how he
sleeps — or doesn’t — isn’t a
reflection on me.”
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