8 LONGISLANDPRESS.COM • JULY 2020
IN THE NEWS
WEB BRIEFS LI AT A GLANCE
TRUMP’S LI NIECE WRITES TELL-ALL
Mary Trump, President Donald Trump's niece from
Long Island, will soon publish a scathing tell-all book
about her uncle — marking the first time one of his
family members airs his dirty laundry.
Simon & Schuster confirmed that it will print the
240-page book, Too Much and Never Enough: How
My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man,
which is scheduled to be released on July 28.
"In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J.
Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L.
Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald’s
only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history
of their family in order to explain how her uncle became
the man who now threatens the world’s health,
economic security, and social fabric," the publisher
wrote in a preview of the book.
Mary, 55, is the daughter of the president's older
brother, Fred Trump Jr., who died in 1981 at
age 42 due to complications related to
alcoholism.
NASSAU COLISEUM
CLOSED
INDEFINITELY
NYCB Live, home of
the Nassau Veterans
Memorial Coliseum,
which is temporarily
acting as the home of the
NHL’s New York Islanders while their new
venue at Belmont Park is being completed, is closing
its doors, according to Bloomberg.com.
The building’s operator, billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov,
will keep the doors locked indefinitely until an
investor is found to take over operations and pick up
the remaining debt on the venue.
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the coliseum has
been closed since March with no revenue coming in,
as all hockey games and live events, including concerts,
were postponed indefinitely.
Per Bloomberg, Prokhorov and his Onexim Sports and
Entertainment, “would turn over the lease in return
for assuming roughly $100 million in loans on the
property.” Arena employees are already being laid off.
LI CASE KEY IN LANDMARK LGBT RULING
The U.S. Supreme Court cited the case of a man who
claimed Long Island Skydive fired him for being
gay, in the top court’s ruling that extends federal
anti-discrimination protections on the basis of sexual
orientation and gender identity.
The case involved Donald Zarda, who sued the former
owners of the Calverton-based skydiving company
arguing that his firing violated discrimination laws.
The company’s former owners countered that Zarda
was fired for making a customer feel uncomfortable,
and appealed to the highest court in the land.
“An employer who fires an individual merely for being
gay or transgender violates Title VII,” the court
majority ruled in a 6-3 ruling, in which Justice Neil
Gorsuch wrote the majority opinion. “An employer
who fires an individual for being homosexual or
transgender fires that person for traits or actions it
would not have questioned in members of a different
sex. Sex plays a necessary and undisguisable role in
the decision, exactly what Title VII forbids.”
The Zarda
case is one of
three LGBT discrimination
cases that the Supreme Court
heard on the issue.
NCPD PROTESTER ARREST SPARKS PROBE
A viral video of Nassau County police officers arresting
a protester June 12 in East Meadow has prompted
the department to launch an internal affairs investigation
into the incident, officials said.
The video shows officers surrounding a protest organizer
walking down the middle of a street while
pulling an amplifier on wheels he used to lead the
march. An officer walking in front of him then stops,
prompting the protester to bump into him before the
other officers tackle the protester to the ground and
take him into custody.
The march was one of dozens held locally in June
in support of nationwide protests sparked by a
shocking video of a white Minneapolis police
officer allegedly killing an unarmed black man
by placing a knee on his neck and ignoring the
victim’s pleas that he couldn’t breathe. Four cops
were fired and charged in the death of George
Floyd.
As of press time there were only two Nassau incidents
resulting in arrests: Friday in East Meadow,
and a week prior in Merrick. Two officers were injured
in the earlier incident. Suffolk County police
have arrested two protesters marching on William
Floyd Parkway in Shirley, a man who tried to run
over protesters on a sidewalk in West Babylon,
and are investigating as a hate crime an incident
in which a pair of protesters were assaulted in
Smithtown.
SCOTUS RULES FOR LI WOMAN ON DACA
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled June 18 in favor of an
immigration advocate from Patchogue who sued to
block the Trump administration’s
decision to end a
program that
pr o t e c t s
from deportation
hu n d r e d s
of thousands of
young immigrants.
Eliana Fernández, an Ecuadorean
immigrant and lead organizer of nonprofit
Make The Road New York, was among a half-
dozen plaintiffs who sued to reverse President
Donald Trump’s rescinding the Deferred Action for
Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that shields
from deportation children, dubbed “Dreamers,”
brought to the U.S. by undocumented immigrants.
The justice’s 5-4 vote upholds a lower court’s ruling
that Trump’s move to end the program was
unlawful.
“We do not decide whether DACA or its rescission
are sound policies. We address only whether the
agency complied with the procedural requirement
that it provide a reasoned explanation for its
action,” Conservative Chief Justice John Roberts
wrote in joining the court’s four liberals in finding
that the administration’s actions were “arbitrary
and capricious” under a federal law called the
Administrative Procedure Act.
Fernández, a 31-year-old mother of two and DACA
recipient who arrived at age 14, was among 200
people who marched 230 miles over 16 days to
Washington, D.C. ahead of the U.S. Supreme Court
hearing in November to raise awareness of the
issue.
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