Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Jun 16

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A judge won’t allow for President Donald Trump to be added as a defendant on a lawsuit against the Dakota Access pipeline.

A group of Native Americans want to join a lawsuit filed by their tribes. Group members think they might be better suited than tribes to make some claims against the pipeline.

They want to add Trump because his administration pushed through completion of the long-stalled pipeline. The pipeline began shipping oil for customers on June 1.

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg says he’ll let the group members join under certain conditions including they not add Trump.

Boasberg says they’d have to sue Trump separately. The group’s attorney says that’s being considered.

The White House says the administration is confident federal analysis of the pipeline’s environmental impacts “is legally sound.”

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — An appeals court has upheld the decision by a federal judge to throw out complaints by a rural Lakota man and his family accusing authorities of using excessive force during a June 2011 altercation.

Rodney Brossart sued the Nelson County sheriff and deputy sheriff at the time of the incident, which escalated during an investigation into whether Brossart was hiding cattle that didn’t’ belong to him. Both Brossart and his son, Thomas, were shocked with stun guns.

A three-judge panel of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals in a ruling released Friday said U.S. District Judge Ralph Erickson was right to dismiss the claims.

Circuit Judge Jane Kelly disagreed with the ruling in regards to Thomas Brossart. Kelly says the stun gun was not necessary in his case.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has announced changes to the Obama-era Cuba policy and is challenging the Cuban government to negotiate a better deal. Trump says in a speech in Miami that the U.S. will not lift sanctions on Cuba until it releases all political prisoners and respects the Cuban people’s right to freedom of assembly and expression. Trump is also calling for the legalization of all political parties, and internationally supervised elections.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Trump’s personal lawyer has retained a Washington, D.C.-based lawyer to represent him in the various government probes connected to Russian involvement in the 2016 election. Attorney Steve Ryan says Friday that Michael Cohen plans on cooperating “in all governmental inquiries.” Cohen has worked for Trump since the mid-2000s and was active in the campaign. He has already been subpoenaed by the House Permanent Select Intelligence Committee.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is leaving in place a program protecting hundreds of thousands young immigrants from deportation  – one that President Donald Trump had pledged to eliminate. The announcement to continue the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA, was made quietly late Thursday. The decision was noted at the bottom of an administration statement announcing the end of another Obama-era immigration program.

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — The judge at Bill Cosby’s sexual assault trial is bristling at repeated defense requests for a mistrial as the jury asks to rehear yet more testimony on its fifth day of deliberations. Judge Steven O’Neill said Friday he’ll let jurors work as long as they want as they try resolving a deadlock. The 79-year-old TV star is charged with drugging and molesting a woman at his home in 2004.

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Theresa May is promising a comprehensive package of help for victims of the devastating fire at a west London apartment building. May on Friday announced a 5 million pound ($6.4 million) fund following meeting with survivors of the Grenfell Tower tragedy. The package includes a guarantee to rehouse people as close as practically possible to where they previously lived. The burned tower housed some 600 people in 120 apartments.